Joe Biden says he, like many white people, was wrong about racism in America. “I thought we had made enormous progress when we finally elected an African American president,” he told voters in a livestreamed “Young Americans Town Hall” last week. “I thought you could defeat hate, you could kill hate. But the point is,…
Sam Barnes racked his brain one chilly morning in January 1944, wondering what he might have done wrong. Barnes, a popular African American petty officer working at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois, had been in the Navy for 15 months and had never been disciplined. Why, he wondered, was he being ordered to…
Even as coronavirus deaths mount and infections make inroads into the White House, President Donald Trump is maintaining his upbeat message about reopening the country and restarting the economy. Trump has branded the moment a “transition to greatness,” casting himself as a “wartime president” and Americans as warriors in an epic battle against a disease…
The Trump White House is planning to wind down its coronavirus task force in the coming weeks and instead ask agencies to take control of the response efforts. “We’re having a conversation about that and about what the proper time is for the task force to complete its work,” Vice President Mike Pence said at…
Jared Kushner raised eyebrows Wednesday when he proclaimed on Fox News that the White House’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was a “great success story.” “The federal government rose to the challenge," the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law said. "I think that that’s really, you know, what needs to be told." The statement quickly took…
President Donald Trump plans to travel to Phoenix next Tuesday to visit a Honeywell facility that produces face masks, marking his first trip outside of Washington in a month. Trump’s visit is expected to highlight Honeywell’s investment in the production of critical medical equipment, as well as the addition of 500 manufacturing jobs in Arizona,…
The president had just retweeted a call to #FireFauci, and activity on the @FauciFanClub Instagram account was spiking. Donald Trump had given a presidential platform to a bellicose movement to oust Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s ubiquitous face of science and sober coronavirus warnings, and his detractors were coming out of the digital woodworks. But…
Mike Martin, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, is leaving the White House later this month, according to a White House official. Martin worked under President Donald Trump’s last two national security advisors, John Bolton and Robert O’Brien. During that time, he played a lead role in crafting White House messaging for some of…
Earlier this week, a group of officials with USAID, an agency on the front lines of the rapidly escalating global battle against the coronavirus, found themselves in an increasingly bizarre conversation with some of their colleagues inside the Trump administration. The officials wanted to know if they could tell America’s longtime global health partners, like…
Amid a rising death toll, a brewing constitutional clash with governors, and news reports criticizing the White House’s early inaction in combating the coronavirus outbreak, President Donald Trump took about 40 minutes out of his day Tuesday to meet and shoot the breeze with recovered patients at the White House. As cameras rolled and bulbs…
A single weekend retweet from Donald Trump — as he’s done thousands of times during his presidency — kicked up a storm of outrage and concern about the president’s state of mind, his reliance on public health experts and his path ahead for digging the nation out of a coronavirus shutdown. Trump on Sunday evening…