President Donald Trump is reportedly "determined" to have better sleeping quarters than his wife since she is isolated in the master bedroom, leaving him with the "living room."

New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveal the details in Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, a copy of which the Daily Mail obtained. First lady Melania Trump occupies the traditional master bedroom with an en suite dressing room and bath; Donald Trump occupies the second-floor space typically labeled the "living room" on White House maps, next to the Yellow Oval.

The competition started almost immediately. With Melania spending little time at the White House in the early weeks, items began disappearing from the corridor into the president's room.

"'In the early weeks of the new administration, items were spirited from the second-floor corridor into the President's bedroom,'" Haberman and Swan wrote. "'Sometimes Trump carried the objects in himself, rearranging things across the private quarters on a whim.'"

When staff reminded him he was taking things Melania had personally selected, the authors said he brushed it off.

"'He made clear he didn't care,'" they wrote.

"'He seemed almost to be competing with her — determined to have the better room,'" Haberman and Swan added.

The dynamic left staff rattled.

"'The President's redecorating generated such a flurry of activity that staff often felt caught between the two Trumps,'" the authors wrote, noting the couple are the only White House pair to regularly use separate bedrooms since Richard and Pat Nixon.

"'Trump's obsessive focus on interior decorating made the staff yearn for the First Lady to return and hopefully rein him in,'" they said.

Following that, the president demolished the East Wing — traditionally home to the first lady's offices — to build a ballroom. By early 2026, the project was expected to be larger than the White House building itself, the authors said.

One of the Trump administration's deportation schemes has seen an "unprecedented" rise in activity over the last year that stunned two CNN reporters on Thursday.

Priscilla Alvarez, a CNN correspondent, and Phil Mattingly, who hosted Thursday's broadcast of "The Lead," discussed the Trump administration's efforts to denaturalize U.S. citizens throughout the second administration. Alvarez noted that only 166 denaturalization cases have been filed over the last 18 years, a figure the Trump administration is now trying to surpass in just one year by filing 250 cases.

"This is a significant ramping up. In fact, it's unprecedented," Alvarez said.

Immigration was one of the key issues that delivered the White House to Trump during the 2024 election. Administration officials have also floated the idea of suspending habeas corpus, which requires the government to explain why it detained someone, an idea that was shot down by bureaucrats inside the administration.

"Oftentimes with immigration in this administration, when you see something like this, it's a leading indicator of something to come or a scaling process that there are plans for," Mattingly said. "Do we have any sense of how far they want to take this?"

Alvarez noted that the administration is putting "a lot of resources" behind the initiative, suggesting it plans to continue ramping up the operation.

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, the pro-Trump official in charge of election administration in one of America's largest swing-state counties, got a blistering loss in state court on Thursday, as a panel of appellate judges blocked his sweeping election order against the Board of Supervisors.

Among other things, Heap ordered the board to hand over a trove of election equipment and resources they were withholding from his office, and make a number of changes to the process for approving polling places, including stripping the board of the power to approve new drop box sites without his consent under penalty of felony.

In the order, the judges ruled that the supervisors are likely to prevail against Heap on the merits.

Furthermore, they argued that the "Purcell" principle prohibited the lower court from intervening on Heap's behalf in a way that is likely to substantially change election rules this close to voting.

"Courts are reluctant to order last-minute changes in election rules and procedures because they can burden election workers and complicate and create confusion in the voting experience," said the judges. "We see merit in the Board’s and Purcell’s argument and conclude that the injunction is very likely to be vacated on Purcell grounds."

All of this comes as senior Trump White House aide Stephen Miller seeks to intervene in Arizona elections, which even Heap himself has asked courts to stop.