Jacketgate: Media Freaks out About What Melania Wore on Plane Ride to Visit Immigrant Children in Texas

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President Trump responded to the media speculation Thursday evening with his own explanation of the First Lady’s jacket.

Many in the media freaked out Thursday over a jacket first lady Melania Trump wore when boarding the plane to visit immigrant children in a Texas detention center. The $39 Zara jacket reads “I really don’t care. do u?” on the back.

Melania Trump’s spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement: “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message. After today’s important visit to Texas, I hope this isn’t what the media is going to choose to focus on.”

She also mentioned the time the media attacked the First Lady for wearing heels when boarding the plane to visit Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas.

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WHO Reclassifies Transgenderism, No Longer Considered a Mental Health Disorder

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The World Health Organization will no longer classify people who identify as transgender as having a mental disorder, the group announced Monday.

The announcement comes ahead of the release of the organization’s International Classification of Diseases in its 11th edition.

Previously, “gender incongruence” was placed in the mental health chapter of the WHO’s classification document. Now, it will be in a newly created sexual health chapter.

The United Nations health agency claimed there is “clear” evidence that being transgender “is not a mental disorder, and indeed classifying it in this can cause enormous stigma for people who are transgender.”

“Gender incongruence … has also been moved out of the mental disorders in the ICD, into sexual health conditions,” their report stated.

In a new description of gender incongruence, the WHO says that “gender variant behavior and preferences alone are not a basis” for diagnosing someone’s mental health.

According to Dr. Lale Say, Coordinator, Adolescents and at-Risk Populations Team at the World Health Organization, the goal in moving gender incongruence from the mental health chapter to a newly created sexual health chapter is to remove social stigma.

“It was taken out from mental health disorders because we had better understanding that this wasn’t actually a mental health condition,” she said. “And leaving it there was causing stigma.”

“Removing gender incongruence from mental health chapter is expected to reduce stigma and will help better social acceptance of individuals living with gender incongruence,” the representative added.

The change will be presented at the World Health Assembly in 2019 and will go into effect on January 1, 2022.

According to The National Center for Transgender Equality, a vast number of transgender individuals do suffer from mental illness.

A poll run by the transgender rights organization found that “Four out of 10 transgender Americans have attempted suicide in their lifetime, which is nearly nine times the attempted suicide rate among all Americans.”

“A staggering 39% of respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the month prior to completing the survey, compared with only 5% of the population,” the NCTE found.

Meanwhile, as noted by The Daily Wire, “the World Health Organization decided to classify excessive video game playing as a mental health disorder.”

“I’m not creating a precedent,” said Dr. Vladimir Poznyak, a member of the World Health Organization’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, discussing the decision.

“One (major characteristic of gaming disorder) is that the gaming behavior takes precedence over other activities to the extent that other activities are taken to the periphery,” Poznyak said. (For more from the author of “WHO Reclassifies Transgenderism, No Longer Considered a Mental Health Disorder” please click HERE)

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Melania Makes Surprise Trip to Texas, Visits Children Housed in Detention Facility

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First lady Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a Texas facility Thursday to get a first-hand look at some of the migrant children sent there by the U.S. government after their families entered the country illegally.

The first lady’s stop at Upbring New Hope Children’s Center in McAllen came the morning after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting the practice of separating these families. Trump had come under pressure to stop the practice, including from GOP allies and the first lady herself, following a public outcry sparked by widespread images of children held in fence-like structures.

The trip was intended to lend support to those children who remain separated from their parents, said Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman.

“She wanted to see everything for herself,” Grisham said.

Accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Mrs. Trump met with the executive director of the facility and other staff in a makeshift conference room where she was told the staff treated the 58 children housed there as if they were their own.

The first lady asked that the children be reunited with their families “as quickly as possible.”

The trip came together within the past 48 hours, Grisham said.

“She told her staff she wanted to go and we made that happen,” she said.

The president, speaking at a Cabinet meeting, said that his wife was “down at the border,’” and Grisham said the first lady had the full backing of her husband.

“She told him ‘I am headed down to Texas’ and he was supportive,” Grisham said.

Mrs. Trump, whose focus as first lady is on child well-being, appears to have been among those pushing her husband to act.

Grisham released a statement last weekend saying the first lady “hates” to see children separated from their families and “believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.”

Hours before Trump used his executive order to halt family separations, a White House official let it be known that Mrs. Trump had been voicing her opinion to the president for some time, including that he needed to help families stay together.

Trump acknowledged Wednesday that the mother of his 12-year-old son, Barron, had been prodding him.

“My wife feels very strongly about it,” he told reporters after he signed the order.

