At 100 days in, Trump seems both outsider and insider

“The normal way to mend diplomatic ties is to negotiate privately over months and have the process culminate in, not begin with, a White House meeting”.

In 1993, Clinton’s first year in the White House, his presidency almost went off the rails.

In his phone conversation with Trump, Duterte said he relayed the region’s alarm over the North Korean standoff. And I mandate it.

In the flurry of interviews before President Trump’s 100th day in office, one of the remarks that stood out most for me did not come from Trump himself.

“By the looks of him, he’s been roasting non-stop for the last 70 years”, he said.

“We are not going to let other countries take advantage of us anymore”, he said at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center. But Spicer isn’t elaborating on exactly what conditions would have to be met.

Southeast Asia isn’t the only place where Trump is embracing heads of government with poor democratic records.

Amnesty and other groups have documented killings by Philippines’ police and unidentified vigilantes who, the groups say, have shot people in cold blood, including street children, planted evidence and set up secret jails.

Spicer is declining to offer a timeline of when the House might vote on the bill to repeal and replace the health care law approved under former President Barack Obama. Under White House pressure, Republicans recently recast the bill. He passed an economic plan, barely, but his biggest initiative – on health care – was headed for disaster.

President Trump’s ambition to find allies in the Pacific might be more convincing if he hadn’t torn up the Trans Pacific Partnership, the 12-nation trade agreement that might not have only given the US greater economic clout in East Asia but could have helped bring greater pressure to bear on China. “I feel like I’m a tribute in ‘The Hunger Games.’ If this goes poorly, Steve Bannon gets to eat me”.

Hasan Minhaj took on every facet of Trump’s presidency.

On hosting: “I would say it is an honor to do this, but that would be an alternative fact”.

“Like so much else under President Trump, though, this idea has now been turned on its head and people are anxious about the very survival of the values on which America built its reputation and helped construct an entire worldwide system, including the United Nations”.

“Support among those who voted for him remains much as it has been”.

EPA wipes its climate change site as protesters march in Washington: Jessica Glenza of the Guardian writes: The US Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change website is “undergoing changes” to better reflect “the agency’s new direction” under Donald Trump. And I would like to thank Donald Trump for inspiring the next. Raising U.S. gas taxes has generally been opposed by Republican lawmakers at the state level.

Reveling in the cheers in Harrisburg, Trump made reference again to his upset victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, which he said “carried us to a big, attractive win on November 8”.

Pence touted the Trump plan as “one of the largest tax cuts in American history”.

But the president didn’t show up.

The last president to miss the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was Ronald Reagan back in 1981, and that was because he was recovering from an assassination attempt.

Next year’s dinner might be “more exciting”, he said.

“Don Rickles died just so you wouldn’t ask him to do this gig, all right?” he said.

Trump said during the interview that if he’s unable to renegotiate a long-standing free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, then he’ll terminate the pact.

He says one person who runs a “major, major company” with a “magnificent office with attractive glass walls” had been to the White House 51 times, but never inside the Oval Office. He declined to name the person. In four hours, Donald Trump will be tweeting about how bad Nicki Minaj bombed at this dinner.

The president also suggested that congressional Republicans are still learning how to govern and will eventually unite. “I think the rules in Congress and in particular the rules in the Senate are unbelievably archaic and slow-moving, and in many cases, unfair. And he’s bringing them so far left they’re never going to win another election, believe me”.

Abella also shrugged off calls for Trump to bring up to Duterte the human rights situation in the Philippines, saying the United States leader appreciates the Filipino president’s campaign.

The tweet that prompted the most responses – including likes, retweets, quotes with comment and replies – illustrates one truism of Trump’s twitter account: Capital letters get attention.

He shrugged off his failure to score major legislative victories on his core campaign promises, such as repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act and construction of a Mexican border wall. It apparently included no criticism of the death squads that have killed an average of 30 people each day since the Philippines president took office in mid-2016.

Lawmakers will continue negotiating this week on a $1 trillion package financing the government through September 30, the end of the 2017 fiscal year.