Trump News

President Donald Trump was ordered by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a judge he appointed, to stop the blacklisting of The Associated Press from White House press briefings and functions over their refusal to adopt Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, calling it a "brazen" assault on the First Amendment.

But the president appears to be flouting the order.

During his first term, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump removed a significant portion of Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden at the White House. Now, the second term has removed another tree, and pavers are being placed, reported Daily Mail reporter Emily Goodin.

In February, The New York Times reported that the Trump team was planning to make more changes to the iconic Rose Garden to craft a patio in the Mar-a-Lago style.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested Jesus Christ would send "Saturday Night Live" actors and writers to hell for a sketch that mocked President Donald Trump.

In a sketch over the weekend, comedian James Austin Johnson mentioned Jesus during his impersonation of Trump.

President Donald Trump's trade war and the significant cuts in scientific research at U.S. agencies are moving "America down the value chain," political analyst Jonathan Chait wrote for "The Atlantic" on Monday.

Trump inherited a "healthy economy," only to "burn [it] down," Chait wrote. He questioned whether it was incompetence or if there was something strategic Trump was attempting to do.

President Donald Trump once relied on voter trust on economic issues to propel him into office and to minimize his party's losses once he was in office. But after a few months back in power, the economy is instead one of his biggest weaknesses, wrote election data firm Split Ticket's Leon Sit and Max McCall for The Washington Post on Monday.

"Donald Trump rode a wave of economic discontent back into the White House, with nostalgia for the pre-covid economy guiding voters to reelect the president who presided over that time period," they wrote. "Trump’s voters entrusted him to work to assuage cost-of-living concerns and supercharge the national economy. But just three months into his second presidential term, Trump’s promised protectionist push has opened cracks in the Republican coalition — and could prove to transform economic issues from Republicans’ spearpoint into their Achilles’ heel."

A Palestinian green card holder who protested the war in Gaza was reportedly arrested by Homeland Security agents after being called into the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Vermont for a citizenship test.

A video shared by CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano showed Mohsen Mahdawi being taken into custody outside the office in Burlington on Monday. Mahdawi, a Columbia University graduate student, had led protests against the war last year.

Although Silicon Valley billionaire Mark Zuckerberg — whose Meta owns the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram — was critical of President Donald Trump in the past, he reached out to him after the 2024 election and attended Trump's inauguration. Zuckerberg has met with Trump three times in 2025, but according to Semafor reporter Ben Smith, some of the Meta CEO's "key antagonists in the federal government" showed up in the White House Oval Office on Tuesday, April 8.

Smith, in an article published on April 14, explains, "The visitors were Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which is suing Meta in a trial that begins today; and Gail Slater, the assistant attorney general who is responsible for the Justice Department’s anti-trust enforcement. Ferguson and Slater were there, a person familiar with the meeting said, to stiffen Trump's spine against a relentless wave of lobbying from Meta."

Five owner-operated businesses have filed a lawsuit against the tariffs in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

The Liberty Justice Center and law professor Ilya Somin joined together to form the legal team for the five businesses, which includes VOS Selections, Inc. Plastic Services and Products, Genova Pipe, Microkits, FishUSA, and Terry Precision Cycling.

Jacob Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University, cautioned in a Blue Sky thread that the case involving a Maryland man the U.S. government acknowledges was "wrongfully deported" has reached a "crisis moment."

In March, Kilmar Ábrego García was accused of being an MS-13 gang member and deported to El Salvador along with others whom the U.S government alleged were dangerous. The deportation was carried out despite a U.S. judge telling the government that it could not deport García to El Salvador.

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.

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.