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washington (cnn) president donald trump is living every child' s dream: more ice cream .
mariska hargitay and ice - t in law and order: special victims unit .
trump has not provided estimates of how much would be needed for ice staffing increases and for the special deportation task force .
star ice - t explains why the controversial hour may stay shelved forever—and previews his next projects .
ice receives about $ 6 billion a year and agency - wide employs about 20, 000 people .
for example: trump takes two scoops of ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, time reported, while everyone else around the table gets just one .
left: president trump walks along the colonnade. right: trump gives a thumbs up
trump' s promise is to triple the number of ice deportation officers, and by adding 10, 000 officers it gets pretty close to tripling the number .
if you ever have ice cream at the white house, expect president trump to be served two scoops while everyone else gets one. cnn' s jeanne moos reports .
ice said the three immigrants were targeted because they violated immigration laws. the new york man illegally re - entered the united states after he was deported, elzea said. “ice does not target individuals based on political beliefs or activism, ” she said .
the department of homeland security would need to allocate its financial resources, appropriated by congress, toward the funding for the additional ice employees .
us immigration and customs enforcement (ice) continues to focus its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security ,
rodriguez said .
ice conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and agency policy. however, as ice acting director thomas homan has made clear, ice does not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. all of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the united states .
a spokesperson for ice told the paper that the agency had “no information to corroborate” su’s claims, and insisted that it did not endorse such practices .
in fiscal year 2016, ice removed 240, 255 individuals, 58 percent of them were previously convicted of a crime, according to the agency .
in a statement, ice spokeswoman sarah rodriguez said while the administration prioritizes threats to public safety, that does not mean others won' t be targeted .
in the same timeframe of 2016 under the obama administration, ice made 54, 683 administrative arrests, of which 15% , or 8, 053, were noncriminal .
from january to june of this year, ice removed 105, 178 undocumented immigrants from the country, of which 42% , or 43, 808, were noncriminal .
ice “focuses its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security, ” spokeswoman jennifer elzea said in a statement. “however, as [ homeland security ] secretary [ john f. ] kelly has made clear, ice will no longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. ”
on jan. 25, trump told immigration enforcement employees that his executive orders (he also signed an executive order to build a wall on u. s. - mexico border) will empower ice officers
to target and remove those who pose a threat to public safety, calls for the hiring of another 5, 000 border patrol officers, calls for the tripling of the number of ice officers .
immigration detainers – voluntary requests from ice to law enforcement agencies to hold those arrested beyond their normal release so that agents can take them into custody and deport them – also rose, to 22, 161. that was a 75 percent jump from the year before. but many were issued in areas that do not necessarily comply with ice requests .
immigration and customs enforcement (ice) acting director thomas homan on tuesday said he plans to further crack down on undocumented immigrants by sending more resources and agents to sanctuary cities .
“i honestly believe that ice wants to send a message that this is what happens when you speak out, ” said boston immigration lawyer matt cameron, who represents the vermont activists .
but trump did not promise his supporters a compassionate immigration policy founded on humanism. he promised to make unpatriotic employers regret their decision to exploit undocumented workers, instead of hire american ones. in california, some ice agents appear to be doing the opposite. and, at present, trump’s base doesn’t seem to mind .
ice, an agency within the department of homeland security, has about 20, 000 employees, including an estimated 5, 800 deportation officers who identify, apprehend and remove deportable immigrants .
“ice agents and officers have been given clear direction to focus on threats to public safety and national security, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the arrest of convicted criminal aliens, ” ice acting director thomas homan said in the statement. “however, when we encounter others who are in the country unlawfully, we will execute our sworn duty and enforce the law. ”
a spokeswoman for ice said her agency “remains sensitive” to victims and witnesses and helps them obtain visas or stays of deportation in some cases. but she said anyone in the united states illegally could be deported .
“i don’t even think it’s worth showing, ” said longtime s. v. u. cast member ice - t, who plays det. fin tutuola. “it wasn’t one of our best shows. ”
president trump campaigned on cracking down on illegal immigration and stepping up border security .
in addition to bloodrunners, ice - t also has a new body count album on the horizon: bloodlust, the band’s sixth studio album and their first since 2014’s manslaughter, is scheduled for release on march 31 .
others fear ice is arresting immigrants in retaliation for asserting their rights, such as two dairy worker advocates in vermont, who have since been released on bond, and a community activist in new york, who is detained .
ivanka trump, assistant and daughter of us president donald j. trump, touches the western wall, judaism' s holiest prayer site, in jerusalem' s old city
trump’s dhs is not embarrassed by pursuing immigrants with little or even no criminal record .
if “the apprentice” didn’t get trump elected, it is surely what made him electable .
