I don&apost like the idea that you&aposre trivializing marriage, you&aposre trivializing love.
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He's trivializing it — fetishizing it, we might even say.
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But in season one it felt like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was trivializing Native American heritage, and in season two it feels like the show is trivializing yellowface — just to make a point.
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Guy Maddin: We didn't want to do a trivializing travelogue.
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"Addicts are notorious for lying, deflecting and trivializing," Greenberg added.
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Critics accused the president of trivializing the 19th century genocide.
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The line between illuminating and trivializing is particularly thin here.
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Germany's justice minister accused Trump of trivializing anti-Semitism and racism.
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Trivializing the Holocaust and normalizing Holocaust denial have become distressingly common.
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The film was criticized by some for trivializing the royal family.
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" These two modes amount to a "reduction and trivializing of the city.
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Or is trivializing the Holocaust a way to deal with the trauma?
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You are trivializing major issues by giving them a veneer of glamour!
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Listeners soon took to Twitter to accuse the actress of trivializing the procedure.
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In 2012, he was criticized for making rape jokes and trivializing sexual assault.
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The effect of placing too much value on data risks trivializing women's personal experiences.
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The movie also prompted criticism, including those who accused Benigni of trivializing the Holocaust.
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Yet couching these achievements in a testament to Joseph Pulitzer's enduring genius seems trivializing.
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And so her inclusion makes a certain sense — a heartfelt but ultimately trivializing kind.
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Others criticized him for trivializing the problems of teenage girls — problems that he's never had.
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Lars Klingbeil, general secretary of the Social Democrats (SPD), criticized Gauland for trivializing the Nazis.
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Ignoring or trivializing the public's distrust of the system is a mistake institutionalists should avoid.
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That it mostly manages to pull off the latter without trivializing the former is admirable.
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But it also gained non-partisan support by trivializing how much brands engage with politics.
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Duterte has remained defiant, accusing critics of "trivializing" his drug campaign with human rights concerns.
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Now he has offended Holocaust survivors and their families by trivializing the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
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That's an idea that renders sexualized violence and theft harmless by trivializing and exorcizing both notions.
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Decades of representation that's either trivializing or nonexistent have made many groups protective of their image.
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I can sympathize with those points of view, with people who think it's trivializing or disrespecting.
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The most obvious is instinctive: Why walk into a fictional, trivializing version of one's own distress?
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"You're trivializing impeachment," Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez.
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" Ms. Greer, anticipating criticism, said, "I can hear the feminists screaming at me, 'You're trivializing rape!
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Many accused Daum, who is not Chinese, of disrespecting Chinese culture and trivializing it with her wardrobe.
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It was yet another instance of trivializing women when we want to be considered with more subtlety.
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However worthy or political its intent, "Al Di Qua" is too overwrought to seem anything but trivializing.
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He isn't trying to shock us, because he knows that such a gesture is tiresome and trivializing.
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Her post ignited a fiery discussion, with some arguing that the promproposal was trivializing a serious issue.
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May's careful cultivation of image as trivializing or gender-biased is to miss how strategic she is.
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Many critics see them as glorifying pushing beyond your body's limits, while trivializing the consequences of doing so.
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"There is a very long history of trivializing the harms that are done to women specifically," she said.
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He&aposs now ripping Pelosi for, quote, "trivializing" impeachment and says the process is tailor-made for Trump.
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As Tuesday's election results rolled in, some seemed to still be trivializing the very point of the primary.
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When we turn the trivial consequence of a crisis into huge news, it risks trivializing the crisis itself.
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Hagel has been critical of President Donald Trump, calling him "an embarrassment" and accusing him of trivializing Congress.
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Bergman worked with real-life Baltic refugees on this movie and felt he was trivializing their actual experience.
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"Trivializing Nightmares Since 1993" is what I put on my notepaper which is probably quite accurate as well.
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"I can hear feminists screaming 'you're trivializing rape,' but we shouldn't live in terror of the penis," she said.
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I, as an editor with more than 40 years' experience, take umbrage at the trivializing of my professional work.
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If you want to scare people, please refrain from trivializing baby jails and dress up as climate change instead.
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Trivializing it also means that those people are taken less seriously when they ask people to avoid their triggers.
