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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, where the two men answered questions from the media.

The dominant issue was about a wrongly Maryland man named Kilmar Ábrego García, whose case was recently taken up by the United States Supreme Court, which unanimously ordered the administration to facilitate his return from El Salvador.

President Donald Trump confirmed that he wants his administration to deport U.S. citizens to a prison in El Salvador.

During a Monday meeting with Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, Trump was asked about the possibility of deporting citizens to the notorious Cecot prison.

President Donald Trump falsely blamed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky for starting a war with Russia in a rant from the White House.

The U.S. president met Monday with El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, and he expanded on comments he made earlier on Truth Social blaming Zelensky and former president Joe Biden for Russia's invasion.

The Maryland man whom the U.S. government admits it mistakenly deported last month to El Salvador is still alive, the Justice Department revealed in its daily update over the weekend.

However, the administration has yet to go through with a Supreme Court ruling that it must move forward with "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after his wrongful deportation.

European officials traveling to the U.S. will reportedly use burner phones and other measures over fears that they will be spied on by President Donald Trump's administration.

Four sources familiar with the situation told the Financial Times that officials traveling to the IMF and World Bank spring meetings had been given new guidance to avoid espionage.

Iowa Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks called the citizen-led town hall meetings in her district "fake," said a Monday report.

Radio Iowa said that Miller-Meeks, who represents the First District of Iowa, appears to be listening to GOP leadership suggestions that members not attend in-person district town halls.

President Donald Trump is losing support from GOP voters, according to three right-leaning pollsters flagged by Newsweek.

As the magazine notes, "a TIPP Insights poll conducted for the League of American Workers, released Sunday, showed that 50 percent of registered voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, compared with 43 percent who approve. This gives the Republican a net approval rating of minus 7 points."

A pair of right-wing podcasters trying to establish a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee have been promoting virulent anti-Semitism.

Pastor Andrew Isker and his sidekick C.Jay Engel, the hosts of what they describe as "the No. 1 Christian nationalist podcast in the world," have spread anti-Semitic claims and hosted Holocaust deniers and Nazi sympathizers on their Contra Mundum podcast, reported WTVF-TV.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, calling him "close to an unmitigated disaster" for television appearances to sell President Donald Trump's trade war.

During his Monday War Room program, Bannon suggested Lutnick was wrong to think new manufacturing in the U.S. would be automated.

The United States is about to pay an economic price that Edward Luce for the Financial Times calls the "moron premium," he argued in an article published on Monday.

A sign of how far things have fallen on the right now, wrote Luce, is the constant appearances of failed former British Prime Minister Liz Truss to MAGA conventions — and Trump is somehow proposing a scheme even worse than that which got Truss kicked out of office faster than a head of lettuce could rot.

President Donald Trump has surprised many with his continued tolerance of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in his White House despite the fact that his Department of Government Efficiency appears to falling well short of achieving its purported goals, opined Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.

Parton begins by acknowledging she didn't think that Trump would put up with Musk for long although "as it turns out, Trump has quite liked having the richest man in the world at his beck and call and he even puts up with his precocious little son X, who likes to tell the president to shut up during press conferences.”

President Donald Trump on Monday published a long tirade blaming former President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago.

Writing on his Truth Social page, the president tried to brush off responsibility for the failure of his diplomatic efforts to stop the war by attacking both Biden and Zelensky.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller yelled at Fox News host Bill Hemmer for asking if President Donald Trump's administration would return a man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.

During a Monday interview, Hemmer wondered if the Trump administration would follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said it must "facilitate" the return of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia.