Trump even suggested the rupture could be permanent on Thursday.
“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” he said. “He hasn’t said bad things about me personally, but I’m sure that’ll be next. But I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot.”
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The tiff between two emotionally immature billionaires inspired unprecedented social media snark ― including from the president himself.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform to declare that “the easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.”
He added, “I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
Donald Trump Truth Social post about Elon Musk.
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And, yes, people had thoughts. Lots and lots of thoughts.
WOW! Donald Trump just completely destroyed Elon Musk:
“I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot…People leave my administration and…some of them become hostile…It’s sort of Trump Derangement Syndrome.\"
— Lucas Sanders 💙🗳️🌊💪🌈🚺🟧 (@LucasSa56947288) June 5, 2025
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WOW! Donald Trump just completely destroyed Elon Musk:
“I’m very disappointed in Elon. I’ve helped Elon a lot…People leave my administration and…some of them become hostile…It’s sort of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Elon Musk has a lot of shit on Donald Trump as far as the shady crap they engaged in to get him elected in 2024. Donald is terrified and it’s fucking glorious.
— WhiskeyWench 🇺🇸✌🏻🖕🏼✌🏻🇺🇸 (@amethyst7223) June 5, 2025
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The funniest possible outcome is definitely Trump deporting him.
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) June 5, 2025
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Elon Musk is taking his feud with President Donald Trump a step further, posting on X that the reason the Jeffrey Epstein files haven’t been released is because Trump is in them.
“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk posted Thursday afternoon on X, formerly Twitter. ”[Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.
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“Have a nice day, DJT!”
Epstein was a financier who died in prison while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges in 2019. In February, the White House promised to release a trove of documents related to the case, but what was ultimately released was largely already known.
The billionaire’s “really big bomb” may be more of a dud. It’s long been reported that Trump was on Epstein’s flight logs. But Musk’s post still signals an escalation in his sudden about-turn with Trump.
The two seemed to enjoy a honeymoon period as Musk ripped apart the federal government as the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But on Thursday the two traded barbs after Musk criticized Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill, a spending measure that would cut Medicaid benefits and extend tax cuts for the wealthy.
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The name-calling has only escalated since Thursday morning. Trump threatened to terminate Musk’s government contracts in a Truth Social post.
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump posted. “I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
“Go ahead, make my day …” Musk posted on X in response.
Musk then accused Trump of covering up the Epstein files.
Nigel Farage has been accused of copying the tactics of Donald Trump after he criticised a journalist at a press conference.
The Reform UK leader accused Andrew Learmonth, the political editor of The Herald newspaper, of colluding with protesters outside the venue in Aberdeen.
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Farage was in the city ahead of a crucial Scottish Parliament by-election in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on Thursday.
After calling the journalist to ask him a question, Farage said: “Andrew Learmonth, it seems that you’re involved with this group of protesters outside.”
When the journalist told Farage he wasn’t, the Reform leader replied: “Well it’s funny isn’t it that you come and your newspaper also manages to have another one of your correspondents as a protest correspondent, so you know more about this than we did.”
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Learmonth then said: “That’s not true at all, Nigel, sorry.”
Farage eventually told the reporter: “If you say that, I believe you.”
But he added: “This location was only sent to you guys, it wasn’t sent on the public wires. We didn’t put it out to our membership and yet [the protesters] knew. It came from one of you.”
Protesters gather at a press conference attended by the Reform UK leadership in Aberdeen.
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Catherine Salmond, the editor of The Herald, condemned Farage.
She said: “The responsibility of a trusted news brand is to act with integrity. The idea that The Herald was involved with protests in Aberdeen against Nigel Farage and Reform UK is ridiculous.
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“Our job is to report on the truth and to hold those who do not tell the truth to account.
“Attacking the media has become commonplace under Donald Trump in the US and today we have seen it here in Scotland, by Reform UK, against The Herald. A low tactic and one we should all stand against.”