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But playing it, I'm struck by another aspect of the Civilization VI experience: It keeps trivializing what you're doing.
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Since 2010 Lithuania has criminalized "denial or gross trivializing" of either Soviet or Nazi genocide or crimes against humanity.
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Far from trivializing the Mueller report, this shift in focus would underscore the significance of its most troubling revelations.
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Healthy conflict directly and constructively addresses the issue at hand without ignoring or trivializing the needs of either party.
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For one thing, her constant bullying of other women, and trivializing of sexual assault feel as dated as her flatforms.
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It can feel trivializing: How dare we compare the real-life issues facing real, live people to works of fiction?
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Here the work of art is stripped bare of its 'art' by people trivializing it as a mere science sensation.
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Many actual members of the LGBTQ+ community thought that the straight actor was trivializing what it means to be gay.
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That means the G.O.P. will continue asking Americans to vote for a candidate who is debasing and trivializing our politics.
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D. parliamentarian, Beatrix von Storch, accused Germany's United Nations ambassador of "relativizing" and "trivializing" the threat Israel faces from Hamas.
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The Trump administration finally appears to be taking this crisis seriously, after months of Trump himself trivializing and politicizing it.
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Using mental illnesses like descriptive adjectives and not serious disorders is trivializing, and contributes to the stigmatization of those afflicted.
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Do you think that making jokes and laughing about something as big and meaty as feminism ends up trivializing it?
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I am, of course, concerned that people could do exactly that and feel like I am trivializing these very serious events.
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In a way, blowing it up to this outsized level is a way of both owning your attractions and trivializing them.
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Clinton has her own woes: faith leaders are unhappy that hacked e-mails seem to show her campaign trivializing religion. 23.
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You are trivializing these very real world implications by suggesting that a game matters in the grand political scope of things.
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Kendall's Pepsi ad drew criticism (and a whole lot of memes) for trivializing the Black Lives Matter protests around the country.
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There's part of me that just wants to be furious at Trump for trivializing the memory of Nazi Germany like this.
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When Colbert's jokes make obvious points (about nepotism, say), they feel weightless, but bolder ones (about Putin murdering journalists) feel trivializing.
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Conservatives have said Omar, who is Muslim American, was trivializing the 9/11 attacks in using those words earlier this year.
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This sounds like trivializing Judaism, the faith of my ancestors, a culture that has sustained my people for thousands of years.
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But how do you take a topic like sexual violence and make it funny enough to late night comedy without trivializing it?
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But their reports sometimes take a juvenile tone, seemingly trivializing the adult industry and the security challenges toy makers and consumers face.
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Trump in a meeting with the president of Paraguay Friday called the impeachment a sham and accused Democrats of trivializing the process.
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The car company got flak for trivializing suicide and showed the perils of brands trying to use social issues in their marketing.
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We wanted to make sure that the Clash and their representatives did not think we were trivializing the use of their song.
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" Avengers: Infinity War" introduced us to a darker side of Thor — but "Endgame" undid that work by trivializing his tragic story line.
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With this in mind, why on earth are we nurturing and normalizing this violence and repression, or at the very least trivializing it?
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Perel has been accused of trivializing the scourge of infidelity and of promoting ideas that are fundamentally hostile to the institution of marriage.
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While I believe the artist meant well, I found the toy train trivializing in a way that even his intentions could not overcome.
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When companies try to co-opt a cultural holiday for material gain, they risk subverting or even trivializing the tradition behind the event.
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President Donald Trump accused House Democrats of "trivializing" impeachment at a Friday Oval Office sit-down with Paraguay&aposs President Mario Abdo Benitez.
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Bee used examples of police officers trivializing rape, as well as former government officials, like James Comey, the former FBI director, and President Trump.
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"The sentence of six years is shockingly lenient to the point where it has the effect of trivializing this serious offense," the court said.
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"The sentence of six years' imprisonment is shockingly lenient to a point where it has the effect of trivializing this serious offense," he added.
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I'd argue that even if it were trivializing, it wouldn't be any worse than simply foregoing the practice entirely and dooming it to die.
