| | | | | President Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with advisers on Tuesday at the White House. Credit: Jabin Botsford/Washington Post/Getty Images | | | Pentagon Planning Parade: Get your America on, this military parade thing is actually in the works
That Quincy Jones Q&A is a Puzzler: It's also filled with hot takes like he knows who killed JFK, he dated Ivanka Trump, and he thinks Oprah "doesn't have the chops" to be president, 🤔
Can't Come Up with a Valentine's Day Present Idea?: Donald Trump Jr has one! And we should all ignore it | | | | Hunter Schwarz is off. His section will return Friday. | | What the White House is Talking About:
President Trump today has no open press items on his calendar, but he does meet behind closed doors with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and later with Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee. In the evening, he and first lady Melania Trump host the National Prayer Breakfast dinner in the Blue Room of the White House.
What the White House Press Corps is Talking About:
MILITARY PARADE, GUYS. | | Pentagon Starts Planning Parade:
I'm just going to say it up front: I am very excited about this parade thing. Erasing any sort of partisan aspect, I honestly love this idea because it combines three things I dig. A) parades, which are awesome. B) the military, who are heroes. C) tanks and jets and other kinds of military vehicles, which are cool.
CNN's Barbara Starr reports the Pentagon's top brass has officially begun the process of setting it in motion, at the request of the President. Starr also says one possible date for the parade would be November 11, 2018, which would be the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. (DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, however, tells Washingtonian the city has ZERO intention of paying for the parade, and says Trump will have to foot the bill.) The last time DC hosted a big military parade was in 1991, to celebrate the end of the Gulf War. Here's the video, and some screen shots, including President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush watching from their grandstand. | | Credit: youtube.com
Trump's Excited About FBI Texts:
Just keep in mind, his intelligence briefing was scheduled for 11 a.m. this morning, so either the President was running late, or he tweeted this during the meeting. Either way, it's an all-caps situation for POTUS. | | Credit: @realDonaldTrump/Twitter
Despite Warnings, Trump Still Wants to talk to Robert Mueller:
Even though people around him are warning the President that a face-to-face interview with Robert Mueller might not be the best way to go, Trump is apparently still bullish on doing so.
Gabriel Sherman Reports from "Anonymous" Source, who is Actually Roger Stone:
Sherman had a "palace intrigue" piece on vanityfair.com last night, which basically says Trump wants "a killer" strategist to take Steve Bannon's place in the West Wing. That Sherman's doing an insider piece is nothing new, and that one of his anonymous sources is Roger Stone, also not new. But Stone might want to find some new material when he's spilling for the press. Here's Sherman's piece: "One Republican close to the White House described Trump's frustration with Kelly, who came to the office with zero political experience, this way: 'It's like Kelly views Trump as a mushroom. He wants to keep him in the dark and feed him a bunch of shit.'" And here's a piece from the Washington Post back in August, which quotes Stone on the record: "Trump 'resists being handled,' [Roger] Stone told the Post, and Kelly is attempting to treat him 'like a mushroom. Keeping him in the dark and feeding him s--t is not going to work. Donald Trump is a free spirit.'" Merp. | | This Quincy Jones Q&A is Cray:
Music legend Quincy Jones did a pretty insane interview with Vulture. It's definitely worth your time, especially for his hot takes. Like for example, oh, I don't know, this one?: | | | Or, this one, which is making the, "wait, what?" rounds in Washington today. Keep in mind, if true, Ivanka Trump would have been 24 at the time, and Jones 72. I'm just going to leave it here and say, it's quite possible the two had dinner because if I had the opportunity to have a meal with Jones, I probably would, too. But, if he did "date" her, as he says, there's something inherently creepy and very objectifying about what Jones says about Trump here -- and imho he should apologize. | | Credit: vulture.com
A More Feel-Good Read, If You Will:
A palate cleanser is this profile of my friend and colleague Brianna Keilar, who also happens to be a military spouse -- newlywed at that. She talks about what her first year of marriage to Fernando Lujan, a lieutenant commander in the Army, has been like, and how she's handled his deployments. And ... she spills the beans on another personal development 🤰.
If You Can't Come Up With a Valentine's Day Present ... :
... still don't do this. Because, let me just say, anything would be better than a teddy bear in a robe riding a Trump model airplane. | | | Credit: @DonaldJTrumpJr/Twitter | | | | | | |
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