King Charles appeared to show solidarity with Canada amid President Donald Trump’s threats to annex the United States’ northern neighbour.
The monarch signalled support for Canadian sovereignty on Tuesday as he delivered a historic speech to the country’s Parliament that made repeated references to the ongoing tensions with the Trump administration.
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Charles, who serves as head of state of the former British colony, said Canada is facing “unprecedented” challenges and that “many Canadians are feeling anxious and worried about the drastically changing world around them.”
In a thinly-veiled rejection of Trump’s stated aspiration to turn Canada into the 51st US state, Charles earned an extended round of applause when he told lawmakers that “the True North is indeed strong and free” — a reference to a line in Canada’s national anthem.
The speech came during a two-day visit to Canada by the King and Queen Camilla. The trip is widely seen as a show of support in the face of Trump’s sabre-rattling, which has included levying sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods.
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Trump’s grandstanding helped propel Prime Minister Mark Carney’s centre-left Liberal Party to an unexpected federal election win last month.
The King on Tuesday was delivering a “Speech from the Throne,” an address that marks the start of a new session of the Canadian Parliament.
It’s rare for the British monarch to make the speech, which is written by the prime minister’s office, and Charles outlined the Carney government’s priorities in the address.
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Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, did it twice before, in 1957 and 1977. The 76-year-old king’s commitment to Canada was underlined by the fact he made the trip while undergoing cancer treatment.
The speech itself was littered with remarks about US-Canadian relations and wider global unrest.
“We must face reality: Since the Second World War, our world has never been more dangerous and unstable. Canada is facing challenges that, in our lifetimes, are unprecedented,” Charles said in French.
Noting that Canada faces a “critical moment,” Charles said “self-determination” is one of the values “Canadians hold dear,” a clear allusion to the annexation threat.
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And the King explicitly acknowledged Carney and Trump “defining a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the United States, rooted in mutual respect and founded on common interests to deliver transformational benefits for both sovereign nations.”
It was his closing remarks that are likely to be seen as the most significant.
“I wish to express to you and to the people of Canada my heartfelt gratitude, and that of my wife, for the warmth of the welcome which we have received,” Charles said. “As the anthem reminds us: The True North is indeed strong and free.”
Former US Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday took an apparent swipe at billionaire Elon Musk over his stance on empathy, while conceding that she is deeply concerned about the current state of the world, in one of the few public appearances she’s made since leaving office.
Speaking at the Australian Real Estate Conference, Harris alluded to recent remarks by Musk, who has now significantly scaled back his role in the Trump administration — a stark contrast to his constant presence by President Donald Trump’s side in the early days of his second term.
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“There was someone that is very popular these days, at least in the press, who suggested that it is a sign of the weakness of Western civilisations to have empathy,” Harris said, according to The Guardian, without naming Musk.
“Imagine. No, it’s a sign of strength to have some level of curiosity and concern and care about the well-being of others,” she continued.
During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience in March, Musk suggested that while caring for others is important, it’s a double-edged sword.
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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilisation is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilisation, which is the empathy response.”
Musk has limited his role in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting initiative he repeatedly touted, amid polls showing that the public was souring on him and signs of trouble for his electric car company Tesla, seeming to stem in part from his involvement in the Trump administration. But what appears to have been a “turning point” for Musk was the defeat of the conservative candidate he backed in the race for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, according to The New York Times. Musk privately acknowledges his involvement was counterproductive, the Times added.
The tech billionaire, a major donor in Trump’s 2024 campaign, has also said he will scale back his political donations going forward.
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“In terms of political spending, I’m gonna do a lot less in the future,” he told an economic forum in Qatar last week.
“I think I’ve done enough,” he added.
Harris, who is reportedly mulling a run for California governor following her defeat in the 2024 presidential race, also expressed profound concern about the current state of the world amid Trump’s pursuit of his America First agenda.