“the only person i connect with in this administration is melania, because just like me she’s foreign, she’s a beautiful ice princess, and we both scan the room for the nearest exit whenever we read to children. ” — julio torres
but anabel barron, an immigrant activist in ohio, said she is facing deportation even though she is a domestic - violence victim who applied for a visa. she said ice officials have affixed an electronic - tracking device to her ankle .
trump’s department of homeland security, unlike obama’s before him, is not embarrassed by the fact that it has built its enforcement growth by pursuing those with little or even no criminal record. indeed, in its statement, ice touts this new reality. “ice will no longer exempt any class of individuals from removal proceedings if they are found to be in the country illegally, ” the announcement reads. “this is evident in the rise in non - criminal arrests over the same period, which increased from approximately 4, 200 in 2016 to more than 10, 800 in 2017. ”
the ice field offices with the largest total number of arrests – more than 2, 000 each – were in dallas, which covers north texas and oklahoma; atlanta, which includes georgia and the carolinas; and houston, which spans southeast texas .
but, more than anything, trump gave time a window into some of the oddities that make his white house unlike any in modern history, including the traits that make trump tick .
we are going to triple the number of [ immigration and customs enforcement ] deportation officers ,
trump said during an immigration speech in arizona in 2016 .
within ice, i am going to create a new special deportation task force, focused on identifying and removing quickly the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in america who have evaded justice .
trump natural spring water is one of the purest natural spring waters bottled in the world. it
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for a moment, he seems to be proposing a more civil public space in american democracy, one the trump campaign did little to foster and which the trump administration is unlikely to experience .
it' s not an admission, but it' s a close as trump usually gets .
ice’s atlanta office arrested the most immigrants who had never committed any crimes, with nearly 700 arrests, up from 137 the prior year. philadelphia had the biggest percentage increase, with 356 noncriminal arrests, more than six times as many as the year before .
us president donald j. trump and his wife, us first lady melania trump are welcomed by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu upon arrival at ben gurion airport, in lod outside tel aviv, israel
ice noted that the
noncriminal
category includes individuals who may have been charged with a crime that did not result in a conviction, and others who may have been previously deported. re - entering after being deported can lead to criminal charges under us law .
that last sentence is key, and is the crux of how the trump administration has pursued the expansion of its enforcement efforts. on january 25, after barely a week in office, trump released an
trump' s priority removals, especially for criminals, mirror the ones under obama' s administration .
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as for his ongoing work on s. v. u. , ice - t confirms that the series will continue to rip its stories from the headlines whenever possible. those bemoaning the fact that we may never get to see gary cole channeling donald trump may find solace in an upcoming plot line that ping - pongs off another high - profile story from the 2016 campaign .
trump rarely takes blame, and throughout the 2016 campaign he said he rarely, if ever, apologizes .
can trump lament acrimony in washington? yes. but he also can elevate with seven - word sentence .
the first w. w. e. trump - based story was a bout between wrestlers dressed up as “trump” and “rosie, ” a one - time experiment that flopped with fans. then, the spring that “the apprentice” vanished from nbc, trump himself entered the ring as a w. w. e. character—a preening, crudely macho version of his role on “the apprentice. ” in the story, “mr. trump” arrives to vanquish his former friend vince mcmahon, the insecure tyrant who owns the w. w. e. trump is introduced as an oz - like face on a giant screen, as “for the love of money” plays and dollar bills tumble from the rafters. (mcmahon’s money, not trump’s .) their showdown is more of a bro - down: trump brags that his “trump towers” are bigger than mcmahon’s “grapefruits. ” the audience might be rooting for trump, mcmahon says, “but ninety - five per cent of them are idiots. ” trump replies, “to me, they look like a very smart group of people. ”
in january, he issued executive orders that made all undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation. in february, trump’s press secretary said the “shackles” were off immigration and border agents, whose unions backed trump in the election .
trump' s promise to triple ice' s deportation officers depends on funding from congress. the president submits a budget to congress in february. based on the 1974 congressional budget act, the deadline for the final adoption of the budget resolution is april 15, though final agreements may come later, notes a report from the congressional research service. the upcoming fiscal year starts oct. 1, 2017 .
trump’s former campaign manager is seeking pretrial release, despite the witness - tampering charges that landed him in jail .
since the election, trump and his officials have sent conflicting signals on how much he would intensify immigration enforcement .
