- Is President Obama’s official White House photographer trolling Trump? (Yes, beautifully.)
Pete Souza marked his transition from official presidential photographer to just another guy on Instagram with an image of apparent finality: President Barack Obama looking out over the White House as he flew away in a helicopter.
But Souza’s story of Barack Obama — told for eight years through official photographs — didn’t end on President Trump’s Inauguration Day. [...]
A few days later, Trump signed an executive order he said would protect the country from “radical Islamic terrorists.” That weekend — as the world learned that the order barred all refugees and millions of visitors from Muslim-majority countries — Souza posted a photo of Obama laughing with a little girl in a headscarf.
Souza followed up with a photo of Obama meeting a boy who had written a letter asking the president to rescue an injured child in Syria — one of the countries whose citizens are barred from the United States in Trump’s order.
- And speaking of a president we could be proud of, Obama is enjoy his time off:
A rapidly advancing crack in Antarctica’s fourth-largest ice shelf has scientists concerned that it is getting close to a full break. The rift has accelerated this year in an area already vulnerable to warming temperatures. Since December, the crack has grown by the length of about five football fields each day.
- In case you missed this, well, sure, why not? Grifters gonna grift:
Melania Trump filed her third defamation suit against the Mail Online over an August 2016 article that accused her of having once been a prostitute, arguing for the first time that it ruined her “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to cash in on the presidency. [...]
”Plaintiff had the unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person…to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multi-million dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world,” the Manhattan suit says.
- On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Senate Dems pull an all-nighter, but Pence puts DeVos over the top. Trump Regrets vs. Trump Worship. SNL haunts WH dreams. Rosalyn MacGregor surveys the nuts & bolts of MI voting. Border Patrol agents pushed for Muslim ban from Breitbart studios.
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