White House report card: Trump makes it too easy for his critics with Obamas video
What's the administration thinking here?
Welcome to Secrets, your daily guide to who’s done what to whom and why. Friday brings our regular report card, plus more insight into why Donald Trump might be a problem for Nigel Farage. …
This past week hewed to two new norms for President Donald Trump. On Monday and Tuesday, he kept out of the public eye with what officials called “signing time,” “policy meetings,” and a “private dinner.” In the past, these would not even have been noted on the daily guidance, but after the New York Times ran a piece suggesting he was taking it easy, these private events are now being listed.
And on Wednesday, he hosted Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to discuss Iran. Again, in a break from the livestreamed Oval Office headline fests of 2025, this meeting was kept away from the cameras. Reporters were, however, allowed in later that day for an event to promote U.S. coal, when Trump ordered the Pentagon to buy more electricity from plants burning the fossil fuel.
So what does it all mean for our Secrets graders? Well, the government appears on course for a partial shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding, but is that on the Democrats? And both cite the week-old story that still looms large over Trump (the now-deleted video of the Obamas depicted as apes).
Jed Babbin: B minus
So the Democrats leave town on Friday without agreeing to any funding for DHS. That guarantees a partial government shutdown. That’s not a big win for Trump and his team, though it should have been.
It’s been an ICE-y week for the White House, beginning with the withdrawal of hundreds of ICE and Border Patrol agents from Minneapolis. It’s apparent that violent demonstrations will get Trump to back down. But he’s not backing down from support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. One might balance the other but the whole mess is still in play.
Trump has been making it easy for critics this week. His video of the Obamas as monkeys was way over the top. It has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats.
READ MORE: “Controversy from Trump’s Obama video won’t go away before November”
You have to stop and realize that the DHS funding the Dems are stopping includes the Coast Guard, drug enforcement, and many other things, not just ICE, that we cannot do without. The Dems are oblivious to the damage they’re creating. They aren’t interested in solutions and just want to score political points. T’was ever thus.
In good news, the Dow Jones average was over …
What's the administration thinking here?
Welcome to Secrets, your daily guide to who’s done what to whom and why. Friday brings our regular report card, plus more insight into why Donald Trump might be a problem for Nigel Farage. …
This past week hewed to two new norms for President Donald Trump. On Monday and Tuesday, he kept out of the public eye with what officials called “signing time,” “policy meetings,” and a “private dinner.” In the past, these would not even have been noted on the daily guidance, but after the New York Times ran a piece suggesting he was taking it easy, these private events are now being listed.
And on Wednesday, he hosted Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to discuss Iran. Again, in a break from the livestreamed Oval Office headline fests of 2025, this meeting was kept away from the cameras. Reporters were, however, allowed in later that day for an event to promote U.S. coal, when Trump ordered the Pentagon to buy more electricity from plants burning the fossil fuel.
So what does it all mean for our Secrets graders? Well, the government appears on course for a partial shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding, but is that on the Democrats? And both cite the week-old story that still looms large over Trump (the now-deleted video of the Obamas depicted as apes).
Jed Babbin: B minus
So the Democrats leave town on Friday without agreeing to any funding for DHS. That guarantees a partial government shutdown. That’s not a big win for Trump and his team, though it should have been.
It’s been an ICE-y week for the White House, beginning with the withdrawal of hundreds of ICE and Border Patrol agents from Minneapolis. It’s apparent that violent demonstrations will get Trump to back down. But he’s not backing down from support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. One might balance the other but the whole mess is still in play.
Trump has been making it easy for critics this week. His video of the Obamas as monkeys was way over the top. It has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats.
READ MORE: “Controversy from Trump’s Obama video won’t go away before November”
You have to stop and realize that the DHS funding the Dems are stopping includes the Coast Guard, drug enforcement, and many other things, not just ICE, that we cannot do without. The Dems are oblivious to the damage they’re creating. They aren’t interested in solutions and just want to score political points. T’was ever thus.
In good news, the Dow Jones average was over …
White House report card: Trump makes it too easy for his critics with Obamas video
What's the administration thinking here?
Welcome to Secrets, your daily guide to who’s done what to whom and why. Friday brings our regular report card, plus more insight into why Donald Trump might be a problem for Nigel Farage. …
This past week hewed to two new norms for President Donald Trump. On Monday and Tuesday, he kept out of the public eye with what officials called “signing time,” “policy meetings,” and a “private dinner.” In the past, these would not even have been noted on the daily guidance, but after the New York Times ran a piece suggesting he was taking it easy, these private events are now being listed.
And on Wednesday, he hosted Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to discuss Iran. Again, in a break from the livestreamed Oval Office headline fests of 2025, this meeting was kept away from the cameras. Reporters were, however, allowed in later that day for an event to promote U.S. coal, when Trump ordered the Pentagon to buy more electricity from plants burning the fossil fuel.
So what does it all mean for our Secrets graders? Well, the government appears on course for a partial shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding, but is that on the Democrats? And both cite the week-old story that still looms large over Trump (the now-deleted video of the Obamas depicted as apes).
Jed Babbin: B minus
So the Democrats leave town on Friday without agreeing to any funding for DHS. That guarantees a partial government shutdown. That’s not a big win for Trump and his team, though it should have been.
It’s been an ICE-y week for the White House, beginning with the withdrawal of hundreds of ICE and Border Patrol agents from Minneapolis. It’s apparent that violent demonstrations will get Trump to back down. But he’s not backing down from support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. One might balance the other but the whole mess is still in play.
Trump has been making it easy for critics this week. His video of the Obamas as monkeys was way over the top. It has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats.
READ MORE: “Controversy from Trump’s Obama video won’t go away before November”
You have to stop and realize that the DHS funding the Dems are stopping includes the Coast Guard, drug enforcement, and many other things, not just ICE, that we cannot do without. The Dems are oblivious to the damage they’re creating. They aren’t interested in solutions and just want to score political points. T’was ever thus.
In good news, the Dow Jones average was over …
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