There are 95 article(s) tagged Donald Trump:

• April 2020

  • We’re missing national unity in this crisis

    The dissension has filtered down to statehouses and into the streets, with thoughtless protesters thumbing their noses at social distancing and demanding that states end stay-at-home orders.

    By Otis Sanford April 23, 2020

  • Nelson: What do Trump and Tennessee’s Democratic Party have in common? Disdain for constitutional democracy

    The Democratic voters of District 90 were going to have a choice in August about their nominee for state representative, which is what constitutional democracy is all about. But the state party’s executive committee denied them that choice by striking John DeBerry’s name from the ballot. 

    By Michael Nelson April 17, 2020

  • Sanford: The Trump-Corker plan to put profit over people went bust – fortunately

    I knew that former Sen. Bob Corker briefly served as a Tennessee commissioner of finance. What I didn’t know is that Corker cares more about finances than human lives. I knew he had guts. I also thought he had a heart.

    By Otis Sanford April 02, 2020

• March 2020

  • Conaway: The reality of old white men

    A collection of old white men may sound like a Cabinet meeting in Washington or a Senate vote, but it was just another Tuesday and the regular meeting of my “and I’ll tell you another damn thing” lunch group.

    By Dan Conaway March 20, 2020

  • Trump surveys Tennessee tornado damage

    President Donald Trump traveled to Tennessee on Friday to tour neighborhoods where lives and homes were destroyed by tornadoes that swept through parts of the state earlier this week.

    By The Associated Press March 06, 2020

• February 2020

  • Nelson finds comparisons and contrast between Clinton and Trump

    Presidential historian Michael Nelson of Rhodes College has a new book about the Clinton presidency and the former Arkansas governor's two runs for the White House. On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Nelson linked Clinton's influence and time in power to the course that brought Donald Trump to the White House.

    By Bill Dries February 29, 2020

  • Not a fan of debates? Watch the Super Tuesday show anyway

    Some critics argue that debates between candidates are shallow and superficial. To which I say: Compared to what? When else do we get to see them side by side, without their handlers?

    By Michael Nelson February 25, 2020

  • Sanford: Lamar Alexander needed courage – and an editor

    Instead of the word salad that came from Tennessee’s senior Republican senator late on the evening of Jan. 30, all we really needed was a single sentence.

    By Otis Sanford February 06, 2020

• December 2019

  • Nelson: Will Steve Cohen’s grandstanding keep him off the impeachment prosecution team?

    The Memphis congressman is the fourth most senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, which wrote the two articles that are the basis of the Senate trial. But Cohen’s peers tend to regard him as a grandstander rather than a team player.

    By Michael Nelson December 31, 2019

• November 2019

  • China tariffs hinder Tennessee jobs, commissioner says

    International job clients are hitting the "pause button" on relocations to Tennessee because of the U.S. trade war with China, according to Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe

    By Sam Stockard November 12, 2019

• October 2019

  • Nelson: Biden and Obama were a ‘two-man wrecking crew’ against a divided America

    When the presidential debate is held in Tennessee next year, will Joe Biden face off with Donald Trump? The new book “Barack and Joe” presents the potential Democratic nominee as a “rare blend of moderate thinking and immoderate decency.”

    By Michael Nelson October 29, 2019

  • Ford Jr. offers nuanced view of partisan politics and Trump

    Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his hometown and the city he represented for a decade in Washington to talk about national politics, President Trump and the city’s edge.

    By Bill Dries October 22, 2019

• September 2019

  • Nelson: Mid-South hosted 2 presidential debates in ‘08. How about 2020?

    Debates between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were held at Belmont in Nashville and Ole Miss in Oxford. Belmont has applied to host another one next fall. Ole Miss thought better of it.

    By Michael Nelson September 24, 2019

  • Hagerty enters U.S. Senate race with heavy dose of Trump

    Citing a mid-summer endorsement by President Donald Trump and playing heavily on conservative themes, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty entered the 2020 U.S. Senate race’s Republican primary Monday morning.

    By Sam Stockard September 09, 2019

  • Nelson: Tennessee’s sad history with impeachment

    Four of the first six federal officials to be impeached by the House of Representatives were Tennesseans, including the first president ever indicted for “high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Tennessee’s Andrew Johnson.

    By Michael Nelson September 04, 2019

• August 2019

  • Corker questions wisdom of China trade war

    Former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker believes the United States’ trade war against China is “getting out of hand” because of the nation’s failure to bring allies into the fight.

    By Sam Stockard August 30, 2019

  • Former Gov. Haslam predicts Trump wins if Democrats continue leftward trend

    Former Gov. Bill Haslam is forecasting a Trump victory in the 2020 presidential race if Democrats continue to trend leftward but otherwise sees a tight race in a “split” country, though he won't say he will vote for President Trump.

    By Sam Stockard August 30, 2019

  • Sexton meets NRA leader but says no gun talk took place

    House Speaker nominee believes gun laws should be handled at the federal level for the sake of uniformity.

    By Sam Stockard August 21, 2019

  • FedEx chief Smith working to shape new trade agenda

    FedEx chief Frederick W. Smith is one of three co-chairs of a Washington-based business think tank's new commission exploring ways to develop a positive trade agenda for the United States.

    By Wayne Risher August 21, 2019

  • Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize this Republican Party

    In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools. 

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa August 14, 2019

  • State Rep. Lamar calls out Trump over mass shootings

    With Democrats from across the nation calling for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings, state Rep. London Lamar said President Donald Trump planted the seeds for the deadly incidents by fomenting hatred.

    By Sam Stockard August 08, 2019

  • Lee pinpoints cybersecurity as potential tool to stop shootings

    Gov. Bill Lee is analyzing gun control legislation in the wake of two mass shootings nationally but appears most interested in cybersecurity to stop people who show signs of radicalism or mental “instability.”

    By Sam Stockard August 05, 2019

• July 2019

  • Sethi claims ‘GOP establishment’ tried to talk him out of Senate run

    With U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty likely to run for the U.S. Senate, the first Republican to enter the race, Manny Sethi, is calling out the Republican “establishment,” saying it pressured him not to seek the seat.

    By Sam Stockard July 19, 2019

  • Hagerty resigning from Japan ambassadorship with U.S. Senate run expected

    With a U.S. Senate run in the offing, Bill Hagerty is leaving his post as U.S. Ambassador to Japan after two years of service, the U.S. Embassy announced Tuesday.

    By Sam Stockard July 16, 2019

  • Trump tweet gives Hagerty jump in U.S. Senate race

    Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty hasn’t made an official announcement for a 2020 U.S. Senate candidacy, but President Donald Trump put him at the front of the race with a single tweet.

    By Sam Stockard July 15, 2019