Oliver Hawks Funeral Home

Tell your friends to sign up for the Daily Kickoff here!SCENE LAST NIGHT -- This is what it looks like when the President holds a fundraiser in a gated community -- by Brian Bennett and Seems Mehta: "President Trump left the Beverly Park mansion of Shari and Edward Glazer after spending several hours talking to Republican donors. The Glazer residence — a brick home painted tan with a slate-colored roof — sits at the end of a cul-de-sac. Beverly Park is a gated community... Current and former residents include media magnates Sumner Redstone and Haim Saban... Donors who paid a minimum of $35,000 and up to $250,000 per ticket arrived at a staging area down the hill from the house in the early evening. They were brought up to the fundraiser in golf carts, passing a row of magnolia trees along the way. Edward Glazer is co-chairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Glazer, 48, is the son of the late billionaire Malcolm Glazer. In addition to the Bucs, his family owns the Manchester United soccer team." [LATimes; ABC7]REXIT -- "In the end, no one was more surprised that Tillerson was fired than Tillerson" by Anne Gearan and Carol Morello: "Tillerson’s firing caps a rough couple of weeks. His father died Feb. 25. Two days after returning to Washington from the funeral, he departed on his trip to Africa... What may have done him in was a fatal disconnect over what Trump saw as Tillerson’s conventional approach to policy matters... A part of Tillerson’s legacy is pushback on Trump policies that Tillerson considered unwise, battles he did not often win. He advised Trump to keep the United States in the Paris climate agreement and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which Trump has threatened to renounce this spring. Tillerson also opposed the unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the embassy there..." [WashPost] "Trump fires Steve Goldstein, a top Tillerson deputy, in State Department shake-up" by Kylie Atwood: "The White House has fired S... (Haaretz)