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Category: Widget: Transcripts

op-ed

Top Trump official publishes devastating op-ed in New York Times [anonymously]

September 5, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Government, Letter to the Editor, Media, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

The New York Times took the rare step, today, of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. The author, an unnamed, senior White House official, delivers

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reporters

Latest NY Times Trump transcript: Why do reporters clean it up for TV?

July 20, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Trump, Widget: Transcripts 3 comments

In his latest interview with the New York Times [July 19, 2017], Donald Trump did what he always does: He rambled, flitted from topic

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transcripts

Trump talks: A new transcript, from Air Force One “wingside chat”

July 13, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts Leave a comment

I was so sure that, after transcripts of our dear leader’s earlier, shockingly incoherent ramblings were released, we would never again see such a

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incoherent

Transcript of Trump’s AP interview: Unintelligible and incoherent, as usual

April 24, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts One comment

The Associated Press has released the full transcript of its April 21, 2017 interview with Donald Trump, and it’s another doozy in a growing

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Trump’s Black History Month transcript: Not much history included

February 1, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts Leave a comment

Today, our new president invited 20 or so people to the White House to dutifully celebrate Black History Month [something he’s probably given little

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demagogue

Trump’s inauguration transcript: A demagogue’s dictionary

January 20, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts One comment

Trump’s inaugural speech was a speech for the ages: The Dark Ages. If you couldn’t bear to watch it, you can gag your way

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transcript

Trump’s London Times transcript: What he said vs. what they reported

January 16, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Foreign Policy, International, Media, Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts 3 comments

In an attempt to sound like he knows something about foreign policy, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Michael Gove, of the Times

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excerpts

More excerpts from Trump’s NYT interview: Incoherence & narcissism

November 28, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Trump, Widget: Transcripts 11 comments

If you don’t have the time or patience [or stomach] to read the entire, word-for-word transcript of Donald Trump’s interview with the New York

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Transcript

Trump’s NYT transcript: Read it, and weep for our country

November 27, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Media, Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts 253 comments

I urge everyone to take the time to read the entire transcript of Donald Trump’s Nov. 23, 2016 on-the-record interview with the New York

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