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an immigration detainee stands near an u. s. immigration and customs enforcement grievance box in the high security unit at the theo lacy facility, a county jail which also houses immigration detainees arrested by the u. s. immigration and customs enforcement (ice), march 14, 2017 in orange, calif .
and you both do an incredible job, but you need help, you need more ,
trump said .
between firings, the show paints a distorted picture of new york, and a very limited portrait of trump himself .
time reported that trump brought up how he is trying to mint an arms deal with an african leader who has decades - old human rights concerns, all in the name of spurring american business. trump declined to name the country .
but doing the time interview, as their dinner was wrapping up, trump appeared to have a moment of introspection .
ah, he' s choking. ah, look ,
trump said after clapper declined to provide names .
other recent ice enforcement actions give us some clues as to what the breakdown of criminal acts might look like. among the 675 people who were swept up in the splashy raids that the department of homeland security launched at the start of the year, half had either no criminal convictions or had been convicted of traffic violations ,
trump and his people told iowans not to worry about chinese retaliation against iowa soybean exports. now they’re worrying for real .
why law & order: s. v. u. ’s donald trump episode will probably never see the light of day
according to ice, nearly 75 percent of those arrested between january 22 and april 29 had been convicted of a crime. the release called out the most serious—homicide, rape, kidnapping, and sexual abuse—and said that violent crimes “accounted for more than 2, 700 convictions” of the 41, 318 people who’d been arrested on immigration violations. the release did not give any further breakdown of how many had been convicted of such serious violations, nor did it mention the other sorts of crimes people had been convicted of. “we do not have statistics to the specificity of criminalities, ” rachael yong yow, a spokesperson for ice, said in an e - mail when
in the america i grew up in, cities didn' t shield people who violated the law ,
homan told the publication. “what i want to get is a clear understanding from everybody, from the congressmen to the politicians to law enforcement to those who enter the country illegally, that ice is open for business .
“my sense is that ice is emboldened in a way that i have never seen, ” dan satterberg, the top prosecutor in washington state’s king county, which includes seattle, said thursday. “the federal government, in really just a couple of months, has undone decades of work that we have done to build this trust. ”
these days, ice - t has the luxury of only accepting the projects he actually wants to do—like the aforementioned bloodrunners, a horror flick that hits home video on march 7. the gig wasn’t a stretch for the actor, who has a few other horror films in his back catalog—including a little something called leprechaun in the hood .
in an immigration policy speech in long island on friday the president is due to call for 10, 000 more immigration and customs enforcement (ice) officers, the building of his border wall with mexico, a “substantial amount” (sic) of legislation to expedite the removal of illegal immigrants from central america, a bill against sanctuary cities .
the trump administration didn’t keep track of how many families it separated. now, it wants more time to figure that out .
people cheer as us president donald trump appears on stage at a rally in harrisburg, pennsylvania, on april 29, 2017 .
but during his interview with time, trump took responsibility - - sort of - - for the combative tone of his administration .
according to homan, illegal border crossings have decreased by 70 percent under trump and arrests inside the country have increased by 40 percent .
while trump' s comments on deportations have often been vague, he has frequently declared his determination to deport millions, particularly criminals .
seth meyers and other late - night hosts tried to wrap their heads around the recent thaw in president trump’s relationship with congressional democrats .
throughout the eighties, as trump built trump tower, then the javits center, helping to make manhattan into a luxury playground, he played himself on television. he was omnipresent in pop culture, often as a punch line. he was the “short - fingered vulgarian” of
the trump of “the apprentice” is not a wholly foreign figure. in the second episode, he practically pulls the advertising c. e. o. donny deutsch off his feet with a handshake. he rates women’s looks reflexively. he’s also hung up on eugenics, an unspoken contradiction of the show’s meritocratic themes. in one episode, sam is interrogated in the boardroom. “you don’t believe in the genetic pool? that what you have, you have? ” trump asks sam. “i’ve got genetic pool big - time, mr. trump! ” sam insists, gesticulating. “just like you got from your father, fred trump, and your mother, mary trump. ”
us president donald j. trump arrives in a vehicle to saint damaso' s court for a private audience with pope francis in vatican city
wrestling—even more than reality tv—makes anyone who describes it sound like a lunatic. but the series climax, “battle of the billionaires, ” is so campily homoerotic, so rife with heat and humiliation, that it’s a critic - proof fever dream. “it’s the hostile takeover of donald trump! ” announcers shriek, as trump pounds mcmahon. trump’s “second” in the ring is a near - naked black wrestler named bobby lashley. mcmahon is represented in the ring by umaga, a samoan who grunts and screams. when trump wins, he shaves mcmahon’s head .
watch them start to choke like dogs ,
trump said after sen. chuck grassley, an iowa republican, asked whether official asked for names of trump or his associates be revealed in an intelligence report .
watch what happens. they are desperate for breath .
