(2) Signing the aluminium & steel tariffs Thursday then handing souvenir pens to the workers. Sec Mnuchin (Treasury), Sec Ross (Commerce) & US Trade Representative Lighthizer entering the room, smiling. Four hours later, SoKo announced the US-NoKo talks.
(3) Earlier this week the President spoke to the Latino Coalition Legislative Summit. He is pictured below with Latino Coalition Chairman Hector Barreto.
(4) POTUS, FLOTUS, VP and Mrs Pence at the funeral of Reverend Billy Graham in Charlotte, North Carolina.
(5) Linda McMahon @SBALinda, Administrator of the Small Business Administration, in Austin, Texas today discussing with @GovAbbott the ongoing #DisasterRecovery efforts that @SBAgov is providing to the state after Hurricane Harvey last August.
(6) Agriculture Sec Sonny Purdue (right) at a @USDA research facility in North Dakota today. Rep Kevin Cramer (2nd from left) is the likely GOP nominee for Democrat Sen Heidi Heitkamp's (left) seat in November. Almost certain to flip ND back to red, where it should be. #RedWave
(7) 69 year old @SBAgov Administrator Linda McMahon @SBALinda is turning out to be a fun Cabinet member. Here she is visiting a center for entrepreneurs, the @CapitalFactory in Austin, TX today.
(8) Some more photos from the joint US-Sweden press conference at the White House this week. #MAGA
(9) Four key members of the admin at the Cabinet meeting this week: Gen Kelly, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Nick Ayers, who is the Chief of Staff to the VP.
(10) FLOTUS with Sara Netanyahu this week.
(11) DHS @SecNielsen is leading the US delegation to the Winter Paralympics and tweeted this:
(12) Such a contrast between the Left's teenage Parkland activists and this bipartisan group of kids who earned their place and who came to Washington to LEARN from those with more experience. Future leaders. Read about the Senate Youth Program here ussenateyouth.org
(13) The timing of tonight's rally in PA is perfect! Follow my commentary and photos here:
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(14) The South Korean National Security Adviser and his team briefing POTUS on the outcome of their negotiations with NoKo, prior to making their historic announcement of planned conditional US-NK talks, outside the WH on Thursday night.
(15) POTUS on Thursday, making his first WH Briefing Room appearance, a surprise announcement that there would be an important statement at 7pm that night.
(16) Secretary Tillerson pays his respects at the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing memorial site in Nairobi, Kenya.
(17) A casually dressed Tillerson tours the Kenya Wildlife Service in Nairobi. He then visited Chad and is now in Nigeria.
(18) Sec Mattis speaks to media on route to Oman. In previous photos he seemed to be in their part of the plane, this time they seem to be in his.
(19) POTUS congratulates Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve while celebrating the team's World Series victory at the WH today. ⚾️
(20) I have more photos of the Houston Astros at the White House today to show you. First, here's my bonus thread for Tuesday:
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(21) The Houston Astros event at the WH on Monday was great! The #CajunNavy was there, too.
(22) Tillerson departing Nigeria at the end of his successful Africa tour. I choose to remember the good things he did as SoS and move on to the next phase of President Trump's revolutionary foreign policy era. If nothing else, this role needs a younger person bc of the travel.
(23) Secretary Nielsen had a full day of visits and meetings in San Diego before the big day for DHS in CA today. Here she is with the USCG, which is under her department. I'm very impressed with her leadership in this senior Cabinet role.
(24) Sec Mattis landed in Kabul unannounced, as leaders must do nowadays for security. Note the kevlar vest he's wearing. He said elements in the Taliban are willing to meet for talks, and he remains confident of victory in Afghanistan: not a military victory, a diplomatic one.
(25) On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump chaired a bipartisan Congressional meeting on work to #EndTrafficking, including child sex trafficking.
(26) Secretary Mattis is now in Bahrain.
(27) Secretaries Chao, Ross, Acosta, Purdue and Perry talking infrastructure on Capitol Hill.
(28) Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao with a chart showing the ridiculously long process for getting a permit to build a new road.
(29) POTUS at the Boeing company in St Louis, Missouri today. More photos to come.
(30) @SecondLady Karen Pence is a great advocate for military spouses and families.
"A pleasure to speak to the National Lieutenant Governors Association in DC today about art therapy and the important role military spouses play in our country."
