Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, citing safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic, abruptly canceled the “big crowded” portion of the Republican National Convention that had been scheduled for Jacksonville, Fla., in late August, reversing his insistence on a high-profile speech to a full arena.Instead, the party will hold official business in North Carolina — perhaps just one day, Trump indicated — with a skeletal group of attendees. Other festivities, including Trump’s nominating speech, will move online, much as Democrats have planned, although...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, citing safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic, abruptly canceled the “big crowded” portion of the Republican National Convention that had been scheduled for Jacksonville, Fla., in late August, reversing his insistence on a high-profile speech to a full arena.Instead, the party will hold official business in North Carolina — perhaps just one day, Trump indicated — with a skeletal group of attendees. Other festivities, including Trump’s nominating speech, will move online, much as Democrats have planned, although...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump on Tuesday urged the nation’s public schools to reopen “quickly and beautifully” and jabbed at districts like Los Angeles’ that remain uncertain, again injecting politics into the pandemic response.As the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 this week, cases are rising in 38 states, including an outbreak at childcare facilities in Texas. Teachers are anxious. Parents are confused and divided. And public health experts worry that local officials nationwide haven’t spent the time and money to copy the preliminary successes...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump on Tuesday urged the nation’s public schools to reopen “quickly and beautifully” and jabbed at districts like Los Angeles’ that remain uncertain, again injecting politics into the pandemic response.As the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 this week, cases are rising in 38 states, including an outbreak at childcare facilities in Texas. Teachers are anxious. Parents are confused and divided. And public health experts worry that local officials nationwide haven’t spent the time and money to copy the preliminary successes...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump used an elaborate fireworks display and Air Force One flyover at Mt. Rushmore on Friday night to rally his base, ushering in Fourth of July celebrations a day early with accusations that a “new far-left fascism” is part of “a merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”The combative address in South Dakota, using one of the more dramatic and historical backdrops of his presidency, came as Trump trails badly behind Joe Biden in amid a rapidly spreading pandemic, high unemployment and a national reexamination of the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump used an elaborate fireworks display and Air Force One flyover at Mt. Rushmore on Friday night to rally his base, ushering in Fourth of July celebrations a day early with accusations that a “new far-left fascism” is part of “a merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”The combative address in South Dakota, using one of the more dramatic and historical backdrops of his presidency, came as Trump trails badly behind Joe Biden in amid a rapidly spreading pandemic, high unemployment and a national reexamination of the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As Father’s Day specials go, it was hardly stirring. But it was very Trumpian. Donald Trump Jr., interviewing President Trump on his online talk show Thursday night, debuted a new campaign ad that absurdly claims that Osama bin Laden — — had endorsed Joe Biden for president. “That’s your Father’s Day present,” son said to father. “Congratulations.”AdvertisementThe president nodded as if he had just won a medium-priced set of steak knives. So went his first interview on which appears on an online “newscast” channel from the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As Father’s Day specials go, it was hardly stirring. But it was very Trumpian. Donald Trump Jr., interviewing President Trump on his online talk show Thursday night, debuted a new campaign ad that absurdly claims that Osama bin Laden — — had endorsed Joe Biden for president. “That’s your Father’s Day present,” son said to father. “Congratulations.”AdvertisementThe president nodded as if he had just won a medium-priced set of steak knives. So went his first interview on which appears on an online “newscast” channel from the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With unemployment at its worst rate since the Great Depression, and deaths from COVID-19 still rising in most of the country, President Trump argued Friday that Americans should not hold him responsible for the calamity on his watch.Less than six months before election day, Trump’s new campaign message — don’t blame him — is a risky bet that voters will credit his efforts to fight the pandemic and revive the moribund economy, and not hold him accountable for the administration’s much-criticized response and the 75,000 U.S. deaths so...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement With unemployment at its worst rate since the Great Depression, and deaths from COVID-19 still rising in most of the country, President Trump argued Friday that Americans should not hold him responsible for the calamity on his watch.Less than six months before election day, Trump’s new campaign message — don’t blame him — is a risky bet that voters will credit his efforts to fight the pandemic and revive the moribund economy, and not hold him accountable for the administration’s much-criticized response and the 75,000 U.S. deaths so...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, declaring himself a “president of law and order,” threatened Monday to deploy “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers” to American cities, claiming governors and local officials had “failed to take necessary action” to end civil unrest.“These are not acts of peaceful protest,” Trump declared during a brief speech in the White House Rose Garden, referring to the demonstrations and sometimes violent acts that have broken out in dozens of major cities. “These...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, declaring himself a “president of law and order,” threatened Monday to deploy “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers” to American cities, claiming governors and local officials had “failed to take necessary action” to end civil unrest.“These are not acts of peaceful protest,” Trump declared during a brief speech in the White House Rose Garden, referring to the demonstrations and sometimes violent acts that have broken out in dozens of major cities. “These...WW…