burnett never wavers. a brilliant entrepreneur, and one of the most powerful men in television, he had produced “survivor, ” on cbs, which exploded the economics and aesthetics of television, launching a transformative new genre. “the apprentice” was the savvy workplace variation that he pitched to trump in 2002. and yet burnett presents himself, whether humbly or cannily, as trump’s acolyte: robin to trump’s batman, he insists .
according to data from immigrations and customs enforcement provided to members of the media thursday evening, ice made 75, 045 administrative arrests of undocumented immigrants from january to june of 2017. administrative arrests are used for routine arrests made based on immigration status. of those, 19, 752 of the undocumented immigrants were classified as non - criminals, which is 26% of the total .
during the presidential campaign, trump branded himself as a law - and - order candidate whose administration would strictly adhere to and follow the law .
with the vice president sitting at one end of the table. with the salad course, trump is served what appears to be thousand island dressing instead of the creamy vinaigrette for his guests. when the chicken arrives, he is the only one given an extra dish of sauce. at the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone else. the tastes of pence are also tended to. instead of the pie, he gets a fruit plate .
trump, carrying on the tenor of his vicious 2016 campaign, has made washington a more acrimonious place. democrats, appalled by his victory, have grown more fearful, more vocal and more disgusted. trump has kept his foot on the gas, too, with near constant combative tweets .
trump has emphasized his desire to remove immigrants in the country illegally who have been convicted of crimes, saying they' ve killed thousands of americans .
in 1990, trump appeared on a game show called “trump card, ” set at trump’s castle, in atlantic city. as his life became unstable, rocked by divorces and bankruptcies, his tv persona stayed flush. he made cameos on sitcoms: on a 1994 episode of “the fresh prince of bel air” (carlton faints in admiration); on a 1996 episode of “the nanny” (he dates fran). in 1999, he ruined a perfectly good episode of “sex and the city. ” in these incarnations, trump is a manhattan fixture. and yet it feels as though he’s shrunk to a fun - size trump: red tie, yellow hair, “the donald. ” he’s less an icon than he is a retro cartoon .
in early 2016, while working as donald trump' s top campaign lawyer, donald mcgahn came up with a novel idea whose reverberations are still being felt. although trump was surging toward the gop nomination, uncertainty about his ideology and how he would govern had unnerved many mainstream republicans and social conservatives .
the reality is that, for many years of his presidency, obama pursued a very similar agenda to trump. as president, trump has sought to build on that already robust deportation infrastructure, with the help of his baldly xenophobic rhetorical bent. wednesday’s news is the first major confirmation of this new era .
the original show had painted the bankrupt trump as a respected mogul; “the celebrity apprentice” made the tightwad a philanthropist. during season 5, trump filmed a special boardroom segment with ignacio, a child beneficiary of the make - a - wish foundation. ignacio, from milwaukee, had won an essay contest on “why i’m proud to be bilingual. ” his “wish” is to be fired by trump. instead, the host praises him and hands him a check .
the waiters know well trump’s personal preferences. as he settles down, they bring him a diet coke, while the rest of us are served water ,
one of president donald trump' s most polarizing talking points during the campaign was the deployment of a deportation force to remove people living in the country illegally .
each president leaves his mark on the building, and trump has wasted little time making his. the modern art favored by the obama family is mostly gone, replaced with classic oils, including portraits of trump’s favorite predecessors, like andrew jackson and teddy roosevelt. gold curtains have replaced the maroon ones in the oval office, and military - service flag stands have been added around the room, topped by battle ribbons and held in place by heavy brass bases that trump praises to visitors .
us president donald trump looks on as u. s. secretary of state rex tillerson and saudi arabia' s crown prince muhammad bin nayef exchange a memorandum of understanding
king of saudi arabia salman bin abdulaziz al saud with us president donald j. trump and wife melania during a welcome ceremony at murabba palace, in riyadh, saudi arabia
watching clips of former director of national intelligence james clapper and former acting attorney general sally yates' recent senate testimony, trump compared to the longtime government officials to dogs .
the labor commissioner’s office, the state’s labor enforcement arm, said that since november u. s. immigration and customs enforcement agents showed up at locations in van nuys and santa ana looking for workers who had brought claims against their employers. in january, ice also contacted a state official and asked for details about an ongoing investigation into labor violations at several construction sites across los angeles, according to julie su, the state’s labor commissioner and the agency’s head .
after season 1, the ratings began to drop. each year, trump obsessed over and lied about them, needling reporters who cited them. even during the 2004 paley panel, which took place just over a week into the second season, trump complained that the show’s launch did better because in january “everyone was watching tv, ” whereas, in september, “everyone was playing golf. ” as cable began its ascent, trump clung tightly to network values: quality measured only by ad dollars and nielsen ratings .
