All posts tagged "Trump White House"

A former Trump official said fractures in the president's coalition are fueling a wave of senior departures from the White House.

The official was among roughly six current and former administration aides who spoke with the Daily Mail for a report published Thursday about the steady stream of exits from Trump's second-term White House.

"The original coalition fell apart; there's cracks in the MAHA movement and the anti-war MAGA base," the former official told the Daily Mail. "A lot of people don't like the direction this administration is headed between the Iran war and increasing prices."...

An energy adviser for President Donald Trump slammed a White House plan to halt diesel exports for 90 days as midterm pressure mounts.

According to a Wednesday article by Politico, the Trump administration is moving toward a temporary ban despite divisions within its own ranks and opposition from fuel producers. Five anonymous insiders told Politico about the discussions and internal division.

The plan would mark the first limit on U.S. energy exports since the Obama administration ended a decades-long prohibition on oil exports in 2015. ...

The Trump White House is scrambling to ensure hundreds of aides aren't using inside information to get rich on prediction market bets, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

White House lawyers have been frantically grilling insiders ever since five anonymous Polymarket accounts made big bets that President Donald Trump and Iran would reach an initial ceasefire by the end of April, the Journal reported.

"Alarm bells went off inside the White House Counsel’s Office earlier this year," the Journal stated. "Senior officials privately raised concerns that the users may have leveraged inside information to secure an easy payday on the prediction market."...