Live updates: Trump to host NATO chief, promising ‘major statement' on Russia
After President Donald Trump wrongly suggested that Social Security funds were going to millions of dead people, his administration spent weeks revamping the agency's database. When Trump seized on a debunked claim that South Africa's government was systematically massacring White farmers, U.S. officials developed plans to resettle 1,000 of them.
The two most fruitful paths for world leaders to navigate the tumult of President Donald Trump's second term are opposite ones.
You can either do your best to praise, ingratiate yourself with and pander to an American president whose egotism is constantly on show. Or you can set yourself in tacit or explicit opposition to the world's most powerful nationalist, recognizing that this display of defiance may boost you politically at home even if it incurs the wrath of the White House.
President Donald Trump will make a three-day state visit this fall to the United Kingdom, where he will be hosted by King Charles III, giving him the unprecedented distinction of being granted a second state visit.
Buckingham Palace announced Monday that Trump has accepted the king's invitation to visit Britain from Sept. 17 to 19. He and first lady Melania Trump will be hosted at Windsor Castle, the palace added, with further details to be announced later.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — President Donald Trump stood and saluted from a suite at midfield Sunday, briefly the center of attention amid the final match of a global competition that has been a precursor for a much bigger event next year.
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12 minutes ago
- CNN
Russia sees Trump's 50-day window as a green light to keep up brutal offensive in Ukraine
President Trump has effectively handed Vladimir Putin an extraordinary green light: 50 days to finish off his brutal summer offensive in Ukraine before facing any consequences. Only if there is no deal to end the war by the end of that period, in early September, would the threatened 100 percent tariffs on Russia and secondary sanctions on Russian trading partners kick in. That must seem like an eternity for millions of sleepless Ukrainians now enduring an escalating Russian onslaught of deadly missile and mass drone strikes on their towns and cities. But in Moscow, officials are quietly breathing a sigh of relief. After all, it could have been much worse for them. Sanctions could have been immediate, if President Trump had wanted, or much higher - such as the 500 percent tariff rate being proposed in a bi-partisan bill in the US Senate. Not that a renewed threat of sanctions is certain to alter the Kremlin's course in Ukraine. Far from it. Russia is already one of the world's most heavily sanctioned countries, punishments for allegations of US election interference, as well as other malign activities from Crimea to Syria to Britain and beyond. The Kremlin has already established a complex set of flexible workarounds to keep its fragile economy afloat, while refusing to change its behavior. 'Life has shown that no sanctions decisions against Russia produce results,' commented Anatoly Aksakov, a key Russian lawmaker, when asked about the latest sanctions threat. 'They lead to Russia confidently moving forward, developing its economy, carrying out structural restructuring of its national economy,' he added. Moreover, Kremlin insiders suspect that the 50-day window before any new US sanctions hit is plenty of time for their military push in Ukraine to pay off – or, failing that, for a notoriously changeable President Trump to change his mind on Russia once again. 'In 50 days, oh, how much can change, both on the battlefield and in the mood of those in power in the US and NATO,' said one prominent Russian senator, Konstantin Kosachev, on social media. 'But our mood will not be affected,' he vowed, underlining how Russia sees itself as having a long-term approach to Ukraine while Western governments, specifically the Trump administration, are seen as fickle. Still, Russia is genuinely alarmed at the prospect of US weapons, even defensive Patriot missile defense systems, flowing back into Ukraine. Moscow sees the almost daily aerial barrages of Kyiv and other Ukrainian towns and cities as an essential aspect of its current military push, along with the grinding offensive on the Ukrainian frontlines. The idea is that Ukrainian resolve to keep fighting will be worn down, that political will in Europe will wane, and that the country will eventually capitulate. But the deal to provide more US-made Patriot missile defense systems, which provide umbrella protection from aerial attack, makes that outcome less likely. And frustrated Russian politicians are lashing out, accusing President Trump of talking peace, but prolonging the war behind the scenes. 'Ukraine, this man is deceiving you!' declared Leonid Kalashnikov, an outspoken Communist Party lawmaker. 'He wants this war to continue, but not by his own hands,' Kalashnikov added. On state television, tightly controlled by the Kremlin, Washington's U-turn on providing weapons to Ukraine has been roundly slated, with President Trump being compared to his presidential predecessor, widely despised in Russia. 'Trump has now followed in the footsteps of [former US President] Joseph Biden and is promising weapons to Ukraine in order to bring Moscow to the negotiating table,' said Olga Skabeyeva, a prominent pro-Kremlin host. 'Biden was doing this for the last three and a half years. But as we know, he had no success,' she scoffed
New York Times
22 minutes ago
- New York Times
Seth Meyers Is Amused by MAGA's Epstein Infighting
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. A MAGA Meltdown Some fans of President Trump have felt betrayed since he dismissed the conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein's death in a lengthy social media post, basically telling them to move on. On Monday, Seth Meyers called the MAGA infighting 'a monster of their own making.' 'They made the Epstein conspiracy a center of their worldview, despite the fact that Trump and Epstein were photographed together, and partied together, and Trump called Epstein a terrific guy, and Epstein called Trump his closest friend of 10 years.' — SETH MEYERS 'In a post over the weekend on Truth Social, President Trump told his supporters to 'not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.' Yeah, nobody cares about him! The guy only had, like, one friend.' — SETH MEYERS, referring to Trump 'How dare you fixate on a story from the past, something Donald Trump has never done? He's focused on the issues of today, not the 2020 election, or the Russia investigation, or Hunter Biden's laptop, or Hillary Clinton's email server, Joe Biden's autopen, or Rosie O'Donnell making fun of him, or his ratings for 'The Apprentice,' which ended in 2015, or deceased golfer Arnold Palmer's unusually large penis, which, by the way, we have yet to see definitive proof of.' — SETH MEYERS 'That's right, President Trump reprimanded his supporters on Truth Social for focusing on the Epstein files — and maybe some other stuff. I only made it through Chapter 1.' — SETH MEYERS 'This is the most Trump's written since Hooters got on Yelp. Look, I don't know if Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, but I'm sure, after this, some of Trump's advisers did.' — SETH MEYERS The Punchiest Punchlines (Flat Earth Edition) 'Oh, here's a sentence I've never said: There's some fun news involving Jeffrey Epstein.' — STEPHEN COLBERT 'Wait a second. If it was sitting on Pam Bondi's desk in February and now it doesn't exist, that can only mean one thing: Someone stole Pam Bondi's desk.' — STEPHEN COLBERT, referring to Epstein's supposed client list 'Yeah, everyone from Trump supporters to Democrats are asking to see the Epstein files, and everyone who isn't is definitely in those files.' — JIMMY FALLON 'You can't take this away from your base — that is MAGA's favorite conspiracy. What are we going to find out next? That immigrants aren't eating cats? That if you sail to the horizon, you don't fall off the world?' — STEPHEN COLBERT The Bits Worth Watching Elmo stopped by 'The Daily Show' to explain his recent out-of-character X posts to Jon Stewart. What We're Excited About on Tuesday Night The 'Too Much' star Megan Stalter will appear on 'The Late Show.' Also, Check This Out Peek behind the curtain to see what made Alfred Hitchcock the master of suspense.
