Cody Keenan
@codykeenan
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Teach @NorthwesternU, Work @FenwayStrat, Board @EMKInstitute, NYT Bestselling Author of GRACE: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
West Village, Manhattan
Joined December 2008
I can't stand half of you. I love beer. The clintons are conspiring against me. I *love* beer. I don't have a drinking problem, you have a drinking problem. If you don't hire me, I'll never stop trying to get my revenge. - An actual job interview that happened on live TV today.
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The other Senator scoffed in disgust and got off the elevator at the next floor. While he was still in earshot, McCain raised his voice a little and said, "Don't mind him. He's an asshole.". And that's the time I met John McCain.
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Ban transgender troops. Pardon a racist criminal. Wish "good luck" to hurricane victims. Take off early for Camp David. What a disgrace.
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When nobody invites you to give a commencement address.
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Met John McCain once. I was a 22 year old senate intern waiting for an elevator. The doors opened, and he and another GOP senator were inside. I apologized and said I'd want for the next one, but McCain told me to hop on. 1/3.
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What a remarkable moment it would be if a war hero, fighting cancer, returned to the Senate to say "this is wrong, America must be better.".
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Guess which President didn’t let a little weather stop him from honoring the troops
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A great thing about working for @BarackObama is that we never had to scrap our whole day at 9am because he threw a tantrum at cable tv.
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Fine, it was Rick Santorum.
The other Senator scoffed in disgust and got off the elevator at the next floor. While he was still in earshot, McCain raised his voice a little and said, "Don't mind him. He's an asshole.". And that's the time I met John McCain.
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The fact that he needs two hands to drink a bottle of water is what really does it for me.
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Just go ahead and make this the final flashback scene of Contagion 2 right now.
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"Who do you work for," he asked. "Ted Kennedy, sir.". "He's a good man," McCain said. "Without him, we're lost." 2/3.
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If you’re looking for a Presidential speech today about patriotism and the true meaning of America, crack a beverage and add this one to your Fourth of July playlist:
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I can confirm @BarackObama will have the most up-to-date figures for his turn tomorrow night.
Trump said Michelle Obama is the one in “over her head.” He cited the fact that she taped her speech, rather than doing it live, and “she had the wrong deaths.”. Obama said “more than 150,000” Americans have died from the coronavirus. It is now more than 170,000.
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Anniversary of bin Laden raid tomorrow. FOX graphics team:. OBAMA FIRST 100 DAYS: BIN LADEN AT LARGE.TRUMP FIRST 100 DAYS: BIN LADEN DEAD.
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This is just like the time @BarackObama got so mad about people calling him a double-secret Kenyan terrorist that he went and ate a whole bag of almonds and read another book on Niebuhr.
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Somewhere in the White House, the briefing book we prepared after successfully stopping the spread of Ebola is being used to prop up a wobbly table.
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One of you killed a butterfly and now we're all trapped in the dumbest timeline imaginable.
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Surprise! Her husband owns a coal company.
The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says when it comes to climate change she believes in "both sides of the science"
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This was one of the few times I apologized to @BarackObama for a draft. I had nothing left. And even though he didn’t have to be, he was so cool about it. Then he dunked on me by crossing out two pages, rewriting them by hand, and hitting E-Flat.
In the afternoon of June 26, 2015, @BarackObama traveled to Charleston to eulogize Reverend Pinckney after a racist shooting at Mother Emanuel AME church. President Obama began to speak of grace. Then he sang. Go behind the scenes of this moment in part two of our series.
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Obama during the oil spill: "I ultimately take responsibility for solving this crisis. I’m the President and the buck stops with me.".
Trump in 2016: “I alone can fix it.”. Trump just now: “I don't take responsibility at all".
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Our President is having a cynical morning. So here's a story of the 10 most hopeful days I ever saw in politics, capped off 2 yrs ago today.
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In his first four weeks, @BarackObama and a Democratic Congress cut taxes for 160 million workers and expanded health care to 4 million kids
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Our WH Counsel told us we couldn't use our titles to get restaurant reservations. These grifters use the White House like a piggy bank.
The Kushners only got caught selling their access to the WH bc reporters were there. How many pitch meetings have there been w/o reporters?.
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She kept us waiting a few extra days, but Grace Carly Keenan is here! Gracie arrived on 11/11 and seems pretty happy to be here so far.
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Father of a kid with a preexisting condition is all the lane he needs.
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You wouldn't hire somebody who talks and acts and thinks this way to man your cash register. And Republicans want to ram him through to determine who has rights and who doesn't, who has power and who doesn't, for the next 40 years.
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Man, if you have to keep begging this hard for us to notice you’re doing stuff, you’re not doing stuff. (You’re welcome for the economy.)
. 2nd Amendment, Strong Military, ISIS, historic VA improvement, Supreme Court Justice, Record Stock Market, lowest unemployment in 17 yrs!.
