| | | | | Marine One arrives at the White House Sunday. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images | | | Trump Made $288 Million: Per a 98-page financial disclosure
This Guy: Trump lawyer disputes Trump, says he's not under investigation
VP Gets a Puppy: Pence's Father's Day gift is named Harley | | | What the White House is Talking About:
President Trump today hosts Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela at the White House. Later he participates in big roundtable with CEOs about technology.
What the White House Press Corps is Talking About:
Word on today's briefing came down this morning; it'll be off-camera. Lots of news from the weekend (Navy destroyer tragedy, Jared Kushner heading to Israel and Ramallah for talks, US shooting down a Syrian jet, what appears to be another attack in London, etc.) and the White House opts not to be on-camera.
This Guy:
Did anyone watch the clip of Fox News' Chris Wallace and Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow from Sunday? Because it was my favorite from the shows. Sekulow said the words "the President is under investigation," more than once -- and then Wallace was like, "you said he was under investigation," and then Sekulow got very adamant and "let me be crystal clear, no I didn't." It was kind of surreal. He was a little more clear with Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." Sekulow said there that Trump's tweet was in response to the Washington Post story that said he was under investigation and not that he was actually under investigation. #whosonfirst
Trump Gives Camp David the Thumbs Up:
For his first non-Trump-property weekend getaway, the President and family went to Camp David, deep in the mountains of Maryland. Here's a thing I wrote about Camp David and what POTUS said about it *before* he went (spoiler: not a fan). But *after* he said he dug it. Melania Trump posted that she liked it, too. Trump, however, doubled down on his effusiveness. I personally think they'll go back -- golf carts, skeet shooting, indoor pool, military history, woods and stuff -- it's probably an 11-year-old boy's dream getaway.
Barron Trump was every tween yesterday when he turned around getting off of Marine One and took a snap of the helicopter. | | Credit: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images
The VP Gets a Puppy For Father's Day:
Um, adorable alert. The vice president's family this weekend in in Indiana surprised Mike Pence with Harley, who looks like an Australian Shepherd, for Father's Day. I mean. How. Cute. Is. This. Dog? | | Credit: @SecondLady/Twitter
The Pence family also got a kitten, Hazel, super-cute, too. Hazel replaces the second Pence feline, Oreo, who had to be put down last week. If you're keeping score at home, these guys bring the total number of Pence pets living at the Naval Observatory to four: Marlon Bundo (rabbit), Pickle (cat), Hazel (kitten), Harley (puppy). I'm going to show the new kitten pic because it's a summer Monday and we should use all the kitten and puppy photos we have: | | Credit: @SecondLady/Twitter
Wait! There's more! Remember that really fat cat that was up for adoption that I became obsessed with on Friday? Symba? The 35-pound wonder? Well, a family adopted him and I feel a lot better about humanity in general. | | Image credit: @HumaneSociety/Twitter
This Exists: | | Credit: screenshot shop.donaldjtrump.com
And I know this because it's what expecting dad Eric Trump got from his wife for Father's Day. I tracked a lot of the Trump offspring's Father's Day tributes to the President on social media, but this was the most compelling.
Our Daily Melania:
While her husband meets with President Varela in the West Wing today, Melania Trump will host a lunch for Lorena Castillo, a former journalist who is now the first lady of Panama. One of Castillo's major platform causes is the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Latin America.
Dress Like the First Lady:
When Melania touched down from Camp David yesterday in a white top and olive jeans, I couldn't help but notice it was the reverse of the look she wore in April while visiting a domestic shelter in Florida. Hi, I'm Kate. | | Credits: (left) in Florida, via @FLOTUS/Instagram; (right) yesterday, Zach Gibson/Getty Images
She's wearing the same shoes in both. They're Manolo Blahnik's Lauratopri sandals in watersnake, currently sold out. But her bag is available, for $3,400; it's the iconic Celine "Phantom."
We're Going to Politicon!:
Fam, get your tickets because me and Hunter are joining fellow awesome CNNPolitics colleagues for the big Politicon convention in LA later next month. You should be there because we have a very cool plan ... | | What Washington is Talking About:
Rep. Steve Scalise has been upgraded from "critical" to "serious," and he "continues to show signs of improvement," MedStar Washington Hospital Center said in a statement.
What America is Talking About:
Megyn Kelly's interview with Infowars' Alex Jones.
Poll of the Day:
President Trump has a 54% approval rating in rural areas, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. That's 10% higher than suburban areas and more than 20% higher than urban areas. | | Credit: Washington Post
Where Trump Made His Millions:
Trump made $288 million between January 2016 and April 15, 2017, according to a 98-page disclosure form the Office of Government Ethics released last week he appears to have signed in Sharpie. | | Credit: United States Office of Government Ethics
Here are some highlights, according to the document: - He made $37.2 million from Mar-a-Lago. That's $7.4 million more than it made in his previous financial disclosure. The club doubled its membership fee in January.
- He made $19.6 million from Trump International Hotel Washington DC.
- He made between $1 million and $5 million from his campaign book "Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America."
- He made between $100,001 and $1 million from royalties for "The Art of the Deal."
- He's still making money from his partnership with Serta (watch his commercial with the Serta sheep if you haven't seen them already). Trump Marks Mattress LLC made between $100,001 to $1 million.
Nugent Says He'll Tone it Down:
In the aftermath of last week's attack at the Republican baseball practice and the backlash to the now-infamous Kathy Griffin photo, Ted Nugent has been criticized for some of his comments including once saying President Obama could "suck on my machine gun." But now, the singer said he'll be "more selective" with his words. "I'm not going to engage in that kind of hateful rhetoric anymore," he said in an interview with a New York City radio station last week.
On "Fox & Friends" Sunday, he said his wife was responsible for his change, and he said his machine gun comment was a "metaphor" about opposition to the Second Amendment. "Nobody is too stupid not to know that."
What Katy and Gaga Did on Election Night:
In case you missed this while I was gone, Katy Perry told the New York Times she spent election night 2016 at the Javits Convention Center holding hands with Lady Gaga to console each other over Hillary Clinton's loss: | | Credit: New York Times
Her album "Witness," by the way, is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, with 180,000 equivalent album units. It's her third album to go No. 1, but it sold far fewer than her last, "Prism," which sold 286,000 in its first week.
Where Clinton Kept Her Server:
While I was in Denver last week, I went by the downtown apartment building where the Colorado-based IT company that maintained Clinton's email server stored it, in a bathroom closet in apartment 2K, according to the Daily Mail. | | Credit: @hunterschwarz/Instagram
In a window around the corner from where I was Snapchatting, there was a Hillary Clinton campaign sign.
Street Art Sighting:
A fence just off the 101 in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles has become a makeshift billboard for liberal political statements. Chris Faulkner sent in some shots from the signs that have gone up there, including "REJECT HATE, REJECT IDIOCY, REJECT TRUMP," "SAVE THE ACA," and "IMPEACH." | | Credit: @chrisfaulkner/Instagram
Send me your pics of political street art to coverlinehunter@cnn.com, tweet me @hunterschwarz or tag @cnncoverline on Instagram. | | | | | | |
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