at this point, it feels slightly superfluous to note that ice - t is a man who’s not afraid to speak his mind. but this trait also means that he has an answer for everything, no matter how deeply into his back catalog you dig…and this includes, we can now confirm, the fact that he was responsible for writing some of the raps for mr. t’s legendary 1984 tv special—and subsequent album— be somebody... or be somebody’s fool !
donald trump is due to call for more 10, 000 immigration officers and the building of his border wall to crack down on a notorious gang operating in new york state .
us president donald j. trump with king of saudi arabia salman bin abdulaziz al saud during a welcome ceremony with traditional sword dancers at murabba palace, in riyadh, saudi arabia
mr. trump recently traveled to florida to see the effects of hurricane irma. jimmy kimmel wonders whether he fit in a round or two of golf while he was there .
nevertheless, trump' s level of arrests are in line with earlier periods in the obama administration. in the first half of 2014, 27% of ice arrests, or 25, 135 people, were noncriminal undocumented immigrants. that was a period before obama instituted deportation priorities - - a move that he only took after discussions to reform the nation' s immigration policies fell apart in congress. in that time period, deportations were also far ahead of the administration' s total in the first half of this year. from january to june 2016, 160, 442 people were removed from the country, with 44% of them being noncriminal .
months, it felt easier to avoid watching donald trump on television. it was like sniffing spoiled milk: you didn’t need a sip to know it was bad. then, in june, the president held the first meeting of his complete cabinet. it aired live, as trump’s early campaign rallies had, in full and without commentary, on cnn .
during his interview with the examiner, homan also praised the trump administration, saying it has
taken the handcuffs off law enforcement ,
allowing them to address immigration more thoroughly .
the trump administration said the government would no longer encourage schools to use race as a factor in the admissions process, rescinding obama - era guidance meant to promote diversity among students .
saudi arabia' s king salman bin abdulaziz al saud presents u. s. president donald trump with the collar of abdulaziz al saud medal at the royal court in riyadh, saudi arabia
in one way, however, it departs radically from reality: no one criticizes the boss. instead, the trump of “the apprentice” receives endless praise, even behind his back. all scandal and debt are erased; trump’s combative streak is alchemized into daddy’s tough love. celebrities who sign up for reality shows often agree to be made fun of. on “the apprentice, ” while trump is outrageous, he’s rarely ridiculous: if he insults people, they deserve it (and often love it). he’s a family man and a business genius. contestants are grateful for his attention, even negative attention, since he could be off doing deals. frequently, he narrates from a helicopter, hovering like zeus. early on, the prizes are tied to trump’s biography: a visit to his louis quatorze apartment (which he describes as being generally reserved for “presidents and kings”), to meet his then girlfriend, melania; dinner at the 21 club, where the winner is seated at the “fred trump table. ” in the finale, the winner chooses which trump property to help manage. often, the winners—who do, in fact, go on to work for trump, with a salary of $ 250, 000—tell him that they’ve chosen the project that will let them be “closer to you. ”
when burnett pitched trump to nbc, it was as the host of only the first season of “the apprentice”; after him, new tycoons, including mark cuban and martha stewart, were supposed to step in. according to the book “trump revealed” (2016), by michael kranish and marc fisher, the plan quickly changed. trump’s comfort on camera, his ability to improvise—including the “you’re fired! ” tagline—cemented his value, as did the strong first - season ratings. burnett conceived of the show as “survivor” in the “urban jungle, ” and it became nbc’s flagship. trump’s relationship with viewers was transformed: “he was a hero, and he had not been one before, ” jim dowd, then nbc’s publicity director, told kranish and fisher .
five days after his inauguration, president donald trump signed an executive order to increase the number of immigration officers, a move that' s in line with one of his top campaign promises .
nearly 180, 000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens ,
trump said july 2016 at the republican national convention .
trump can’t do anything about that, for the most part. but he can still tweet. so now he walks out of his dining room, followed by the same substantial entourage of senior aides. back in the oval office, he checks in with his waiting staff. “did you get that stuff out? ” the president asks of the tweets he had prepared. “the russia - trump
wearing a striped tie that rhymed with the flag behind him, trump sat at a massive table, smiling. “mike? ” trump said, and vice - president pence took the cue. “thank you, mr. president. it is the greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice - president to a president who is keeping his word to the american people. ” as cameras clicked like cicadas, each appointee offered up an homage; reince priebus, the white house chief of staff, thanked trump for the “opportunity and the blessing that you’ve given us to serve your agenda. ”
china has offered new cooperation to prevent the further development of north korea’s nuclear arsenal. american companies have been arm - twisted into staying in the country, while trump has personally inserted himself into a handful
in practice, it feels much like his old corner office on the 26th floor of trump tower, minus all the clutter of memorabilia, a place to convene an audience, to broadcast his exceptionalism, to entertain, take photos, amaze and make deals. some aides still call him “mr. trump, ” and everyone turns to listen when he speaks. his presence always seems to consume the room .
