| | | | | Cranes are seen on the south side of the White House on Wednesday as it undergoes renovations. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images | | | "What Is She Thinking?": It's the five-year anniversary of Melania's most iconic tweet
Trump's Childhood Home on Airbnb: It has five bedrooms and plenty of Trump-themed decor
ACLU Sues Metro: Over restricted ads, including one from PETA and another for Milo Yiannopoulos's book | | | | Kate Bennett is off. Her section will return August 14. | | What Washington is Talking About:
A Russian Air Force jet flew over the Pentagon, Capitol, CIA, Joint Base Andrews and Bedminster, New Jersey, on Wednesday. It was authorized, as part of the Treaty on Open Skies that allows the US, Russia and other counties to observe military sites from the air, but still...
What America is Talking About:
Walmart has apologized for a viral photo showing a gun display in one of its stores with a sign above that read, "Own the school year like a hero." Spokesman Charles Crowson told CNN that Walmart is "working diligently" to locate where the photo was taken.
What Bedminster is Talking About:
Vice President Pence is coming to town. He'll have lunch with President Trump today, and it's the first time they'll see each other in person since the NYT story suggesting Pence and other Repubs are secretly prepping for possible 2020 runs, which he forcefully denied.
Poll of the Day:
70% of Americans think Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller should be able to investigate Trump's finances as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, compared with 25% who say Trump's finances should be off limits, according to a CNN poll released this morning. | | Bogus, Unscientific Twitter Poll of the Day:
Trump this morning retweeted a five-day-old, now-closed Twitter poll asking if he or Obama was a better president, with 28,589 votes that he won 61% to 39%. Just as a disclaimer: Twitter polls aren't at all scientific, lol. | | Credit: @ProgressPolls/Twitter
North Korea's Plan:
State media KCNA reported North Korea would have a plan to fire four missiles off the coast of Guam ready to present to Kim Jong Un by mid-August.
Oh, and Trump's "fire and fury" remarks were ad libbed.
"What Is She Thinking?":
On this day in 2012 at 3:07 p.m., @MELANIATRUMP tweeted what in my opinion is her most iconic tweet: a photo of a beluga whale with the caption, "What is she thinking?" It has been retweeted more than 38,000 times. | | Credit: @MELANIATRUMP/Twitter
I spoke with Barbara King, a professor emerita of anthropology at the College of William and Mary and author of "Personalities on the Plate: The Lives & Minds of Animals We Eat," about what beluga whales think.
"I don't think we can ever tell what an animal is thinking from a photograph," she said. But Trump's tweet "implies an understanding of the fact that animals can think, because they do."
Whales exhibit social communication patterns and can pass on things like hunting techniques and migration routes to their offspring, she said. "The consciousness and social communication patterns of whales reveals to us learned traditions and ocean cultures that are rich and complex."
"The deep irony here is that the environmental policies of Melania's husband, and of his administration, take a very opposite and harmful approach," she said. "They aren't openhearted and caring about animals or their environment at all."
She called Melania's tweet, "the kind of thinking her husband needs."
You Can Airbnb Trump's Childhood Home:
For about $750 a night, you can rent Trump's childhood home in Queens through Airbnb. According to the posting, it has five bedrooms, 14 beds and two sofa beds. | | Credit: Airbnb
The home is decked out in Trump memorabilia, including framed art, magazine covers and quotes, and a cardboard cutout. | | Credit: Airbnb
The Mooch's Return:
I've been waiting for this ever since he canceled his special online event last week. Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has some upcoming interviews scheduled, including Sunday on ABC's "This Week" and then Monday on CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
In other Mooch news, last night, he compared the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, who wrote that now-infamous story about a phone call where Scaramucci bashed fellow administration members, to Linda Tripp, the woman who taped calls from Monica Lewinsky: | | Credit: @Scaramucci/Twitter
So I guess that makes him the Monica Lewinsky of 2017? The real Monica Lewinsky responded with 😳 a flush-faced emoji.
ACLU Sues Metro:
The suit is over four ads -- a PETA "Go Vegan" ad, one for an abortion pill from Carafem, one promoting Milo Yiannopoulos's book "Dangerous," and the ACLU's own ad, with the text of the First Amendment -- restricted by WMATA. | | Credit: ACLU
"To put it mildly, these plaintiffs have nothing in common politically," the ACLU said in a statement. "But together, they powerfully illustrate the indivisibility of the First Amendment. Our free speech rights rise and fall together — whether left, right, pro-choice, anti-choice, vegan, carnivore, or none of the above."
Leave Britney Alone:
A man jumped on the stage during Britney Spears' show last night in Las Vegas. She was wrapping up "(You Drive Me) Crazy," the second-to-last song in her setlist, when he began walking across the stage and security stopped him. Below is a pic of her with security before being taken backstage. She later came back and finished the show, because she's a pro and of course she did, and shame on whoever ruins a Britney show like that. | | Credit: Pora Hongsuwan
Street Art Sighting:
Trump chicken inflatables have popped up before, including at a tax march in Washington in April to protest Trump not releasing his taxes, but never has it made the kind of waves it did yesterday in Washington. Here's a close-up of the inflatable, which is making the Pepe/OK gesture👌 with one hand: | | Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
The reason I think this one got so much attention? It was situated in between the White House and the Washington Monument, and well within the view of TV news cameras: | | Credit: CNN
Send me your pics of political street art to coverlinehunter@cnn.com, tweet me @hunterschwarz or tag @cnncoverline on Instagram. | | | | | | |
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