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Some of Omar's opponents have latched onto the phrasing "some people did something" as evidence that the freshman congresswoman is trivializing the terrorist attack.
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To that same point, sometimes relying on social media posts to share your feelings during a tragedy seems insignificant, or like it's trivializing the situation.
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Ramirez Jonas's nimble curation explores the overlaps between the loss of art historical objects and the loss of human life, without collapsing or trivializing them.
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With Pepsi trivializing the issue, the public was left to unite against the ad and talk about what was really going on at the protests.
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Am I trivializing the things that are happening in the real world by treating them in this allegorical fashion in a world that doesn't exist?
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Her aim — to be "more popular without trivializing" — was radical at the time; today, it seems in tune with the constant calls for cultural inclusion.
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There shouldn't be any trivializing over how upsetting it is to think about blinking, or swallowing, or a mole, even if those things seem banal.
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Some found the posts distasteful, trivializing what had already become a deadly conflict, while others saw them as a way to laugh off their fear.
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But Trump is an expert at trivializing and belittling opponents, to detract from the gravity of their arguments and to feed the conservative media machine.
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Online, some Israelis have accused the Kochavis of trivializing and cheapening the Holocaust, calling the Instagram version an insult to the intelligence of today's young people.
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"Diagnosing Kanye West with mental health issues due to his recent tweets is trivializing mental health and people who actually suffer from such," one person tweeted.
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Through her own research, Grant has come across people trivializing the use of music in torture situations and refusing to accept it as a serious issue.
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It described Mr. Salmond's legal defense as "trivializing behaviors that would amount to sexual assault," and said the acquittal could set back the fight against sexual violence.
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"Congratulations to Cadbury for solving racism," replied New York Times restaurant critic Tejal Rao -- one of several commentators to criticize the brand for seemingly trivializing racial divisions.
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Go deeper ... Trump on House vote: "You're trivializing impeachment" House Judiciary Committee approves articles of impeachment against Trump Lindsey Graham wants to "deep-six" Trump's impeachment trial
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Trivializing this rupture in Thor's psyche, this dramatic departure from his sense of self, did a disservice to a beloved character who was at his most vulnerable.
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The brand was recently criticized by some body positive activists for trivializing and capitalizing the movement by their body wash bottles reflect different body sizes for a campaign.
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JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A popular Singapore retailer came under fire on Thursday for "trivializing" International Women's Day by cooking up a promotion offering cut-price frying pans.
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Pepsi announced Wednesday it's nixing an ad featuring Kendall Jenner that's been slammed by pretty much everyone on the internet for trivializing protest movements, New York magazine reports.
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House Democrats: The Hill — The House Democratic lawmaker leading the impeachment charge against Trump criticized House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday for "trivializing" the effort.
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He made national headlines for endorsing a Toronto mayoral candidate with neo-Nazi ties and for meeting with a far-right Austrian party accused of trivializing the Holocaust.
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In so doing, Vautier's hubristic verve has been increasingly trivializing (one might even say erasing) the once important concept of high art as a cognitive artifact of tasteful discrimination.
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Duterte said critics were wrongly blaming police for most of the deaths and "trivializing" his campaign by talking about the need for due process and to protect human rights.
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Recently, France and Italy marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by hosting the President of Iran, a country that holds a cartoon competition featuring works trivializing or denying the Holocaust.
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Minimally, by questioning NATO, trivializing our allies and longstanding treaties, creating policies in opposition to his own party, hiring people to run major agencies they want to dismantle, etc.
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What I learned helped me see the ways in which Green Book doesn't go nearly far enough in confronting its subject, and winds up trivializing serious matters as a result.
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But he did take the time to put words in his victims' mouths, trivializing the predatory nature of his acts by attributing the issue to their "admiration" of him. Wow.
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We use trivializing terms like "puppy love" or "boy crazy" for younger adolescents, and it's arguable we have no everyday language at all for the romantic thoughts of small children.
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DeWine said the companies helped unleash the crisis by spending millions of dollars marketing and promoting such drugs as OxyContin and Percocet, overstating their benefits and trivializing their potential addictive qualities.
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" The appellate court disagreed in its decision this week, reportedly finding that the first sentence "is shockingly lenient, to a point where it has the effect of trivializing this serious [offense].
