The morning after the Oscars, President Trump tweeted about the broadcast’s low ratings and lack of star power. Hours later, the event's host, Jimmy Kimmel, hit back and his burn picked up 200,000 retweets, capping Trump's second war of words with a comedian in four days.
Why it matters: Trump has cultivated an extraordinarily adversarial relationship with comedians and the late-night TV circuit. Millions tune in to watch normally apolitical broadcast TV networks bury the president on a nightly basis. Late-night hosts have traditionally been equal-opportunity provocateurs, digging in when there's an opening. But under Trump, the incoming has been bitter and unrelenting.
This week, President Trump ripped the steering wheel out of John Kelly’s hands and played chief of staff and communications director, all wrapped into one:
Trump kept his own senior staff on edge, with top officials uncertain from hour to hour what was happening with two globally consequential issues: tariffs and North Korea.
After an almost eight-hour standoff on Friday at the Veterans Home of California, officials found the gunman and three female hostages dead on Friday night, CNN reports.
CNN obtained a Pentagon planning memo of President Trump's military parade, which revealed it will be heavy on aircraft, and light on tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Ave.
The details: The parade will "include wheeled vehicles only," per CNN, to "minimize damage to local infrastructure." As Trump requested it be planned for Veterans Day, the event will "focus on the contributions of US veterans from the Revolutionary War to today." Trump will be viewing the parade with "veterans and Medal of Honor recipients...in the reviewing area of the Capitol."
Per CNN, the Joint Staff is responsible for planning the event, and Northern Command will execute it.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) along with several other Democrats on Friday sent letters, obtained by Politico, to two companies demanding information about their business dealings with Jared Kushner.
Why it matters: The request comes after Kushner was accused of self-dealing, based on revelations that his family business received substantial loans from investment firms whose top executives met with Kushner at the White House.
"It's not normal" has become so inadequate to what's unfolding. The N.Y. Times' Mark Landler wins the day with these two paragraphs:
"By day’s end, dazed White House officials were discussing whether Mr. Trump would invite Mr. Kim to come to the United States. That seemed entirely likely, the senior administration official said, though American officials doubt the North Korean leader would accept."
"The announcement capped another day of swirling drama at the White House, in which the president defied his own party by announcing sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and sought to ignore a mushrooming scandal over a pornographic film actress who claims to have had an affair with him."
