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What he's saying: Trump wrote in a Truth Social post late Friday that he withdrew Seibert's nomination when he "was informed that he received the UNUSUALLY STRONG support" of the two Democratic senators from Virginia. The president was referring to that fact that Siebert was backed by Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia. "He didn't quit, I fired him! Next time let him go in as a Democrat, not a Republican," Trump added.

During his monologue Monday, ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel built up a joke like so: "We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them." It was certainly going out on a limb to characterize the shooter as "MAGA" without any information supporting that, and new information we've seen since Monday makes the premise look flat wrong.

US President Donald Trump sugested that military intervention could be used to deal with illegal migration to the UK during his state visit this week. But Trade Secretary Peter Kyle has rejected that call, telling BBC Breakfast the UK Border Force has specific responsibility for policing UK borders. He added the Navy has a "working relationship" with the border force and can be called up on when needed, but was focused on "national defence".

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

President Trump could change his mind, of course, but it makes some sense from his point of view. He knows preserving Republicans' governing trifecta is going to be an uphill climb in 2026, given the historical pattern of the White House party almost always losing House seats in the midterms. His iron control of the GOP means it won't be hard to impose discipline on hand-picked delegates to an event like this, essentially making it a big paid ad for the party and its messages.

"I have many concerns about the AI Executive Order signed yesterday by President Trump," Taylor Greene wrote on X-formerly-Twitter, the day after Trump's " Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government" executive order. "My deep concerns are that the EO [executive order] demands rapid AI expansion with little to no guardrails and breaks," the Georgia representative continued. "This needs a careful and wise approach. The AI EO takes the opposite."

Well, I don't know, Trump said. The deals I made, for the most part other than what my kids are doing here. They're running my business but most of the deals that I've made were made before. And that's what I've done for a life. I've built buildings. Trump proceeded to boast about the new ballroom he's constructing at the White House.

Don't take fentanyl - because if you do, you'll be dead like me,

The ability of any US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated. Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global monarch and grand arbiter of war and peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, omnipotence and divine right. Intoxicated by such ego-inflating delusions, he pledged before taking office to swiftly end the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Perhaps, in his vanity and hubris, he truly believed he could.

As if speaking with NATO members, he said: "It greatly weakens your negotiating position, and bargaining power, over Russia." Since 2023, NATO member Turkey has been the third largest buyer of Russian oil, after China and India. according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. Other members of the 32-state alliance involved in purchasing Russian oil include Hungary and Slovakia.

It's too much fun for him not to bait them, and he's doing it very effectively,

This was a particularly fraught decision for Trump because his idea of "policy accomplishments" involved a vast expansion of presidential power, an inevitably controversial mass-deportation program, a return to protectionist economic strategies, and relentless threats of Mafia-style retribution against his enemies and critics. Given his incredibly high regard for his own uniqueness and his history of disdain for the Republican Party, it would have been the most natural thing in the world for Trump to write off the midterms

On Saturday, the president posted an image of himself as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, the Wagner-blasting cavalry officer in Apocalypse Now. "I love the smell of deportations in the morning," the meme said, paraphrasing the famous quote from the movie. In case the implication was unclear-little about Kilgore or Trump is subtle-the meme added, "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR." The image replaced the film's name with "Chipocalypse Now," superimposing the city skyline on a fiery sky.

I'm not happy, I'm not happy, he said when asked if he was becoming less trustful of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. I'm not happy about the whole situation. Trump's remarks came hours after Russia launched what is said to be its largest attack on Ukraine since the conflict began, as peace talks between the nations falter. Four people were killed, and a key government building in Kyiv was damaged in the Russian strike, the Associated Press reported.

By SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will host next year's Group of 20 summit at his golf club in Doral. In his first term, Trump tried to host a separate global summit at the club but backed down after criticism from his own party about the propriety of doing so. "Well, I think everybody wants it there," Trump said Friday when asked if the global summit would be at his golf club and spa.

So we really beat them by much more than you think, Trump joked. This is the 201st executive order, sir. This relates to hostages and wrongfully detained Americans. This provides a new legal mechanism to declare foreign countries to be countries that engage in those sorts of practices and gives your administration powerful tools to get American hostages out, Scharf added as he moved on to the next EO.

Despite the excitement of the weekend, Trump is very much alive, which we know because he gave an hour-long press conference on Tuesday afternoon, which began with his announcement that he's moving Space Command from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama and ended with him rambling about how the U.S. is the hottest and the best and that we'd be a third world country right now if it weren't for tariffs.

"We're going in as an emergency - we'll be probably be doing it tomorrow ... you see the stock market, this decision is an emergency."

I inherited this war. And all I'm trying to do is put out the flame, you know. And I thought I had it done. I did it seven times with other, I did it with wars that were tougher than this in terms of nobody. So three of those wars are going on for more than 30 years, and I got them all done.

Conway hosted Friday's Hannity, where she pointed to recent comments by the restaurant's founder, who cast the ill-fated logo change in grim terms. If they don't get back to keeping the country, then it ain't gonna work, he said. Conway's guest went even further, stating that the failed logo change was part of a much larger sinister undertow of our culture led by the radical Marxist left.