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☆ Some people tried to leave Trump's 2024 launch early but were stopped by security, ABC reporters say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump launched his 2024 run in front of a crowd of people in Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. Some people tried to leave the event early — but were stopped by security, two ABC reporters said. ABC reporter Jonathan Karl said Trump's just-over-an-hour speech was "low energy." But his speech — which lasted just over an hour — prompted some of his supporters to leave early, according to ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl, who was in the room. Notably, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were not there.

☆ Don Jr. missed Trump's 2024 campaign launch because he was hunting and couldn't get a flight, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump launched his 2024 bid at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night. His eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was notably absent despite being a major supporter. Former President Donald Trump formally launched his 2024 bid for the Republican nomination at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday evening. Don Jr. tweeted clips of his father's campaign announcement on Tuesday evening, and his fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, was at the launch party in Mar-a-Lago. Kushner did attend the presidential campaign launch on Tuesday night.

☆ Trump's 2024 presidential bid is a wrinkle du jour for markets
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( David Randall | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Octavio JonesNEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump's entry on Tuesday into the 2024 presidential race confirmed the world's "worst kept secret" and created another variable for markets that some investors say remains a low priority for now. Trump, who has mounted relentless attacks on the integrity of U.S. voting since his 2020 election defeat, announced his bid at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seemingly with the aim of pre-empting potential Republican rivals. Trump's announcement, meanwhile, came as little surprise to investors, as the former president had telegraphed the possibility he might run again for some time. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC.O), the blank-check company looking to take Donald Trump's social media venture public, fell 8.8% on Tuesday, while software developer Phunware Inc (PHUN.O), which was hired by Trump's 2020 re-election campaign to build a phone app, slid 4.7%. Both stocks rallied earlier this month on reports Trump was considering a third bid for the White House.

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he's running for president again in 2024. Trump's 2024 campaign comes as he faces escalating federal and state criminal investigations. Trump cast himself as the lone panacea to a long list of ills on a "quest to save our country." Supporters wait for the arrival of former President Donald Trump during an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. Grover Cleveland, of the National Democratic Party, was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in the White House.

☆ Pence says that Melania told Trump 'to be more like Mike' following the president's chaotic performance in the first 2020 presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mike Pence says Melania Trump told Donald Trump that the president should be more like his VP. Pence says the comment came after his 2020 vice presidential debate performance. "'Melania says I gotta be more like Mike,'" Pence says Trump told him, following the president's disastrous first debate. "'Melania says I gotta be more like Mike,'" Pence says Trump told him following the 2020 vice presidential debate. As is tradition, the only vice presidential debate follows the first presidential debate.

☆ Building the White House Rose Garden
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Mac Griswold | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

When the White House Rose Garden was renovated in the summer of 2020 under first lady Melania Trump, criticism began swiftly. To many Americans, however, any changes to the elegant and restrained garden built under President John F. Kennedy seemed like a sacrilege. When Kennedy took office in 1961, the White House Rose Garden was in tatters. During visits to Versailles and Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace that summer, the president saw how European leaders deployed gardens to display beauty and sophistication. Kennedy envisioned turning the existing Rose Garden, designed by first lady Ellen Wilson in 1913, into a green platform for broadcasting public events.

☆ Trump says 'I'd like to apologize to Melania' on behalf of news outlets that reported he blamed her for his failed endorsement of Dr. Oz
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump said he was sorry to Melania after a report that he's privately blaming her for faulty election advice. The New York Times reported that Trump is trying to cast the blame on others for his backing of Mehmet Oz. "I'd like to apologize to Melania and Sean Hannity for all of the Fake News and fictional stories," Trump said in a message on his Truth Social platform. In reality, Trump's endorsement of Oz was a major factor in the GOP primary. "I am not sure I have," Trump told GOP pollster Frank Luntz, who served as moderator of the event.

☆ A furious Trump is blaming Melania for urging him to support Dr. Oz, who lost a key Senate race: NYT reporter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump-backed Republican Mehmet Oz lost the race for US Senate in Pennsylvania this week. The former president was "furious" about his loss, The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tweeted. Among others, Trump blamed his wife, Melania, for encouraging him to back Oz, Haberman said. Former First Lady Melania Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity had been pressing Trump to back Oz because they were friends with him, Axios' Jonathan Swan reported at the time. The Failing New York Times has gone crazy."

☆ Right-wing media powerhouses pan Trump amid Republicans' underperformance in the midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Three of the most prominent right-wing media outlets in the US are turning on Trump. Fox News, the NY Post, and WSJ editorial board all published critical pieces about Trump amid Republican underperformance in the midterms. The New York Post published a Thursday cover story mocking "Trumpty Dumpty" for failing to unify the Republican Party. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board followed suit, publishing a piece Thursday calling Trump the GOP's "biggest loser." The WSJ editorial board blamed Trump for having "botched" the 2022 midterms, adding that "it could hand Democrats the Senate for two more years."

☆ Trump says he voted to re-elect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump said on Tuesday that he voted to re-elect Florida Gov. "No matter who you vote for, you have to vote," Trump told people outside a Palm Beach polling site. When asked whether he voted for DeSantis after he cast his vote at the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump replied: "Yes, I did," according to a video shared on Twitter. "No matter who you vote for, you have to vote," Trump told reporters gathered outside the polling site. Speculation that Trump and DeSantis could both declare campaigns to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024 has also ramped up in recent weeks.

☆ Melania Trump will join other first ladies like Jill Biden, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton to promote a women's suffrage monument
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former First Lady Melania Trump will join other first ladies to promote a women's suffrage monument. She tweeted that she is "honored" to help secure a monument "of enduring inspiration" for women. The Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation announced its honorary chairs on Monday would include Biden, Trump, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Rosalynn Carter. The foundation is tasked with carrying out a law, signed by Trump, to build the monument. The Women's Suffrage National Monument will be unveiled in the summer of 2027, according to the foundation.

☆ Donald Trump is back at Mar-a-Lago and raging about FBI agents not taking off their shoes while searching his bedroom
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump said on Truth Social that he's finally had a look around Mar-a-Lago. He said FBI agents did not take off their shoes in his bedroom. "It was 'ransacked,' and in far different condition than the way I left it," Trump wrote on Truth Social. This is not the first time Trump has expressed anger at the FBI agents who searched through his personal items. Earlier this month, Trump claimed the FBI made him look sloppy by purposely scattering documents on the ground to photograph them during Mar-a-Lago raid.

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