New York Post | Andrew Jackson's warnings for Donald Trump New York Post The most jaw-dropping furor of the early Trump administration the Obama wiretapping allegation was presaged in broad outline almost 200 years ago during Jackson's presidency, which was also rocked by an unnecessary controversy driven by ... |
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It could be a match made in reality TV heaven: Arnold The Former Guvernator Schwarzenegger against Donald The President Trump.
Schwarzenegger may beweighing a run for the Senate in 2018, GOP insiders told Politico. Thats when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will be up for re-election.
The former California governor could make a bid as a Republican or as an independent candidate. If he sticks with the GOP, hell be a very different Republican from Trump one who believes in climate change, immigration and redistricting reform to fix gerrymandering.
The two men have already butted heads over Celebrity Apprentice. Trump, an executive producer of the show, has blamed Schwarzenegger for the programs falling ratings.
Schwarzenegger shot back that he hoped Trump would work as hard for all of the American people as he did for his ratings.
After Trump opened the annual National Prayer Breakfast in January with a request forprayers that Schwarzeneggers ratings would rise, the Terminator tweeted a video suggesting that maybe they should switch jobs. That might actually be a future Schwarzenegger envisions for himself.
Schwarzenegger quit Celebrity Apprentice earlier this month, yet Trump insisted he had been fired. Earlier this week. Schwarzenegger joked in an interview on SiriusXM that Trump was so obsessed with him becausehes in love with me.
Schwarzenegger has sparred with Trump over more important issues as well. He blasted the presidents pick of climate change denier Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and slammed Trumps crazy ban on travelers from seven predominantly-Muslim nations.
The Schwarzenegger camp wont confirm nor deny any plans to run for office.
Right now Gov. Schwarzeneggers focus is on using his platform to bring some sensibility and coherency to Washington by fighting for redistricting reform, like we did in California, spokesman Daniel Ketchell told Politico Thursday. We are keeping all of our options open as far as how we can accomplish that.
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President Donald Trump plans to hold a Nashville rally onWednesday at downtown's Municipal Auditorium, making his first visit to Tennessee as president just weeks after entering the White House.
The eventis scheduled to takeplaceat 6:30 p.m., with doors to open at 3:30 p.m.
An invitation for theTrump rally is posted on Trump's campaign website, but the purpose of the gathering is still unclear.The White House has not responded to inquiries about the event.
Trump has spoken at several rallies in recent weeks, and Nashville is a natural fit in the wake of thepresident's promise ofa "full-court press" on behalf of Republican-backed legislationto repeal and replace Obamacare. The debate surrounding the health care bill is reaching a fever-pitch and Nashville is one of the nation's health care hubs, boasting a near-$40 billion industry.
Trump'sarrival Wednesday would also fallon the same day The Hermitage, the historic home of former President Andrew Jackson,is celebrating the 250th birthday of the nation's seventh president, whose populist politicshave resonated with Trump.Upon moving into the White House last month, the new president hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office.
During his Nashville visit, Trump is expected to tour Jackson's home, but The Hermitage on Thursdaycould neither confirm nor deny the scheduling.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked twice about the Nashville event at a Thursday briefing with media but declined to discuss details, instead directing questions to to the campaign.
Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Scott Golden welcomed Trump's decision to return to a state that overwhelmingly voted to send the brash businessman to the White House.
"In November, Tennesseans decidedly aligned with his America First agenda giving him a 26-point margin of victory," Golden said in a statement. "That agenda is off to a great start with the American private sector adding over half a million new jobs in the first two months of 2017.
In a statement, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry's office said they have not received any guidance or details from the White House about the presidents visit. They said Metro will work with the White House and Secret Service to ensure Trump's visit is safe and any the impact on traffic and government accessibility is minimal.
Nashville is a warm and welcoming city for all, and that certainly includes President Trump and his supporters who will be attending this event, Barry said.