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This is why you shouldn't listen to anyone who says "wait a day" to talk about gun violence.
Today is the 275th day of 2017. We've had 273 mass shootings so far. WE MUST .ADDRESS.GUN VIOLENCE IN .AMERICA.
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For crying out loud, other countries have been testing their citizens for weeks without having to put on a pageant for CEOs whose stocks need juicing.
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I am so ready for women to fully run government, business, health care, diplomacy, science, space, tech, Hollywood, Wall Street, higher ed, journalism, all of it. Men had our chance.
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Probably not as awful as being separated from your child though.
People close to her say one reason - perhaps not only one - is that she was aware how awful life would/will be for her on the outside after defending his policies for a long tome.
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✅ More than 1 million jobs in every six-month stretch going back to 2012.✅ Unemployment falling since 2010.✅ Wages rising (too slowly) since 2014.✅ Tax cuts have gone to record corporate stock buybacks .✅ Have you heard about the baby jails on the border yet?
It’s been 6 months since the House passed #TaxReform and since then:.✅ 1 million jobs created.✅ Unemployment dropped to 3.8%.✅ 48 states are seeing lower utility rates.✅ workers are seeing higher wages and bigger paychecks
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Meanwhile, Trump sits in his hotel room, absolutely furious that aides keep bringing him Royales with Cheese when all he wants is a Quarter Pounder.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel unveil commemorative plaque at the spot where the Armistice ending World War One was signed 100 years ago #armistice100.
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Dying lady: Republicans are trying to take my health care away again. Democrats: Elect us and we won’t do that. Journalists: ho, hmm, but how does it play. Trump: let’s beat the shit out of all reporters. Journalists: WHOA WHERE IS THE DEMOCRATIC MESSAGE ON THIS.
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I mean, if they read the “how to do your job” memos and briefing books we actually left, they’d at least know how to write a coherent speech, vet their appointees, and maybe fewer of them would be indicted or heading to jail.
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Congratulations to President Trump for “opening” a “plant” that @BarackObama announced in his 2013 State of the Union Address
Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America. Today Nancy Pelosi closed Congress because she doesn’t care about American Workers!.
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Call me when your policies get unemployment from 10 to 4.8% and create nearly 16 million jobs over record 75-month streak (jk don't call me)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump's administration has been "more successful in these first 9 months than Obama was in 8 years."
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Who wants to bet they don't know this was funded by the Recovery Act.
As @IvankaTrump toured the state-of-the art facilities at @SiemensUSA, she saw firsthand how they're developing the talent of the "next generation of unbelievable American machinists."
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Some people enter the White House on third base and think they hit a triple
Things are going really well for our economy, a subject the Fake News spends as little time as possible discussing! Stock Market hit another RECORD HIGH, unemployment is now at a 17 year low and companies are coming back into the USA. Really good news, and much more to come!.
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Simpler times, when this was classified as a press conference disaster
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Go buy a ton of posterboard and markers and make signs for their campaign to unseat a NRA toady
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The days ahead will be harder. If you marched, hold on to the way you feel today. Write it down. Stay in touch with people. Organize. Act.
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Just an incredible second term agenda. Slap it on a bumper sticker, let’s go
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Congrats, you’re the first American Commander-in-Chief to surrender to the British.
Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!.
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Five years ago today, the federal government was shut down precisely because Ted Cruz wanted to eliminate the ACA - the law that, for the first time, guaranteed protections for preexisting conditions.
Cruz, who lead the charge to repeal Obamacare, says in his closing argument he wants to save protections for pre existing conditions.
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There are probably a few dozen of them at the Grand Hyatt breakfast buffet two blocks away from your offices.
The FBI is seeking to identify individuals instigating violence in Washington, D.C. We are accepting tips and digital media depicting rioting or violence in and around the U.S. Capitol on January 6. If you have information, visit
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Throwback to @USWNT at the White House, also the only time a POTUS has used the word “badass” in a speech
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Hard to believe this guy bankrupted an airline.
Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better. Split second decisions are. .
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Another big week for @POTUS.✔️Veto-proof Russia sanctions bill.✔️Smacked down by DOD on trans policy.✔️New staff settling in 😉.✔️Obamacare🤘🏼
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“We don’t accept Biden as President, and as President, he has to come closer to Republican positions” wins the gold medal in bullshit gymnastics.
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Oh now you're all ok with being at a bar at 9am. Welcome, bandwagoners.
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If you want to know where that disaster of a press conference came from, this is what the President watches all day.
A white supremacist killed a girl in Charlottesville. Fox topics today have included:.- Obama and BLM.- Wright.- Sharia Law.- Farrakhan(!)
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The guy does have a knack for inheriting things.
IMPORTANT: President Trump currently presides over the longest running bull market in modern financial history, and the longest streak of job growth ever.
