Diaries, visitor logs, handwritten notes and speech drafts are among the records Donald Trump has tried to keep from a Congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot of Jan. 6.
Tom Cotton sees Chinese propaganda in the strangest places
The White House national security advisor said systemic racism is a national security threat. Why does Tom Cotton have a problem with that?
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks on Capitol Hill, on March 25, 2021.Andrew Harnik / Pool via Reuters
May 27, 2021, 1:24 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is apparently on the lookout for Chinese communist propaganda, and he finds it with great regularity. Is the New York Times publishing propaganda from Beijing? According to the Arkansas Republican, it certainly is. Are Senate Democrats also helping push propaganda from China? To hear Cotton tell it, they re guilty, too.
Context
In May 2021, Biden became the first president since 1952 to not use the word God in his National Day of Prayer proclamation.
He did, however, write that this proclamation was signed in “the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one” and he used the word God in his oral remarks to commemorate the day.
Origin
On May 5, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden issued a “Proclamation on National Day Of Prayer” that noted how “Americans of many religions and belief systems have turned to prayer for strength, hope, and guidance” throughout our country’s history. The proclamation read in part:
On this National Day of Prayer, we unite with purpose and resolve, and recommit ourselves to the core freedoms that helped define and guide our Nation from its earliest days. We celebrate our incredible good fortune that, as Americans, we can exercise our convictions freely no matter our faith or beliefs. Let us find in our prayers, however they are delivered, the determ
Poll: Biden Approval Lowest of Any Modern President, Sans Trump and Ford
25 Apr 2021Washington, DC
Democrat President Joe Biden’s approval rating is the lowest of any modern president at this point in his presidency, excluding former Presidents Donald Trump and Gerald Ford.
Biden, who approaches the 100-day mark of his official tenure with 52 percent approval, according to the
Washington Post’s latest survey, surpasses only Trump and Ford in approval ratings at a similar mark in the beginning of a president’s term.
Former Presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all performed better at their 100-day marks. Only Trump, who was a highly controversial president, and Ford who took over the job after Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal and was not elected into the office had lower approval ratings at the end of their first