Trump bashes rivals on talk show

Palm Beach (US), February 3

President Donald Trump used a Super Bowl pregame interview to rail against Democrats, accusing them of hatred and offering schoolyard insults about his potential 2020 rivals.

“I see the hatred…. They don’t care about fairness, they don’t care about lying,” Trump said in a taped interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, which aired on Fox hours before sports’ biggest night of the year.

Prompted by Hannity, Trump went through most of the major candidates one by one, deriding “Sleepy Joe” Biden, the former Vice-President, accusing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren of telling “fairy tales”, and labelling Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, as “a communist”, even though he’s not. The interview aired just days before Trump was set to deliver a State of the Union address that aides say will offer an optimistic message to a divided nation. — AP

Scorn, laughter as Tweet misfires, again

The President drew scorn and laughter on social media on Sunday after placing the Kansas City Chiefs in the wrong state following their Super Bowl victory. “You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well. Our Country is PROUD OF YOU!”. He later deleted the tweet, and replaced it with one naming the correct state. “It’s Missouri you stone cold idiot,” responded a former US senator from the state, Claire McCaskill.