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A slightly more pointed critique of the Tokyo 41 campaign is that it was trivializing the real harassment tactics that people, particularly vulnerable people, encounter in the games and indie communities.
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"You&aposre trivializing impeachment, and I tell you what, someday there will be a Democrat president and a Republican House, and I suspect they&aposre going to remember it," Trump said.
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The lawsuits were announced six days after a North Dakota judge dismissed that state's lawsuit accusing Purdue Pharma of overstating the benefits and trivializing the addiction risks of prolonged opioid use.
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That is one way of looking at it; though the reference to hat pins is clearly trivializing, the notion that the opinions were a "price" rather than a gift is somewhat revealing.
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Language is never the be all and end all, but not trivializing harassment that happens on the internet as "trolling" (or, say, "cyberbullying") helps people who are targeted feel heard and believed.
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"It's especially grave — and I personally find it just sad — that Nazi comparisons really only lead to one thing: trivializing the incomparable crimes against humanity carried out under National Socialism," she said.
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But by trivializing your problem, which he does by calling your sister a joke, he misses the true supportive nature of the spousal enterprise: taking on our partner's problems as our own.
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At the same time, you should do your romantic partner(s) a favor by giving them some sort of answer instead of cutting them off, or trivializing the bond you two had.
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He had shown, prior to the allegation, that he was aware of the harassment women face and was capable of addressing it, in an amusing and non-trivializing way, in his work.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday promised an unrelenting war on drugs, defying critics who were "trivializing" his campaign with human rights concerns and unjustly blaming the authorities for the bloodshed.
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He personally had questions about issues of authorship, whether Walker is trivializing his subjects's experiences or undermining their power, and whether he is being constructive or destructive in how he incorporates his imagery.
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Of course it upset some people too, who said that Paisano's was trivializing the Black Lives Matter movement, which has protested the police killings of black men in the past couple of years.
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Duterte, who says he must be tough to protect the people from the scourge of drugs, has criticized rights groups saying they were "trivializing" his campaign and unjustly blaming the authorities for bloodshed.
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"The sentence of six years' imprisonment is shockingly lenient, to a point where it has the effect of trivializing this serious offence," said Judge Willie Seriti, who read out the unanimous court decision.
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Arendt, herself a Jew who had fled Germany as the Nazis rose to power, found herself being attacked for trivializing the horrors of genocide and humanizing the evil men who committed these crimes.
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But the virus has taken away all the media opportunities and eliminated the rallies, trivializing Sanders and allowing Biden to begin running fully against Trump without having to cut a deal with Sanders.
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Secretary, do you want to take the opportunity -- it's a yes or no question -- do you want to take the opportunity here today to apologize to those service members for trivializing their injuries?
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His support plummeted late in the race after he endorsed a Toronto mayoral candidate with neo-Nazi ties and met with members of a far-right Austrian party accused of trivializing the Holocaust.
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They all sing with operatic grandeur and lyrical finesse — especially the soloists Jill Paice, Tiffany Mann, Justin Keyes and Luke Grooms — without ever for a second condescending to or trivializing the people they play.
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Go deeper: House Judiciary Committee approves articles of impeachment against Trump Trump on House vote: "You're trivializing impeachment" Read the impeachment report from House Intel's Democrats Read the impeachment report from House Intel's Republicans
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Speaking to reporters at the White House after the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against him, Trump decried the process as a "sham" and said Democrats were trivializing impeachment.
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That may explain why there are so many accounts today of people using Pukie and Rhabdo as badges of honor or trivializing humor, and why people on Twitter speak about the clowns in such varied tones.
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" In fact, the designer is shocked all of the controversy and tells Refinery29, "From the orders we're getting it seems that there are women who want this as well and don't think I'm trivializing the issue.
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It is confusing and flattening in ways that make it hard to talk about sexual violence without either trivializing it, obfuscating the systems that enable it, or getting so specific as to become salacious or triggering.
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Yet fulfilling the expectations associated with that naughty, over-the-top streak simply doesn't mesh with the more ambitious ideas that "Cult" appears determined to raise, and indeed despite this installment's serious intentions risks trivializing them.
