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The president was grilled by journalist Bill O’Reilly and sports pundit Stephen A Smith as he joined NewsNation town hall by phone
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Donald Trump said he believed he had not made any mistakes in his first 100 days back in office, as he joined a NewsNation town hall via phone on Wednesday night.
The president faced a grilling from author and journalist Bill O’Reilly and sports pundit Stephen A Smith, as well as moderator Chris Cuomo. However, responding to a question from an audience member about what he believed his biggest mistake from his first 100 days was, Trump was blunt.
“I’ll tell you, that’s the toughest question I can have, because I don’t really believe I’ve made any mistakes,” he said.
Earlier, the president attempted to deflect blame as Wall Street fell on news that the U.S. economy shrank for the first time in three years, in Q1 2025. Trump claimed it was because of the Biden “Overhang” and had nothing to do with the panic over his tariffs.
During the 2024 campaign, the now-president would take credit for a booming stock market under his predecessor, Joe Biden, saying that it was because of expectations he would win the election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 have had their worst performance in the first 100 days of an administration since 1973.
Stepping on the stage at Madison Square Garden, nine days before Donald Trump was declared president a second time, Elon Musk told a crowd of screaming fans that their “money is being wasted.”
Musk — dressed in all black, topped with a black “MAGA” hat in blackletter type — vowed to cut “at least $2 trillion” in federal spending, a figure he apparently came up with on the spot. He pledged to put his so-called Department of Government Efficiency to work getting the “government off your back and out of your pocketbook.”
Nearly six months later, after pumping tens of millions of dollars into the president’s campaign and deploying an army of loyalists across the government to fire workers and slash budgets, the wealthiest person on the planet announced plans to “significantly” withdraw from the White House to focus on his company, Tesla.
DOGE’s cost-cutting crusade isn’t going anywhere, officials told The Independent’s Alex Woodward.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to make a rare public appearance in California today, one day after President Trump marked his first 100 days in the White House.
The 2024 Democratic presidential candidate is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at Emerge at the organization’s 20th Anniversary Gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The group recruits, trains and provides support to Democratic women eying political office.
Harris is expected to criticize Donald Trump over his aggressive push to fulfill his agenda and how she believes his administration is failing Americans.
“There is a clamoring for her voice right now,” a former Harris senior adviser told NBC News Wednesday. “No one can better prosecute the case while inspiring a call to action than the former vice president.”
Columnist Jon Sopel was struck by the hundreds, maybe a thousand protestors lining the highway outside Macomb Community College – and cars were honking their horns to show their support.
Walking across the vast parking lot, he expected to see the long lines of the Trump lovers, queuing in the already humid heat to get a prime spot in the venue.
Over the Jon says he has seen Trump speaking at venues holding 20,000 – and those places have been packed to overflowing. But yesterday there were no lines.
Read about Jon’s experience at Trump’s 100-day rally in Michigan:
The U.S. economy has stalled since Donald Trump returned to the White House, according to a new quarterly report from the Bureau of Economic.
Real gross domestic product—inflation-adjusted GDP—unexpectedly slipped by 0.3 percent, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimate. It was expected to increase by 0.2 percent.
Negative GDP growth has occurred just three times over the last decade: the first and second quarters of 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic; and in the first quarter of 2022 when the Fed imposed its first interest rate hike in more than three years.
“The decrease in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected an increase in imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, and a decrease in government spending,” the BEA said in a statement.
“These movements were partly offset by increases in investment, consumer spending, and exports.”
In the hills above California’s Half Moon Bay, immigrant families are not leaving the farms where they work. The once-bustling streets of New York’s Jackson Heights have grown eerily quiet. And in Chirilagua, Virginia, some are saving money to return to their home countries.
Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe deportation campaign has had a chilling impact across the country, turning thriving communities into ghost towns.
The Independent’s Michelle Del Ray, Josh Marcus and Richard Hall visited three immigrant neighborhoods across the U.S. to investigate the impact of Trump’s policies on the communities in the crosshairs.
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Former Obama adviser Steven Rattner breaks down what specifically changed as the U.S. buckled down ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement.
He points to a surge in imports in anticipation of the tariffs, as well as a drop in consumer spending and government spending.
Yesterday, Rattner pointed to data showing that importers were stockpiling to ensure shelves don’t go empty. That could change in time though…
Clearly furious at this morning’s bad economic data, President Donald Trump has lashed out at his predecessor on Truth Social, claiming there is a Biden “overhang” and this has nothing to do with tariffs, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Here’s what the president wrote on his social media platform:
This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden “Overhang.” This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!
The American economy shrank by 0.3 percent during the first quarter of this year, marking the first drop in three years as President Donald Trump’s tariff policies disrupted businesses and their supply chains.
The tariffs imposed on other countries have created uncertainty among both businesses and consumers. The economy, as a measure of GDP, shrank in part because of a rise in imports as companies stockpiled goods to avoid Trump’s tariffs.
Imports increased more than 40 per cent as federal spending fell about five percent during the first three months of the year. The Commerce Department said the decrease in GDP “primarily reflected an increase in imports” and a decrease in government spending.
Gustaf Kilander is following the latest developments:
Weeks after Gretchen Whitmer was photographed standing glumly inside the White House, hiding behind her binders, the Michigan Governor appears to have saved face.
Whitmer was snapped beside Donald Trump Tuesday in Michigan to announce a she had finally secured funding for a new fighter mission at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
“I am so, so grateful that this announcement was made today, and I appreciate all the work,” Whitmer said.
Trump said that Whitmer has “done a very good job,” despite stating he wasn’t meant to praise her because “she’s a Democrat.”
President Donald Trump is claiming that recent stock market volatility and today’s drop after the Wall Street open (the Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently down more than 600 points or 1.52%) are the fault of his predecessor and nothing to do with him or his tariffs, despite having been in office for 100 days.
You may remember that a year before his inauguration, then-candidate Trump was taking credit for a booming stock market during Joe Biden’s presidency, claiming it was in anticipation of his return to the White House…
Perhaps that just wasn’t true. 🤔
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