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A federal judge in New York has blocked President Donald Trump's rules restricting speech on the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

The controversy stems from an executive order Trump signed that prohibits West Point, which gives college-level training and higher education to Army cadets, from “promoting, advancing, or otherwise inculcating” certain “un-American, divisive, discriminatory, radical, extremist, and irrational theories,” including the idea “that America’s founding documents are racist or sexist."

President Donald Trump scrapped a rare trip to Camp David on Tuesday after returning from a three-hour medical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, with bad weather cited as the reason for the last-minute change.

Trump was scheduled to travel to the presidential retreat in rural Maryland on Wednesday to hold his 12th cabinet meeting since taking office, but the White House announced the gathering would instead be held at the White House. Trump typically flies to Camp David by helicopter, making heavy rain a potential factor in grounding.

Fox News anchor Gillian Turner put RNC chair Joe Gruters on the spot this week, confronting him live on air with a graphic showing President Donald Trump's approval rating cratering across multiple polls — including the network's own.

A Fox News poll conducted May 15–18 among 1,002 registered voters put Trump's overall job approval at 39%, with 61% disapproving — the highest disapproval figure recorded in Fox News polling during his presidency. An AP-NORC poll showed 37% approval and 62% disapproval, while a Wall Street Journal survey put him at 41% approval and 57% disapproval.

Iceland is reconsidering its long-held independence from the European Union following President Donald Trump's threats toward neighboring Greenland.

Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir said the "Greenland crisis definitely hit a nerve" with Icelandic voters, who could decide on a referendum this summer on whether to embark on exploratory talks with the EU bloc, marking a significant change for a nation that has fiercely guarded its sovereignty and control over its fishing industry for decades, reported the New York Times.

Newly obtained renderings of the planned overhaul of New York City's Penn Station show a presidential seal with Donald Trump's name carved into the wall near one of the station's new entrances — the latest in a string of public institutions and landmarks to bear the president's name.

Gothamist obtained internal architectural documents showing "President Donald J. Trump" etched into marble next to a presidential seal at the new Eighth Avenue entrance. The designs also feature gold-accented railings, columns, escalators, and American flags — motifs familiar from other Trump-branded projects.

In a blow to President Donald Trump's demands for all GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps to give themselves extra seats, a majority of the South Carolina Senate effectively voted to pull the plug on redistricting for now, with a handful of Republican lawmakers begrudgingly admitting Democrats had successfully run out the clock and they couldn't change the maps because primary voting was already underway.

South Carolina Republicans could revisit the gerrymandering attempt, but the upshot is that, for now, the state's sole Democratic congressman, longtime powerbroker Rep. Jim Clyburn, will be able to secure another term in office. And both the White House and MAGA influencers are furious about it.