Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced that President Trump will be donating $1 million of his own money toward disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Homeland Security Advisor also gave an update on Harvey. Sanders took addition questions about DACA, tax reform, the special Senate election in Alabama, and the announcement from the State Department that Russia will be required to close its consulate office in San Francisco and two other offices in D.C. and New York.
.@POTUS pledged $1 million personal donation to help the victims of #HurricaneHarvey. pic.twitter.com/fO4k7OJZZU
Speaking in Springfield, MO, on August 30, 2017, President Donald Trump asked all members of congress — Republicans, Democrats, and Independents — to pass tax reform. He also asked Missouri voters to defeat Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill next year if she doesn’t vote for tax reform. Before speaking about tax reform, President Trump addressed the ongoing hurricane situation in Texas and Louisiana.
President Donald Trump held a joint press conference with the president of Finland, Saudi Niinistö. Topics included NATO, the Arctic, Russia, NATO, Hurricane Harvey, FEMA, and NAFTA, among others. President Niinisto twice deflected leading questions from reporters asking him to give Trump advice on Russia. When Fox News’s John Roberts asked Trump about the president’s pardoning of Joe Arpaio, Trump’s lengthy response included pulling a piece of paper from his breast pocket on which he had written a list of pardons that presidents Clinton and Obama had given to criminals and terrorists. The list included Marc Rich who, Trump pointed out, Clinton pardoned after Rich’s wife donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clintons. Trump also told a reporter from One American News that “one way or the other, Mexico’s going to pay for the wall, that’s right. It may be through reimbursement, but one way or another Mexico will pay for the wall.”
The press secretary, Sarah Sanders, returned to the podium today joined by the secretary of the treasury, Steven Mnuchin, and the national security advisor, H.R. McMasters. Mnuchin and McMasters announced that President Trump has placed sanctions on the regime in Venezuela. In addition, the president’s homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, discussed ongoing federal preparations for Hurricane Harvey
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders briefed the press at the White House on Thursday, August 24, 2017. Sanders fielded repeated questions from multiple reporters about the border wall with Mexico, and also multiple questions about Afghanistan. Other topics included tax reform, religious liberty, Cuba, and the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon, among others.
In New York City today President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut red tape on infrastructure projects to make it easier, he said, to construct roads and bridges. He then took questions from reporters, who almost exclusively asked about his comments about the violence in Charlottesville, VA, last weekend. The exchange between Trump and the reporters was lively, with one reporter asking the president, “Are you against the Confederacy?” Trump repeatedly denounced the reporters as being part of “fake news,” saying that the coverage of what happened in Charlottesville would have been better, “If you were honest reporters, which in many cases you’re not.” Trump also asked reporters if they were in favor of taking down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, since both were slave-owners. “You’re erasing history,” said the president.
President Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C., today to meet with his economic advisers and also made a statement on the violence over the weekend in Charlottesville, VA. “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
Declaring that “justice will be delivered,” Trump also said that the Department of Justice has opened a civil right investigation into the deadly car attack over the weekend in Charlottesville, VA. “To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend’s racist violence, you will be held fully accountable.”
President Donald Trump made a statement about the violence in Charlottesville, Va, on August 12, 2017, while at a signing ceremony for the Veterans Affair Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017. The president was introduced by David Shulkin, the secretary of veterans’ affairs, and begins speaking at 2:40 into the recording.
President Trump delivered a statement and took questions from reporters following a national security briefing in Bedminster, N.J., with the ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and the national security advisor, H.R. McMaster. Topics included North Korea, Venezuela, and China, among others. Secretary Tillerson also answered questions, including about the recently revealed attacks on American diplomats in Cuba.