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Barry, a Democrat, used a similar phrase after Trump was elected in November to try to assuage concerns of immigrants and others. Barry said then that she's committed to keeping our a community awarmand welcoming place to immigrants and others amid what she called a feeling of uncertainty and fearfollowing Trump's victory.
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Donald Trumps approach to the presidency has meant people and legislation have been threatened in a variety of ways.
But on issues from immigration to climate to transgender rights, activists and organizations have been there to rally against Trump.
Heres a summary of how some of those protests have unfolded, and of the groups and people involved.
Trump signed an executive order suspending immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries on 27 January. Within a week, dozens of lawsuits had been filed against the order, and it had been suspended. Trump issued a new executive order on 6 March. The state of Hawaii launched a legal challenge to the ban on 8 March, which will be heard in court on 15 March.
A number of organisations were involved in legal actions. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a constitutional challenge to the order, charging that the policy overtly discriminates against Muslims.
The American Immigration Council, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild teamed up to file a nationwide class action lawsuit in Washington.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit along with the International Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice Center, the National Immigration Law Center and others. One of the lead plaintiffs was Hameed Darweesh, an Iraqi who had been granted a special immigrant visa after working as a translator for the US in Iraq. Darweesh was detained for 19 hours at JFK airport the day after Trumps executive order was implemented.
The ACLU won a temporary stay from a federal judge in Brooklyn that same night.
On 3 February a federal judge ordered a temporary halt on the ban, restoring travel for refugees and people from the excluded countries, and on 9 February the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld that ruling.
The protests happened at airports across the US, including NYC, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Ohio and Orlando.
Activists say many of the actions were organic people heading to airports after reading that others were demonstrating.
Phoebe Hopps, who helped organise the Michigan version of the 21 January Womens March on Washington DC, said she helped put together a rally at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Sunday 29 January with three other women she had met on Facebook. Thousands attended the demonstration.
The Obama administration had advised public schools that Title IX a federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination in education covers transgender students. This guidance meant that students could have access to bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identity.
Trump withdrew this guidance on 22 February, in a move that LGBT rights groups said could lead to discrimination against transgender students.
Juliet Evancho had already filed a lawsuit arguing discrimination in Pennsylvania in September 2016, after being barred from using the womens bathroom at her school. On 27 February, five days after the Trump administration rescinded protections for transgender students, a federal judge ordered Evanchos school district to allow her and two other plaintiffs to use bathrooms according to their gender identity.
Evanchos sister, the former Americas Got Talent contestant Jackie Evancho, performed the national anthem at Trumps inauguration. Despite this tacit endorsement, Jackie Evancho later implored the president to meet with her and Juliet to discuss transgender rights.
In a separate case, the ACLU had filed a lawsuit in Virginia on behalf of transgender high school student Gavin Grimm, arguing that he should be allowed to use male bathrooms, before Trump was elected. On 6 March the supreme court returned the case to a lower court in Virginia, which will evaluate whether Title XI protects transgender students.
Transpac, an organization which aims to achieve full and equal rights for transgender people was involved in organising rallies at Stonewall, the historic bar in Manhattans West Village where a series of LGBT protests took place in 1969.
Gothamist reported that thousands of people attended the demonstrations, which were backed by LGBT media-monitoring group Glaad and Marriage Equality USA, among others.
In Washington DC Werk for Peace, the TransWoman of Color Collective (TWOCC) and Empowering the Transgender Community (ETC) organised a dance protest outside the White House.
After more than a year of protests against the proposed oil pipeline, the Obama administration ordered construction on the Dakota access pipeline be halted in December.
But within days of Trumps inauguration the president signed an executive order overturning that decision. He introduced another order which will revive the Keystone pipeline, which will carry oil from Canada to the Gulf coast.
It now seems increasingly likely that Dakota Access pipeline will carry oil under Lake Oahe, near the Standing Rock indian reservation possibly as soon as this month however the pipeline protests succeeded in bringing together thousands of protesters and inspired many more.
The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes filed lawsuits on 14 February citing the previous commitment to stall the Dakota access pipeline construction. A federal judge decided against the tribes, allowing work to continue.
