(Via TVLine) […]  ABC’s presentation of the 89th annual Academy Awards delivered 32.9 million total viewers and a 9.1 demo rating, down 4 and 13 percent from last year’s Chris Rock-hosted outing, which recorded eight-year lows.

You’d have to go back to 2008’s Jon Stewart-hosted Oscars, where No Country for Old Men won best Picture, to find a smaller audience (32 million).  (read more)

Each of the non-citizen voters have committed a criminal felony.  DHS is deporting illegal alien felons as a top priority.  Any illegal alien who voted will now be subject to arrest and deportation….

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced an investigation has uncovered that hundreds of non-US citizens are registered to vote in the state, and dozens of them voted illegally.
According to a release from Husted, 385 people who are not citizens of the United States are registered to vote in Ohio. Out of those, 82 voted in at least one election in the last year.  (read more)

Get ready folks, we are going to hear more parseltongue and fake news catch phrases in the next several weeks and months surrounding the federal budget, it already began today.
As we have discussed numerous times, President Trump is going to propose a $10 trillion spending cut over ten years – or $1 trillion per year.  This is entirely reasonable considering the scale and scope of government.

Baseline for understanding – The entire U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is roughly $20 trillion.  The total of all current income taxes is roughly $4 trillion, or 1/5th of GDP.
President Trump’s economic plan is predicting an earnest rate of economic growth of 4%.  We feel this is the minimal achievable in FY 2018, but all projections say at least 4% GDP growth is anticipated.  Four percent of growth equals an additional $1 trillion added to GDP.  The tax revenue from the GDP growth is $200 billion/per year (1/5th of $1 trillion). Or $2 trillion over the 10-year projection.
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Press Secretary Sean Spicer delivers the White House Press Briefing for Monday February 27th, 2017.  The briefing begins with an outline presentation by Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office and Management Budget (OMB), giving a high level review of an upcoming President Trump budget.
President Trump also announced today that a congressional ObamaCare repeal and replacement bill, MUST come before any tax reform plan is presented. Mulvaney outlined an anticipated massive cut to all non-military discretionary budgets around 10 to 12% per department. (more on that later)

Today President Donald Trump met with healthcare executives in advance of a repeal and replacement process ongoing for ObamaCare.  It is anticipated that President Trump will outline some of the healthcare measures in his upcoming speech tomorrow night to a joint session of congress.

Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry is in the U.S. for high level meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ahead of an upcoming March visit between President Donald Trump and President Fattah al-Sisi.
Readers who are following the assembly of the Freedom Alliance will immediately notice the intention of the Shoukry meeting with T-Rex.  Or, if you just like to understand history before it takes place and hits the headlines, pay attention to these subtle events.

This morning, Secretary Tillerson welcomed #Egypt‘s Foreign Minister Shoukry to @StateDept. pic.twitter.com/rqaVYmLhtv

— Department of State (@StateDept) February 27, 2017

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(Egypt Daily News) […] The officials will also discuss ways to enhance their relations in all fields, including political and economic, along with issues of mutual interest, including the crises in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.
Moreover, they will also review the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and the regional and international efforts for the resumption of negotiations. (more)

For the most part Matt Lauer was relentlessly trying to bait President George W. Bush into criticism of President Trump.   For the most part Lauer failed.
However, it would be intellectually dishonest not to notice that Dubya stayed quiet when faced with an administration he agrees with (Obama), and pokes his head up when there’s an administration he disagrees with (Trump).   UniParty Rules.

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

President Trump Twitter @POTUS / Vice President Pence Twitter @VP

Sean Spicer Twitter @PressSec

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
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Senator Tom Cotton was recruited by Deep State as leverage against The Big Club. However, that reality accepted, there are times when the Deep State operatives can be useful against Swamp Media.