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While the world's economies are still reeling from Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs that are the centerpiece of his trade war with U.S. allies and enemies alike, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is proposing one of his own.

And it is not being well received.

In a series of phone calls made by Donald Trump after his feud with billionaire Elon Musk went public on Thursday, the president attempted to rally the troops and assure allies by phone that he is the hero in the latest Trump White House drama.

According to a report from the Washington Post, during a round of phone conversations,Trump engaged in after the war broke out and Musk accused the president of being a figure in the accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein files, Trump went on a smear campaign of his own.

Prior to starting his second term, Donald Trump's inner circle began creating a "stash" of presidential executive orders and proclamations to not only dramatically alter how the government runs, but also for use when he needs to distract voters or change the narrative when he doesn't like what the press is reporting.

That is according to a report from the Washington Post's Natalie Allison, Emily Davies and Michael Birnbaum, who wrote that a travel ban order by the president on Wednesday was not tied to the terror attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, but was in initiated back in early January.

A decision by members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to hook the White House communications system up to Elon Musk's Starlink internet service was done over objections from Donald Trump's own communications experts.

According to a report from the Washington Post's Joseph Menn, three insiders claim that no one working on the White House communications management team was given advanced notice before DOGE employees were given access to the roof of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in February to set-up the equipment and activate it.

Billionaire Elon Musk continued his battle with Donald Trump late Friday with a post on X where he once again invoked the Jeffrey Epstein files -- then deleted it a short time later.

The break-up with the president has been raging since Thursday after Trump took shots at Musk during a press availability with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, with Musk returning fire on his social media account that led to the explosive accusation, "Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"

A federal appeals court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a partial victory in his effort to block the Associated Press from covering him inside key presidential spaces – a move that drew swift cheers from Trump’s MAGA base throughout social media.

The victory lap came after the appeals court reinstated parts of Trump’s ban on AP journalists from areas including the Oval Office, Air Force One, and Mar-a-Lago, Politico reported. But the three-judge appellate panel still kept in place a lower court ruling requiring the AP to be allowed into larger venues like the East Room, the outlet added.

President Donald Trump has adopted a peculiar and dangerous pattern in his second term, wrote Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post in an analysis published on Friday: moving to "delete" entire categories of people he doesn't like or want to acknowledge from federal data whenever possible.

"For example, when the Defense Department was asked to cull all DEI-related content from its websites, it removed approximately 26,000 images," they wrote. "A list of the deleted photos was given to the Associated Press. About 19,000 of them included descriptions, and our analysis found that 4 out of 5 depicted women, people in the LGBTQ+ community and racial minorities."

Kash Patel’s live interview with Joe Rogan Thursday afternoon took an unexpected twist as the FBI director – and podcast host – learned in real time that Elon Musk had just accused President Donald Trump of being listed in the notorious Epstein files.

The shock came as Rogan and Patel were deep in conversation about conspiracy theories tied to Jeffrey Epstein – who Patel now insists died by suicide – a reversal from his previous theory that Epstein was murdered in jail that has angered some in the MAGA world, the Independent reported.

David Huerta, the president of the California division of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), was injured and detained during a public protest against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Los Angeles on Friday, Spectrum News reported.

"Early Friday afternoon, a throng of federal agents amassed at what appeared to be an Ambiance clothing warehouse or corporate headquarters building near 15th Street and Santa Fe Avenue in the South Los Angeles area," said the report, noting that at least one person had a vest marking them as with the Drug Enforcement Administration. "Dozens of protesters also gathered at that location, and at one point, federal agents had to shove protesters out of the path of a van that was being driven into the building's parking lot. At least one protester was taken to the ground and arrested as the crowd gathered, prompting more shoving by agents to keep the group at bay."

President Donald Trump downplayed his fiery feud with Elon Musk that exploded this week, telling reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday that he wasn’t giving the tech billionaire much thought – even as their public split made international headlines.

But behind closed doors, the president is actively asking aides about Musk’s recent behavior, including whether it may be tied to his alleged ketamine use, a source told CNN.

The escalating fight between President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk has been framed as a clash of titans — but in reality, Philip Bump wrote for The Washington Post, Trump is the inevitable winner, because he has a card to play that Musk will never have.

That card, Bump said, is the fact that the Republican Party will always side with Trump over anyone who criticizes him, even a former supporter.

A Chinese tech executive with ties to a Communist Party advisory body was given VIP access to a Trump-hosted cryptocurrency dinner and White House tour, raising new questions surrounding national security and ethics in the White House, the New York Times reported Friday.

The buyer, He Tianying, is a delegate of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference – an official advisory body that serves to extend the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the Times found in an examination of government documents in China. He was one of the top purchasers of Trump’s memcoin, scooping up $3.7 million worth under the “self-adopted” nickname “Sky” – which earned him a seat at a private dinner with Trump and a gold-colored wristband for a VIP White House tour.

President Donald Trump's senior officials have marshaled taxpayer resources to the tune of $1 billion, just on various projects to keep Trump personally happy, Rolling Stone reported on Friday.

This comes after the president has already received widespread criticism for the self-aggrandizing aspects of his Cabinet meetings, including having them all sit in a room full of "Gulf of America" merchandise, referencing his executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.