There are 98 article(s) tagged Donald Trump:

• April 2022

  • Trump to hold June rally in Memphis area

    The former president tops a bill of conservative figures who plan to hold a day-long conference in the Memphis area. 

    By Bill Dries April 21, 2022

• December 2021

  • Sanford: Blackburn is on Trump’s VP list, but is the conservative stalwart extreme enough?

    News outlets continue to lend credence to Donald Trump’s flirtation with seeking a second term in 2024.

    By Otis Sanford December 09, 2021

• June 2021

  • Haslam says Tennessee Republicans at ‘recalibration moment’

    The former Tennessee governor talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the state’s path to Republican dominance and his call on Christian conservatives to pull away from the nation’s partisan political divide.

    By Bill Dries June 06, 2021

• January 2021

  • County Commission bans renamings for Trump, condemns Capitol insurrection

    With no discussion, Shelby County commissioners approved Monday, Jan. 25, a resolution that forbids the county from renaming any of its property, roads, bridges or buildings in honor of former President Donald Trump.

    By Bill Dries January 25, 2021

  • Herrington: Goodbye to all that, as the Trump years end

    The new president’s inaugural address called for unity and a lowering of the political temperature while still drawing some firm lines. Joe Biden said that “politics need not be a raging fire” and called for an end to an “uncivil war.”

    By Chris Herrington January 21, 2021

  • Sanford: Tennesseans, politicians and others must answer for insurrection

    As we look ahead with hope, we must also look back and demand accountability.

    By Otis Sanford January 21, 2021

  • Sanford: At this swearing-in, unity is missing, replaced by anxiety

    On Jan. 20, 2009, there was remarkable unity and mutual respect among those in an inauguration crowd estimated at 1.8 million. Now, 12 years later, Jan. 20 promises to be a day of anticipation mixed with anxiety.

    By Otis Sanford January 14, 2021

  • Herrington: Elvis & Nixon oddity adds bonus to annual birthday celebration

    An exhibit that opened recently marks the half-century anniversary of one of American culture’s more colorful and peculiar moments. 

    By Chris Herrington January 11, 2021

  • Herrington: Kustoff, Blackburn and Hagerty denounce the violence; they must also renounce the lies behind it

    It was not a question of whether Blackburn or Hagerty or Kustoff would stand with Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden or Mitt Romney. Would they even be willing to stand with Mitch McConnell? None of them wanted what happened on Wednesday afternoon, but they all helped prepare the stage. 

    By Chris Herrington January 07, 2021

  • Opinion: Cries of election fraud are less about facts, more about race

    At the heart of claims by Trump and his horde of conspiracy theorists is that it was statistically and historically impossible for Trump to lose the election, other than through fraud. How could they believe such grand-scale treachery occurred? The answer, sadly, is rooted in race. 

    By Otis Sanford January 07, 2021

• December 2020

  • Sanford: As Republican leaders fiddle, democracy hangs in the balance

    Trump’s inexplicable refusal to accept the outcome of a fair election, combined with the shameful complicity from elected Republican leaders, is driving our country to the brink of chaos.

    By Otis Sanford December 10, 2020

• November 2020

  • Opinion: Black men supporting Trump chose policy over character

    One of the major side stories to the 2020 presidential election is the noticeable shift of more African American men to Trump and his brand of politics.

    By Otis Sanford November 12, 2020

  • Opinion: Hmmm, we got issues

    The fact that we aren’t in shape anymore to shape the world has made us mad, and Donald Trump played to that anger to get elected president in 2016 and every day since.

    By Dan Conaway November 06, 2020

  • Biden expresses optimism as vote count continues

    The fate of the presidency hangs in the balance as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fight for the last handful of battleground states.

    By The Associated Press November 04, 2020

  • In a year of uncertainty, presidential outcome fits the pattern

    Millions of voters put aside worries about the virus — and some long lines — to turn out in person, joining 102 million fellow Americans who voted days or weeks earlier, a record number that represented 73% of the total vote in the 2016 presidential election.

    By Don Wade, Bill Dries November 04, 2020

  • Opinion: Tennessee feels rural/urban divide

    The Trump presidency has accelerated preexisting rural/urban divides and Tennessee, while not a “battleground” state, is one of the states where those divisions are most deeply felt.

    By Chris Herrington November 04, 2020

• October 2020

  • Calkins: Our scary reality makes this the scariest of Halloweens

    One Memphis family decided they wanted to really frighten people with their Halloween display this year. So it features Donald Trump. 

    By Geoff Calkins October 30, 2020

  • Opinion: Not the apple of the Big Apple’s eye

    What New York City had to endure this year at the hands of the coronavirus is both a lesson and a warning of what’s at risk. They’ve been trying to tell us. One of their very own is president of the United States, and they tried to tell us about him, too.

    By Dan Conaway October 30, 2020

  • Opinion: Trump fatigue is fueling Shelby’s massive voter turnout

    The massive turnout is being driven in large part by the laser-focused desire to get Trump and his enablers out of the White House. But turnout also is being fueled to a lesser degree by Trump supporters.

    By Otis Sanford October 22, 2020

  • Opinion: With refusals to debate, GOP Senate candidates shortchange voters

    Welcome to the alternate universe of 2020 election year politics in Tennessee and Mississippi. With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, the races for Senate seats in both states have turned into exercises in ultra-partisan campaigning.

    By Otis Sanford October 15, 2020

• August 2020

  • TVA board chair says Lyash stays as board announces 2.5% reduction in cost

    President Donald Trump called earlier this month for changes at the top of TVA including Lyash. But after Thursday's board meeting in Knoxville, new board chairman John Ryder of Memphis said there are no plans to oust Lyash. 

    By Bill Dries August 28, 2020

  • Sanford: Biden’s bet on Harris is backed by the numbers

    Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is counting on his choice of running mate Kamala Harris to bring in new and reenergized voters in key battleground states.

    By Otis Sanford August 12, 2020

• July 2020

  • Opinion: GOP in ‘civil war’ over masks

    Masks don’t conceal identities – they reveal them, identifying the wearers during this pandemic as caring, compassionate, intelligent folk.

    By Robert Lee Long July 28, 2020

  • Hagerty praises federal response in Portland in joint online appearance with Trump

    During the half-hour online event Friday evening, Trump called Tennessee's Republican Senate primary "a real primary" -- an apparent reference to the tightening race between the former U.S. ambassador to Japan and Dr. Manny Sethi of Nashville.

    By Bill Dries July 20, 2020

• June 2020

  • Never mind how we’re going to vote. What are we voting on?

    Believe it or not, something important is on the August ballot.

    By Michael Nelson June 01, 2020