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It isn't just American voters who are growing tired of X owner Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.

The Washington Post reports that several Trump White House officials are also sick of Musk throwing his weight around and unilaterally shutting down agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Donald Trump once again refused to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin and instead blamed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the destruction in his own country.

The U.S. president appeared Friday on Fox News host Brian Kilmeade's radio program, where he lamented that important cultural sites had been destroyed since Russian troops launched a full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022 – but he refused multiple opportunities to blame Putin for the devastation.

Donald Trump's choice to be the new director of the FBI got off to a rough start on Thursday after he was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate by only two votes.

According to MSNBC's Ken Dilanian, on Friday the controversial Kash Patel struck a "conciliatory" tone with employees of the FBI, which was a change from his first encounter.

Speaking with MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart, the justice and intelligence correspondent reported that, before Patel made his appearance on Thursday, the 7th floor at the FBI headquarters was ordered cleared.

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"Yesterday when he first arrived at the bureau headquarters, to some people, he was sending a bit of a different message because what I'm told by three people familiar with the matter, is that before he arrived all the support employees on the seventh floor where the director's office is –– I'm talking about executive assistants and people who move the paper around, the bureaucracy ––they were all told to pack their desks."

"They were being reassigned, and they were to be removed from the seventh floor and then when he arrived with his own team the director's suite was sealed off, I'm told, and no one else saw him essentially assuming command."

He then added, "So those people they're not fired, they're civil servants, and they're going to find other jobs within the organization. But it is sending a message to some people at the FBI, at least, that Mr. Patel doesn't necessarily trust the workforce that he has now been assigned to oversee."

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Donald Trump was close to withdrawing American military support from Ukraine after its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to sign a peace agreement that even administration officials admit is intolerable.

Six administration officials told Axios that five incidents over the last five days angered Trump and his top officials, and he and vice president J.D. Vance have warned Zelenskyy to keep his criticism to himself after U.S. officials pushed him to hand over perpetual control of half of Ukraine's natural resources and selected infrastructure – in a deal that's been compared to a "mafia shakedown."

A new book by Michael Wolff addresses the marriage between President Donald Trump and his third wife, Melania. According to reports, the book has some startling revelations.

The Daily Beast reported Friday that Wolff writes that Melania “f---ing hates him,” citing a “Mar-a-Lago patio confidant” of Trump and his family. The source seemed “bewildered that this needed saying.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt got personal with an NBC reporter on Friday morning after he called her out for misrepresenting a dollar figure the Department of Government Efficiency claims it uncovered in its search for fraud.

In a brief gaggle outside of the Brady Briefing Room, NBC's Peter Alexander put the fledgling press secretary on the spot after she praised the work DOGE has been doing, which led her to drop her smile and snarl at him.

In the exchange, Leavitt proclaimed, "I think it's fraudulent that the American government has been ripping off taxpayers in this way and we also do know there has been extensive fraud, particularly if you look at Social Security."

Pop superstar Madonna has reignited her campaign against President Donald Trump, upbraiding the U.S. leader for calling himself "the King."

Trump declared "LONG LIVE THE KING" to end a social media message on Wednesday stating that he had killed a New York plan to impose a peak congestion charge of $9 for cars entering much of busy Manhattan.

Donald Trump spread lies about the 2024 election to claim he had a broad mandate over a vanquished Democratic Party.

The president won the Electoral College and became only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988, and while the vast majority of counties shifted in his direction, Trump's margin of victory – just 1.5 percentage points over Kamala Harris – was one of the smallest in history and fell short of winning a majority of the popular vote, at just 49.7 percent.

Consumer sentiment numbers released on Friday show that consumer sentiment plunged over the last month, as prices on consumer staples such as eggs and coffee rose significantly.

Or as CNN put it in its report on the latest University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey, "America’s economic mood is now souring — and Trump is getting the heat for it."

France's far-right leader Jordan Bardella said Friday he had cancelled his speech at a right-wing meeting in Washington after a "gesture alluding to Nazi ideology" by conservative firebrand Steve Bannon.

The president of France's National Rally (RN) party, who is in the US capital, said he was not present when Bannon -- one of the masterminds behind US President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign -- made a gesture that has been described as a Nazi salute on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Americans have reacted to President Donald Trump's vast cuts to government services by flooding their local lawmakers with complaints, and one former congressman expects this will scare off future town hall events.

Trump tasked Elon Musk with making massive government cuts to eliminate "waste, fraud, and abuse" through his Department of Government Efficiency. Since then, lawsuits have plagued the departments over the cuts it has made to the government without any congressional input.

President Donald Trump was ridiculed on Friday morning for going down another internet conspiracy rabbit hole and telling reporters he fears Ft. Knox does not contain all the gold the government has been claiming.

In a recent interview on Air Force One, the president told reporters, "We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox,” before adding, "If the gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset.”

Using a late-night monologue on Trump latest obsession by TV host Stephen Colbert as a leaping-off point, "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire laughed at the president for buying into another unsupported fantasy pushed in conspiracy circles.

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After watching the Colbert clip, a laughing Scarborough told a smirking Lemire, "You know, Jonathan, well, a couple of things here. Ronald Reagan's aides used to be distressed that he would look at Reader's Digest and, in reading Reader's Digest, he would get ideas for policies. Right now, like, if that's all Donald Trump read instead of the garbage on X, all of the conspiracy theories on X, that would be like for his staff members, that would be a wonderful thing."

"But so much that gets like so many conspiracy theories that get knocked around on X actually end up coming out of the president's mouth," he pointed out. "I mean, he could talk to Steve Mnuchin. You remember that picture of Steve Mnuchin and his wife at Fort Knox back in the in the first term? Yeah, exactly, so I think I think there's still gold at Fort Knox but, yeah, it's just it's an example isn't it? Conspiracy theories run wild."

That led Lemire to quip, "Right now the nation turns its lonely eyes toward Reader's Digest."

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