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Have been in two European cities today. News is all Paris. Vibe is mournful. Feels like U.S. giving up 75 years of global leadership.
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This is a heck of a speech by @RepJoeKennedy
'The America I know would never turn it's back on a friend or a stranger in need. Trumpcare does.'
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Over the past 7 years, the economy has added 17 million jobs, unemployment has fallen from 10 to 4.1%, stock market has doubled, and median income reached new highs. But somehow if we don't ram through massive tax cuts for gazillionaires by next week, it all falls apart.
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Hey @marcorubio where’s your Bible verse for this, you pathetic coward?.
BREAKING a 7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody died of dehydration, exhaustion last week in El Paso, CBP confirms. With @BobMooreNews
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Pretty sure guns are the leading cause of death at a mass shooting. If the GOP wasn’t in the pocket of the gun lobby, maybe we wouldn’t have to teach kids to be trauma surgeons.
Bleeding is the leading cause of death at a mass shooting, but one-third of victims can survive if treated within five minutes. The Stop the Bleed program is teaching students how to do it. NBC News' @DrJohnTorres reports.
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He knew.
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I go to more college football games every year than you do in a decade, and I loathe you, your colleagues, and your propaganda network for botching the virus and making football season (and all other things America used to enjoy) impossible.
Even before #COVID19 many of those pushing to cancel #CollegeFootball have spent years trying to kill youth & high school football as a way to end the game. They have no interest in getting to yes. Or in an honest cost-benefit analysis of playing versus not playing.
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Personal news dump: After spending one-third of my life working for @barackobama, who is as good a boss, a mentor, and a friend as you’d hope he is, I’m making the jump to join the unparalleled team of writers @FenwayStrat and to write a book of my own:
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Holy shit it’s so great not to be appalled as soon as a president finishes speaking!.
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It’s like Peter said in Three Men and a Baby: “It doesn’t matter what you read; it’s the tone you use.” . (Gracie gives it “ten fingers up”)
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I actually left an iPhone charger if anybody’s seen it, but no, nobody left unimaginative notes written at a sixth-grade level.
WH Press Sec Stephanie Grisham claims Obama aides left 'you will fail" notes in offices for Trump aides: “We came into the WH, I’ll tell you something. Every office was filled with Obama books and we had notes left behind that said ‘you will fail,’ ‘you aren’t going to make it,’”.
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Wiley!!!. Former Obama staffer beats Trump-endorsed MAGA candidate.
BREAKING: Democrat Wiley Nickel wins U.S. House seat in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District, NBC News projects.
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Huh. I wonder if she had the exact same handwriting as Donald Trump.
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The Rupert Murdoch equivalent of Chris Harrison’s “take a moment; say your goodbyes”.
Downcast Trump makes baseless election fraud claims in White House address
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Two years ago today, rather than tweet lies at his TV all morning, @BarackObama joined his predecessor in Selma to celebrate our history
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This is a master class.
Congressional candidate Abigail Spanberger had a brilliant comeback to her GOP opponent constantly calling her Nancy Pelosi
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If you called your senators (thanks!) and they voted the right way, call back and say thank you. I used to answer phones there. it matters.
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Presidential re-election messages:. Clinton ‘96: Economy’s Good!.Bush ‘04: You Don’t Want to Die, Do You?.Obama ‘12: Forward. (Give Me More Time).Trump 2020: Well, it’s This or Prison.
Prosecutors have examined the statute of limitations on the campaign finance violations and believe charges could be brought against Trump if he is not re-elected. @npfandos @maggieNYT @nytmike
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Make the first four seconds your ringtone and listen to the rest
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When @BarackObama visited Ireland, he didn’t have a money-losing golf course to prop up with taxpayer dollars, but he did have 25,000 friends he could spend the day with
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And then, in maybe my favorite tweet of all time, @questlove said 44 hit "the blackest blues note ever."
Dog, POTUS just went to E Flat like he was collabing w Stevie & Jam/Lewis (for those unaware E flat is THE blackest blues note ever).
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When Trump distances himself tomorrow, here are the receipts.
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And here's the thing: that was only two years ago. The levers of power may have changed, but America is still big, generous, and optimistic.
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Me when somebody wants something in Google Docs.
Sen. Tom Carper at Postal hearing, having trouble getting online: "Fuck, Fuck, Fuck."
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Hey has anybody else noticed that “the most powerful man in the world” is completely pants-wetting terrified of every powerful woman he meets?.
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An American president just asked "can you believe we fight for other countries?" What an insult to generations of veterans.
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Normally it would be humiliating if everybody replied to you at once with ". that's it?" But something tells me Devin Nunes is used to that.
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I'll always remember how that week felt. To see so many people engaged in the hard work of citizenship right now reminds me of it every day.
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