bush asks surprisingly tough questions: he wonders whether burnett softened trump with an image “makeover”; he talks about whether reality television is a fad, and whether it’s cruel; and he asks what it felt like to lose the emmy. as the drip of praise slows, trump shows flashes of sourness, griping about old enemies, like the host of “the view”—“this fat slob joy behar who can’t stand me. ”
in a few minutes, president donald trump will release a new set of tweets, flooding social - media accounts with his unique brand of digital smelling salts—words that will jolt his supporters and provoke his adversaries .
the next clip starts to play, this time showing iowa senator chuck grassley asking clapper and former acting attorney general sally yates if they ever requested that the names of trump, his associates or members of congress be identified by name, or unmasked, in a legal intelligence intercept. “watch them start to choke like dogs, ” trump says, having fun. “watch what happens. they are desperate for breath. ”
is this real introspection or just more performance for his guests? the answer isn’t long in coming. within a day of the plates being cleared away, trump takes to twitter to attack “cryin’ chuck schumer, ” the democratic senate leader. he belittles connecticut senator richard blumenthal for once misrepresenting his military service—“he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness. ” no truce is around the corner. president trump fights on .
which “rude and crude” party girls were sent to finishing school—a concept that, over two years, morphed into the britishized show “the girls of hedsor hall. ” the host was tara conner, a former miss usa, to whom trump had given a second chance after she broke pageant rules. the comedian rosie o’donnell accused him of hypocrisy—who was the womanizing trump to judge? during a press conference for the show, in 2009, trump spun the incident into a crass rant, speculating about o’donnell’s motivations: “tara, i hate to tell you this, for reasons you don’t want to know about, but rosie would have given you a
people who are criminals, gang members, security threats, who have overstayed their visas, recent illegal arrivals and
those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net
are among trump' s enforcement priorities .
the white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, said that mr. trump had “done more for bipartisanship in the last eight days than obama did in eight years. ” trevor noah sees things a little differently .
arrests of immigrants with no criminal records more than doubled to 5, 441, the clearest sign yet that president trump has ditched his predecessor’s protective stance toward most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the united states .
moments later, the president watches as both clapper and yates testify that they had reviewed intercepts containing the unmasked identities of trump, his associates and members of congress. this, to trump, is yet another victory, the lead - lined proof of his still unproven claim that obama surveilled him before he was sworn in. “so they surveilled me, ” he says. “you guys don’t write that—wiretapped in quotes. they surveilled me. ”
a clutch of aides follow him, including mcmaster, pence and press secretary sean spicer. the president raises a remote and flicks on the screen, sorting through old recordings of cable news shows, until he comes to what he is after: a clip from the senate hearing earlier in the day, as broadcast on fox news. the first clip he shows is of south carolina senator lindsey graham speaking to former director of national intelligence james clapper. graham asks if clapper stands by his statement that he knows of no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. trump waits quietly, until clapper admits that nothing has changed. trump pantomimes a sort of victory .
in the interview published thursday, trump also expanded on his view of russian hacking during the 2016 election, refuted reports that he is unhappy with his current national security adviser and took a level of blame for his combative administration .
trump, notably, at times during the 2016 campaign demeaned his primary and general election opponents' spouses and attacked a gold star family. more recently, he cast the entire media as the
enemy of the state .
republican sen. susan collins, a key vote on president donald trump' s pick for the supreme court, said sunday she would oppose any nominee she believed would overturn the landmark roe v. wade decision that legalized abortion .
