×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×PALM BEACH, Fla. – The president who literally hugs and kisses the U.S. flag to show his patriotism appears to fly a nonstandard version, particularly on windy days, at his Florida resort, perhaps to save money. calls Mar-a-Lago the and has hosted foreign leaders there, complete with military honors, suggesting it is an official residence. Despite this, the property fails to fly the standard U.S. ensign, which under a , all official buildings are required to use. Under that directive, signed by President...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×PALM BEACH, Fla. – The president who literally hugs and kisses the U.S. flag to show his patriotism appears to fly a nonstandard version, particularly on windy days, at his Florida resort, perhaps to save money. calls Mar-a-Lago the and has hosted foreign leaders there, complete with military honors, suggesting it is an official residence. Despite this, the property fails to fly the standard U.S. ensign, which under a , all official buildings are required to use. Under that directive, signed by President...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – Even as they both attack the idea of voting by mail, President and his new press secretary may have voted by mail illegally, using residential addresses on their registrations that were not their residences.Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents’ address in Tampa, even though she lived in Washington, D.C., and held a New Jersey driver’s license. Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a business address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the town government he would...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – Even as they both attack the idea of voting by mail, President and his new press secretary may have voted by mail illegally, using residential addresses on their registrations that were not their residences.Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents’ address in Tampa, even though she lived in Washington, D.C., and held a New Jersey driver’s license. Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a business address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the town government he would...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Four years after promising a 2,000-mile “Great Wall” made of reinforced concrete and paid for by Mexico, President took a victory lap for securing three new miles of steel fence that was paid for by raiding the military budget.“This is the most powerful and comprehensive border wall structure anywhere in the world,” Trump said Tuesday during a visit to the Mexican border at Yuma, Arizona, where he said 212 miles have been built and that close to 500 would be finished by the end of the year. “Our...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Four years after promising a 2,000-mile “Great Wall” made of reinforced concrete and paid for by Mexico, President took a victory lap for securing three new miles of steel fence that was paid for by raiding the military budget.“This is the most powerful and comprehensive border wall structure anywhere in the world,” Trump said Tuesday during a visit to the Mexican border at Yuma, Arizona, where he said 212 miles have been built and that close to 500 would be finished by the end of the year. “Our...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Five years after claiming he didn’t want rich donors’ money because he would not be beholden to anybody, President is again at a rich donor’s oceanfront mansion on Friday night to collect $10 million, with tickets set at $580,600 per couple.This particular rich donor, beef jerky magnate Troy Link, lives in a $9 million, 9,000-square-foot home in Hillsboro Beach, a wealthy suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trump arrived there late Friday afternoon following an official visit earlier at U.S. Southern Command...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Five years after claiming he didn’t want rich donors’ money because he would not be beholden to anybody, President is again at a rich donor’s oceanfront mansion on Friday night to collect $10 million, with tickets set at $580,600 per couple.This particular rich donor, beef jerky magnate Troy Link, lives in a $9 million, 9,000-square-foot home in Hillsboro Beach, a wealthy suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trump arrived there late Friday afternoon following an official visit earlier at U.S. Southern Command...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Allies of Russian dictator hoping to give President a second term in office appear to have a new partner: Republican Ron Johnson, who is using his Senate committee to renew debunked allegations against presumptive Democratic nominee .Johnson, a second-term senator from Wisconsin who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is leading an into the former vice president nearly identical to the one Trump pushed for in Ukraine that led to his impeachment earlier this...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Allies of Russian dictator hoping to give President a second term in office appear to have a new partner: Republican Ron Johnson, who is using his Senate committee to renew debunked allegations against presumptive Democratic nominee .Johnson, a second-term senator from Wisconsin who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is leading an into the former vice president nearly identical to the one Trump pushed for in Ukraine that led to his impeachment earlier this...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – President Tuesday formally threatened to veto an annual “must-pass” military bill — including pay raises for troops — to prevent the renaming of military bases currently honoring Confederate traitors.The White House’s “” on the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act claims that the provision “is part of a sustained effort to erase from the history of the Nation those who do not meet an ever-shifting standard of conduct.” The document warns that should the legislation arrive on...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – President Tuesday formally threatened to veto an annual “must-pass” military bill — including pay raises for troops — to prevent the renaming of military bases currently honoring Confederate traitors.The White House’s “” on the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act claims that the provision “is part of a sustained effort to erase from the history of the Nation those who do not meet an ever-shifting standard of conduct.” The document warns that should the legislation arrive on...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― On top of being a bad president and possibly a Kenyan, was also a terrible psychic.Or so claims President , who in his struggles to explain why he downplayed a for two months as his administration failed to come up with a robust testing plan has resorted to blaming predecessor Obama ― for failing to develop a test for a disease that would not come into existence until three years after he left office.Advertisement“Maybe (Obama) knew it was coming, but he and the ‘Deep State’ kept the cupboards...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― On top of being a bad president and possibly a Kenyan, was also a terrible psychic.Or so claims President , who in his struggles to explain why he downplayed a for two months as his administration failed to come up with a robust testing plan has resorted to blaming predecessor Obama ― for failing to develop a test for a disease that would not come into existence until three years after he left office.Advertisement“Maybe (Obama) knew it was coming, but he and the ‘Deep State’ kept the cupboards...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― President ’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s private company, according to top with knowledge of the payments., the girlfriend of eldest son , and , wife of middle son , are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity.AdvertisementThey were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― President ’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s private company, according to top with knowledge of the payments., the girlfriend of eldest son , and , wife of middle son , are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity.AdvertisementThey were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – Under definitions used by President and many of his Republican allies, election fraud has been taking place at the nation’s most prominent address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.There at the White House, Trump and his wife marked ballots that an intermediary had received from elections officers in Florida. Those ballots were then hand-delivered back to West Palm Beach for tabulation — a process that is legal under Florida law, but which Trump himself has equated to fraud.AdvertisementAccording to...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON – Under definitions used by President and many of his Republican allies, election fraud has been taking place at the nation’s most prominent address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.There at the White House, Trump and his wife marked ballots that an intermediary had received from elections officers in Florida. Those ballots were then hand-delivered back to West Palm Beach for tabulation — a process that is legal under Florida law, but which Trump himself has equated to fraud.AdvertisementAccording to...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Even as taxpayers spend many tens of billions of dollars each year so that thousands of analysts can produce a detailed intelligence report each morning for the president, appears less and less interested in receiving it.In June, as border clashes between nuclear powers India and China flared, Trump ― who keeps the lightest work schedule going back to at least Ronald Reagan and possibly Dwight Eisenhower ― scheduled just seven “daily” intelligence briefings. In April, when North Korean dictator...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×WASHINGTON ― Even as taxpayers spend many tens of billions of dollars each year so that thousands of analysts can produce a detailed intelligence report each morning for the president, appears less and less interested in receiving it.In June, as border clashes between nuclear powers India and China flared, Trump ― who keeps the lightest work schedule going back to at least Ronald Reagan and possibly Dwight Eisenhower ― scheduled just seven “daily” intelligence briefings. In April, when North Korean dictator...WW…