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The effort made by people like Misst could be seen as trivializing strangers' deaths, especially in cold cases where there are no solid suspects and families are still unaware of what happened to their loved ones.
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But online is the key difference: It makes all these disruptive outcomes -- ease of entry, lower-cost business models, simpler customer aggregation and market-making, unbundling, undermining of authority and trivializing of distance -- dramatically more feasible.
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Abraham's ostensibly endearing cantankerousness — he has a habit of haggling over prices, a would-be quirky character detail that feeds into a nasty stereotype — becomes increasingly trivializing as we learn more about the horrors he witnessed.
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The Anti-Defamation League and the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect both condemned Mr. Trump for what they characterized as trivializing one of the singular horrors of the 20th century to score a political point.
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Involving yet trivializing, the movie unfolds as a would-be "Breaking Bad" of the prison genre, following an inadvertent criminal who is hardened by a gangland behind bars and eventually becomes one of its cleverest members.
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Christina Gagnier, privacy law expert and board member of the anti-harassment organization Without My Consent, worries that even with consensual porn that's being presented as non-consensual, there's a possibility of trivializing actual non-consensual porn.
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" And despite previously criticizing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for "trivializing" his efforts, Green said he respected Democratic leadership's decision not to get involved in his calls for impeachment, calling it a "vote of conscience.
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President Donald Trump accused House Democrats of "trivializing" impeachment at a Friday Oval Office sit-down with Paraguay&aposs President Mario Abdo Benitez and warned that it would encourage a future Republican Congress to impeach a Democrat.
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However, this action hurts [OTHER COMMUNITY/SOCIAL GROUP THAT THE WRITER IS MOSTLY UNFAMILIAR WITH] by trivializing and marginalizing [JUST GO TO TUMBLR AND START CLICKING AROUND UNTIL YOU FIND A GOOD THING TO COPY/PASTE IN HERE].
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Commentators also denounced the ad for trivializing the realities of anti-Black police violence, as one scene in the ad seems to echo a now-iconic photo of a Black Lives Matter activist confronting police in Baton Rouge.
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In raising would-be solutions to the mystery, "The Valley" saves its most trivializing red herring — the one that sends Neal to a gun shop, where he rails against a mandatory waiting period — for its final half-hour.
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In a now-deleted tweet, McGowan attempted to shame the late night host James Corden for trivializing Weinstein's decades of abuse, but ended up erasing black women and co-opting a historically fraught word to illustrate an (inaccurate) point.
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So instead of letting #ThatMexicanThing stand as trivializing a serious offense, or allowing it to remain as the negative from which it originated, people appropriated it to provide an accurate story of us as immigrants, as Latinos, and as Americans.
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In a study last spring on behalf of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Schoen Survey Research found that trivializing or minimizing the uniqueness of the Holocaust materially impedes the public efforts to resist intolerance and anti-Semitism.
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This mass mobilization against sexual abuse, through an unprecedented wave of speaking out in conventional and social media, is eroding the two biggest barriers to ending sexual harassment in law and in life: the disbelief and trivializing dehumanization of its victims.
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"In a relationship, a partner questioning your memory of events, trivializing your thoughts or feelings, and turning things around to blame you can be part of pattern of gaslighting and emotional abuse," the group said in a news release last month.
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In his Suburban, I presented Ryan with a possible real-world consequence of something he was trivializing: Even if Trump were "just trolling you guys," what about the people who take the president's words seriously and who look to him for guidance?
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In 1993 the magazine announced a contest to come up with another name for the beginning of the universe: The phrase "Big Bang" was "misleading, trivializing and inappropriately bellicose," wrote Timothy Ferris, who proposed the contest and served as one of its judges.
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Although there are many things that lead to the stigmatization of mental illness, and many reasons for treatment barriers, the trivializing of these conditions through jokes and minimization of the severity of the conditions is contributing to the exacerbation of the problem.
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If its makers commit to research and resist trivializing World War II, as triple-A studios have trivialized shooting and killing in war scenarios generally, Call of Duty: WWII may reintroduce to first-person shooters something more substantial than base, blasé entertainment value.
