memeorandum: A presidential milestone: Trump has spent 100 days in office at one of his golf clubs (Dan Merica/CNN)

5:30 PM ET, March 3, 2018

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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:

Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs … President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day. — Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar …

Discussion: RedState, Talking Points Memo, Shareblue Media, Little Green Footballs, The Guardian, New York Magazine, New York Times, CNBC, IJR, AOL and Joe.My.God.

Larry Kudlow / The Hill:

Trump must think twice about tariffs — BY LARRY KUDLOW, ARTHUR LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 03/03/18 07:00 AM EST THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas …

Discussion: Politico, One America News Network, The Last Refuge and Raw Story

Ana Swanson / New York Times:

Trump's Tariffs Prompt Global Threats of Retaliation — WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump took a swing at United States trading partners by threatening stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, they hit back. They promised to retaliate against quintessential American goods …

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Mahablog, IJR, Vox, The Last Refuge, AOL, Washington Monthly, Bloomberg, NBC News, CNNMoney, The Daily Caller, Forbes and Fox News Insider

Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Right Can't Fight the Future

Discussion: Pew Research Center

HuffPost:

Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast — Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies. — Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher …

Discussion: Washington Press, Raw Story and Splinter

Megan McArdle / Washington Post:

Publicly slighting millions of NRA members isn't good for business - or America — Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics? I'd imagine Delta Air Lines is recalling those days very fondly. The airline bowed to pressure from liberal activists to stop offering a group discount …

P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters:

Politico Writer Angry at Broward Sheriff for Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative — Michael Grunwald expressed his anger in Politico magazine at Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. He is upset because Sheriff Israel's inept leadership and boastful manner has diverted attention away …

Discussion: twitchy.com, The College Fix, Politico and National Review

Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Only 13 NRA members used Delta's discount. Ending it cost the airline a $40 million tax break.

Discussion: AOL, Fox News Insider, Splinter and Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Dan Merica / CNN:

A presidential milestone: Trump has spent 100 days in office at one of his golf clubs — WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.

Discussion: Washington Press, ThinkProgress, Refinery29 and Mother Jones

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to launch major donor initiative after disastrous week

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Vox, Shareblue Media and Political Wire

Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump visits Fla. golf club ahead of remarks at Mar-a-Lago fundraiser

Discussion: Politicus USA and Splinter

Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Demoralized West Wing stokes fears over Trump's capacity to handle a crisis

Discussion: ABC News

Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:

Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute — On July 27, 2017, near the end of the one of the most compelling hearings yet on the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered an extraordinary insight. It shot through the proceedings like a comet.

Associated Press:

Secret Service says man shoots himself outside White House — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service says a man shot himself outside the White House, and medical personnel are on the scene. — President Donald Trump is not at the White House — he's in Florida, but is set to return later Saturday.

Discussion: RedState

Daniel Ellsberg / CBS News:
Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates

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Associated Press:
Authorities say man shoots himself to death near White House

Discussion: Politico

CNN:
Law enforcement: Man shot himself outside White House

Discussion: The Daily Caller

CNNMoney:

Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channel — Facebook, YouTube fail to blunt conspiracy theories — Some of the biggest brands in the U.S. had ads running on the YouTube channels for far-right website InfoWars and its founder, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones …

Discussion: Infowars and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:

‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center. — These are the darkest days in at least half a year …

Discussion: ABC News, The Guardian, NPR, Hot Air, New York Times, Deadline, TVNewser, Roll Call, Althouse, Raw Story and InsideTrade Daily News

Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:

Shortly before Trump announced tariffs, his former adviser dumped millions in steel-related stocks … President Trump's decision Thursday to impose crippling tariffs on the imports of steel and aluminum took many by surprise — particularly investors, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed …

Discussion: NPR, RedState, The Daily Beast, Politicus USA, CNBC and New York Times

Jackie Wang / Dallas Morning News:

Texas early voting numbers a ‘wake-up call’ for GOP as Democrats double their 2014 turnout — AUSTIN — With one day of early voting to go, turnout in the Democratic primary had nearly doubled since the last midterm election in 2014. — According to the Texas secretary of state's website …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Off the Kuff

Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune: Amid national controversy, Houston Democrats hustle votes in 7th Congressional District

Avery Anapol / The Hill:

Lindsey Graham: War with North Korea would be ‘worth it’ in the long run — (R-S.C.) said this week that a war with North Korea would be “worth it” in the long term. — Graham made the comments in an interview with CNN. — “All the damage that would come from a war would be worth …

Discussion: CNN, The American Conservative, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly and Political Wire

Tampa Bay Times:

Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it — Surprise action in extraordinary all-day Saturday session on gun measures — TALLAHASSEE — On a day filled with emotion, the Florida Senate Saturday debated measures in response to the Parkland tragedy to spend millions …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Press

Monica Hesse / Washington Post:

Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn't seem so preposterous … MERRIAM, Kan. — And now, a report from the Midwest, where a gangly hope has arrived in the form of children enrobed in various assortments of khakis and blazers, because six teenage boys are running for governor of the state of Kansas.

Discussion: The Hill and RedState

Peter Holley / Washington Post:

The Silicon Valley elite's latest status symbol: Chickens — Their pampered birds wear diapers and have personal chefs — but lay the finest eggs tech money can buy — Excelling at his work, Land said, requires an obsessive focus on it. But maintaining that passion …

Discussion: Althouse, Instapundit and Mercury News

Washington Post:

Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump secret … The 2016 election was less than a month away, and Donald Trump's attorney had blown the deadline for paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the future president.

Discussion: The Hill, Politicus USA, AOL, RedState, Politico, Washington Press and Mediaite

Deborah Yetter / Courier-Journal:

Kentucky's ‘child bride’ bill stalls as groups fight to let 13-year-olds wed — Donna Pollard describes getting married at 16 to a 29-year-old man who was her counselor. She is behind Senate Bill 48 to raise the legal age of marriage in Kentucky to 18 years old. Matt Stone, Courier Journal

Discussion: Shareblue Media, ThinkProgress, AOL, Raw Story and Washington Press

Avery Anapol / The Hill:

Donations of deer semen make up majority of contributions in Texas candidate's race: report — A candidate in the race for a South Texas state House seat has reportedly received $87,500 in campaign donations — more than half of which is made up of deer semen.

Discussion: Breitbart