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President Donald Trump triggered outrage on Friday during a signing of his executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense to the "Department of War," when he suggested the United States only loses wars due to "woke" cultural values.

"We should have won every war," said Trump. "We could have won every war, but we really chose to be a very politically correct—wokey. We never wanted to win."

Former Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Friday he doesn't think President Donald Trump's push to bury the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking files controversy, most recently calling it a "hoax" manufactured by Democrats, is going to move the needle much.

"It's a valid question to be asked as to why the Democrats didn't push more for any of this during President Biden's term or after, after Epstein's death," said Bolduan. "That being said, the president continues to try to tamp this down. Do you think that this sort of thing, calling it a hoax by the Democrats, is enough to tamp down the calls for transparency from within his own party on this issue?"

President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver an address Friday afternoon at which he'll announce that he's changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

His officials, however, are worried military members might not appear professional enough to stand before their commander-in-chief.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was singled out by Washington, D.C. Judge Edward M. Chen for what he said violates the law and the U.S. Constitution.

In a ruling Friday, Chen wrote that removing the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, of Venezuelans and Haitians could not move forward, writing, they'd be sent "back to conditions that are so dangerous that even the State Department advises against travel to their home countries."

CNN data analyst Harry Enten raked President Donald Trump over the coals on Friday following the dismal new jobs report, taking the president to task for taking every possible opportunity to blame someone else for his woes while pushing ahead with aggressive tariffs and other policies the business world warns are constraining growth.

"Let's dig into those numbers a little bit, take a closer look at what the jobs report tells us," said anchor Erica Hill. "So, Harry, first of all, give me the big takeaways, my friend."

This week, President Donald Trump announced that he ordered a military attack on what he claimed were drug traffickers in a small boat in the Caribbean. However, two high-ranking Pentagon officials told The Intercept that the strike was a criminal attack on civilians — and the reasoning for it was created only after the attack.

“The U.S. is now directly targeting civilians. Drug traffickers may be criminals but they aren’t combatants,” one official said. “When Trump fired the military’s top lawyers the rest saw the writing on the wall, and instead of being a critical firebreak they are now a rubber stamp complicit in this crime.”

In his first term, President Donald Trump personally approved a Navy SEALs team to secretly plant an electronic device on a North Korean fishing boat. The device would let the United States intercept the communications of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during high-level nuclear talks with Trump.

But in an explosive report, The New York Times wrote that the team failed their mission in a deadly way. Fearing that they had been spotted, the SEALs opened fire on the boat, killing the innocent fishermen onboard.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro could be in line for a private dressing down by a federal magistrate for wasting the court’s time with multiple frivolous federal charges that either get dropped at the last minute or flop in front of federal grand juries.

Reacting to federal Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui blowing up on DOJ prosecutors for pulling another last-minute dropping of federal charges ordered by Pirro on Thursday, a panel of legal experts on MSNBC suggested the Trump appointee should expect a courtroom appointment with the judge in the near future to explain her actions.

After the Trump administration slashed billions in state and local public health funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year, the eventual impact on states split sharply along political lines.

Democratic-led states that sued to block the cuts kept much of their funding, while Republican-led states lost the bulk of theirs, according to a new analysis from health research organization KFF.