There are 82 article(s) tagged Donald Trump:

• March 2023

  • Nelson: For Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, it all started in Memphis

    Paul Manafort and Roger Stone were young, politically ambitious, and determined to advance their careers by coming to Memphis for the Young Republican National Convention in 1977. 

    By Michael Nelson March 21, 2023

• July 2022

  • Hagerty doubles down on abortion ruling, calls insurrection hearings ‘show trial’

    Republican U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty spoke Tuesday, June 28, at the Memphis Rotary Club during a visit to the city that included a defense of former President Donald Trump and a prediction that 2022 midterm elections will produce a “sea change” in Washington. He also visited with the Republican nominee for Shelby County mayor.

    By Bill Dries July 05, 2022

• June 2022

  • City Council rejects used-car lot on Elvis Presley Boulevard

    The council also discussed the riverfront’s Cobblestone Landing, a blight and illegal dumping task force and police escorts for Donald Trump’s Southaven speech.

    By Bill Dries June 21, 2022

  • Trump teases second run during stop in Southaven

    While he never directly stated his plan for the next presidential election, throughout his speech Saturday and again during his closing remarks, Trump hinted at the possibility of a second run in 2024. 

    By Rob Moore June 21, 2022

  • ‘Unwelcome wagon,’ Trump’s remarks in Nashville set stage for Southaven visit

    The former president, the headliner at a conservative political conference on Saturday, offered a preview during a speech in Nashville of what he is likely to say.

    By Bill Dries June 20, 2022

  • City Council Scorecard: Primary strategy, Trump’s escort and Environmental Court

    The City Council Scorecard examines a vote on a resolution to deny former President Donald Trump a police escort to his Saturday appearance in Southaven, Mississippi. 

    By Bill Dries June 15, 2022

  • Trump appearance at Landers Center different from past campaign rallies

    Prices to attend Saturday’s event range from $9 a person to watch a live feed from an overflow room to a $3,995 “presidential” package that was recently changed to a “buy one, get one free” deal.

    By Bill Dries June 14, 2022

  • Resolution to deny Trump security fizzles at City Hall

    A city council resolution calling for Memphis Police to not get involved in any escort of the former President if he comes through the city later this month didn’t make it to Tuesday’s council agenda.

    By Bill Dries June 08, 2022

  • City Council eyes police pay, Mud Island monorail at end of budget season

    The Memphis City Council members could close out its 2022 budget season Tuesday, June 7, with a set of votes on a new property tax rate and operating and capital budgets.

    By Bill Dries June 07, 2022

• 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