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Good morning. Cloudy with a excessive close to 71, and showers probably after 5 PM. Showers will proceed in a single day, with a low round 56. The Nationals will go to the Mariners this night. You’ll be able to discover me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Sign, and there’s a hyperlink to my electronic mail deal with under.
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I can’t cease listening to:
Cilla Black, “You’re My World.” It’s Cilla Black’s birthday, so let’s take pleasure in this nice torchy ballad whereas we shake off the mud of a three-day weekend.
Right here’s some administration information you may need blocked out:
Placing the “me” in Memorial Day: President Trump wore a pink MAGA hat whereas he addressed grads at the USA Army Academy Saturday and “rambled at occasions as he took pictures at his opponents and advised tales about his well-known golf buddy Gary Participant.” (NYT) He mentioned the West Level grads “Appear like all a bunch of male fashions — I can’t stand it.” (Politico) The President discovered some room within the speech to debate the up- and drawbacks of “trophy wives.” (HuffPost) Talking at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery on Monday, Trump mentioned he was glad he didn’t have a consecutive second time period, as a result of he would have missed out on internet hosting the World Cup, the Summer season Olympics, and the navy parade deliberate to coincide along with his birthday subsequent month. (NYT) In an all-caps put up, Trump wished the nation Memorial Day, needs he prolonged to “THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS.” (USA As we speak)
Commerce winds: Trump backed off threatened tariffs in opposition to the European Union following a “very good name” with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen. (Washington Publish) EU and US representatives are working away on a deal. One EU rep known as Trump’s risk “irritating, and ignorant. Self-sabotaging, drivel.” (Politico) Japan will spend $6.3 billion to melt the consequences of tariffs, which have bruised its automotive sector. (NYT) Volvo will minimize 3,000 jobs. (The Hill)
Tense at Protection: Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s interior circle is riven by “unresolved persona conflicts, inexperience, vacancies in key management roles and a steady-state paranoia over what political disaster may emerge subsequent.” (Washington Publish) Some within the administration regard Ricky Buria, Hegseth’s performing chief of employees, warily, as a result of he served underneath the Biden administration and reportedly known as a few of Vice President JD Vance‘s views “wackamamie loopy.” (New York Publish) Trump’s hopes for a navy parade throughout his final time period dissolved after they encountered ambivalence within the Pentagon. However this time round, issues are rather a lot totally different. (NYT)
Administration perambulation: The FBI will take one other take a look at investigations into the leak of the US Supreme Court docket’s Dobbs choice and the pipe bomb discovered on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, deputy director Don Bongino mentioned. (Washington Publish) Trump mentioned he was contemplating redirecting federal grants to Harvard to commerce colleges. (WSJ) As swimming pool season arrives, the administration laid off “the workforce on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention answerable for monitoring and publicizing drownings.” (Politico) Golden Dome can’t occur with out Canada’s assist. Bonne likelihood avec ça! (Politico) Some company at Trump’s memecoin dinner discovered the meals disappointing. (Wired)
The very best factor I ate final week, by Ann Limpert:
Fish Store, the flashy new seafood restaurant on the Wharf, opened in late April. And whereas the place has Scottish roots, DC chef Ria Montes’s highlight is on the mid-Atlantic. There’s not plenty of crossover with the unique location’s menu (sorry, no haggis bonbons with plum ketchup right here), however you will see that an appetizer that’s made the journey: savory, seafood-filled crumpets. Montes’s terrific model makes use of candy, native blue crab, and the snack calls to thoughts a really buttery, very scrumptious lobster roll. (610 Water St., SW.)
Lately on Washingtonian dot com:
• We interviewed Virginia’s Linda Sinrod, who simply hung up her skates. Sinrod, whose son is Peter Baker, holds the Guinness World Report because the oldest lady to play ice hockey.
• We pulled the well being inspection experiences for Gordon Ramsay‘s DC eating places.
Native information hyperlinks:
• Trump pardoned former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail for giving rich locals badges and police powers in alternate for bribes. (Washington Publish)
• Native synagogues have elevated safety following final week’s capturing on the Capital Jewish Museum. (Washington Publish)
• DC police are investigating a break-in at Adams Morgan bar Sinners and Saints as a hate crime. (Washington Publish)
• Pentagon air visitors controllers misplaced contact for 20 seconds with an Military helicopter whose flight triggered two business jets to abort landings at Nationwide Airport. (AP)
• DC Mayor Muriel Bowser will lastly ship her price range proposal immediately. (WUSA9)
• Bowser says she’ll suggest an earlier youth curfew in response to a number of latest incidents. (Washington Publish)
• Virginia reported a second measles case. (WUSA9)
• Adrian J. Hinton of Lorton was sentenced to a yr of supervised launch after being convicted of burning a automobile with what he mentioned was napalm exterior the Capitol as Jimmy Carter lay in state. (WTOP)
• Booz Allen Hamilton says it’ll minimize employees in response to federal price range cuts. (WBJ)
• Throughout DC’s Memorial Day parade, Gene Simmons met with Harold “Hal” City, who helped liberate the focus camp the place his mom was held. (Washington Publish)
• A person was shot and killed at 14th and R streets, Northwest, in a single day. (WUSA9)
• Jose Carcamo was killed by a stray bullet from a capturing behind his house in DC. (WUSA9)
• Police say they arrested a DC man after he undressed exterior a District resort, then “threw bottles at folks and known as them hateful slurs.” (WTOP)
• A take a look at non-public golf equipment in DC throughout the second Trump period. (NYT)
• A black bear napped in a neighborhood tree. (NBC4 Washington)
Senior editor
Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was beforehand with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington Metropolis Paper. He lives in Del Ray.
