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National Park Service Banned From Tweeting After Anti-Trump Retweets — The National Park service retweeted some sick Donald Trump burns, noting how, uh, lightly attended his inauguration was compared to Barack Obama's in 2009. But now, the NPS has been ordered by its Washington support office to …
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Interior Department told to stop tweeting after unflattering retweets about Trump … The Interior Department was ordered Friday to shut down its official Twitter accounts — indefinitely — after the National Park Service shared two unsympathetic tweets during President Trump's inauguration.
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Trump signs ObamaCare executive order — President Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to “ease the burden of ObamaCare.” — Trump signed the order in front of reporters at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, one of his first official acts as president.
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Trump signs executive order that could effectively gut Affordable Care Act's individual mandate — President Trump signed an executive order late Friday giving federal agencies broad powers to unwind regulations created under the Affordable Care Act, including the penalty for people who fail …
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Andrew Cuomo to Widen Access to Free Abortion and Contraception — Stepping into a period of intense anxiety over the future of the American health care system and reproductive rights, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to announce on Saturday that his administration will require health insurers …
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Trump issues executive order to start rolling back Obamacare — The order doesn't change the law, but sets direction for how the administration will interpret it — Washington (CNN)Within hours of taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump on Friday night signed an executive order aimed …

Washington Post snipes at Melania Trump's bio — Is this garbage the kind of story the Washington Post will try to pass off as scandalous during the next four to eight years? … I guess all previous First Ladies who modeled, appeared in a magazine swimsuit issue, and started a jewelry line omitted …
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White House website promotes Melania Trump's modeling and jewelry line … Visitors to the newly revamped White House website get more than a simple rundown of first lady Melania Trump's charitable works and interests — they also get a list of her magazine cover appearances and details on her jewelry line at QVC.
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First Lady Melania Trump
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CREW STATEMENT: TRUMP NOW VIOLATING CONSTITUTION
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Flynn is creating the most military-heavy National Security Council of the modern era — President Trump is filling the government's national security leadership with former military officials and businessmen, rejecting the policy and academic types both parties have traditionally relied on.

A most dreadful inaugural address — Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.
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President Trump's Inaugural Address, Annotated
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Live Updates: President Donald Trump Celebrates at Inaugural Balls
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ABC reporter: Trump speech carried anti-Semitic ‘overtones’ — ABC journalist Terry Moran on Friday said President Trump's inaugural address used a “loaded term” that carried “overtones from the 1930s, when an anti-Semitic movement” blamed Jews for global problems.
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Merkel Scours Trump Archive for Clues on How to Read Him — Chancellor aims for early meeting with Trump in Washington — German leader to push back on Trump views on EU, NATO, trade — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been poring over old interviews and video of Donald Trump …
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Political Wire


Trump Referred To Himself Only 3 Times During Speech; We 45 Times; You 24 Times — President Trump Shows Complete Humility In Speech — For all the criticisms President Donald Trump receives for being a so called narcissist, critics will be unable to point to anything he said in speech as evidence of their claims.
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Churchill bust returns to Trump's gilded Oval Office — President Donald Trump has returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office—undoing former President Barack Obama's most contentious interior decorating decision. — The Oval Office was redecorated in the hours between Obama's exit …
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Trump puts Churchill bust back in the Oval Office
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'It's made in Vietnam!' At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many — One of the biggest cheers President Donald Trump received from supporters watching his inaugural address on Friday was his call to “buy American and hire American.” — It was a moment rich in irony.
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The Daily 202: Donald Trump completes hostile takeover of Washington, puts both parties on notice … Breanne Deppisch contributed. — THE BIG IDEA: President Trump completed his hostile takeover of the Republican Party last July, and on Friday he completed his hostile, if temporary, takeover of Washington.
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Donald Trump Plagiarized Bane in His Inaugural Speech — Donald Trump officially became president today, and in an inaugural address he promised many things, some of which may sound familiar, because they were directly lifted from the D.C. comics villain Bane.
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‘Jesus, Chris’: Rachel Maddow shocked when Chris Matthews suggests Trump might execute son-in-law — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Chris Matthews made a startling comparison during Friday morning's inaugural coverage. — Noting that Republican President-elect Donald Trump's son …
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