| MIKE HOGAN, EXECUTIVE DIGITAL DIRECTOR |
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Welp, this is it. The 100th day of Donald Trump's second presidency. It's normal for a new administration to overachieve during its "honeymoon" period, but the Trump White House has been downright manic, spewing triggering headlines in every direction—and raising grave economic, diplomatic, and humanitarian concerns. Even the White House Flickr account has been frantically productive, pumping out thousands of images glorifying the chief executive. But the photos, like Trump's legislative agenda, are more spectacle than substance, writes Pete Souza, who snapped official images for Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Meanwhile, Miriam Adelson, the Republican billionaire who spent heavily to elect Trump, has suffered a major reversal of fortune in the days since his inauguration. Former Rolling Stone editor in chief Noah Shachtman has that story below. |
For decades, official West Wing pictures were meant to chronicle history. Pete Souza, an official White House photographer for Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, weighs in on the role's current state of affairs. |
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"Even the behind-the-scenes images—despite being top-notch photographically—often look like part of the reality show," Souza writes. "There is little hint of the president's humanity, and even when there is, there's an oddity to it." After perusing through many of the 2,600-plus photos the administration has shared so far, Souza has a pointed critique on what isn't being captured. |
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In a recent episode on Bill Maher's podcast, the Oscar-nominated actor shared why he turned down a Marvin Gaye biopic. |
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One hundred days ago, Miriam Adelson was on top of the world. The billionaire and far-right mega-donor was in the Capitol Rotunda, dressed in an all-white version of a Sgt. Pepper's coat and her signature round sunglasses, standing next to Laura Bush and Barack Obama, watching her chosen candidate, the man she had spent more than $100 million on, be sworn in as president. Her basketball team, the Dallas Mavericks, was fresh off of a run to the NBA finals. Las Vegas Sands, the gambling company founded by her late husband and fellow kingmaker Sheldon Adelson, was making slow progress toward its long-term goal of building a casino about 20 minutes' drive from the squad's home court. Perhaps most exciting, at least from a pure profit perspective, was the firm's potential to land a license to operate a casino on Long Island, just outside of New York City, widely believed to be the one of the most lucrative untapped gambling markets on the planet. If Sands could secure it, the MAGA queen would have a cash register that would never stop ringing. Of course she was happy. But that was then. |
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