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President Donald Trump held an Oval Office event with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone Thursday morning to discuss what Trump painted as a new trade deal, which he said he negotiated.

But the purported "deal" led two writers at The Bulwark to crack up laughing.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) continued her takedown of Haverford College President Wendy Raymond on Thursday, whom she accused of hiding behind scripted remarks at a congressional hearing on antisemitism a day earlier.

It marked the second straight day Stefanik, a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, publicly rebuked Raymond after the college leader appeared on Capitol Hill to answer questions surrounding campus antisemitism.

President Donald Trump announced this week that he would end the Digital Equity Act, which provided $2.5 billion in grants to ensure everyone had equal access to the digital economy.

"I have spoken with my wonderful Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and we agree that the Biden/Harris so-called 'Digital Equity Act' is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL," Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social. "No more woke handouts based on race!"

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote Thursday that a new filing from the lawyers of a Maryland father detained and sent to El Salvador could mean someone at the White House must testify.

Kilmar Ábrego García was sent to an El Salvador prison in error, according to a Justice Department attorney, despite another judge barring the move.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was well-known and controversial for his conspiracy theories even before being appointed to head up President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services, ranging from the idea that fluoride in tap water is injuring people to the long-debunked idea that vaccines are poisoning children. But now he is pushing a conspiracy theory so bizarre it's virtually incomprehensible to people not tapped into the right-wing media ecosystem, Anna Merlan wrote for Mother Jones.

Specifically, last week, Kennedy confused onlookers by proclaiming, “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that. We’re very aggressively going out and trying to find these 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration.”

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni scorched Donald Trump in a biting op-ed Thursday, where he accused the president of lavish hypocrisy as ordinary Americans are told to make do with less.

“Five pencils may be adequate for an American pupil — that was the allotment that President Trump advised, given the wages of his trade wars — but no number of billions is enough for him and his avaricious brood,” Bruni told readers as he laid into not just Trump, but his family.

President Donald Trump is considering having Fox News host Jeanine Pirro take over as interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., after the current acting and nominated lawyer, Ed Martin, failed to coalesce Republican support for Senate confirmation, ABC News reported Thursday.

While some commented simply, "an outside the box choice," and "Not at all a surprise," others quickly mocked the choice.

A venerated law firm in New York was one of many to cut a deal to change its policies at the direction of President Donald Trump — and now lawyers are quitting in droves, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

And it has "left the firm in turmoil."

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) joined Piers Morgan for a teary-eyed interview after learning he would be sent to prison for over seven years.

In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, Santos said he hadn't considered a pardon from President Donald Trump yet because he was unsure what his sentence would be.

President Donald Trump is considering Fox News commentator and former New York judge and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, ABC News reported on Thursday.

"An announcement about a new interim U.S. attorney could come as soon as today, sources said. Sources caution that plans could always change and a decision is never final until publicly announced by the president," said the report. "The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment from ABC News. A representative for Fox News press relations did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment, nor did Pirro."