although he admits to being a horror aficionado, ice - t has certain standar’ds when it comes to his viewing habits. “i’m a fan, but it’s got to be done right, ” he said. “i was a big walking dead fan when it first came on, and now the story, they’ve worked it so many different ways that now i watch it backwards: i root for the zombies. the kid with the hat [ carl grimes ] and the black guy with the stick [ morgan jones ]? i watch the show with the intention of watching one of them die. that’s my shit. ”
in the fifth season of “the apprentice, ” ivanka trump chastises a contestant for bearing grudges. trump cuts her off: “who doesn’t! i do. nobody takes things more personally than me. when somebody says something personal about me, i hate them for the rest of my life. it’s probably wrong, but i hate people. ” he pauses. “do you understand that? i hate ’em... . i never recover from it. ”
for all the do - gooder icing, the deeper shift was toward more aggressive product integration. as always, trump touts his hotels and resorts, his water and his ties; and the celebrities do the same for their albums and perfumes. the human brands praise the corporate ones, which benefit by association with the charitable ones. the structure echoes that of the trump foundation: each week, money is funnelled to philanthropy under trump’s name, though none of it is donated by him. whereas the original “apprentice” bore some resemblance to wall street training, “the celebrity apprentice” was sheer shilling: its sponsors paid from five million to nine million dollars for a slot, according to an estimation by ad age. “there’s never been another show where you’ve had a product sold for two hours, ” trump told the magazine, in 2011. “they do a 30 - second commercial, but where do they do two hours? ”
an unnamed white house official told the hill that immigration reform was a priority for the trump administration and pointed to the quick removal of illegal immigrants who are only suspected of gang membership even if they do not have a criminal record .
i fully think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong ,
trump told jimmy fallon in september 2015 .
i will absolutely apologize sometime in the distant future if i' m ever wrong .
ice - t, who spoke with vanity fair in conjunction with the release of his new film, bloodrunners, may not think much of the episode—but he did offer additional details about it. “there was this guy who was running for president—he was very trump - ish, and girls were coming out of the woodwork saying he was raping them, ” he said. “and me and mariska [ hargitay, who plays lt. olivia benson ], we’re on his bumper, and he’s sweating it. but at the end of the day, it comes out that he was innocent. he didn’t do it. so we’ve got to apologize, and he’s still doing his thing, talking his shit. and it turns out that his campaign advisor, who was his best friend, was booby - trapping him because he knew he would be terrible for america! ”
in 2015, nbc fired trump. by that time, he’d been an obama - baiting birther for four years, but his comments about mexican rapists went too far. he’d alienated black and latino viewers. for others, the spell was cast: many of his biggest fans would continue to see him through the filter of burnett’s tv hit, no matter what trump said or did. by 2017, the media was his enemy. that included his old friend jeff zucker, who was now the president of cnn. one day, the president tweeted old footage from “the battle of the billionaires, ” repurposed as a bizarre meme. a cnn logo was superimposed on mcmahon’s head as trump pummelled him .
“the real story is the surveillance, ” the president responds, before ribbing his staff. “but my comms people can’t get it out. ” they start laughing. but there are even more pressing matters. trump turns to mcmaster, who was the subject of a column on bloomberg earlier in the day, quoting anonymous sources saying the president was unhappy with his performance. it’s another story that trump declares false. the president thinks he knows where the leak is coming from, which provides some comfort. but for now, he will counterprogram: “i’m so happy with him, ” trump says. “i think he’s wonderful. ” and with that, he decides, it is time to go home .
mr. kimmel asked stephen colbert — who’s been off the air this week, preparing to host the emmys on sunday — about two of the “late show” host’s favorite topics: mr. trump and his former press secretary, sean spicer .
“they were, like, ‘oh, shit! ’ and then they said, ‘oh, my god, it’s going to look like…’ you know, because law & order wants to be close, but not too close. also, i think [ cole ], he channeled trump. so even though this guy he played wasn’t trump, he acted like trump. i think nbc just said, ‘you know what? this might be cheesy or corny. ’ and to put it out now, it’s old and stuff. so i think they just got rid of it. i don’t know if they burned the shit or whatever. they paid me for it. i don’t give a fuck, really. i got my money! ”
( cnn) the trump administration continues to arrest higher numbers of undocumented immigrants, with especially higher rates of noncriminal immigrants as part of those arrests - - but deportations continue to lag behind the rates of the obama administration, according to new data .
immigration arrests rose 32. 6 percent in the first weeks of the trump administration, with newly empowered federal agents intensifying their pursuit of not just undocumented immigrants with criminal records, but also thousands of illegal immigrants who have been otherwise law - abiding .