“I do worry that it is important that we remember history,” Harris told the audience, according to The Guardian, without referencing Trump. “It’s important that we remember the 1930s. It’s important that we remember that history has taught us that isolation does not equal insulation.”
US President Donald Trump marked Memorial Day by posting an all-caps rant on social media that attacked Democrats as “scum” and condemned federal judges as “monsters.”
Trump’s grievance-filled message on Truth Social on Monday, posted on a day of sombre reflection for most Americans, saw the president also smear immigrants as “criminals” and “mentally insane.”
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The president reportedly deleted an earlier version of the post in favour of a simple “happy Memorial Day!” before publishing the attack again with the typographical errors corrected.
In the post, Trump wished a “happy Memorial Day to all,” including the “scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 million people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane, through an open border that only an incompetent president would approve.”
He added that US judges were “on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world, in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again — all protected by these USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country.”
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The president added that he hoped the Supreme Court “and other good and compassionate judges throughout the land” would save the country from “the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell.”
Many of Trump’s policies have faced opposition from the lower courts, notably over his plans to crack down on immigration.
One federal judge has found that members of his administration may be liable for contempt after ignoring his order to turn around planes deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
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In a spree of Memorial Day posts, Trump also praised his own tariffs policy, claimed that the “golden age” of America is coming, and let rip at Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Trump also said he wants to pull $3 billion in taxpayer cash from Harvard University in the ongoing fight with the Ivy League school.
WASHINGTON — If you’re interested in finding Donald Trump’s precise words as he lied about his failed coup attempt in his Jan 20 remarks at the US Capitol soon after his inaugural speech, good luck with that.
Same with his Feb 12 thoughts in the Oval Office on how magnetism, in his view “a new theory,” doesn’t work on the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford.
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Or his statements in the Feb 28 meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, berating the Ukrainian president and empathising with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin instead.
Ditto with his April 14 explanation of how well he is doing with “the cognitive” compared to previous occupants of the White House.
The self-proclaimed “most transparent” White House in history, as it turns out, has little interest in making the vast majority of Trump’s speeches and interactions with journalists readily accessible to the public whose taxes pay for their transcription, publishing just 29 transcripts of the 146 public remarks Trump made in his first 100 days in office.
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Trump’s White House posted transcripts for only 11 of the 40 speeches in which Trump did not take questions from the media, and for only one of his six formal news conferences, according to a HuffPost review. And of the 98 media “availabilities” in which Trump took questions from reporters informally — a practice that his aides point to as proof of his great accessibility — only 15 of the transcripts have been made public.
Previous White Houses, going back decades, made all of the transcripts compiled by the non-political stenography office, staffed by career civil servants, available in printed form, via email and on the White House website, as a matter of course. Trump’s first-term staff also published all his remarks, with the exception of his speeches at rallies and fundraisers. Trump’s second-term White House stopped emailing transcripts to its press list just five days after taking office, and of late has largely stopped posting them on the website, too. As of Thursday morning, the last transcript from Trump on the site is from March 13.
Trump aides would not explain their decision to withhold 80% of the transcripts that have been prepared. White House communications director Steven Cheung, however, did insult HuffPost for asking the question:
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“You must be truly fucking stupid if you think we’re not transparent. The president regularly does multiple press engagements per day and they are streamed live on multiple platforms. We’ve even granted low-level outlets like HuffPo [sic] additional access to events, because we’re so transparent. For anyone to think otherwise proves they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Stop beclowning yourself,” he wrote, demanding that his statement be published “in full.”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said transcriptions of a president’s remarks have always been seen as historical records, not things to be politicised. “Making the words of the president readily available is part of the accountability obligation of the White House,” she said.
“The public has the right to know what the leader says … It’s a mark of a democratic system,” she added, saying that she could not speculate as to why Trump is withholding most of his transcripts’ release. “Trying to figure out why this White House does what it does requires a skill far beyond mine.”
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, meets with US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 28.
