Author: CHRISTIAN DATOC Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump appeared to announce on Friday that he will no longer meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on his trip to Asia, possibly endangering recent talks on a bilateral trade agreement with Beijing. In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump slammed China’s recent imposition of tougher export controls on rare earth minerals,…

He didn’t win anything, but President Donald Trump took tremendous strides this week toward solidifying his legacy as one of the most consequential figures in American history. Predictably, the president’s allies suggest that peace in Gaza marks Trump’s crowning moment as a legitimate guardian of global security. Senior White House officials, Republican operatives, and longtime…

President Donald Trump announced a new agreement with Finland Thursday to build 11 new icebreakers, continuing his push to rebuild the Navy. Alexander Stubb and Petteri Orpo, the president and prime minister of Finland, joined Trump at the White House to unveil the new cooperative partnership. “What you’re doing is you’re going to be teaching…

President Donald Trump informed reporters Thursday that he now plans to begin “peace” talks with Iran, just hours after his administration successfully brokered the first phase of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Trump held a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, more than a week into the government shutdown paralyzing Capitol Hill.…

The White House announced a plan to use incoming revenue from President Donald Trump‘s tariffs to keep the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children operational during the government shutdown. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the “creative solution” on Tuesday afternoon in a post to X in response to an Axios…

President Donald Trump said Monday that he will speak to the Justice Department about a possible presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump has spent the past several months dodging controversy surrounding Maxwell and her former associate and disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell gave a series of interviews to Trump’s DOJ after the administration angered the…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested that President Donald Trump may symbolically recognize a sovereign Palestinian state, depending on the results of peace talks between Israel, Hamas, and third-party nations. Last Friday, Hamas agreed to the hostage exchange proposed by Trump alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the week, but the terrorist…

President Donald Trump kept all options on the table Tuesday when asked if he is preparing military strikes against targets inside Venezuela. Over the summer, the Trump administration escalated its war against the Venezuelan narco-gang Tren de Aragua by launching strikes against reported drug boats in the Caribbean. Furthermore, NBC reported over the weekend that…