Thousands of people, from Native American tribes and environmental groups, had been based at the Oceti Sakowin camp for months, but the camp was finally shut down by national guard and law enforcement officers on 23 February.
Protesters have vowed to keep fighting the Dakota Access pipeline, and have also pledged to fight the construction of similar oil carrying pipelines elsewhere. The Billings Gazette, a Montana newspaper, reported that some people who had been at the Oceti Sakowin camp planned to protest against the Sabal Trail pipeline, being built between eastern Alabama and Florida, and the Diamond Pipeline, set to run from Oklahoma to Tennessee.
A stricter stance on immigration and on treatment of undocumented immigrants was a key part of Trumps manifesto he launched his campaign by accusing Mexico of sending drug dealers and rapists to the US.
On 20 February the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) introduced two memos which would enable federal authorities to target any undocumented migrant who has either been convicted of any sort of crime, has simply been accused of a crime, has carried out minor fraud or is, in the assessment of an immigration officer, a risk to public safety.
The Obama administration had prioritised undocumented immigrants found guilty of serious crimes a priority for deportation ahead of other undocumented people. The change under Trump could potentially affect millions of people.
Activist groups had been working in advance of the DHS memos. On 9 February immigration activists, including volunteers from the immigrant advocacy group Puente, blocked gates at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) building in Phoenix, Arizona, after Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, a Mexican immigrant, was deported. Garcia de Rayos, 36, had been convicted of using a fake social security number but had complied with Ice orders for several years. She had been living in the US since she was 14-years-old.
On 17 February thousands of people took part in a Day without immigrants protests, closing businesses nationwide. An Immigrants March is planned for Washington DC on 6 May more than 130,000 people have registered interest on Facebook.
The National Immigration Law Center and National Immigration Forum have been among the groups critical of the DHS memos. Both provide support to at-risk immigrants.
On February 24 Los Angeles councilman Curren Price announced $1m in grants to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles and the Central American Resource Center, both of which provide legal support to people at risk of deportation.
Trump spoke about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act during his campaign. On 6 March Republicans unveiled a new bill which would replace the legislation with a plan that could leave more Americans without health insurance.
In January, thousands of people across the country answered a call from Senator Bernie Sanders to rally against the prospective healthcare reform.
A group called Save My Care has launched a two-month bus tour across the US to draw attention to the plight of Americans who may lose health insurance if Obamacare is scrapped.
Since the new Republican bill was announced, smaller groups have protested outside politicians offices. People held a rally protesting the Republican bill outside congressman Darrell Issas office in Vista, California, on Wednesday, while Planned Parenthood supporters gathered at congressman Tom Reeds Ithaca, New York office.
A group also planned to gather Republican congressman Brian Fitzpatricks Langhorne, Pennsylvania, office on Thursday.
Experts say Trump has a troubling record on climate change and the science supporting it. In his 2015 book Crippled America Trump wrote that he does not believe in climate change, without any explanation.
In a press conference for the books launch, the Guardian asked Trump why he did not believe in climate change but did not receive an answer, although in 2012 Donald Trump alleged that the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.
Trump has since appointed Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy meaning the former Texas governor is now in charge of a department he once pledged to abolish. Scott Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, is the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
In 2016 Pruitt wrote that scientists continue to disagree about the extent of climate change, despite the overwhelming consensus on the issue from scientists.
A March for Science is planned for Washington DC on 22 April. Organised by scientists from across the US, the march is intended to call for science that upholds the common good and for political leaders and policymakers to enact evidence based policies in the public interest.
Organizations which have partnered with the march include Sigma XI a non-profit group of 80,000 scientists and engineers, the American Association of University Professors, and the American Geophysical Union.
On 29 April a Peoples Climate March will take place in the same city. The Peoples Climate Movement made up of 25 organizations including 350.org, NextGen Climate and the Climate Justice Alliance is behind the demonstration. In 2014 more than 300,000 people attended the Peoples Climate March in New York City.
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