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President Donald Trump spent Friday morning posting about the economy in an apparent effort to push back on a widely criticized remark by White House press secretary Katherine Leavitt.

A reporter asked Leavitt whether the president had any other renovations in mind at the White House after ordering the swift demolition of the East Wing, and the press secretary said Trump's mind was "always churning" about improvements to the official presidential home and workplace but for now "the ballroom is really the president’s main priority."

President Donald Trump fired off on Canada early Friday morning after a Canadian province paid for a video advertisement in an apparent attempt to bash Trump’s tariff policy.

Launched last week, the ad was paid for by the government of Ontario, and features lines from a speech of former President Ronald Reagan’s in which he speaks to the economic harm caused by tariffs. The ad buy comes amid Trump’s trade talks with Canada, which Thursday night he cut off, citing the ad as the reason for the breakdown in negotiations.

Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert took a dig at the Trump administration’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House Thursday night, and by reminding the president of a controversy that has continued to plague his second presidency.

The Trump administration began demolition on the East Wing on Monday, with photos and video of the structure’s destruction shocking critics from across the political spectrum. Erected in 1942, the East Wing’s destruction was ordered to make way for President Donald Trump’s $200 million ballroom, the price of which increased to around $300 million, Trump admitted Thursday.

President Donald Trump will no longer make surprise appearances for the immediate future following an incident last month where the president was disrupted during his outing to a restaurant in Washington, D.C., with the incident continuing to “haunt” his team, Axios reported Friday.

Code Pink, an anti-war advocacy organization founded in 2002, managed to confront Trump during his visit to Joe’s on Sept. 9, with video of the incident showing protesters chanting “Trump is the Hitler of our time,” and “free Palestine” before being escorted out by Secret Service agents. That the protesters managed to get so close to Trump, Axios learned, “infuriated” the president.
“Trump and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles were infuriated by the incident,” wrote Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt, who spoke with people familiar with Trump’s thinking who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

President Donald Trump announced he was cutting off trade talks with Canada over an advertisement released by Ontario's provincial government featuring critical comments about tariffs made by the late Ronald Reagan.

The former president's foundation claimed the ad issued this week "misrepresents" Reagan's 1987 speech, in which he argued tariffs “every American worker and consumer” and “triggering fierce trade wars," and the foundation is "reviewing legal options" and Trump is lashing out.

President Donald Trump recently admitted that he has been defeated by his long-time nemesis, the proverbial "swamp" of the Washington, D.C. establishment, according to one ex-GOP analyst.

Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," said in a new episode on Thursday that Trump's announcement that he is fundraising private dollars to finance the construction of a "gilded" ballroom at the White House is an admission that he's been defeated by the swamp. He also described the project as "blatant corruption."