The pair of statements from the first lady amounted to an unusual public intervention by Mrs. Trump into a policy debate. Her four former living predecessors, seemingly encouraged after Laura Bush authored a scathing opinion piece, followed with sharper commentary of their own condemning the family separations as shameful.

The last-minute trip to Texas marks the first public action by Mrs. Trump since she announced in May an initiative named “Be Best” to focus on the overall well-being of children and help teach them kindness. She had been expected to travel to promote the campaign but was sidelined a week after the announcement following surgery to treat a benign kidney condition. (For more from the author of “Melania Makes Surprise Trip to Texas, Visits Children Housed in Detention Facility” please click HERE)

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Intruder Pours Gas on Home’s Floors. But Homeowner Fights Back — and Uses His Gun for Good Measure.

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By The Blaze. Police said a man walked across the street Sunday evening toward a home in North Manheim Township, Pennsylvania, entered the garage, grabbed a gas can and then entered the home where he proceeded to pour gasoline on the floors, state police told the Morning Call.

But the 57-year-old homeowner battled with the intruder, police told the paper, and pushed him out of the house.

At that point, the homeowner’s daughter retrieved her father’s handgun and gave it to him while she called 911, police told the Morning Call.

However, the intruder apparently was undeterred, as he continued to assault the homeowner and pushed him to the ground, police told the paper.

But the homeowner rose to his knees and fired one shot, striking the intruder in the left arm and abdomen, police told the Morning Call, adding that the intruder collapsed and remained on the ground until police and rescue workers arrived. (Read more from “Intruder Pours Gas on Home’s Floors. But Homeowner Fights Back — and Uses His Gun for Good Measure.” HERE)

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Planned Parenthood to Spend Record $1.5 Million to Sway an Election

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Planned Parenthood will be spending a record $1.5 million to sway a gubernatorial election in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has been a stalwart opponent of pro-life legislation throughout his tenure, opposing even some of the most moderate proposals. He has vetoed bans on dismemberment abortions as well as bans on abortion after 20 weeks. Recently, he said he will veto a bill to protect Down syndrome babies from abortion.

“He is a brick wall against efforts to roll back health care access and [abortion] rights of Pennsylvanians,” said Sari Stevens, director of the state pro-abortion PAC, Tribune Live reports.

The money will be used for door-to-door canvassing, digital advertisements, phone calls and texts. Much of the effort will focus on Philadelphia suburbs to rope more women into voting in the upcoming election. Polling shows that suburban citizens have a favorable opinion of Planned Parenthood. . .

“It’s no surprise that Tom Wolf is setting records for donations taken from special interests,” said Andrew Romeo, spokesman for Wagner. “He is bought and paid for by those filling up his campaign coffers.” (Read more from “Planned Parenthood to Spend Record $1.5 Million to Sway an Election” HERE)

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Melania Calls Secret Service After Actor Suggests Kidnapping Barron Trump

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First Lady Melania Trump’s office confirmed to The Daily Caller Wednesday that they have notified the Secret Service about actor Peter Fonda’s suggestion, in a series of since-deleted vulgar tweets, that Barron Trump should be kidnapped.

“The tweet is sick and irresponsible and USSS has been notified,” spokesperson for the first lady Stephanie Grisham told The Daily Caller. . .

A rep for Fonda told Fox that the actor “wanted to make sure that Melania and Ivanka communicate with the president the dire circumstances of separating mothers and young children.”

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted his own response to Fonda’s threats against Barron and the children of ICE agents.

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Colorado Kids, Church Raise Thousands to Provide Safety Gear for Local Police

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Caleb Landrum and Andrew Deeds, two elementary school students, recognized the danger law enforcement officers face every day. So they partnered with a Christian nonprofit to do something to protect the officers.

The kids partnered with the nonprofit Shield 616 to raise more than $14,000 to pay for helmets and protective vests for officers from two departments in Colorado, KCNC-TV reported. . .

First we want to equip every first responder with necessary, advanced active shooter/crowd control gear. Second, we want to provide a support group for that first responder who will pray for the first responder and his or her family on a daily basis and shower the first responder with support and encouragement throughout the year.

Shield616 raises funds to donate safety gear to financially struggling departments and replaces that gear every five years. The organization collaborates with local individuals, churches, and businesses to support this mission. . .

A local church, Living Word Chapel, raised another $17,000 for police gear. In total, the donations paid for helmets and vests for 20 officers. (Read more from “Colorado Kids, Church Raise Thousands to Provide Safety Gear for Local Police” HERE)

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He Survived Nazi Concentration Camps – His Message on Border Security Will Silence the Media

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By The Daily Caller. David Tuck was enslaved by the Nazis and survived multiple concentration camps. In the wake of pundits and politicians comparing immigration detainment facilities in modern day America to Nazi concentration camps, Tuck felt compelled to speak out.

