Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol
President Donald Trump on Sunday night time disparaged a portrait of himself hanging within the Colorado Capitol as “purposefully distorted” and referred to as on the state’s Gov. Jared Polis to take it down. “No one likes a nasty image or portray of themselves, however the one in Colorado, within the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, together with all different Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a stage that…
Trump says he had ‘very good telephone call’ with Zelenskyy
President Donald Trump mentioned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to a 30-day ceasefire of assaults on power infrastructure throughout a name on Wednesday morning, describing the hour-long dialog as “excellent” in a social media post and calling peace talks “very a lot on monitor.” The decision got here a day after Trump’s prolonged dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who accepted the partial 30-day pause on attacking power infrastructure…
Trump expels Democratic regulators at FTC
President Donald Trump ousted the Democratic members of the Federal Commerce Fee, the newest in a string of firings at companies designed to be insulated from the White Home. “The President simply illegally fired me,” wrote FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya in a post on X Tuesday, who was booted alongside Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. Bedoya added that he can be testifying Wednesday earlier than the Colorado Joint Home and Senate…
Putin, in call with Trump, agrees to partial ceasefire in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a partial 30-day ceasefire of assaults on power infrastructure with Ukraine Tuesday, conceding little to President Donald Trump however maintaining negotiations open for a broader deal to finish the battle. The White Home celebrated the information despite the fact that it fell in need of the total 30-day pause that Ukraine had agreed to. Russia “will start with an power and infrastructure ceasefire,” and…
Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists, including Michael Flynn and Charlie Kirk
President Donald Trump on Monday named a raft of shut allies, together with conservative firebrands and controversial figures from his first administration, to boards overseeing among the nation’s prime navy academies. The appointments got here after Trump final month purged the boards of holiday makers on the Naval, Military, Air Power and Coast Guard academies as a part of his wider push to radically overhaul the navy, which he has…
White House says it will not return the Statue of Liberty to France
The Trump administration won't entertain a French politician’s request to return the Statue of Liberty to France. “Completely not. My recommendation to that unnamed low-level French politician can be to remind them that it’s solely due to the US of America that the French usually are not talking German proper now,” mentioned White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a press briefing Monday, probably referencing an American-French allyship throughout World…
Who’s in Elon’s ear — and DMs
In contrast to conventional Washington energy gamers, Elon Musk doesn’t have a deep bench of coverage wonks, assume tank researchers or Hill veterans feeding him white papers to bone up on coverage — not not like President Donald Trump throughout his political debut. From the corridors of the West Wing to the regular drum of right-wing voices on his X feed, Musk has assembled a makeshift mind belief of Silicon…
Inside the Rubio-Musk Relationship — and Rubio’s Survival Strategy
In late February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio quietly met with Elon Musk to debate the way forward for the State Division and what was left of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth. The beforehand unreported assembly was cordial, some even say lighthearted. However the two males had some clear variations. Musk, the world’s richest man now serving as a prime adviser to President Donald Trump, wished main cuts —…
Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules
A federal choose on Thursday ordered federal businesses to rehire tens of 1000's of probationary workers who have been fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal paperwork. U.S. District Choose William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” technique by the federal government’s central human assets workplace to sidestep authorized necessities for lowering the federal workforce. Alsup, a San Francisco-based appointee of President Invoice…
Judge orders DOGE and Elon Musk to turn over documents, answer written questions
A federal choose has ordered that Elon Musk and his Division of Authorities Effectivity flip over a wide selection of information and reply questions on plans it crafted to downsize federal businesses, hearth workers and droop federal contracts. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order Wednesday is a win for a gaggle of 14 Democratic state attorneys common who're suing President Donald Trump, Musk and DOGE, arguing that Musk has unconstitutionally…
