Trump entertains a match with Obama for 2028
President Donald Trump mentioned Monday that he hasn’t explored operating for a 3rd time period — however would relish a marketing campaign showdown with former President Barack Obama if he did. “I’d love that, boy, I’d love that,” Trump mentioned of a hypothetical matchup with Obama, earlier than demurring on whether or not he’d attempt to keep in workplace past 2028. “I by no means seemed into it. They do…
Trump hints that Musk and DOGE may be coming to the end of the road
Elon Musk’s days as a senior White Home adviser could also be coming to an finish — alongside together with his government-slashing Division of Authorities Effectivity. President Donald Trump hinted Monday that his shut ally Musk could have to return to working his firms full time and that the tumultuous mission of DOGE can have been achieved after firing tens of 1000's of presidency staff. "I feel he is wonderful…
Trump guts small federal agency funding museums and libraries
An company chargeable for funding museums and libraries throughout the nation is the newest to be shrunk by President Donald Trump’s cuts to the federal authorities, with its complete employees apparently placed on administrative go away Monday. The Institute of Museum and Library Companies, which gives grants to “advance, help, and empower” museums, libraries and comparable establishments within the U.S. in keeping with its web site, was named in an…
Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP effort to impeach Biden
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of a person who aided Republican efforts to question former President Joe Biden whereas serving a jail sentence of over 14 years for defrauding Native People and different buyers. A notice of clemency for Jason Galanis was launched Monday by the Division of Justice, although the president signed the order Friday with no public announcement. Galanis is the second affiliate of Hunter Biden…
‘Own it, fire Waltz, move on’: White House allies fume as group chat scandal grows
Trump administration officers and allies are involved, indignant and confused in regards to the response — led by nationwide safety adviser Mike Waltz — to the leak of a gaggle chat dialog that included plans for an assault on Houthi rebels in Yemen. During the last 24 hours, President Donald Trump and officers in his administration have appeared to downplay the seriousness of the leaked Sign group chat first revealed…
He took the iconic Trump fist-pump photo. Now he’s fighting Trump to be allowed back in the Oval Office.
When a would-be murderer’s bullet struck Donald Trump’s ear, Related Press photographer Evan Vucci — dodging bullets himself — captured the long-lasting picture of a bloodied Trump, rising to his ft and pumping his fist. However for the previous six weeks, Vucci has been barred from masking many different historic moments within the Trump White Home, due to the president’s choice to punish the AP for its refusal to embrace…
Top lawyers’ association condemns Trump’s attacks on the legal system
The American Bar Affiliation and dozens of different bar teams this week slammed President Donald Trump’s continued crackdown on the authorized system as an assault on the rule of regulation. “Phrases and actions matter,” the groups wrote in an open letter on Wednesday, which didn't point out the president by identify. “And the intimidating phrases and actions we now have heard and seen should finish. They're designed to cow our…
White House Correspondents’ Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner
The White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation is canceling comic Amber Ruffin’s deliberate headline efficiency for its annual dinner subsequent month, amid tensions between the affiliation and President Donald Trump’s administration. “The WHCA board has unanimously determined we're not that includes a comedic efficiency this yr,” WHCA President Eugene Daniels wrote in an electronic mail Saturday afternoon to members, including that the occasion’s “focus will not be on the politics of division”…
Trump’s Big Law freezeout heats up on the Hill
President Donald Trump’s campaign towards Huge Regulation is coursing by way of Capitol Hill. A senior Republican Home aide circulated a memo to GOP places of work on Thursday instructing members to be cautious of lobbying shoppers of Covington & Burling and Perkins Coie, two of the foremost regulation corporations which have drawn Trump’s ire, based on the e-mail obtained by POLITICO. The missive follows an almost equivalent one despatched…
Vance to wipe ‘improper ideology’ from the Smithsonian
Vice President JD Vance has a brand new job: erasing what the White Home considers “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian, a process that permits him to forged apart the progressive concepts he has decried since lengthy earlier than he was elected to public workplace. The vp, who sits on the museum community’s board, has been tasked with slashing funding for reveals or applications that promote “ideologies inconsistent with Federal regulation…