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Need we remind you of the #caramelapplesmatter slogan used to sell candies, the "Black Olives Matter" sign used by an Italian restaurant to sell tapenade, and most recently and most agonizingly, Kendall Jenner's ad "trivializing" Black Lives Matter in an attempt to sell soda?
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Nicki Minaj needs to take a seat and get educated on what Rosa Parks went through -- then she'd think twice before dropping lyrics trivializing it ... that's how folks at the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development feel anyway, along with Rosa's nephew.
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Donald Trump has shown that he is indifferent to American values such as rule of law, he openly provides support for hate groups that should be unequivocally condemned, and he is actively involved in covering up and trivializing Russian meddling in the last election.
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The trivializing of women's stories also plays into one of the persistent oddities surrounding "Cat Person"; namely, the frequency with which readers have called it an "article" or an "essay" or generally treated it as a piece of nonfiction rather than as a short story.
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Whatever the good intentions of its ad using a Martin Luther King Jr. speech -- an image-enhancing exercise, tied to its "Built to serve" campaign -- the net effect raised the specter of trivializing the civil-rights icon's legacy in order to help sell trucks.
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But when he uses Wounded Knee or the Trail of Tears in his attacks, he's grossly trivializing this nation's history of genocidal violence against Native Americans, as if there aren't still millions of indigenous people living in the United States facing continued discrimination and disadvantage.
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Today, we will speak about white people attempting to cover both and clumsily (or perhaps, who knows, intentionally) trivializing the distinct blackness of each, through cringe-inducing vocalizations of Bey's "I like my Negro nose and Jackson 5 nostrils" and poor mimicry of Riri's casual patois.
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An exhibition at the Raleigh Tavern, "Revealing the Priceless," includes a video, shown to the public for the first time, of the controversy that unfolded in 1994 when Colonial Williamsburg reenacted a slave auction, drawing criticism from groups like the N.A.A.C.P. for what some regarded as trivializing.
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While the aim of the New Cities effort was almost certainly to inspire, the project's announcement earlier this summer was met with criticism from many who poked fun at the initiative for trivializing the work of urban planners, whose job is to manage land use and plan next generation infrastructure.
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So when a writer I respect replied to my tweet about all of us having own Weinstein incident by saying that she had not and that she feared that those of us now speaking out risked trivializing the experiences of the real victims, I gave deep consideration to her viewpoint.
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It's one of the points of the job, after all: to hold a mirror up to the moment and reflect it in a material way — although when it does, there's always a host of offended parties accusing fashion of trivializing the serious and demanding that it get back into its lane.
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Read more:Trump threatens Democrats who he says are 'trivializing' impeachment: 'Someday there will be a Democrat president and there will be a Republican House, and I suspect they're going to remember it'Trump tweeted a whopping 123 times during marathon impeachment debateLindsey Graham says Trump's impeachment trial will 'die quickly' in the Senate
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Prince Andrew was widely criticized for not expressing sympathy for the alleged victims of Epstein's sex-trafficking and for trivializing Epstein's crimes by calling them "unbecoming" conduct; he also offered questionable alibis in an attempt to "prove" he never had sex with a victim who accused him and pledged to participate in the American authority's investigations of Epstein.
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As Vox's Constance Grady wrote in an in-depth essay on the inadequacy of the language we currently have available to talk about these concepts: It is confusing and flattening in ways that make it hard to talk about sexual violence without either trivializing it, obfuscating the systems that enable it, or getting so specific as to become salacious or triggering.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE on Friday said House Democrats are "trivializing impeachment" after a House committee voted along party lines to approve articles of impeachment against him over his dealings with Ukraine.
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Last Friday, Rita Ora released a new song "Girls", alongside Charli XCX, Bebe Rexha and Cardi B. It should have been a triumph—another song in the charts making queer lives more visible—but instead it felt kind of tone deaf, particularly when Ora claimed, in an interview, that it was inspired by Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl," a song which we can now look back on as pretty trivializing.
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The Democratic lawmaker leading the impeachment charge against President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE went after House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday for "trivializing" the effort.
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While the issue appears to be bipartisan, with senators and representatives of both sides of the aisle condemning reports of Russian hacking, there are many people, including President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, who are either questioning the attribution or trivializing the hacking by saying that Russia only exposed embarrassing information.
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