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What? Me? Really?
I remember getting a tour of the White House in the mid 60's; and, getting to pet Him and Her![]()
Now, it would be Thing 1 and Thing 2.
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I remember getting a tour of the White House in the mid 60's; and, getting to pet Him and Her![]()
By comparison, everything I can find online suggests the Mahlamba Ndlopfu is not open to the public, and is as highly protected as a fortress.Buckingham Palace is a place of work too, that's also open to visitors during certain months.
Gotta keep the general public from seeing where all the spoils of pillaging have ended up!By comparison, everything I can find online suggests the Mahlamba Ndlopfu is not open to the public, and is as highly protected as a fortress.
Donald Trump Jr. co-founds new private members club, Executive Branch, with a $500,000 fee
- A new private membership club in Washington, D.C., co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. is charging a $500,000 membership fee — and there’s already a waiting list.
- The club, called Executive Branch, held a launch party on Saturday night that included at least a half dozen members of President Donald Trump’s administration as well as wealthy CEOs, tech founders and policy experts.
- Executive Branch will open sometime in the next month or so at a location in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
“Tell the people at The Atlantic, if they’d write good stories and truthful stories, the magazine would be hot,” he said. Perhaps the magazine can risk forgoing hotness, he suggested, because it is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, which buffers it, he implied, from commercial imperatives. But that doesn’t guarantee anything, he warned. “You know at some point, they give up,” he said, referring to media owners generally and—we suspected—Bezos specifically. “At some point they say, No más, no más.” He laughed quietly.
Media owners weren’t the only ones on his mind. He also seemed to be referring to law firms, universities, broadcast networks, tech titans, artists, research scientists, military commanders, civil servants, moderate Republicans—all the people and institutions he expected to eventually, inevitably, submit to his will.
We asked the president if his second term felt different from his first. He said it did. “The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” he said. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”
For weeks, we’d been hearing from both inside and outside the White House that the president was having more fun than he’d had in his first term. “The first time, the first weeks, it was just ‘Let’s blow this place up,’ ” Brian Ballard, a lobbyist and an ally of the president’s, had told us. “This time, he’s blowing it up with a twinkle in his eye.”