“i was just starting out: i wasn’t ice - t on law & order with money in the bank, i was ice - t needing some money! ” he said, laughing. “and people forget, but at the time, mr. t was the shit! he was like the rock back in the day. you couldn’t get hotter than mr. t. he had his own cereal and everything! but when they said, ‘mr. t wants to do a rap album, can you teach mr. t to rap? ’ my brain said, ‘this guy might kick my ass or some shit like that if i try to tell him to rap in a different way! ’ so they gave me the titles of the songs, and i wrote ’em—somewhere there’s actual tapes of me doing all his songs—and i gave the tapes to him. well, a month or so later, we got in the studio... and mr. t ain’t listened to ’em at all! so we just tried to make him rap, but if you said, ‘nah, ’ he’d say, ‘that’s how i say it! that’s my style! ’ and what are you gonna do, you know? so they were able to manage to produce the record with a little studio magic. hey, man, it’s called payin’ dues in hollywood! ”
the space is far larger than it looks from outside, with a long great hall, appointed with freshly cut yellow flowers. “this is the kitchen here, a beautiful kitchen, ” he says. “this is the dining room. here is a room where we have a guest room. ” trump shows off the presidential seal over the closed door to his suite and the yellow oval room, which opens out onto the truman balcony, where trump’s security detail has discouraged him from spending too much time .
in the first 100 days that donald trump has been in office, arrests for immigration violations have increased 38 percent over to the same period in 2016, according to figures immigration and customs enforcement released wednesday. more than 41, 000 people have been arrested .
24 hours, trump will roil the nation again by announcing the firing of his fbi director, james comey, who is leading an investigation of his campaign’s ties to russia. it will set off yet another firestorm. but for now, it’s showtime once again .
on the campaign trail, trump said anyone in the united states illegally could be deported. after the election, however, he told “60 minutes” he would focus on criminals and said he would decide later what to do with undocumented immigrants who are “terrific people. ”
some say criticism of trump’s policies seems politically charged, noting that president barack obama deported thousands of immigrants without criminal records. and arrests this year are lower than obama’s first weeks in 2014, when agents arrested 29, 238 immigrants, including 7, 483 noncriminal ones .
“ivanka trump said that she doesn’t speak out against her dad publicly because when you’re part of a team, you’re part of a team. i think what she meant to say was, when you’re part of a will, you’re part of a will. ” — jimmy fallon
one senior white house official recently outlined the three rules of trump for a group of reporters: when you’re right, you fight. controversy elevates message. and never apologize. all of these rules have survived his time in office, if in slightly more modest forms. after bringing new levels of combativeness to the political process, “the only way you survive is to be combative, ” trump says now. “i’ll read stories in the new york times that are so one - sided. hey, i know when i am successful. i know victory. ”
“wow. one deal, now he’s mr. bipartisan? o. k. you can’t call someone a philanthropist just because they tossed a quarter at a homeless person. it doesn’t work that way. ‘we hereby name this alley donald trump alley of giving! ’” — trevor noah
“yes. he was choking on that, ” the president chortles. “is there any record at all of collusion? he was the head of the whole thing. he said no. that’s a big statement. ” trump leaves unmentioned the fact that there is an ongoing fbi counter­intelligence investigation into
but for now, trump is focused on his tv. he watches the screen like a coach going over game tape, studying the opposition, plotting next week’s plays. “this is one of the great inventions of all time—tivo, ” he says as he fast - forwards through the hearing.
trump ice , also known as trump natural spring water , is a bottled water brand owned by american businessman , investor , and president of the united states , donald trump . trump ice was initially sold in national grocery chains and at specialty food stores through the united states ; the water brand is now exclusively available at trump-branded hotels , restaurants and golf clubs . according to trump 's 2016 financial disclosure form , which was filed with the federal elections commission , his personal earnings from trump ice in the previous year amounted to $ 413,339 . kelly perdew , the winner of the apprentice 2 , was privately appointed as executive vice president of trump ice as part of his contractual extension with the trump organization . trump ice was distributed by mountain spring waters of america in the new york and new jersey area . 
trump ice, also known as trump natural spring water, is a bottled water brand owned by american businessman, investor, and president of the united states, donald trump. trump ice was initially sold in national grocery chains and at specialty food stores through the united states; the water brand is now exclusively available at trump-branded hotels, restaurants and golf clubs. according to trump's 2016 financial disclosure form, which was filed with the federal elections commission, his personal earnings from trump ice in the previous year amounted to $ 413,339. kelly perdew, the winner of the apprentice 2, was privately appointed as executive vice president of trump ice as part of his contractual extension with the trump organization. trump ice was distributed by mountain spring waters of america in the new york and new jersey area.
trump ice, also known as trump natural spring water, is a bottled water brand owned by american businessman, investor, and president of the united states, donald trump. trump ice was initially sold in national grocery chains and at specialty food stores through the united states; the water brand is now exclusively available at trump-branded hotels, restaurants and golf clubs. according to trump's 2016 financial disclosure form, which was filed with the federal elections commission, his personal earnings from trump ice in the previous year amounted to $ 413,339. kelly perdew, the winner of the apprentice 2, was privately appointed as executive vice president of trump ice as part of his contractual extension with the trump organization. trump ice was distributed by mountain spring waters of america in the new york and new jersey area.