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On Wednesday afternoon, April 2, President Donald Trump had a visitor in the White House Oval Office: far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a self-described "proud Islamophobe" who is controversial even among fellow Trump supporters.

During the meeting, according to reporters Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Ken Bensinger, Loomer "pressed for him to fire National Security Council staff members whom she deemed disloyal to him."

An email asks that fired Food and Drug Administration (FDA) workers return to work after they were let go or put on paid leave.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that the request came mere hours after workers were shut out of government offices.

CNBC journalist Steve Liesman on Thursday found himself absolutely baffled by the math that President Donald Trump and his administration were using to justify the massive tariffs they slapped on nearly every nation in the world.

While discussing the tariffs, Liesman said he immediately knew something was off with Trump's presentation in the Rose Garden when he falsely claimed that the European Union charged 39 percent tariffs on American goods.

President Donald Trump's new "Liberation Day" tariffs on foreign goods from all over the world are being sold by the White House as a plan to shift the world economy back to American manufacturing — but just hours before the tariffs were announced, Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk defunded a program that's been boosting American manufacturers for decades, Wired reported.

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) is a federal program, established in the 1980s while the U.S. was trying to stop the domination of Japanese manufacturing, to offer advice to U.S. manufacturers. "Decades later, there is now at least one Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center in all 50 states, and they continue to provide taxpayer-subsidized consulting to thousands of businesses, including makers of ovens, printers, tortillas, and dog food," according to the report.

The Department of Defense inspector general announced on Thursday afternoon that it will investigate Secretary Pete Hegseth and his involvement in a Signal chat that shared highly sensitive details about a military attack, the inspector general's office announced Thursday.

A bombshell report in The Atlantic last week revealed that defense chief Hegseth shared the plans in the unsecure chat that included a reporter among its membership. It's something that President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence warned was unacceptable just days earlier in an X post.

Former Republican Stuart Stevens criticized some of the GOP leaders he said he helped elect in a Thursday conversation about President Donald Trump.

Speaking on MSNBC, the Lincoln Project co-founder cited special elections in Wisconsin and Florida on Tuesday as proof that Trumpism isn't doing as well as it did in November.

Activists were expected to gather for at least 45 protests against President Donald Trump and DOGE administrator Elon Musk while the commander-in-chief visited three of his golf courses in the state.

The 45 protests were just some of the 1,000 nationwide demonstrations planned for Saturday against the Trump administration as a part of the "Hands Off!" movement, according to USA Today. The protests will come just days after Trump's so-called Liberation Day, when he announced tariffs on dozens of countries.

CNN's Dana Bash on Thursday mocked President Donald Trump for leveling tariffs against an island that are inhabited solely by penguins.

"No one is safe from President Trump's new tariffs, not even penguins," she said. "A remote island near Antarctica that is home to mainly penguins, no humans, is now subject to a 10 percent American tariff. This is not a joke. We are not kidding. These penguins, who do not trade goods or services with the United States as far as we know, are on the receiving end of a new tax."

Declaring a “national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life,” President Donald Trump, after markets closed on Wednesday afternoon, announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every nation across the globe—tanking stock market futures in the U.S. and abroad, unleashing global “chaos,” and pushing the so-called “fear index” to “extreme.”

Hours after what he dubbed “Liberation Day,” the president, on Thursday afternoon, will land at Miami International Airport and head straight to his Trump National Doral Golf Club for the LIV dinner, ahead of this weekend’s golf tournament which he is expected to attend.

One of Elon Musk's DOGE team members gained access to highly sensitive data involving thousands of children, including their mental health and therapy records.

The Unaccompanied Alien Children portal (UAC) contains extremely detailed records about minors who enter the U.S. alone, and the database contains reports of trauma such as physical or sexual abuse, in addition to photos, immigration records and addresses of their family members, reported The Guardian.

Donald Trump's unprovoked trade war with Canada is hitting his adopted home state of Florida in unintended ways as visitors from north of the U.S. border are seeking warm weather elsewhere rather than their usual haunts.

According to a report from the Washington Post, while hot spots like San Diego and Palm Springs in Southern California, and Phoenix in Arizona are also seeing a decline in visitors, the Sunshine State is seeing a drastic drop with the head of Visit Lauderdale claiming, "There is a lot of anger out there."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a shot at Monica Crowley, President Donald Trump's nominee for Chief of Protocol, after she spent years defending former President Richard Nixon.

While introducing Crowley at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cruz noted that Crowley had disagreed with a book he wrote where he called Nixon a "crook."