Trump isn't the first to remodel the White House
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President Trump isn't the first commander-in-chief to tease a third presidential term. The big picture: There is a strange and unusual history of presidents considering third terms — until the 22nd Amendment made them illegal.
Trump's claim that 50% of the presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act was false. Whether "almost" 50% have invoked it depends on what is defined as almost, since somewhere between 33% and 40% of presidents have invoked the act.
WOLF: President Donald Trump invoked Grover Cleveland to justify the domestic deployment of US troops. Most people won’t be familiar with those incidents, involving anti-Chinese riots in Tacoma and Seattle in the late 1800s. What’s the basic storyline around why Cleveland sent US troops to Washington state?
The elder statesmen and stateswomen of the Democratic Party took their time to acknowledge Trump amid Middle East ceasefire.