Trump Lies

NBC News reports: Widespread anger over the Trump administration’s push for U.S. ownership of Greenland is prompting shoppers in Denmark to boycott American products and services such as Tesla, Netflix and Coca-Cola. Supermarkets are making homegrown products more visible, cellphone apps are helping consumers work out where their purchases originate from, and Facebook groups have been set up offering tips …

The Hill reports: President Trump weighed in on French far-right leader Marine Le Pen being barred from seeking office for five years after being convicted of embezzlement, telling reporters that it is a “very big deal” and that it sounds “like this country.” “That big deal, that’s a very big deal. I know all about it. And a lot of …

Semafor reports: US President Donald Trump will reportedly visit Saudi Arabia in mid-May, his first foreign trip since returning to office. The decision mirrors a move he made at the beginning of his first term, Axios noted, and cements Riyadh’s growing heft in global diplomacy. The kingdom has hosted ceasefire talks between the US, Ukraine, and Russia, and has played …

Mediaite reports: Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy brutally roasted a patriotically-bedazzled Kid Rock during an eyebrow-raising Oval Office appearance with President Donald Trump on Monday. During proceedings, the president, seated behind the Resolute Desk, turned to Doocy and asked: “Did Biden do news conferences like this, Peter? I don’t think so!” Doocy didn’t miss a beat, roasting Kid …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Financial markets have the shakes as President Trump prepares to launch his next big tariff salvo on Wednesday. And nerves are appropriate since Mr. Trump’s chief trade adviser, Peter Navarro, is boasting about what he says will amount to a $6 trillion tax increase from the tariffs. “Tariffs are going to raise about …

NBC News reports: Trump said this evening that people have been asking him to run for a third term and repeated claims that there is a method to do so, but he hasn’t explored it. “Now people are asking me to run,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “They do say there’s a way you can do it, but …

ABC News reports: A group of advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging Donald Trump’s recent executive order seeking to overhaul the U.S. election system, accusing the president of trying to enact “unlawful actions” to enforce “lawless mandates.” The lawsuit alleges that Trump’s unilateral efforts to reshape voting in federal elections — including requiring proof of citizenship when registering …

The Telegraph reports: We might think of him as a tax-cutter, an enemy of big government, and an instinctive ally of businesses and consumers, and in his first term he certainly was. And yet as his second term takes shape, President Trump is morphing into something very different. The final details of “Liberation Day” on Wednesday still have to be finalised. …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Canada is taking its fight against President Donald Trump’s tariffs to Florida’s highways. Billboards paid for by the Canadian government are popping up across the Sunshine State, including one near a 7-Eleven gas station in Winter Springs. Canada’s message to U.S. voters: “Tariffs are a tax on hardworking Americans.” The campaign was launched to heighten the …

The New York Times reports: Five senators who visited the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, criticized the migrant mission there over the weekend as a waste of resources, after the Pentagon estimated that the operation had cost $40 million in its first month. The Senate delegation on Friday toured Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities where about 85 migrants were …

ProPublica reports: Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized …

“It’s funny to me that journalists ask the president this question, he gives an honest and candid answer, and then they spiral about his answer. He was asked this and you heard him and he’s right. People love the job this president is doing. And as he said, we are focused on this term. We have four more years to …

The Hill reports: A federal employee union has sued to block a Trump administration order that would strip bargaining rights at 18 departments, arguing the president abused a limited national security authority to attack unions. President Trump last week signed an order that directed agencies to terminate already-signed collective bargaining agreements and to “cease participating in grievance procedures.” The Civil …

The Insider reports: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday the announcement would feature “country-based” tariffs, but added that the president is also “committed” to implementing sectoral duties at another time. “The president will be announcing a tariff plan that will roll back the unfair trade practices that have been ripping off our country for decades,” Leavitt told reporters …

The Daily Beast reports: The Trump family has dived even deeper into the crypto world, as the president’s two oldest sons get into the mining game. After President Donald Trump launched a memecoin in January and a stablecoin earlier this month via World Liberty Financial, Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are turning prospectors as they bolster the Trump digital currency …

The Associated Press reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday instructed the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a sweeping election overhaul that Georgia Republican lawmakers passed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state. The lawsuit, filed in June 2021 under former President Joe Biden, alleged that the Georgia law was intended to deny …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been secretary of Health and Human Services for all of six weeks, but he’s already vindicating his critics. First he downplayed a measles outbreak in Texas. Then he reportedly hired a trial-lawyer ally to work on a government study of the link between vaccines and autism. Now he …

The BBC reports: Donald Trump has labelled people accused of vandalising the Trump Turnberry golf resort as “terrorists”. Grafitti was sprayed on the clubhouse in red paint and the course was dug up and daubed with the words “Gaza is not for sale” The US president said those who caused damage at the Ayrshire resort should be “treated harshly” by …

Axios reports: President Trump on Friday pardoned two startup founders convicted of investor fraud, and three crypto exchange co-founders who had plead guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws. There’s never been a better time to be a white-collar crook. Pardon 1: Trevor Milton, co-founder and CEO of bankrupt electric truckmaker Nikola Motors. His most egregious act may have been sharing …

Politico Playbook reports: 48 hours out from what Trump has called “Liberation Day” — a moment of protectionism so significant Steve Bannon wants it to be made a federal holiday — there’s still no real clarity about what’s coming. Every business leader and K Street lobbyist will tell you that the thing they hate most is uncertainty. And once again, …