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Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and right-hand woman to President Donald Trump, reportedly volunteered to do one of the least coveted tasks incumbent upon Trump’s aides: informing him about negative stories. “She always has impeccable timing,” Jason Miller, the Trump campaign’s former senior communications adviser, told Town & Country magazine. “When a bad story would come up, she would volunteer, saying, ‘I’ll just go and tell him; I got it.’ We all had to do it. She was just better at it.” The magazine described a “close family friend” as saying Hicks is good at giving her elders advice because she’s “smooth and direct, you know where she stands, and she’s never confrontational.” Trump has previously acknowledged that Hicks has a way with words and a knack for approaching him tactfully, telling The New York Times in 2016 that he was “lucky to have her.” … [Read more...] about Hope Hicks reportedly volunteers to tell Trump bad news because he takes it better from her

President Donald Trump on Wednesday broke his silence about the stock market’s recent tumbles and volatility, arguing on Twitter that the decline was a “big mistake” that happened amid a strengthening US economy. “In the ‘old days,’ when good news was reported, the Stock Market would go up,” Trump said. “Today, when good news is reported, the Stock Market goes down. Big mistake, and we have so much good (great) news about the economy!” The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 1,200 points on Monday, its largest-ever one-day point drop. Though it was relatively small on a percentage basis, it triggered concern from investors about the market’s stability. Members of Trump’s administration have attempted to deflect that concern, but the president had not weighed in on the recent slide, despite his frequently touting the stock market’s rise during his first full year in office. Trump’s tweet echoed an … [Read more...] about TRUMP: The stock market made a ‘big mistake’ by falling after so much ‘good news’ about the economy

Fox News hosts shifted their rhetoric around the stock market on Tuesday morning following the Dow Jones industrial average’s largest single-day drop in history on Monday. For months, the network’s conservative analysts have attributed the stock market’s steady climb to President Donald Trump’s policies and promises and have celebrated the market’s health as an economic boon to regular Americans. But on Tuesday, the hosts argued that the dramatic drop – the Dow fell as much as 1,500 points on Monday – is both irrelevant to the average American and a sign that wages are rising. Liz Peek, a Fox contributor, argued on “Fox & Friends” that the market’s plummet can be attributed in part to a slight increase in wages reported this month. “In fact, we should be celebrating the things that the market is so anxious about: wages are going up … because the economy is gaining steam,” Peek said. “The worst news … [Read more...] about Fox News downplays stock market mayhem after months of trumpeting the Dow’s success under Trump