President Donald Trump takes aim at the “sick political class” who “destroyed Detroit to build up Beijing.”
He said: “We’re taking back our country from a sick political class that got rich selling America out and bleeding America dry… After decades of politicians who destroyed Detroit to build up Beijing, you finally have a champion for workers in the White House—and instead of putting China First, I am putting Michigan first and I’m putting America First.”
Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 23:17
Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 23:15
President Donald Trump entered today’s campaign-style rally to his favorite song from the campaign, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.”
He stood on stage, basking in cheers and mouthing some of the lyrics at the end of the song.
When the president began speaking, he claimed to have won the state of Michigan three times.
“We’re here tonight in the heartland of our nation to celebrate the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country, and that’s according to many, many people. This is the best, they say, 100-day start of any president in history, and everyone is saying it. We’ve just gotten started. You haven’t even seen anything yet.”
Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 23:12
Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 23:10
Judge Royce Lamberth has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million of funding to Radio Free Europe in a major blow to Kari Lake’s efforts to dismantle U.S. soft power overseas.
“When money has been appropriated by Congress … [the] Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations,” the judge wrote.
Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 23:03
For the second day in a row on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press briefing exclusively for members of what she called the “new media,” claiming she was fulfilling a promise she made at the start of the Trump administration to speak to “all media outlets.”
Of course, as she laid bare at the start of Monday’s presser, these sessions are mostly a way to take softball questions and applause lines from a host of MAGA sycophants who are absolutely ecstatic to be given the opportunity to sit in the White House and play reporter.
Justin Baragona has the story.
Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 23:00
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Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 22:50
In his inaugural speech on 20 January, Donald J Trump promised “the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”. Well, that’s one promise that the president has definitely honoured – but not, as the saying goes, in a good way.
No previous president has inflicted so much damage, on so many, in so short a time. The scale of the vandalism wreaked on America, on its friends and allies abroad, and indeed on the prosperity of the world, has been historic and prodigious.
The Independent29 April 2025 22:35
