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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Fact Check: Trump showed 'assassination trading card' to group of kids at White House Easter event
Claim: An authentic photograph from the White House Easter event in April 2025 shows U.S. President Donald Trump displaying — to a group of children — a collectible card with a photograph of the assassination attempt targeting him in July 2024. Rating: In April 2025, a photograph spread online purportedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump showing a group of children what appeared to be a collectible trading card of the July 2024 assassination attempt targeting him. The picture appeared to have been taken April 21, when Trump hosted the White House Easter Egg Roll, an annual tradition where families gather to roll colored eggs down the White House lawn. As the photo spread, The Daily Mirror, a British tabloid, published a story with the headline "Trump blasted for showing assassination trading card to kids at White House event." (Facebook user "David Mudcat Calderon") The above photograph is real. It was not created using artificial intelligence software or manipulated using digital editing tools. As such, we rate this claim true. We found the photograph in Getty Images' database of photojournalism. The image was shot by Chip Somodevilla, with the caption: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a collectors card depicting the assassination attempt during the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The White House is expecting thousands of children and adults to participate in the annual tradition of rolling colored eggs down the White House lawn, a tradition started by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. () () The photograph on the card was taken by Jabin Botsford for The Washington Post, moments after a gunman opened fire at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. That photograph can be found on Getty Images here. The card also included text stating the date of the attempted assassination and captions reading, "Trump assassination attempt" and "Fight to save America 'Stand Strong'": () At the Butler rally, one person was killed and two others were wounded when the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire from a nearby roof as Trump spoke. Secret Service agents fatally shot Crooks and rushed Trump off stage after a bullet struck his ear. The Trump administration does not appear to be selling this specific collectible card through official channels, though cards with the same photograph and captions are available on the e-commerce platform eBay as of this writing. Similar trading cards are available for sale on sites unaffiliated with Trump. The Trump Organization is selling a book of photographs with an image from the assassination attempt on its cover. "In Photos: Signal Scramble at the 2025 White House Egg Roll." Axios, 21 Apr. 2025, Accessed 22 April 2025. Kasprak, Alex. "Rumor That Shards of Glass, Not Bullet, Injured Trump in Assassination Attempt Is False." Snopes, 15 July 2024, Accessed 22 April 2025. "Trump Is Safe After Assassination Attempt; Suspected Gunman Is Dead." The New York Times, 13 July 2024, Accessed 22 April 2025. "U.S. President Donald Trump Holds a Collectors Card Depicting The..." Getty Images, 21 Apr. 2025, Accessed 22 April 2025.
Scottish Sun
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Melania Trump's Amazon documentary insiders spill the beans on show filming as Donald and Barron set to appear
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) MELANIA Trump's forthcoming Amazon documentary will give viewers an exclusive look inside her private life, sources at the streaming giant have teased. Trump, 54, has been closely involved in the inner workings of the project ever since Amazon announced the documentary in January, where they revealed that filming began last November. 5 First Lady Melania Trump attends the White House Egg Roll on the South Lawn on Monday Credit: Getty Images - Getty 5 The Trump family pictured on Election Night 2024: Donald Trump (right), Melania Trump (left) and their son Barron Trump Credit: AFP or licensors 5 From left to right: Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend President Trump's inauguration on January 20 Credit: Getty Images - Getty 5 Melania Trump reads to a group of children during the White House Egg Roll on April 21 Credit: Getty Images - Getty Details about the project have been kept under wraps with Trump only describing it as a "day-to-day life, what I'm doing, what kind of responsibilities I have," she told Fox & Friends in January. She teased that the documentary will disclose details about the "transition team to moving to the White House, packing, the First Lady's office, and establishing her team." Now, an insider working for the production team of the documentary told The U.S. Sun that Trump views the project as the best way to express herself to supporters. The insider added that the First Lady wants it to convey she's a woman that "has ideas and wants to work on her own projects." "Melania wants people to know who she really is," the source told The U.S. Sun. "She's a private person, but she is very happy to be back on the spotlight in that project, and she thinks that doing a documentary is the best way to talk about herself and her life in a deep way - in a deeper way than just public appearances or interviews. "She knows what she wants, and she is a boss, that is for sure," the insider added, saying Trump has been very engaged and constructive with the production crew to make the best documentary possible. 'LIFE OF THE FIRST LADY' The source revealed to The U.S. Sun that President Trump, their son, Barron, and other family members are featured in some scenes, but the main premise of the project is about the first lady. A source who works for Amazon said she was very excited about the project A source who works for Amazon said Trump has disclosed to the production team a lot of "information about how life is in the White House," and the "life of the First Lady." Melania Trump holds first solo event of Donald's second term to support important bill as 'classy' first lady praised "She shows us a lot of details of the White House life, about what she loves about her function and life, but also the role model she is for other women and her family," the insider said. "We are getting inside things about her life, how she sees herself in this powerful environment, but also how she is as a mother, and the love she has for Barron, the support she shows to him 24/7, being also a role model for him. "There are also some moments with her husband, and Donald is not taking too much spotlights because he knows that this project is important for her. "But he gives a couple of details about the White House, and their way of life outside of there, in Mar-a-Lago, but also in New York for example, where she spends a lot of time. 5 Melania Trump pictured walking to a meeting on the US Capitol on March 3 Credit: AFP - Getty "Barron loves that his mother is doing a project like this and despite being shy, he is going to be in many parts of the documentary." Puck News reported that Amazon shelled out a whopping $40 million to license the documentary, which is expected to release during the fall, the production insider told The U.S. Sun. The project is being spearheaded by disgraced producer Brett Ratner, who has not been active in the world of film since 2018. In 2017, several women in Hollywood, including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge, came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Ratner. Ratner denied all the accusation and was never criminally charged.