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‘Utterly Fucking Off The Rails’
While it is true that videos of nearly all of Trump’s public remarks are available on C-SPAN, YouTube or other websites, they are not easily searchable by topic or keyword. There are private firms that transcribe his words, but they are not comprehensive and not well-known to the public.
Indeed, Trump critics say that increasing the difficulty of finding his exact words on any given topic is precisely the point of keeping most of the official transcripts a secret. After 10 years of hearing him, Trump’s outlandish claims and constant lies have become mere background noise to many Americans, they argue, while actually reading his statements hits in a different way.
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“They know the transcripts will reveal, on paper, the word salad and incoherence that characterises Trump,” said Norman Ornstein, a political scientist with the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. “It is much easier to pore through written transcripts and compare them, which will show inconsistencies and reversals.”
Andrew Bates, a top press aide in the Joe Biden White House, said his counterparts in the Trump White House clearly understand that reading what Trump has said does not reflect well on him. “He keeps saying things that are a liability, like talking about dolls and pencils. Or just getting confused,” Bates said.
The Biden press office famously altered punctuation in a transcript to make it seem that Biden was criticising a smaller subset of Trump supporters than the transcript originally suggested. The Biden team, nonetheless, released that transcript and appears to have released all those prepared by the stenography office, totaling well over 2,000 over four years.
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The Trump press shop, in contrast, appears to have decided that the best way to avoid negative media coverage of his transcribed remarks is to not release them in the first place. A comparison of the posted transcripts versus the remarks for which the transcripts have been withheld suggests an effort to conceal Trump’s most outrageous, factually inaccurate or lie-filled statements.
On Inauguration Day, for example, while the transcript for the official speech given immediately after Trump took the oath of office is available on the White House website, a second one he gave to congressional Republicans soon afterward is not.
In that one, he again pushed his oft-repeated lies about January 6, 2021, the day he encouraged a mob of his followers to march on the Capitol and then tried to use their assault on police officers and other violence to remain in power despite having lost the 2020 election. Trump bemoaned that his staff talked him out of including that material in his actual inaugural address.
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“You can’t put things in there that you were going to put in, and I was going to talk about the J6 hostages, but you’ll be happy because you know it’s action, not words that count, and you’re going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages, see a lot of action,” he said in a 1,232-word section that repeatedly blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for all that happened on Jan. 6. “And I was going to talk about the things that Joe [Biden] did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes like the unselect committee of political thugs where they literally, I mean, what they did is they destroyed and deleted all of the information, all of the hearings. Practically not a thing left.”
Three weeks later, following a swearing-in ceremony for his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump offered nonsensical answers to a variety of questions, including one about waste and fraud in the federal government. Trump launched into a 1,710-word rant on military contractors, including the builders of the newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, which uses a high-tech electromagnetic catapult system to launch airplanes to reduce stress on their airframes and landing gear.
“Take a look at the Gerald Ford, the aircraft carrier, the Ford. It came ― it was supposed to cost $3 billion; it ended up costing like $18 billion, and they make, of course, all electric catapults, which don’t work. And they have all magnetic elevators to lift up 25 planes at a time, 20 planes at a time,” he said, not appearing to understand the rationale for the new designs. “And instead of using hydraulic, like on tractors, that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything, they used magnets. It’s a new theory, magnets are going to lift the planes up, and it doesn’t work.”
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At the end of that month, Trump and Vice President JD Vance attacked Ukraine’s Zelenskyy for not being sufficiently grateful to the United States before Trump turned to his familiar defense of Putin, who continues to slaughter Ukrainian civilians to this day through aerial attacks on residential areas.
“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt, where they used him and Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. You ever hear of that deal?” Trump said during a 206-word tangent again recounting his grievances.
“That was a phony ― that was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam, Hillary Clinton, Shifty Adam Schiff. It was a Democrat scam, and he had to go through that, and he did go through it, and we didn’t end up in a war, and he went through it. He was accused of all that stuff. He had nothing to do with it. It came out of Hunter Biden’s bathroom. It came out of Hunter Biden’s bedroom, it was disgusting. And then they said, ‘Oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by Russia,’ the 51 agents, the whole thing was a scam, and he had to put up with that. He was being accused of all that stuff.”
