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Mon, June 12, 2017: Trump hosts NCAA champion Clemson Tigers at WH

US President Donald Trump speaks as he welcomes the Clemson Tigers, the 2016 NCAA Football National Champions, at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 12, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

The Clemson Tigers football team was honored by President Trump at the White House’s South Lawn on Monday afternoon for the team’s second championship win in its 121-year-old history.

Guests included Republican lawmakers from South Carolina such as Sens. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham. Newly elected South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster was also in attendance — he received a personal word of appreciation from the president. Continue reading “Mon, June 12, 2017: Trump hosts NCAA champion Clemson Tigers at WH”

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Mon, June 12, 2017: Trump holds weird, praise-filled Cabinet meeting as cameras look on

Leave it to Donald Trump to reinvent the Cabinet meeting.

The public portion of these gatherings of all of the president’s top advisers are usually staid affairs. Photographers are let in to take pictures. The president makes a very brief statement. A reporter shouts a question, unanswered. The end.

Donald Trump did something very different in his Cabinet meeting Monday. Continue reading “Mon, June 12, 2017: Trump holds weird, praise-filled Cabinet meeting as cameras look on”