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump's Polling Is In Freefall
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and the Easter Bunny greet guests at the White House Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on April 21, 2025. Credit - Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Don't look now, but Donald Trump is in some of the worst polling territory of his time in power. And that's saying something, as he's never been on terribly firm ground. For most of his first term, Trump leaned heavily on his solid footing as a steward of the economy and defender of the border to offset his erratic day-to-day antics. But his support on those twin policy pillars are showing signs of weakening in a series of new polls pegged to his first 100 days back in power. In fact, they're dragging him down as he adopts more extreme policies. All of the latest polls show Trump doing terribly on his handling of the economy. Reuters, in fact, found Trump at his lowest marks for the economy ever—just 37% approval. On immigration, Trump's polling isn't quite as dire, but he's just about completely erased his edge amid a deportation spree that's included U.S. citizens and others in the country legally. His unfavorable numbers have been on a steady climb since he came back to the Oval Office, reaching as of Thursday 52% in a New York Times aggregate analysis. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush were all faring better at this point in their terms. And Trump 2.0 takes little solace in the fact he's still doing better than Trump 1.0 was faring eight years ago at this point in the presidency. (That excludes a brutal Fox News poll, released Wednesday, that has him under his first-term numbers by a single point, but still within the margin of error.) In this century, no U.S. President's polling has fallen off as sharply as Trump's, either. And it's not like he had much padding there, either; he started his second term with the second-worst numbers of any President in the modern era, again only saved by his first time coming to Washington. You have to go back all the way to 1953 to find a first-time President with worse numbers. (For those who cannot tick through the White House occupant list, that would be first-time politician Dwight D. Eisenhower.) The latest polling for The Economist and YouGov give Trump an approval rating of negative 13 points—a three-point hit from just a week ago. (At this point in his presidency, Biden was up 11 points.) Drilling down into the latest polling from Pew, Trump is in negative territory in every single demographic group save two: Republicans and those people who voted for him. Men, women, persons of color, college educated and not—they all have net negative views of him. On exactly zero issues is he in net-positive territory. Not immigration. Not trade. Not public health. Not the economy. Not foreign policy or tax policy. There's no single answer why voters have started to sour on Trump, but it's impossible to set aside the economy. Trump's tariff tiff with friend and foe alike has left markets rattled. His escalating trade war is giving Wall Street major buyers' remorse. His mass deportations have left employers scrambling for low-cost labor and courts jammed with cases. His gutting of government—and lurching reboots—does little to project steadiness, either. Gallup's polling, also new this week, finds the country exhibiting the worst economic confidence since 2001 when it started asking the question. What started as a net-12 point advantage on the economy for Trump at the start of his term three months ago has become a 12-point deficit—a massive shift marking about a quarter of the electorate, according to the Economist/ YouGov data. It's a similar rot in the same poll's question on immigration. What started as an 11-point net positive there has since become a net-negative prospect of 5 points in that Economist/ YouGov survey. In the new Pew data, immigration ranked as the most liked thing Trump has done so far, ranking up there with about 20% of all Americans. It's the lone area where Trump is above water, although the Fox numbers hint at trouble, with just 47% giving him good marks on that topic, and 48% disapproving. But when asked what they like the least about his work so far, his approach to governing is equally as strong, with 22% of adults telling Pew it's their biggest criticism of time back in power. The fading shine of Trump is far from a salve for the wound he's gashing on Washington, but it does give hope for Democrats, who have been open about their lack of strategy for pushing back on just about any of his moves undermining the rule of law, the economy, or even the government he leads. Politically independent voters—the bread and butter of elections—have been the biggest crack in Trump's coalition: in January, according to Quinnipiac polling, 46% of indie voters said they disapproved of Trump; today, that number stands at 58%. A 12-point swing with independents is the entire ballgame, and should give Republicans a reason to reconsider if Trump's halo is enough to save them when they face voters next year. Among Republicans, there are also signs of trouble. The Fox poll asked GOP voters about their prospects for this second term, and 75% of the group said they were 'encouraged' about the next four years. Good, sure. But recall that 84% of those partisans said the same when asked that question at this point during Trump's first term. If this trend continues, there might be reason for the groundskeepers at the Capitol to ready the Speaker's suite for a new occupant, especially given Democrats' strong fundraising so far this cycle. Republicans currently have a tiny seven-seat majority in that chamber. So far, GOP lawmakers have shown deference to the belief only Trump could protect them from a loss in the next primary. These latest numbers show he may actually be piling on the pain. Make sense of what matters in Washington. Sign up for the D.C. Brief newsletter. Write to Philip Elliott at