Fox News
22 minutes ago
- Fox News
Trump delivers on campaign promises while liberal media cries he's 'destroying democracy'
Donald Trump stands accused of trying to repeal the 20th century. That's how the New York Times puts it, and there is ample reporting to back that up. But I would add this bit of perspective. When Joe Biden came into office, he was widely portrayed as making important, progressive, reforms. He was depicted as undoing the damage of Trump's first term. He was one of the good guys. (Biden was also derided as too old for the job and mentally declining, and shielded from the press, and botching the border, but his heart was seen as being in the right place.) When Trump won a second term, he was immediately viewed as a human wrecking ball. He's been absolutely aggressive, taking on elite law firms, Ivy League universities and the media, winning big settlements from two of the three broadcast networks, ABC and CBS. He's sealed the border, backed stronger tactics by ICE agents, and slapped even longtime allies with sky-high tariffs–all of which he had promised during the campaign. But most in the media have portrayed this as moving backwards, undoing important reforms and damaging the country. They have slid back into the familiar role of the Resistance. The framing is that Trump is destroying democracy, ruining the economy, yadda yadda yadda. He is one of the bad guys. Never mind that he won the popular vote. Trump is undoing what Biden did, as Biden did after Trump's first term, and that is a catastrophe. The president also successfully bombed Iran's nuclear sites, and despite the debate over how much of a setback that was, most Democrats and media people refused to credit him, or did so grudgingly. (At the same time, Trump and his Justice Department also bungled the Jeffrey Epstein case, refusing–after a big buildup–to release anything, on grounds that there was no client list and that the convicted pedophile did commit suicide in prison.) On Sunday's Mediabuzz, Sarah Bedford, investigations editor of the right-leaning Washington Examiner, called it "a huge PR disaster for the Trump administration. There's no way for them to spin their way out of this." I've been trying to figure out why this is striking such a deep chord among MAGA loyalists, rather than being a two-day story, and this is my take. The no-need-to-release-anything about this "creep," as Trump calls him, is a proxy for a broader sentiment that the rich and powerful always get away with things. They protect each other. They're never held accountable for actions that would sink the rest of us. I've been trying to figure out why this is striking such a deep chord among MAGA loyalists, rather than being a two-day story, and this is my take. The no-need-to-release-anything about this "creep," as Trump calls him, is a proxy for a broader sentiment that the rich and powerful always get away with things. They protect each other. They're never held accountable for actions that would sink the rest of us. From the New York Times: "On matters big and small, Mr. Trump has hit the rewind button. At the broadest level, he has endeavored to reverse the globalization and internationalism that have defined U.S. leadership around the globe since World War II, under presidents of both parties. But even at a more prosaic level, it has become evident that Mr. Trump, 79, the oldest president ever inaugurated, simply prefers things the way he remembers them from his youth, or even before that." In the well-reported piece, Peter Baker says Trump wants has called into question fluoride in water, flu vaccine and car safety standards. "He has made clear that he wants to return to an era when 'Cats' was the big hit on Broadway, not 'Hamilton;' when military facilities were named after Confederate generals, not gay rights leaders; when coal was king and there were no windmills; when straws were plastic, not paper; when toilets flushed more powerfully; when there weren't so many immigrants; when police officers weren't discouraged from being rough on suspects; when diversity was not a goal in hiring or college admissions or much of anything else–all to save America from "radical left lunatics." You may or may not agree with this analysis, but there's little question that Donald Trump wants to hit the time machine and return the country to a time when he was growing up, or even decades before that. That, after all, is why we have elections. Footnote: President Trump posted this, seemingly out of the blue: "Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" I don't think he has the power to do this to a natural-born American citizen. And I don't think he will. But even if he did, wouldn't it have to be tied to some kind of national security threat? Rosie, with whom he's been feuding for years? She has hit back, probably thankful for the publicity: "The president of the usa has always hated the fact that i see him for who he is – a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself – this is why i moved to ireland – he is a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy compassion and basic humanity." Zero evidence that he has dementia, of course. But why go there?