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Six weeks later, during a visit by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who is housing deportees whom Trump claims are criminal illegal immigrants, Trump was asked how many more people he intended to ship there. Trump responded with a 417-word answer that quickly veered into boasts about his mental acuity.
“By the way, I took my cognitive exam as part of my physical exam, and I got the highest mark. And one of the doctors said, ‘Sir, I’ve never seen anybody get that kind of ― that was the highest mark.’ I hope you’re happy with that, although they haven’t been bugging me too much to take a cognitive. But I did do my physical, and it was released. I hope you’re all happy with it. I noticed there’s no questions, so probably you are. But the cognitive, they said to me, ‘Sir, would you like to take a cognitive test?’ I said, ‘Did Biden take one?’ ‘No.’ ‘Did anybody take one?’ ‘No, not too many people took them.’ I said, ‘What about Obama, did he take one?’” Trump said.
“The totality of his statements clearly show that he is utterly fucking off the rails,” said Rick Wilson, a longtime Republican consultant who became an early Trump critic. “Most of the Washington media is still playing the polite game of pretending this is a normal White House, and so they just move on and move on and move on eternally into the future.”
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‘What About The 38 Virgins?’
Trump’s usually rambling, often incoherent, at times downright deranged statements, of course, did not stop at the 100-day mark.
On Day 102, in a Rose Garden celebration of the National Day of Prayer, Trump suggested that Muslims are primarily terrorists willing to die to earn a reward of virgins in paradise: “Imams who I got to know in Michigan. I loved them. They were great, by the way. They said, ‘We don’t want to die.’ I said, ’Do you want to die? They said, ‘We don’t want to die.’ I said, ‘What about the 38 virgins?’”
On Day 106, in an Oval Office photo opportunity, Trump went on at length about his idea of reopening Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay. “I guess I was supposed to be a moviemaker. We started with the moviemaking, and we’ll end, I mean, it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is, I would say the ultimate, right, Alcatraz, Sing-Sing and Alcatraz the movies,” he said in an answer that continued for 268 words. “But it’s right now a museum, believe it or not. A lot of people go there. It housed the most violent criminals in the world, and nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there, but they, as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up, and it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of problems.”
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It’s unclear what motion pictures featuring the prison as a setting have to do with reopening Alcatraz or why Trump believed his Muslim supporters in Michigan would be entitled to only 38 virgins, just over half of the 72 customarily cited.
Among the posted transcripts are two media interviews he did. While Trump does numerous interviews — most of which include statements that make him seem ignorant or foolish or both — his press staff has posted only two softball interviews: One by informal Trump adviser and Fox News host Sean Hannity dated Feb. 18 as well as a two-minute one by Jamie Little, a Fox Sports NASCAR announcer at the Daytona 500 race that Trump had attended two days earlier.
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And while the stenography office transcribes every White House briefing and question-and-answer session aboard Air Force One by press secretary Karoline Leavitt, she and her staff have released only two. One was her first briefing on Jan. 29, in which she promised to always tell the truth, which she then immediately followed with an absurd falsehood about $50 million worth of condoms being sent to the Gaza Strip. The second was the Feb. 20 briefing in which she and other aides celebrated Trump’s first month in office.
Leavitt did not respond to HuffPost queries for this story.
Trump’s refusal to release transcripts created at taxpayer expense is just one piece of his effort to diminish independent news media. He has seized control of the White House press pool, which covers his events that take place in confined spaces like the Oval Office and Air Force One, from the White House Correspondents Association, which had administered it since its inception decades ago.
Trump and his staff have replaced journalists from legitimate news organizations with pro-Trump cheerleaders in many of the pool seats.