Irish Daily Star
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Irish Daily Star
'Hideous' Trump hangs new self-portrait in White House next to his greatest political rival
In yet another move to redecorate The White House, President Donald Trump has displayed another self-portrait, this time right next to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, still hung up from her time as first lady. Attendees at Monday's annual White House Egg Roll revealed the new portrait — posting pictures of it to social media, which is a close up of Trump's face. Imposed over the face of the president, who was branded the 'dumbest president ever' for a shocking 6-word geography comment, are the stars and strips of the American flag. The portrait, which has been described as "hideous" is hung in a permanent location just outside the East Wing of the White House, where First Lady Melania Trump has her offices. Visitors taking the official White House tour pass by that location. It comes just a day after the White House's 'narcissistic ' five-word tribute to the Pope. Unlike the previous portrait hung in the White House, this did not appear to have replaced any previous portrait hung from the previous occupants. Instead, the picture appeared to be squished in between Clinton and former First Lady Laura Bush. A White House staffer reportedly called the new painting "another iconic portrait" and told The Daily Mail that "Trump was re-elected after two failed impeachment hoaxes, dozens of criminal charges, and multiple assassination attempts. He can hang art wherever he wants!" This newest painting comes after the White House stirred controversy after it replaced a portrait of former President Barack Obama with a painting depicting the infamous Associated Press photograph of Trump pumping his fist after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania last year. The photo shows then-candidate Trump bloodied after the bullet grazed his ear, raising his fist while being surrounded by Secret Service agents. The image, along with the president's chant of "fight, fight, fight,' would later become a staple of Trump's second bid for the presidency. In a brief video on X, the White House showed the photo's new position alongside the caption 'Some new artwork at the White House.' A White House official told The Irish Star that the portrait was painted by Marc Lipp, and was a gift to the president from Andrew Pollock to the White House via Blue Gallery. It was also noted by the curator that, during his first term, Trump reportedly moved the portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. NBC reported that Trump did not get an official portrait during his first term in office, a matter in which the Biden administration referred questions to the White House Historical Association. Obama's portrait was not the only one moved during the recent Trump redecoration, NBC reported. A White House official stated that the 44th president's portrait now resides where Bush's used to and that the 43rd president had been relegated to a stairway next to his father, Herbert Walker Bush.
Irish Daily Star
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Irish Daily Star
Trump hands new self-portrait in White House next to his greatest political rival
In yet another move to redecorate The White House, President Donald Trump has displayed another self-portrait, this time right next to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , still hung up from her time as first lady. Attendees at Monday's annual White House Egg Roll revealed the new portrait — posting pictures of it to social media, which is a close up of Trump's face. Imposed over the president's face are the stars and strips of the American flag. The portrait is hung in a permanent location just outside the East Wing of the White House, where First Lady Melania Trump has her offices. Visitors taking the official White House tour pass by that location. Read More Related Articles Donald Trump branded 'dumbest President ever' after six-word comment about Congo Read More Related Articles Deranged Donald Trump posts mad 184-word Easter message taking aim at all his enemies White House replaces Obama portrait with huge painting depicting Trump assassination attempt (Image: @WhiteHouse/X) Unlike the previous portrait hung in the White House, this did not appear to have replaced any previous portrait hung from the previous occupants. Instead, the picture appeared to be squished in between Clinton and former First Lady Laura Bush. A White House staffer reportedly called the new painting "another iconic portrait" and told The Daily Mail that "Trump was re-elected after two failed impeachment hoaxes, dozens of criminal charges, and multiple assassination attempts. He can hang art wherever he wants!" This newest painting comes after the White House stirred controversy after it replaced a portrait of former President Barack Obama with a painting depicting the infamous Associated Press photograph of Trump pumping his fist after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania last year. The photo shows then-candidate Trump bloodied after the bullet grazed his ear, raising his fist while being surrounded by Secret Service agents. The image, along with the president's chant of "fight, fight, fight,' would later become a staple of Trump's second bid for the presidency. In a brief video on X, the White House showed the photo's new position alongside the caption 'Some new artwork at the White House.' A White House official told The Irish Star that the portrait was painted by Marc Lipp, and was a gift to the president from Andrew Pollock to the White House via Blue Gallery. A painting of President Donald Trump hangs in the Cross Hall at the White House, and is viewed before Trump arrived to speak at the Commander-in-Chief trophy presentation (Image: AP) It was also noted by the curator that, during his first term, Trump reportedly moved the portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. NBC reported that Trump did not get an official portrait during his first term in office, a matter in which the Biden administration referred questions to the White House Historical Association. Obama's portrait was not the only one moved during the recent Trump redecoration, NBC reported. A White House official stated that the 44th president's portrait now resides where Bush's used to and that the 43rd president had been relegated to a stairway next to his father, Herbert Walker Bush.
