| | | | | Sen. Ted Cruz leaves the Capitol last week after the final vote before the summer break. Credit: Mark WIlson/Getty Images | | | Poll of the Day: 59% think Trump's first six months in office have been a failure, per CNN poll
Rally for Kaepernick: Spike Lee tweets rally info for "United We Stand" in front of NFL HQ
"Follow The Money": Artist projects Russian flag over Trump SoHo | | | | Kate Bennett is off. Her section will return August 14. | | What Washington is Talking About:
Bryce Harper hit his 150th career home run last night, against the Marlins. He's the 14th MLB player to reach the milestone before he turned 25.
What America is Talking About:
Rachel Lindsay chose Bryan Abasolo in Monday's finale of "The Bachelorette."
What Silicon Valley is Talking About:
The controversial memo written by a male Google engineer that argued in part that there are "biological" reasons behind the gender gap in tech. Google CEO Sundar Picha cut his vacation short and told employees in an email that the memo advanced "harmful gender stereotypes," and Reuters and Bloomberg report the employee who wrote the memo has been fired.
What Bedminster is Talking About:
President Trump is holding an event today on the opioid crisis at 3 p.m. ET at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course. Melania Trump shared this tweet about it this morning with an image that brings to mind "Britney Spears Googling 'corn' and posting it up on Insta" of politics: | | Credit: @FLOTUS/Twitter
Poll of the Day:
59% of Americans think President Trump's first six months in office have been a failure and 36% say it's been a success, according to a CNN poll released Monday. | | Credit: CNN
The poll also found only 24% of Americans believe "almost all" or "most of" what they hear in official communications from the White House, while 73% believe "just some" or nothing.
Trump's Been Tweeting A Lot on Vacation...:
The joke in Washington is that rain in Bedminster, New Jersey, kept Trump inside watching TV and tweeting instead of outside golfing. Here's the forecast there the rest of the week: | | Credit: CNN
But Did He Tweet a Russian Bot?
On Saturday, Trump tweeted "Thank you Nicole" to a tweet from the account @protrump45. Experts told the Washington Post the account "bears a lot of signs of a Russia-backed disinformation campaign," and it's since been suspended. | | Credit: @realDonaldTrump/Twitter
"The President doesn't know whether it's a Russian bot or not," former FBI agent Clint Watts told the Post. "He's just pushing a narrative, whether it's true or false. This provides a window not just for Russia but for any adversary to both influence the president or discredit him." Yahoo Finance, however, says @protrump45 was actually connected to a site claiming to sell pro-Trump items.
Stephen Miller's "Cosmopolitan" DC Condo:
After White House senior adviser Stephen Miller criticized our Jim Acosta for being "cosmopolitan" during a briefing last week, the Post tracked down his Washington home: a $973,000 two-bedroom condo in CityCenter the then 28-year-old bought in 2014.
There's Going to be a Rally for Colin Kaepernick:
Spike Lee tweeted out a graphic this morning that read "United We Stand rally" for the player to be held August 23 outside the NFL's New York headquarters (side note: the full text is hidden, but "Kaeperncik" appears to be spelled incorrectly). The 29-year-old Kaepernick remains unsigned, leading some, including Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin, to believe his decision to take a knee during the national anthem last season has something to do with it. Baldwin told ESPN: "I definitely think that the league, the owners are trying to send a message of, 'Stay in between the lines.'" | | Credit: @SpikeLee/Twitter
Mapping America's Musical Tastes:
The New York Times used YouTube data to map out musicians' relative popularity across the country. I'm obsessed with this. Here's what Rihanna's map looks like, with strong popularity in the Deep South and up the East Coast, and there are a total of 50 maps from artists ranging from Future to Imagine Dragons to Metallica. | | Credit: The New York Times
Street Art Sighting:
Artist Robin Bell projected images onto Trump SoHo last night, which he live streamed for about 10 minutes. One image he projected were the words "FOLLOW THE MONEY" over a Russian flag. | | Credit: Robin Bell/Periscope
And another was what appeared to be Vladimir Putin with the words "HAPPY TO HELP, BRO." Bell has projected on Trump properties before, including the Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C. | | Credit: Robin Bell/Periscope
Send me your pics of political street art to coverlinehunter@cnn.com, tweet me @hunterschwarz or tag @cnncoverline on Instagram. | | | | | | |
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