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Trump also excluded the Associated Press from the pool because it refused to bend to his will and call the Gulf of Mexico by the name Trump decreed by fiat, the Gulf of America. When a federal judge ruled that Trump could not treat the AP any differently than it treats other wire services, he responded by ending assigned pool slots for all three wires: the AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.
On Trump’s current excursion to the Arabian Peninsula, his first extended foreign trip since he retook office in January, not one US wire service print reporter has been part of the pool aboard Air Force One or in meetings with various officials — thereby degrading news coverage for thousands of news outlets with billions of readers in the United States and globally.
President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday of a new trade agreement that, on average, triples the taxes Americans will have to pay on British imports while signalling that higher tariffs will be the norm for agreements with other countries as well.
According to a chart used by Trump, the new trade deal with the United Kingdom will bring in $6 billion in “external revenue,” a term he and his administration dishonestly use to describe payments collected by U.S. Customs from American importers.
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The new 10% rate for nearly all goods, which was announced last month for countries all over the world, is three times higher than the 3.4% average rate Americans have paid for goods from Britain and Northern Ireland.
“It’s an anti-trade deal,” said Scott Lincicome, the director of economics at the Cato Institute’s Centre for Trade Policy Studies.
He and other economists said that Trump’s description of that 10% rate as the minimum tax level for all coming trade agreements effectively makes the United States a high-tariff country and will be a continuing drag on the economy.
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“That is largely in line with my fears,” said Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama White House and now a professor at Harvard University. “Best case is emerge from Trump with a 12% average tariff rate on world. That is back to the 1940s and on par with Iran and Venezuela.”
Vice President JD Vance (left) and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Trump announced a trade framework with the U.K., hailing it as a “breakthrough” that will bring down barriers and expand market access for American imports.
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University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers said, “A 10% across-the-board tariff is ridiculously high, and about five or ten times higher than any of our trading partners.”
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Trump said he agreed to lower his 25% tax on imported cars to 10% for the first 100,000 cars entering from the U.K. each year to help the British auto industry because it mainly produces high-end luxury cars. “They make a very small number of cars that are super luxury, and that includes Bentley and Jaguar,” he said.
In return, the UK has agreed to open its market to American beef and other agricultural products, Trump said. “We’re a very big country. We have a lot of beef. We’re a very big country,” he added.
Trump also continued pushing his repeated lies about how international trade works, claiming, again, that the United States “loses” money when Americans buy foreign goods and that other countries pay US tariffs.
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“That means we lose less money,” he said when asked during an Oval Office photo opportunity about shipping traffic falling off at US ports and dock workers and truckers fearing for their jobs. “Look, China was making over a trillion ― 1.1 trillion, in my opinion. You know, different numbers from 500 billion to 1 trillion or 1.1 trillion. And frankly, if we didn’t do business, we would have been better off.”
He then repeated a favourite falsehood of his over the years about the tariffs he imposed on Chinese imports during his first term: “China paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, when I was president.”
In reality, foreign nations pay none of those tariffs. American importers do, predominantly manufacturers buying raw materials and retailers. Both pass along the import taxes in the form of higher prices paid by consumers.
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If all the tariff rates announced by Trump on his so-called “Liberation Day” on April 2 go into effect, it will cost American importers and consumers an extra $2.4 trillion in new taxes over a decade.
The subject came up during the meeting after the president was asked about his desires to make Canada part of the US and he responded: “I still believe that, but it takes two to tango.”
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Although Trump told the press he thought Canadians would benefit from being Americans, he seemed most obsessed with the idea that the shape of the United States would be more aesthetically pleasing if there wasn’t that straight line dividing the two countries.
“I’m a real estate developer at heart. … I’m a very artistic person,” Trump said, while claiming Canadians would pay “tremendously lower taxes” and have “free military” protections.
But Carney seemed immune to Trump’s pitch and insisted “there are some places that are never for sale,” and used the White House and Buckingham Palace as examples.
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Carney then declared that Canada is “not for sale,” “won’t be for sale, ever” and that “the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together.”
