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China: State Media Mocks Trump’s “Amateur Remarks And Over-Confident Manner”

In response to President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, and recent comments that a break with the “One China” policy could be “negotiable,” the state-run news outlet of China has issued an op-ed mocking Trump’s “amateur remarks.”

From the Global Times of China:

“Trump’s thinking about China is becoming increasingly clear: He wants China to make huge economic and trade concessions to the U.S. To achieve that, he is willing to stir certain calm areas in China-U.S. relations, including treating the Taiwan issues as his trump card.

“We were simply angry initially, but now we can’t help but laugh at this U.S. leader-in-waiting. Maybe American voters ‘promoted’ him too quickly, his amateur remarks and over-confident manner are equally shocking.”

(h/t JoeMyGod)

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Lin-Manuel Miranda & The West Wing Weekly Podcast Ask “What’s Next?”
The West Wing Weekly podcast presents an ode to the hit TV show, The West Wing, with some help from Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize winner and birthday boy, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The weekly podcast examines individual episodes of the Emmy Award winning series by Aaron Sorkin, with guests from the show and real life politics to help put the issues at hand into perspective.

Clip description:

Hrishi made a beat, an extended remix of our podcast’s intro theme, for the biggest West Wing fan we know: Lin-Manuel Miranda. Then Lin wrote lyrics and recorded his vocals for this song.

Download the track at http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/whatsnext

As we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and consider the next four years ahead of us, what could be more apropos than to ask, “What’s next?”

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Wife Of Pulse Nightclub Shooter Arrested In Connection With Deadly Orlando Massacre

The wife of the Pulse nightclub shooter, Omar Mateen, has been arrested in connection with the June 2016 massacre in Orlando.

According to the New York Times, Noor Salman was taken into custody by FBI at her home outside San Francisco.

Authorities have been considering charges against Salman since the deadly shootout on June 12th that left 49 dead and 53 wounded. She has reportedly been charged with obstruction of justice.

Salman could appear in federal court in San Francisco as soon as Tuesday

The shooting was the deadliest act against the LGBT community in US history, and the deadliest terror attack in the US since September 11, 2001.

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Scotland: Donald Trump Inauguration Skewered In Satirical TV Description

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The world is in stitches over a satirical TV listing describing Donald Trump’s upcoming inaugural festivities.

From The Herald in Scotland:

Reviewer Damien Love’s piece in today’s paper previews President Trump’s inauguration – and it has caused a huge reaction across the globe.

He captures the world’s mood before the screening in his Sunday Herald Scotland TV roundup.

In the copy, which is trending in America, he writes about the Donald Trump story as a box office style disaster movie.

His summary of The President Trump: The Inauguration reads: “The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president.”

He then describes it as a “feature-length opener” which concentrates on the “gaudy inauguration of President Trump”.

Love finishes with: “It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.”

The post has caused a reaction worldwide with social media users dubbing it as a “masterpiece” and the “the most brilliant TV listing ever conceived”.

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Trump Announces Visit To National African American Museum Then Cancels Due To “Scheduling Issues”

Well, this is an awkward kind of thing.

On the same weekend that President-elect Donald Trump insulted civil rights lion Rep. John Lewis, he announced he would visit the National African American Museum in observance of the MLK holiday weekend.

Clearly this was meant to be some kind of PR cleanup.

But the Trumpster couldn’t resist taking one more swipe at Congressman Lewis:

This morning, the museum visit was cancelled due to “scheduling issues.”

But no worries – “the blacks” love him, right?

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Radio Show: Jennifer Holliday Cancels, CMT’s Cody Alan Comes Out, Ben Carson Still Confused

This week on my BlogTalkRadio show, I recap these LGBT headlines and more:

• Tony & Grammy Award winner Jennifer Holliday agrees to perform at the Trump inauguration, then reverses in an open letter to her LGBT fans.

• CMT and iHeartRadio host Cody Alan comes out to fans.

• A new Gallup poll shows the LGBT community in the US growing to the tune of over 10 million.

• Dr. Ben Carson still thinks LGBTs want “extra rights,” and he’s wrong.

• Randy Rainbow parodies Into The Woods as he suggests President-elect Trump consider pulling back on the Twitter.

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Donald Trump Still Mad About The Election (And Low Approval Numbers)

President-elect may never be able to live down that he lost the popular vote. A fact that continues to bruise his thin-orange-skinned ego.

The President-elect took another swipe at Democrats this morning with the promise that he’s just going to get more and more popular.

THAT would be good news for the Trumpster considering he currently has the worst approval/disapproval rating of any incoming president in modern history.

Earlier this week, Quinnipiac released the results of a new poll showing 51 percent of those surveyed said that they disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president-elect versus 37 percent who said they approve.

The same poll indicates 55 percent of Americans give President Barack Obama a big thumbs up compared to 39 percent who disapprove of the outgoing president.

In the meantime, we’ll be getting a LOT more of this I imagine:

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President Obama’s Final Weekly Address

President Obama delivered his final weekly address thanking the American people for making him a better President and a better man.

From the clip:

Our success depends on our participation, regardless of which way the pendulum of power swings. It falls on each of us to be guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we’ve been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we all share the same proud title: Citizen.

It has been the honor of my life to serve you as President. Eight years later, I am even more optimistic about our country’s promise. And I look forward to working along your side, as a citizen, for all my days that remain.