The cringeworthy exchange went viral on social media.
President Trump’s push for a ceasefire in Gaza is testing his bond with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which was on full display this week during the Israeli leader’s third visit to Washington this year. Even when Trump and Netanyahu have diverged in private, they have usually remained publicly in lockstep — apart from Trump…
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President Trump’s about-face on last week’s pause of some weapons shipments to Ukraine has revealed chasms within the administration, with the president claiming several times that he didn’t know who approved the halt. Trump on Monday said he would restart the dispatch of defensive weapons to the country — to include air defense missiles —…
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The MSNBC host trashed “Trumpian stupidity” and said there’s “no way” the president “can fake sounding smart about anything.”
Susie Wiles said it was “not a good ending” for Musk’s time in the White House, but she enjoyed working with him overall.
The president’s hype doesn’t hold the heat, they argued.
Joe Davidson, who wrote the “Federal Insider” column at the paper, said he couldn’t live with the “level of constraint” amid the billionaire’s ownership.
It was mocked as the perfect metaphor.
The president was given an unusual honor in his adopted home state.
His statements come amid fierce scrutiny of staffing shortages following the Texas floods.
The Secret Service suspended six agents in connection with their “actions” during last year’s assassination attempt on President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a source from the agency confirmed. They were suspended following an investigation into the attempted assassination, “specifically their actions,” the source told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company. Their jobs,…
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President Trump said Wednesday he was impressed with Liberian President Joseph Boakai’s English during a meeting with African heads of state at the White House. “Such good English,” he said after Boakai spoke. “Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia? Well, that’s very interesting. It’s beautiful English,” Trump said during a joint press conference. “I…
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Marc Short said the president’s trade agenda is “starkly different” from that of the first administration.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) suggested on Wednesday that he would not vote in favor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation at this time. During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Tillis said that when it came to Hegseth’s confirmation vote, he “had already informed my conference that I was going to defer to the Senate…
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English is the official language of Liberia, which was founded as an American colony in the 1800s.
The truth-challenged ex-congressman suggested that the House Speaker is preventing President Donald Trump from pardoning him for federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. will depart as President Volodymyr Zelensky looks to reshape relationships in Washington amid the war with Russia. Oksana Markarova is out as the leading U.S. diplomat, according to Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha. “She is extremely effective and charismatic, but every diplomat has a rotation cycle,” Sybiha said during…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is widely considered to be a leading contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2028, told reporters in South Carolina on Wednesday that he is skeptical — but not surprised — about the IRS’s decision this week that allows churches to endorse political candidates. “I don’t know if…
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday took a swing at President Trump’s advisers, calling them amateurs in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I don’t have a problem [with] President Trump. I got a — I got a problem with some of the people I consider to be amateurs, advising him,” Tillis said in the…
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has doubled down on her past calls to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — but also says it should be “remade” as the agency responds to floods in Texas. Noem said FEMA has been “slower to get the resources to Americans in crisis, and that is why this…
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Federal agencies can resume implementing President Trump’s mass layoff directive following Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling, greenlighting agencies to take their first steps in booting thousands of federal workers. The apparent 8-1 emergency decision lifts the widest block on Trump’s plans for massive reductions in force (RIFs). But a patchwork of injunctions that have yet to reach…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced on Wednesday that redistricting will be included in a legislative special session slated to take place later this month. The governor said in a release that the session will tackle “[legislation] that provides a revised congressional redistricting plan in light of constitutional concerns raised by the U.S. Department of…
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The Trump administration has backtracked on promises to throw open the curtain on any Epstein files held by the government.
President Trump on Wednesday announced plans to impose a 50 percent tariff on all goods from Brazil, in part due to the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged plot to remain in power after losing an election. Trump, who has criticized Brazil’s treatment of Bolsonaro in recent days, cited the ongoing trial…
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Canadians point to America as both their country’s top threat and its greatest ally, according to Pew Research Center data released Tuesday. The survey, conducted during the first four months of this year, asked residents of 25 countries to name the nation they think poses the greatest threat to their own, as well as the…
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