| | | | | President Trump and first lady Melanie Trump step off Marine One on the South Lawn Sunday. Credit: Oliver Contreras/Pool/Getty Images | | | Twitter Banned More Than a Million Accounts a Day: Twitter is on a roll banning fake accounts and bots
The Story Behind Trump's Latest Twitter Video: The creator usually makes videos about TV shows
Kris Jenner is Getting Her Own Fox News Special: She'll be on an episode of "OBJECTified" | | | What Washington is Talking About:
President Trump will announce his Supreme Court nominee tonight at 9 p.m. ET. Elsewhere, Repubs in the House Freedom Caucus are being asked to support Rep. Jim Jordan, who's been accused of failing to report sexual abuse when he was an Ohio Statue University wrestling coach in the 1990s.
What America is Talking About:
Eight of the 12 boys trapped in the cave in Thailand have been rescued. Four additional boys and their soccer coach remain in the cave.
Trump Administration Seeking New Deadline to Reunify Families:
The government was scheduled to have until tomorrow to reunify immigrant families separated at the border, but they say they need more time to track down parents who they no longer have in custody or have been deported. A US District Court judge in San Diego will decide whether to extend the deadline.
More Repubs Get Hassled in Public:
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was verbally harassed and called "a piece of trash" at a bookstore in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was followed by protesters who filmed him and chanted "Vote you out!" and "Abolish ICE!" as he left a restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky.
Twitter Has Banned More Than a Million Accounts a Day:
That's according to data obtained by the Washington Post that found between May and June they suspended more than 70 million accounts. Twitter VP of Trust and Safety Del Harvey said the suspensions help protect users against manipulation and abuse.
The Story Behind Trump's Latest Twitter Video:
@realDonaldTrump tweeted a supercut video Friday celebrating his 2016 election win, which was just about 600 short days ago. The video features a clip from the Simpsons, pundits who said Trump had no chance of winning, and audio of our Wolf Blitzer on election night over video of the Young Turk's Cenk Uyger melting down as Trump won. And at the top of the screen is a watermark for the YouTube user who made it. | | Credit: @realDonaldTrump/Twitter
The video was uploaded by user eLouai in December 2016. In the video description, eLouai writes that creating the supercut "was FAR more extensive than the 3 minute long clip shows" and involved watching more than 8 hours of ABC, CBS and PBS election night coverage.
I emailed with eLouai, real name Lou Munajim, who lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He told me he's received a "small bump" in subscribers since the video was tweeted out and messages from "a lot of people thanking me." It "brought them joy reliving election night again," he said.
The video is the only political one he's posted. Other videos are on "Breaking Bad," "Game of Thrones," and "La La Land" (see his videos page, below). But for this 2016 video, he said, "It had such a wonderful narrative arc to it all. The underdog, and against all odds winning the election. Truly the stuff of fairytales." | | Credit: eLouai/YouTube
Robin Wright Comments on Kevin Spacey:
Wright was on "Today" to promote the upcoming final season of "House of Cards" this fall and said she never noticed any red flags working with Kevin Spacey but that their relationship was professional and not social. "We were co-workers really. We never socialized outside of work, respectful professional relationship," she said. | | Credit: NBC
Kris Jenner is Getting Her Own Fox News Special:
The Kardashian matriarch will be featured on this Sunday's episode of the "OJECTified" series, which airs on FNC. The series, in which TMZ chief Harvey Levin interviews celebrities about their most cherished possessions, began as a one-off interview with then-candidate Trump in 2016. It began as a full series in 2017 and has featured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Cuban, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. | | Credit: Fox News
Street Art Sighting:
Street artist Fabian Williams recently completed this mural of MLK titled "WakeUpWestEnd" at Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard and Peeples Street in Atlanta. It started out as a black-and-white mural, but Williams added the color later in the painting process. This is what he said about the colors:
"I believe that once we pass on we go back to the essence of the cosmos. That's where wisdom is. A record of everything that ever happened and will happen is there. When I paint figures in those colors, that's what they represent. " | | Credit: Malika DeShon/Electrik Baby Photography
If you spot political street art, tweet me @hunterschwarz, tag me on Instagram @hunterschwarz, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com with your sighting so I can feature it in COVER/LINE.
P.S.:
As if a 25-track album two weeks ago wasn't enough music, Drake dropped a freestyle track titled "Behind Bars" in which he seems to go after Kanye. "They wanna link when they got no tunes / They too worried about sellin' out shoes." | | | | | | |
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