Month: August 2017

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) denied the rumor that he plans to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primary. “I don’t have any plans to do anything like that,” Kasich told host Jake Tapper after laughing at the rumor. “I’m rooting for [Trump] to get it together,” he added. “We all are.” Kasich went on to say he hopes the country can get some “stability.” “What I hope is going to happen is I hope we’re going to have stability, the president is going to learn from these episodes and we’re going to do better. That’s what I hope is going to happen. We’ll have to wait and see,” he concluded. Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent

Washington Post columnist and editor Eugene Robinson observed this week that Breitbart News captures the essence of President Donald Trump’s voters better than “squishy” Fox News.

While CNN “Fareed Zakaria GPS” host Fareed Zakaria praised the many who acted “swiftly and strongly” in reaction to President Donald Trump’s stance that “both sides” were to blame for the Charlottesville, VA protests, he slammed the GOP elites for remaining “mute.” “[T]he delayed, qualified and often mealy-mouthed reaction of many in America’s leadership class tell a disturbing story about the country’s elites and the reason we are living in an age of populist rebellion,” Zakaria stated Sunday. He continued, “Men and women who usually cannot stop pontificating on every topic on live TV, with some honorable exceptions, have suddenly gone mute on the biggest political subject of the day.” Zakaria said these elites should stop worrying about their voter base and instead worry about their country, adding they should speak out “forcefully” against Trump. Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is the “intellectual heart and soul” of President Donald Trump’s nationalist-populist movement who was “laser-focused on [Trump’s] promises scrawled onto his office wall,” which Politico reported was in storage while the White House was undergoing renovations.