In Variety:

White House’s New Press Conference Rules Pose New Problems

It’s appropriate that this be in Variety, as this is an un-reality White House show.

And the rules?

Please be advised of the following rules governing future press conferences:

(1) A journalist called upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then will yield the floor to other journalists;

(2) At the discretion of the President or other White House official taking questions, a follow-up question or questions may be permitted; and where a follow up has been allowed and asked, the questioner will then yield the floor;

(3) “Yielding the floor” includes, when applicable, surrendering the microphone to White House staff for use by the next questioner;

(4) Failure to abide by any of rules (1)-(3) may result in suspension or revocation of the journalist’s hard pass.

On a side note, take a look at the White House site. It used to have clear pages across the top for Press Releases, live broadcasts, and a listing of Executive Orders and Proclamations.  Now?  It’s gone.  It’s available in the upper lefthand corner, the lines which will give you a menu.

Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words.  I feel Pope Francis’ pain…  Can we trade the Pope for tRump?  Please?

From NPR:

‘He Is Something’: Trump Visits Pope Francis At The Vatican

And dig this, from the NPR report:

“At the end of the audience, the pope gave Trump copies of his writings,” NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome, “including his encyclical on climate change — a topic on which Trump has a very different opinion.”

To the guy who doesn’t read.  If only he would.  Here are a couple of prior posts about The Pope:

Pope Francis hits it over the fence!

Rep. OH Gov. Kasich & Pope on Trump

 

… it’s BAAAAAACK!  The screenshot of tRump’s “Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration” above has been on tRump’s campaign website since forever… and has been posted through his signing of Executive Order 13769 and Executive Order 13780.

It’s been posted through federal court pleadings and hearings, used as evidence of his intent on banning Muslim immigration:

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TRO as Filed

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MD Federal Court_Trump EO13780

I’ve been watching this page, because I couldn’t believe the arrogance, the obliviousness, of leaving that page up, whatever are they thinking?  Today, special thanks to Mary Turck, who noted that it was removed yesterday.  The day before today’s hearing on the Executive Order, sometime before 21:36:59 yesterday.  Good grief!  That isn’t going to make it go away.  Ever hear of the Wayback Machine?  DOH!  Screenshot time!

Stupid.  Bigly stupid, SO stupid.

Oh, right, he doesn’t read what he signs.  But trying to blame shut down of National Parks on anyone other than the guy in the mirror?  Does he think we’re that stupid?

Trump has lost yet another battle in federal court, this time it’s his “Sanctuary Cities” Executive Order, where planitiffs have now won a Preliminary Injunction (yes, ANOTHER!) in a constitutional challenge to that EO, and the court found that they’d likely prevail on the merits.  Here’s the Order:

ORDER GRANTING THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA’S AND CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO’S MOTIONS TO ENJOIN SECTION 9(a) OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 13768

Oh, I love it when this happens…

Check out this punitive argument from tRump & Co., baldly brandishing it as a weapon:

And if there was doubt about the scope of the Order, the President and Attorney General have erased it with their public comments. The President has called it “a weapon” to use against jurisdictions that disagree with his preferred policies of immigration enforcement, and his press secretary has reiterated that the President intends to ensure that “counties and other institutions that remain sanctuary cites don’t get federal government funding in compliance with the executive order.” The Attorney General has warned that jurisdictions that do not comply with Section 1373 would suffer “withholding grants, termination of grants, and disbarment or ineligibility for future grants,” and the “claw back” of any funds previously awarded.

Order, p. 3.  The Court was pretty straightforward about its view on that:

Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement cannot be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration enforcement strategy of which the President disapproves.

Id.  And dig this:

While the Government urges that the Order “does not purport to give the Secretary or Attorney General the unilateral authority” to impose new conditions on federal grants, that is exactly what the Order purports to do.

Order, p. 14.

Much like the previous court decisions, the judge laid it out clearly in the TRO — the government’s position is not credible and has no basis in law.

Yes, yet another Temporary Restraining Order against a tRump Executive Order.  What a loser.  Love it when this happens, just love it.