| | | | | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, holds up a copy of "The Kremlin Playbook" while next to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, during a hearing Monday on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | | | Ivanka Officially a Washingtonian: Also she's officially Instagram basic
Trump Oversells Tower: His New York home is smaller and less expensive than he said
The Hillary Clinton of Pop: What Katy Perry has in common with HRC | | | What the White House Is Talking About:
President Donald Trump meets today with national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
What the White House Press Corps Is Talking About:
Trump's weirdly light schedule of quiet this week. He can't really comment on health care -- gotta let the Hill hash that out. And he's not able to say all that much about Sally Yates' testimony Monday (except on Twitter). Also, Afghanistan is in the hands of his generals. He's oddly quiet after the past week or so of the 100 days' lead-up, which was chock-full of executive orders, efforts to trump Obamacare and the state of the national economy.
Merp:
FBI Director James Comey was wrong about those classified Hillary Clinton emails he testified Huma Abedin sent to Anthony Weiner. Apparently there weren't "hundreds and thousands" of them, and they weren't all classified. The FBI's trying to clarify the error. But Clinton's people are all over the gaffe; here's her former press secretary this morning after the story broke: | | Credit: @NickMerrill/Twitter
Trump's Penthouse Isn't as Penthouse-y as He Says It Is:
Or so says Forbes magazine, which looked at the property records of Trump's Manhattan triplex at Trump Tower, which he has boasted is worth more than $200 million, and a whopping 33,000 square feet. Only, not so much. Forbes says the living space is just shy of 11,000 square feet, which is still, excuse me, yuge. And it's worth more like $64 million. | | Obama Says He's Out of "Prison" But Trapped by Selfies:
In Milan, Italy, former President Barack Obama said during an interview today that he's psyched he's no longer living in the jail-like confines of ... the White House. "It is a very nice prison," says Obama, who rejoices he has been freed to live among the rest of us but who also says his freedom is now curtailed by something perhaps worse than any jail: the selfie. "Now I am only captive to selfies, which is almost as bad." | | Ivanka Trump Went to Exhibit That Makes Her Official Washingtonian and Instagram Basic:
It was only a matter of time before the first daughter turned up at #InfiniteKusama, the super-popular Hirshhorn Museum interactive exhibit. If you don't know what I'm referring to, it's the one with the polka dots and mirrors that all of your Instagram feed is filled with selfies from. Ivanka went Monday and posted. | | Credit: @IvankaTrump/Instagram
It looks like she could be wearing these Club Monaco pants: | | Credit: clubmonaco.com
Librarian Throws Out First Pitch; Nerds Rejoice!:
OK, it's unfair to assume Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is a nerd, but it makes the story more fun. Hayden, who worked in Baltimore for many years before taking over her Library of Congress duties in 2016, threw out the first pitch at the Orioles-Nationals game Monday night at Nats Stadium. Here she is practicing in the hallway of her office: | | Credit: @LibnOfCongress/Twitter
And here she is living the dream Monday night: | | Tiffany Trump to Law School, Dresses the Part:
On the heels of the news that Tiffany Trump will attend Georgetown University Law School this fall, she attended the Spirit of Life Awards luncheon and fashion show Monday at the Plaza Hotel in New York -- and I couldn't help but notice how much she reminded me of Elle Woods from "Legally Blonde." (Betsy Klein, my colleague, and apparent "LB" expert, tells me it's like the first film where she goes to law school, and the sequel is the one where she moves to Washington; thus, the Tiffany news is sort of a mashup of the two films. Insight into what we talk about at work. Also I digress. Here's Tiffany at Monday's event: | | | Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images | | What Washington Is Talking About:
Wondering how many new troops President Donald Trump will send to Afghanistan. Proposals are expected to reach his desk this week, and could be anywhere from 1,500 to 5,000.
What America Is Talking About:
Ellen DeGeneres' celebrity selfie tweet from the Oscars has been dethroned for most retweeted tweet of all time by Carter Wilkerson, a guy on a mission to get free Wendy's chicken nuggets for a year. His tweet now has more than 3.43 million retweets, and he needs 18 million for the year's worth of nugs. | | Credit: @carterjwm/Twitter
For People Who Like a Little C-SPAN With Their Kimmel:
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, appeared Monday night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Cassidy, a physician and freshman senator, piggybacked on Kimmel's emotional monologue about health care and his newborn's surgery by telling CNN last week he would only support a health care bill that passes the "Jimmy Kimmel Test." | | Credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube
Kimmel suggested his own definition for the "Kimmel Test": "No family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise because they can't afford it."
Cassidy responded, "We gotta be able to pay for it, and that's the challenge," to which Kimmel said, "I can think of a way to pay for it is don't give a huge tax cut to millionaires like me and instead leave it how it is, that would be one way."
8 Ways Katy Perry Is the Hillary Clinton of Pop:
Perry promised her next album would be political, with at least two politically themed songs, including one titled "Bigger Than Me" that was inspired by the 2016 election. It got me thinking how similar the singer is to Clinton, and how her next album could be in trouble. ... - They both used to be conservative: Clinton's father was conservative and she supported 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater as a teen, and Perry was raised in a conservative Christian household
- They have impressive resumes: Clinton was championed as the most qualified candidate to run for president (including by Obama), and Perry has nine No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100
- They appeal to a liberal audience, but many liberals are upset with them: Clinton couldn't shake Bernie Sanders (who isn't even technically a Democrat) for months during the Democratic primaries, and Perry has come under fire from liberals for her recent joke about Obama and for wearing a designer at the Met Gala who once made anti-Semitic remarks.
- Their stance on LGBT issues has "evolved": In 2000, Clinton said marriage was between a man and a woman, and she didn't change her stance until 2013, and Perry released songs "Ur So Gay" and "I Kissed a Girl" in 2007 and 2008, respectively, that are considered by some today homophobic, then at the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show she sang "I Kissed a Girl" with a man, Lenny Kravitz, to take the edge off.)
- They campaign on a message of unity: Clinton's slogan was "Stronger Together," and Perry told Entertainment Weekly her next album "is about me being seen and heard so that I can see and hear everyone else!"
- They're products of an earlier time: Clinton ran as an establishment candidate in a change election, while Perry, a pop star who made it big in the late-'00s Europop wave that favored bold female stars with big beats and colorful wigs, now finds herself competing on a male-dominated chart (this week's Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100 is all male-lead songs) that favors hip-hop and frat-EDM with dolphin noises.
- They could both be in trouble?: Clinton lost the 2016 election, and as of right now, Perry isn't faring well on pop's approval poll, the Billboard Hot 100. "Chained to the Rhythm" debuted high at No. 4, but since then, it's dropped every week but one, and 12 weeks later, it sits at No. 74. Follow-up "Bon Appetit" debuted this week at No. 76. We'll see how the rest of her album campaign shakes out, but it's not looking good right now. ...
Loosen Up Those Buttons:
Is it just me, or does Obama lose a button every time he appears in public? Here he is in January vs. last week vs. today: | | Credit, from left, J. Scott Applewhite/Scott Olson/Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
Political Street Art Sighting:
As seen in Washington's Union Market, a mural of Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, with a quote from a March interview with MSNBC where she responded to Bill O'Reilly making a joke that her hair looked like a James Brown wig by saying, "I am a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated." | | Credit: Kayla Brandon
Send me your pics of political street art to coverlinehunter@cnn.com, tweet me @hunterschwarz, or tag @cnncoverline on Instagram. | | | | | | |
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