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In his ongoing effort to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump has not ruled out the deployment of U.S. troops on the ground in Europe, according to a senior Trump administration official.

“I don’t think there's a red line,” the official told Politico. “So I think it just kind of remains to be seen. [President Trump] would like the Europeans to step up.”

A right-wing activist tapped to investigate the so-called weaponization of government against President Donald Trump has wasted no time targeting his political enemies, but even his bosses at the Department of Justice worry his theatrical stunts might backfire.

Ed Martin Jr., a Republican activist from Missouri who defended many of the Jan. 6 rioters in court, was tasked by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi with investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James, but his dramatic statements and attention-grabbing actions could prevent him from bringing a case against her, reported the New York Times.

A senior Trump administration official ridiculed the several European leaders that attended the high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, calling the heads of state “tedious” and “used to being in charge.”

Speaking with Politico on the condition of anonymity, the official said the goal of inviting the European leaders to the meeting was “to say ‘we’re in charge,” and to communicate to them that they’ll “sign on to anything we say.”

Grammy-winning rocker Jack White unleashed a blistering attack on Donald Trump's opulent redecoration of the White House, calling it a transformation into something resembling "a vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler's dressing room."

The White Stripes frontman's fury was triggered by a photo showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting with Trump in an Oval Office now dripping with gold-framed paintings, gold trinkets, and trophies. White didn't hold back in his Instagram post Monday night.

A lot of what President Donald Trump has said and done doesn't add up since he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska, according to two analysts.

Following the summit, the Trump administration announced several provisions for Ukraine as a way to end the war with Russia. Those apparent understandings were quickly undercut by Putin's spokespeople, who denied that any agreement had been reached. Trump also left the meeting saying that an immediate ceasefire wasn't necessary to end the war, despite commenting beforehand that he would demand the fighting end.

President Donald Trump may have given his conservative opponents a chance to hit back against his administration after his performance at the Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin last week, according to a columnist.

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote in an essay for the outlet that Trump's performance reminded him of why he embraced the "neoconservative" political label. Neoconservativism refers to a loose ideology held by some anti-war protesters from the 1970s who became disaffected with the left's political establishment.

President Donald Trump made a revealing quip in the White House while he met with his Ukrainian counterpart, according to one analyst.

As Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met, Trump quipped about not having elections during wartime. Zelenskyy has temporarily suspended elections in his country because of the war with Russia.

President Donald Trump was no match for Russia's Vladimir Putin when they met at the summit in Alaska last week, argued Maggie Haberman of The New York Times on CNN Monday evening — in part because Putin turned out far more unyielding in his demands.

This comes as Trump also hosted several European leaders, who did their best to re-sell him on preserving America's commitment to the security of Ukraine and of NATO.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow warned Monday night that President Donald Trump's insistence on using physical force to try to "cow and hurt people" is about to backfire spectacularly.

Maddow began her show Monday night, pointing out that mass protests have erupted in Israel, with calls for a nationwide work stoppage.

One of President Donald Trump's fiercest advocates lashed out at the president on Monday.

Steve Bannon, who served in Trump's first administration, said on a new episode of his podcast, "The War Room," that Trump is focusing too much of his time on the Ukraine war. Instead, Bannon argued that he should continue expanding his power over local police forces.

President Donald Trump's tariff whiplash has already harmed domestic manufacturing and could continue to do so through at least the end of this decade to the tune of nearly half a trillion dollars, a report published Monday by congressional Democrats on a key economic committee warned.

The Joint Economic Committee (JEC)-Minority said that recent data belied Trump's claim that his global trade war would boost domestic manufacturing, pointing to the 37,000 manufacturing jobs lost since the president announced his so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs in April.

President Donald Trump's law enforcement takeover of Washington, D.C., and the subsequent pile-on as Republican governors send hundreds of their own National Guard troops to assist, is becoming an authoritarian farce, former GOP strategist Amanda Carpenter argued on MSNBC's "The Weeknight" Monday evening.

"So, Amanda, it was interesting to me," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "You have the Republican governor from Vermont ... politely declining to send National Guard troops because he said, if you find an emergency, let me know, but this isn't an emergency. So my question to you is DeWine, McMaster, all these governors that are sending National Guard troops, are they now complicit in what Donald Trump is doing?"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday represented a marked departure from his disastrous meeting earlier this month, and one analysis revealed what might have been his strategy — an abundance of gratitude.

Trump and Zelensky met at the White House to discuss an end to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and included several European leaders. Trump has pushed for a peace deal that would involve significant concessions from Ukraine.