Month: April 2016

If You Can’t Take the Jokes, Skip the Dinner

Buck Banks

I was asked by every single group of media available to mankind to attend this year. But I’ve decided not to go. Do you know why? I would have a good time and the press would say I look like I wasn’t having a good time.

— Donald Trump, saying he will not be attending this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, despite receiving a flurry of invitations from the media, The Hill reports.

Why Ryan Won’t Run

Buck Banks

The backdrop of all his denials is the political reality that Ryan would likely lose. Most public polling has him faring relatively poorly in a potential matchup with Clinton. … Ryan would be forced to launch and run a presidential campaign in three months. His experience from 2012 would help, but even the most talented campaigner would be at a disadvantage on such a compressed timetable.

— Politico

Trump Donates Everything but Cash

Buck Banks

$102 million

Amount Donald Trump says he has given to charity in the past five years. To back up that claim, Trump’s campaign compiled a list of his contributions — 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages.“But, in that massive list, one thing was missing. Not a single one of those donations was actually a personal gift of Trump’s own money. Instead, according to a Washington Post analysis, many of the gifts that Trump cited to prove his generosity were free rounds of golf, given away by his courses for charity auctions and raffles.”

Trump Responds to Globe’s Satirical Front Page

Buck Banks

Did you see the story? The whole front page, they made up the story that Trump is the president and they made up the whole front page. It’s a make-believe story, which is really no different than the whole paper.

— Donald Trump, dismissing the Boston Globe as a “stupid” and “worthless” newspaper after it published a fake front page with stories depicting would-be news events during a Trump administration, Politico reports.