(31) POTUS waves to the crowd in St Louis, MO, where he visited the Boeing company to talk about tax reform.
(32) Talking tax reform at the Boeing company in St Louis. #MAGA
(33) Sec Mattis in Afghanistan.
(34) Sec Mattis in Bahrain. Note the female staffer behind him has made no concessions to the dress code expected in certain Gulf states. I'm not sure if the dress code applies in Bahrain or not but she is having none of it. Good for her.
(35) The five Cabinet secretaries who appeared at the Senate Commerce Committee today to talk infrastructure, posing for a photo with Chairman John Thune.
(36) A 2017 photo released today by Dan Scavino; a rare joint trip in The Beast. Leaning in is more important to Trump than showing the Presidential Seal in between the seats, as their predecessors used to do.
(37) Ahead of St Patrick's Day the PM of Ireland gave POTUS a bowl of shamrocks and wished him the luck of the Irish which, as we all know, really is a thing!☘️
With the firing of Andrew McCabe, this is the start of a great period of renewal for America. #DrainTheSwamp
(38) AG Sessions when he was in California announcing the DOJ lawsuit against the state government regarding illegal immigration.
(39) POTUS played golf today. Inpeach!
(He wears reading classes in the car because he's non stop high energy 24/7 and takes the opportunity to catch up on report-reading when he can.)
(40) Some GREAT photos from today of POTUS and FLOTUS travelling to and from New Hampshire (which we will win in 2020), and at both events there.
Lots of public displays of affection, too. Nice to see their softer side a bit more.
(41) FLOTUS with the newly released #StealthElf at the event in New Hampshire about combating the opioid crisis.
Who needs illegal drugs to get high when you're draining the swamp to #KeepAmericaGreat?
(42) POTUS with Chris Liddell back in January 2017. Liddell, a naturalized US citizen and New Zealander by birth, was named Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Coordination. Arguably, one of the highest achieving New Zealanders in modern history.
(43) So cute. Notice after she puts her arm around him to say thank you, she almost, almost pats him, how shall I say, below the waist. The fact that this very stable genius & beautiful woman genuinely love each other is so triggering for the haters.😂
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(2) Brett M. Kavanaugh will soon be the 102nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA. He has earned this highest honor throughout his life, inspired by his trailblazing mother, Judge Martha Kavanaugh.
His title for these few hours is Associate Justice Designate.
(3) This statement from the Supreme Court explains the two ceremonies:
(2) This WaPo reporter is incorrect about the vote being "scheduled for" Saturday. The earliest time a vote COULD be held is Saturday pm. There's no reason not to hold it on Sun/Mon IF we need Daines. I think we won't. Read my 5 tweets about him here:
(1) A directory of my Kavanaugh threads since July 9, 2018.
I never planned more than a couple of threads about him this year but, I shoulda known the Dems would try to destroy whoever was the nominee this time.
(2) Like Democrats, I'd already decided how I felt about him before his nomination was announced. I live-tweeted the announcement, which was a great event in itself.
(3) I followed Kavanaugh's progress over the summer and on September 22nd, I finally wrote a thread about the preparations for the all-important hearing on September 27th. It covers the hearing before the next thread started the day after.
(2) Mitch laughing to himself about how absurd it is that he has to push his way through the crowd of reporters on 9/25/18.
(3) Sen Grassley is 85 years old. (Democrats have senators around that age, too.)
Today he had to hold onto a Capitol Police officer to reduce the risk of a reporter knocking him over. This has to stop. Senators must return to being able to walk around freely at work.
(2) First Lady Melania Trump is a natural in this important role.
She's one of those women whose face lights up whenever she is around children. God Bless our great First Lady.
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(3) FLOTUS left Joint Base Andrews in her trademark high heels and arrived in Ghana wearing practical flats. She still looks sensational, whatever she happens to wear!
(2) Cloture in the Senate is a procedural step that you can learn more about at the link below. The senate.gov website is the best resource for learning about Senate procedure and a lot more. Same for house.gov.
(3) Watching live Senate floor proceedings is boring as hell, as they pass bills for naming Post Offices, & so on. But every now & then, they confirm a SCOTUS judge. And this time, they will affirm our great #BillOfRights#DueProcess & the hard-won #RuleOfLaw. Seriously. 🇺🇸🦅