Articles about President Trump

‘Chilling, dramatic, horrific’: Fred Hutch leader warns of harm from Trump’s proposed funding cuts

Leaders and researchers at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center didn’t mince words on Tuesday when describing the potential impact of… Read More

Trump layoffs hit Pacific Northwest engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford cleanup, elsewhere

The Trump administration’s government-wide layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at agencies in Washington state including the Pacific Northwest National… Read More

Seattle global health nonprofit PATH cutting workforce after federal funding freeze

Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH announced this week that it is reducing its workforce in response to Trump administration efforts… Read More

What’s at stake for Washington’s flagship research institutions in the legal battle over NIH funding

The fight now unfolding over the Trump administration’s sudden limit on National Institutes of Health grant funding could have deep… Read More

‘Layoffs and pain’: Frozen federal funding batters clean energy and climate efforts

President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order puzzles David Funk. The order targets clean energy efforts, pausing the distribution of… Read More

Trump’s push to freeze funding leaves researchers anxious about delayed scientific breakthroughs

When Luca Foschini, head of Seattle’s Sage Bionetworks, described the impact of the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze federal grants… Read More

Costco, Amazon, Microsoft chart their own DEI paths as Trump targets diversity efforts

As President Trump issues directives to scuttle every federal government initiative that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion, tech giants and… Read More

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Former Twitter exec on Trump ban, the failure of social media, and an idea to find common ground

Twitter didn’t set out to ban Donald Trump. The president gave it no choice. That’s the assessment from Mike Davidson,… Read More

Is Microsoft tweeting shade at Trump? Probably not, but many followers feel like they’re in on a joke

At the end of what’s certainly been a rough week, logging off for the weekend is probably something lots of… Read More

Days after mob overruns U.S. Capitol, Twitter permanently suspends account of President Trump

Update, Friday, 4:10 p.m.: Twitter announced Friday that it was permanently suspending the account of President Trump, citing what it… Read More

Amazon: Trump corruption the only plausible explanation for Microsoft winning $10B cloud deal

In a newly unsealed court filing, Amazon blames an “extraordinary environment of corruption, interference, and retribution” by President Donald Trump… Read More

No, Microsoft is not ‘still involved’ in TikTok discussions, despite President Trump’s statement

Microsoft is not back in the running to acquire TikTok, a source familiar with the situation said Friday morning, refuting… Read More

Internal documents say U.S. Postal Service made $1.6B profit on Amazon deliveries in FY2019

The U.S. Postal Service generated $1.6 billion in profit from Amazon in its 2019 fiscal year, on $3.9 billion in… Read More

What Microsoft wanted from a TikTok deal, and why its bid for the hit social video app didn’t pan out

Microsoft’s bid for TikTok fell through after the tech giant insisted on acquiring full control of the social video app’s… Read More

Trump throws Amazon under the delivery truck in debate over U.S. Postal Service economics

President Donald Trump this morning again called on the U.S. Postal Service to increase the amount it charges Amazon to… Read More

Twitch suspends President Trump’s channel, citing ‘hateful conduct’ in video streams

Twitch, the streaming video service owned by Amazon, temporarily shut down an account for President Donald Trump on Monday over… Read More

Bill Gates on life after lockdown, and what it will really take to defeat ‘the first modern pandemic’

Bill Gates, who predicted this pandemic five years ago, is now turning his attention to what’s next — and the… Read More

Bill Gates calls Trump’s freeze on WHO funding ‘dangerous’ and tweet draws a viral response

Bill Gates joined the chorus of people expressing shock and disappointment in President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he would freeze… Read More

Trump’s twist on favorite acronym lumps Microsoft and Amazon into ‘MAGA’ with Google and Apple

The meaning behind President Trump’s favorite acronym was reimagined with a tech twist in the Oval Office at the White… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon protests JEDI deal; Cortana reads email; Cosmic Crisp first taste

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is formally protesting a decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to award… Read More

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Numbers Geek with Steve Ballmer: Immigration and the U.S. economy

Here’s a good way to measure the controversy surrounding any political issue: count the number of adjectives and adverbs that… Read More

A new ‘Office’ for Steve Carell: Netflix signs on for ‘Space Force,’ a comedy based on Trump plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QgJR4pAPlE Steve Carell is going from “The Office” to the “Space Force.” Netflix has signed on for a new comedy… Read More

Windows into the White House? Situation Room photo stirs debate over Microsoft operating system

Talk about a screen shot. An official photo shared by the White House on Tuesday evening captured President Donald Trump… Read More

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Numbers on the Border: The immigration stats President Trump didn’t talk about in the Oval Office

Something remarkable happened in the White House this week, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck… Read More

Trump thanks Apple’s Tim Cook for jobs expansion, but where’s the love for Jeff Bezos and HQ2?

It’s a lot to ask to expect praise from President Donald Trump on Twitter. But the president did manage to… Read More

Watch as hundreds receive President Trump’s emergency alert test during GeekWire Summit

The nation received a text from President Trump on Wednesday. It wasn’t a tweet. It was just a test. A… Read More

The president is going to message your cell phone — but it’s just a test of nation’s wireless alert system

Update, Monday 9:50 a.m. PT: This post has been updated to reflect a change in date for the planned test.… Read More

TLDR: Amazon stock hits $2K, Microsoft’s new parental leave policy, Google debunks Trump video

Today’s featured stories Amazon stock hits $2,000, and why one analyst thinks it is on the road to a $2.5… Read More

TLDR: Trump vs. Google, minority students in AP computer science, rare computer headed to auction

Today’s featured stories President Trump wakes up, Googles himself and threatens to look into search giant’s ‘rigged’ results Women and… Read More

President Trump wakes up, Googles himself and threatens to look into search giant’s ‘rigged’ results

Update, 1 p.m. PT: Trump threatened Google, Facebook, and Twitter in comments to reporters Tuesday afternoon. https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1034520964598575104 Original story: President… Read More