memeorandum: Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds (Glenn Harlan Reynolds/USA Today)

8:00 AM ET, January 27, 2017

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’ — WASHINGTON — Just days after President Trump spoke of a “running war” with the media, his chief White House strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, ratcheted up the attacks, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” …

Mike Allen / Axios:

The Bannon coup — White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished by the unambiguous, far-reaching power of Steve Bannon and policy guru Stephen Miller over, well, just about everything. — They wrote the Inaugural speech and set in fast motion a series of moves to cement Trump as an America-first Nationalist.

Discussion: The Week, Daily Kos, AOL, alan.com and Raw Story

Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Steve Bannon Tells NY Times The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’

Discussion: Raw Story

Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’

Discussion: RedState

Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon: The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut and Just Listen For Awhile’

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Steve Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’

Discussion: Raw Story, BizPac Review, CNN, The Guardian, Business Insider, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, The Week, Althouse and Axios

Washington Post:

Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd — On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.

Discussion: Raw Story, The Week, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Gizmodo, Daily Kos, The Guardian, Little Green Footballs, Washingtonian, Political Wire and CNET, more at Mediagazer »

Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:

Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds — He's gaslighting them and they fall for it every time. — Why are the relations between Donald Trump and the press so bad? There are two reasons. One is that Trump is a Republican, and the press consists overwhelmingly of Democrats.

Discussion: Hot Air

Paul Demko / Politico:

Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads — The Trump administration has pulled the plug on all Obamacare outreach and advertising in the crucial final days of the 2017 enrollment season, according to sources at Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill.

Discussion: The Week, Talking Points Memo, Axios and Political Wire

Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says

Discussion: Axios, Gizmodo and Business Insider

Josh Rogin / Washington Post:

The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus …

Elise Labott / CNN:
Trump administration asks top State Department officials to leave

Discussion: Washington Post, RedState, Business Insider, Shadowproof, Common Dreams, twitchy.com and Talking Points Memo

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Trump Plans 20% Tax on Mexican Imports to Pay for Border Wall — PHILADELPHIA — President Trump plans to make Mexico pay for his border wall by imposing a 20 percent tax on all imports into the United States from Mexico, raising billions of dollars that would cover the cost of the new barrier.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Refinery29, Politicus USA, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP congressional leaders: The border wall will cost $12 billion to $15 billion

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Political Wire

Dallas Morning News:
White House floats tax on Mexican imports that would force Americans to pay for wall

Discussion: NPR, Jamie Dupree, The Guardian, The Week and Washington Post

Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports …

Discussion: Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, ABC News, Raw Story, TheBlaze, The Atlantic, Hot Air, IJR, Talking Points Memo, The Week, NPR, Washington Monthly, Common Dreams and Mediaite

Michael Waldman / New York Times:

Voting Fraud Inquiry? The Investigators Got Burned Last Time — For days President Trump has promoted the absurd notion that three million to five million people voted illegally in the presidential election. — On Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump went further.

Discussion: The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, twitchy.com, Associated Press and Balloon Juice

USA Today:

Doomsday Clock ticks closer to apocalypse and 1 person is to blame … Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change. — Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit that sets the clock …

Discussion: RedState, New York Times and twitchy.com

New York Times:
Thanks to Trump, the Doomsday Clock Advances Toward Midnight

Discussion: Grist, Refinery29, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Boing Boing, Motherboard, AOL and NPR

Associated Press:

In Need of Allies, Trump and Britain's Theresa May to Meet — President Donald Trump is set to meet his first world leader since taking office — British Prime Minister Theresa May, a friendly ally who hopes to nudge the populist president toward the political mainstream.

Discussion: Politico and The Republic

David Tweed / Bloomberg:
Need a Proofreader? Team Trump Spells British PM's Name Wrong

Discussion: The Week

Max Fisher / New York Times: British Alignment With Trump Threatens European Order

Nicholas Weaver / Lawfare:

President Trump's Insecure Android — Lost amid the swirling insanity of the Trump administration's first week, are the reports of the President's continued insistence on using his Android phone (a Galaxy S3 or perhaps S4). This is, to put it bluntly, asking for a disaster.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Trump's Still Using His Old Android Phone. That's Very, Very Risky

Discussion: Refinery29, Motherboard, The Guardian, Techdirt, Raw Story, New York Times, Politico, The Hill, Salon and Business Insider

Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:

Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties — Fearing a loss of millions of dollars for defying immigration authorities, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Thursday ordered county jails to comply with federal immigration detention requests …

Discussion: New York Times, CNN, BizPac Review, New York Post, AOL, NPR, The Lid, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, IJR, Fox News Insider, TheBlaze and twitchy.com

Henry Grabar / Slate:
The Siege of Sanctuary Cities Has Begun

Discussion: Above the Law, Shareblue, Washington Post and The Daily Signal

Azam Ahmed / New York Times:

In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back — MEXICO CITY — Hunkered down in the presidential palace, Enrique Peña Nieto, the unpopular leader of Mexico, was besieged on both sides. — The new American president, Donald J. Trump, had just ordered …

Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:

Voter fraud probe traced back to ex-MS welfare head — The former Mississippi official whose tweet may have inspired President Trump to order a “major investigation” into voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election says he has been receiving death threats.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Patrick Knox / The Sun:

GANG RAPE ARRESTS Two Afghan migrants revealed as those arrested over horrific three-hour rape streamed on Facebook Live in Sweden — Victim had clothes pulled off by armed men and was sexually assaulted before cops arrived and turned off the camera — TWO migrants from Afghanistan …

Discussion: The Local, The Geller Report and The Gateway Pundit

Fortune:

Mexico's Richest Man Carlos Slim Just Called a Rare Press Conference — Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, who was attacked by President Donald Trump during his election campaign but who later met with the U.S. leader in Florida, on Thursday called a press conference for Friday amid growing tensions between the two nations.

Joe Heim / Washington Post:

‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway — When Kellyanne Conway took over as Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager in August — his third in under a year — there were few signs that Trump would emerge victorious on election night just three months later.

Discussion: BizPac Review, Washington Times, AOL, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and RedState, more at Mediagazer »

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

The Trump Administration's Day One Moves Were Copied From Mitt Romney's Playbook — WASHINGTON — When White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked Wednesday about a potential executive order that would revive Bush-era detention and interrogation policies, he flatly denied any knowledge of its existence.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and UN Dispatch