Karoline Leavitt
Iran déjà vu: Trump once again threatens massive escalation against Tehran only to walk back
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump has played this hand before during the 5-month-old Iran war. It starts with a grim warning to Tehran that the Republican president is on the cusp of ordering U.S. forces to “obliterate” its power plants or seize key parts of its oil industry if its leaders don’t quickly agree to […]
Trump hails a ‘unique’ Cabinet meeting at Camp David as he seizes on Spain’s migration crisis
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump took Friday’s Cabinet meeting on the road to Camp David, using the historic rustic backdrop of the presidential retreat to boast of his administration’s achievements while seizing on a migrant crisis in Spain to make his case for why voters should keep the Republican Party in power. The Cabinet meeting, […]
Trump hails a ‘unique’ Cabinet meeting at Camp David as he seizes on Spain’s migration crisis
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump took Friday’s Cabinet meeting on the road to Camp David, using the historic rustic backdrop of the presidential retreat to boast of his administration’s achievements while seizing on a migrant crisis in Spain to make his case for why voters should keep the Republican Party in power. The Cabinet meeting, […]
‘The show must go on,’ Trump says in rambling speech at rescheduled correspondents’ dinner
President Donald Trump returned to the stage of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Friday night, delivering a rambling speech that praised some journalists, took potshots at others, made jokes about public figures’ weight and intellect, and quipped about a third presidential term. He assured the crowd of journalists, though, that he’d scrapped the […]
Trump’s teleprompter operator on unpaid leave for alleged prediction market bets on Trump speeches
ATLANTA | President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi, the White House said Thursday. The firm’s enforcement chief said Kalshi contacted federal regulators about bets allegedly made about what the president would […]
Trump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national address
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday night on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he is likely to revisit some of the unproven claims he has previously made about Republican losses, particularly his own in 2020. Trump’s fixation on his loss to Democrat Joe […]