“Wake up,” he said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller. “Look it up. This is not the Holocaust.”

Tuck was born in Poland in 1929. When he was 10 years old, the Nazis invaded his country. They marched through his neighborhood, identifying Jews. David had a golden Star of David sewn to his clothes and was moved to a ghetto. . .

Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal likened America’s zero tolerance immigration policy to the “cattle cars of Nazi Germany.” Pundits and politicians have echoed the sentiment. . .

“I don’t believe it when I heard it,” Tuck said when he heard Blumenthal’s statement, “They know nothing of the Holocaust.”

“They are politicians, looking to get paid,” he said, repeating that those who make the comparison “know nothing.” When asked to compare the American border detainment facilities to actual concentration camps, Tuck said, “This is a country club.” (Read more from “He Survived Nazi Concentration Camps – His Message on Border Security Will Silence the Media” HERE)

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Jeff Sessions Says Child Migrant Holding Cages Not Like Nazi Germany ‘Because They Were Keeping Jews From Leaving’

By The Independent. Accusations that child detention facilities on the US-Mexican border are similar to Nazi concentration camps were always likely to be rebuked by the White House – but perhaps no one quite expected Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ line of reasoning.

“This is a real exaggeration,” he told Fox News. “Because in Nazi Germany they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country.”

Even the avowedly conservative presenter Laura Ingraham seemed momentarily taken aback with the response, quickly moving the subject on. . .

Earlier, Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein had been among several politicians and commentators to say the actions were comparable with Hitler’s Germany.

But Attorney General Sessions said: “We’re doing the right thing. We’re taking care of these children,” adding “they are not being abused”. (Read more from “Jeff Sessions Says Child Migrant Holding Cages Not Like Nazi Germany ‘Because They Were Keeping Jews From Leaving'” HERE)

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Starbucks Gives ‘Disappointing’ News Amid ‘Racial Bias’ Backlash and Minimum Wage Hikes

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It’s been a tough year for America’s most ubiquitous latte provider, and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson’s latest news to investors has just added to the overall sense of “disappointment” in the company. Amid continued backlash from the racial bias accusations and more progressive cities raising the minimum wage, Starbucks’ earnings have fallen below expectation. In response, Johnson has decided to shut down some 150 company-operated stores.

On Tuesday, Johnson said in a statement that due to the company’s recent “not acceptable” performance, Starbucks will further “streamline” to improve its “innovation agility” and “re-accelerate growth.”

“While certain demand headwinds are transitory, and some of our cost increases are appropriate investments for the future, our recent performance does not reflect the potential of our exceptional brand and is not acceptable,” said Johnson in a statement Tuesday. “We must move faster to address the more rapidly changing preferences and needs of our customers. Over the past year we have taken several actions to streamline the company, positioning us to increase our innovation agility as an organization and enhance focus on our core value drivers which serve as the foundation to re-accelerate growth and create long-term shareholder value.”

That unacceptable performance, the company revealed, was a disappointing 1% sales increase globally in the current quarter, about a third of the expected 2.9% growth projected by analysts.

As Bloomberg explains, some of the “streamlining” Johnson referenced will come in the form of shutting down “about 150 company-operated stores in densely penetrated U.S. markets next fiscal year, three times the number it historically shuts down annually.” (Read more from “Starbucks Gives ‘Disappointing’ News Amid ‘Racial Bias’ Backlash and Minimum Wage Hikes” HERE)

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Hillary Lectures Trump on Immigration Because She ‘Studied the Bible,’ Went to ‘Sunday School’

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Hillary Clinton harshly decried the policy of separating illegal immigrant families in a speech delivered in New York Monday.

Clinton said President Trump was attempting to “stoke fear of immigrants” in his arguments for keeping the policies in place. Clinton then went on a rampage against the religious arguments for the policies, noting that she had “studied” the Bible and attended “Sunday School.” . . .

Clinton then began rattling off her credentials as a Christian saying, “I went to a lot of years of Sunday school. I even taught it from time to time. I’ve studied the Bible, both the Old and the New testament,” Clinton said. “What is being done using the name of religion is contrary to everything I was ever taught. Jesus said, ‘Suffer the little children unto me.’ He did not say, ‘Let the children suffer.” (Read more from “Hillary Lectures Trump on Immigration Because She ‘Studied the Bible,’ Went to ‘Sunday School’” HERE)

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