Jokes About This Story Present A Golden Opportunity

Watched Jokes About This Story Present A Golden Opportunity from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | YouTube
At the risk of being a wet blanket, Stephen refuses to engage in any kind of yellow journalism, despite the torrent of PEOTUS stories flooding the country. S...

Trump’s inaugural cake was commissioned to look exactly like Obama’s, baker says | The Washington Post

Read Trump’s inaugural cake was commissioned to look exactly like Obama’s, baker says by Amy B. Wang and Tim Carman (Washington Post)
Food Network star and celebrity baker Duff Goldman posted a side-by-side comparison of the strikingly similar cakes on Twitter.

Even the firm that hired actors to cheer Trump’s campaign launch had to wait to be paid | The Washington Post

Read Even the firm that hired actors to cheer Trump’s campaign launch had to wait to be paid by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
Quite a coda to the campaign.

Kellyanne Conway finally admits the audit was just an excuse | Vox

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Unless Congress makes him, we’re never going to see those tax returns

Speaking on ABC News’ Sunday morning show This Week, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway finally admitted what had been plainly obvious to anyone paying attention — Donald Trump is never going to voluntarily release his tax returns, so the American people will never know who he is in debt to, whose payroll he is on, or how he is personally benefitting from the policy decisions he makes as President of the United States.

Her rationale for this unprecedented breach of norms is that “we litigated this all through the election” and “people didn’t care.”

Continue reading Kellyanne Conway finally admits the audit was just an excuse | Vox

The Daily 202: Key dates to put on your calendar for 2017 | The Washington Post

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Summits, elections, anniversaries and other momentous dates for Trump’s first year

David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump | The Washington Post

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A reporter reveals how he investigated Trump’s claims on his donations to charity.

Tim Cook On Why He Met With President Elect Trump | TechCrunch

Read Tim Cook explains to Apple employees why he met with President-elect Trump by Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch)

In a series of answers to questions posted on Apple’s internal employee info service Apple Web today, CEO Tim Cook commented to employees on some hot-button topics. We obtained some of the answers to interesting questions about a few topics, including the fate of the Mac — but more on that later.

First up is probably the most topical: Why did he feel it was important to meet with President-elect Trump? The short answer: You have to show up to have a say.

The 45th President | 60 Minutes (CBS News)

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes; and, Bill Whitaker reads mail received about a story Dr. Jon LaPook reported on legalizing recreational pot. First aired 11/13/16
Interesting to see the drastic change in rhetoric with respect to that of the campiagn, though it hasn’t seemed to have held with respect to the media he’s either putting out (or not putting out).

Trump’s Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections | The New York Times

Read Trump’s Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections by Jugal K. Patel and Wilson Andrews (nytimes.com)
Putting the president-elect’s win in context.

Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’ | POLITICO

Read Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’ by Kenneth P. Vogel (POLITICO)
The president-elect continues to employ a battalion of retired cops and FBI agents to protect him and clamp down on protesters.