As you can see in the video below, Trump didn’t seem to know how to react to someone disagreeing with him to his face (which, to be fair, is understandable, considering the sycophantic behavior of his underlings).
Instead, he slumped his shoulders before giving a smirk to Carney’s explanation of how he sees the future Canada-US relationship.
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The president’s first comment after Carney’s line-in-the-sand remarks was a mumbled “That’s good,” and eventually “Never say never” about Canada becoming a state.
In a bold declaration, Canada’s newly elect prime minister Mark Carney told Trump right to his face in the Oval Office that “Canada is not for sale, won’t be for sale ever.” Trump replied, “never say never.” Trump is an embarrassment on the world stage.
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All Americans should be forced to watch this Trump press conference with Canadian PM Carney so they can see once and for all that they elected an absolute fucking moron. Trump supporters: he’s stupid. I know you don’t believe it, but he really is.
In no uncertain terms, in front of the entire world, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney bitchslapped Trump regarding his desire to make Canada the 51st state: \"… it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.\" 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/0R0tLci40U
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In no uncertain terms, in front of the entire world, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney bitchslapped Trump regarding his desire to make Canada the 51st state: “… it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.” 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/0R0tLci40U
It’s funny how he just looks at the floor and nods how a naughty little bully brought to to the principal’s office suddenly turns into the quietest kid in class. Just nodding, hoping no one brings up Greenland again.
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It’s funny how he just looks at the floor and nods how a naughty little bully brought to to the principal’s office suddenly turns into the quietest kid in class. Just nodding, hoping no one brings up Greenland again.
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Trump trolls people and countries like he’ll never have to sit face to face with their leaders. It’s so awkward when they do. Carney isn’t having it.
— Kimberly 🇺🇸 🦅 🏕️ ksuth.bsky.social (@KimberlySuth) May 6, 2025
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Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the minerals deal the US signed with Ukraine is a sign of “good progress” but conceded the war is unlikely to end in the near future.
It comes after President Donald Trump stressed he wants to broker a peace agreement between the two countries.
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Trump had pledged to end the war within one day of getting sworn into office during his 2024 presidential campaign, but recently said he was merely exaggerating.
In an interview with Fox News, Vance praised his boss for getting the two sides to reveal their demands for ending the war, but said it will ultimately be up to Russia and Ukraine “to come to an agreement and stop this brutal, brutal conflict.”
“It’s not going anywhere,” Vance said. “It’s not going to end anytime soon, and I think for the Ukrainians, yes, of course, they’re angry that they were invaded. But are we going to continue to lose thousands and thousands of soldiers over a few miles of territory, this or that way? I hope both of them come to their senses.”
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While Vance seemed to acknowledge Russia was responsible for the war breaking out, he did not seem to share Kyiv’s concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions exceed Ukraine’s borders.
Meanwhile, the US and Ukraine signed the much-anticipated rare earth minerals deal this week following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face-to-face chat with Trump in Rome on Saturday. Kyiv hopes the minerals agreement will help maintain its long-term security as it continues to fight Russia.
Vance said the signing of the deal amounted to “good progress” and expressed optimism, but said it was hard to be confident that peace can be achieved, stressing that the US can only do so much to help the two countries come to a settlement.
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“That’s not something even President Trump can do for them,” Vance said.
Trump has previously said Russia and Ukraine were “very close to a deal.”
Meanwhile, Russia’s elite are reportedly worried that the minerals deal will give the US an incentive to side more closely with Ukraine in peace negotiations, according to The Washington Post.
Trump has embraced the Kremlin’s talking points on the war, but has recently issued some criticism of Putin over Moscow’s latest attack on Ukrainian cities, questioning whether the Russian leader is committed to stopping the conflict.
But Trump has also touted his relationship with Putin, claiming the Russian leader holds him in high regard.
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“Let’s say he respects me,” Trump told ABC News. “And I believe because of me he’s not gonna take over the whole” of Ukraine.
