There are 164 article(s) tagged Donald Trump:

• August 2020

  • Vigil for Post Office set Thursday in Memphis

    A "Vigil to Save the Post Office" is scheduled Thursday overnight in Navy Park in Downtown Memphis.

    By Wayne Risher August 17, 2020

  • Shark Week brings Trump appointee to FedEx hub

    Remains of lions, tigers and bears and more exotic creatures are part of a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service trove of items stopped from moving through the FedEx Express Memphis hub.

    By Wayne Risher August 14, 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

  • Governor won’t require masks statewide despite changing GOP attitudes

    Even though Republican governors are mandating masks and President Donald Trump has begun calling them "patriotic," Gov. Bill Lee continues to decline requiring face coverings statewide.

    By Sam Stockard July 23, 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

• May 2020

  • Lee Administration dodges Trump’s call for governors to open houses of worship

    Gov. Bill Lee's Office isn't worried about President Donald Trump’s demand for houses of worship to open, saying he never ordered churches to close but did urge alternative services to avoid spreading COVID-19.

    By Sam Stockard, Bill Dries May 23, 2020

  • Nelson: Who casts Tennessee’s electoral votes, and why it matters now

    “Faithless electors” – those who were elected to support the nominee of their party, then voted for someone else – have been rare. In the 13 presidential elections from 1964 to 2012 there were six. But in 2016 alone, there were seven faithless electors. 

    By Michael Nelson May 04, 2020

  • Conaway: Our parents deserve better from us

    We can’t even stand up and come together as one to fight something that’s killing us for two or three months without falling apart. After all, we need our nails done and a haircut.

    By Dan Conaway May 01, 2020

• 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

  • When and how will Memphis reopen? Answers are not pretty or clear cut

    Social distancing may last another eight weeks or more. And, even then, don't expect Memphis to reopen overnight.

    By Marc Perrusquia April 14, 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

  • Montgomery: Are people of faith limited to thoughts and prayers?

    Do we just pray for our environment? Or pray for children being separated from their parents? Or might the faith communities be called to engage in … dare I suggest it … politics?

    By Steve Montgomery March 15, 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

  • Trump renews Twitter attacks on Hart as judge criticizes Trump reaction

    Trump's latest Tweets followed a day-long hearing in Washington on Roger Stone's motion for a new trial.

    By Bill Dries February 25, 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

  • Cohen: President’s response to Hart ‘unfair, but typical’

    The Congressman's defense of the former school board member comes eight years after she challenged him in the 9th District Democratic primary.

    By Bill Dries February 16, 2020

  • Trump reacts to Hart Facebook post on Stone trial

    Former school board member Tomeka Hart was foreperson on the Washington D.C. jury that convicted Stone on all seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering. Her Facebook post defending the prosecutors in the case got the President's attention Thursday morning.

    By Bill Dries February 14, 2020

  • Tomeka Hart breaks silence about serving as juror on Roger Stone trial

    "I can’t keep quiet any longer," Tomeka Hart said Wednesday about breaking her silence on serving on a jury that convicted Trump ally Roger Stone last year. 

    By Yolanda Jones February 14, 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

  • Woman in Super Bowl ad for Trump seeks probation dismissal

    Alice Marie Johnson, whose drug conviction was commuted by Trump, still seeks to get her probation dismissed. 

    By Yolanda Jones February 03, 2020