https://thehill.com/business/5321877-trump-defends-trade-strategy-taco/
President Trump on Wednesday bristled when asked about a new Wall Street term based on his tendency to reverse his tariff threats, defending his approach and dismissing the question as “nasty.”
A reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office about what was dubbed by a Financial Times columnist as the TACO trade, an acronym that stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
https://san.com/cc/as-supplement-use-increases-so-do-cases-of-liver-failure-linked-to-them/
A 2017 study by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases found 20% of liver toxicity cases in the U.S. could be linked to dietary or herbal supplements.
A study published last year by researchers from the University of Michigan found six common ingredients can be tied to toxic hepatitis: turmeric, green tea extract, ashwagandha, garcinia cambogia, red yeast rice and black cohosh.
The study’s authors said about 15 million Americans take at least one of those supplements.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-his-new-jet-gifted-by-qatar-is-much-too-big/
President Donald Trump shrugged off ethics and security concerns to accept a new luxury plane from Qatar—now he’s complaining about its size.
“It’s too big,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “Frankly it’s too big, much too big.”
Moreover, one reason Trump apparently wanted the new plane so badly is that the size of the current Air Force One made him feel insecure when parked next to jets owned by Middle Eastern royals.
The New York Times previously reported that Zuberi donated over $1.1 million in the three months following Trump’s first election to committees linked with the president and the GOP after previously backing former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her 2016 bid for the presidency.
Lebanon’s army has largely disarmed Hezbollah in its southern strongholds—in part with the help of Israeli intelligence—as the country’s new government moves to enforce a cease-fire that halted an intense wave of fighting with Israel last year.
Three judges across the political spectrum have now said the President’s punitive executive orders are unconstitutional.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855795
US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he had warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week not to take actions that could disrupt nuclear talks with Iran.
"I told him this would be inappropriate to do right now because we're very close to a solution now," Trump told reporters. "That could change at any moment."
This comes after the N12 news site reported on Tuesday that the US president had warned Netanyahu not to take any action that could disrupt nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409121
During a heated Knesset debate initiated by the opposition, Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected claims of government failure, highlighting military gains and vowing to return all hostages while accusing rivals of undermining the war effort for political gain.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5322889-court-rules-trump-tariffs/
A federal court ruled Wednesday that an emergency law does not provide President Trump with unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country, blocking a series of tariff announcements dating back to February that have rattled financial markets.
The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade unanimously ruled Congress did not delegate “unbounded” tariff authority to the president in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA), the linchpin of Trump’s legal defense.
Wednesday’s ruling blocks Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariffs, which placed a 10 percent levy on all imports and higher reciprocal tariffs for dozens of countries. It also blocks earlier orders that imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. Many had been adjusted as or delayed as stocks fell and Treasury yields rose in the wake of Trump’s trade shifts.
The judges gave the Trump administration 10 days to issue any administrative orders needed to effectuate their ruling.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-bromance-appears-sour-2077886
The relationship that has defined the second Trump administration is breaking down, according to those closest to the president.
The partnership of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has been central to White House operations since the administration took office in January, but with Musk now stepping away from the limelight, there are signs that the personal bond between the two has frayed.
It appears that Musk's departure from his public-facing role at DOGE has coincided with increasing frustrations between him and the president.
"He's finished, done, gone. He polls terrible. People hate him," an anonymous source close to the Republican Party told Politico. "He'd go to Wisconsin thinking he can buy people's votes, wear the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. … It doesn't work. It's offensive to people."
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/trump-pardons-chrisley-walczak-jenkins
Ed Martin, who Trump originally nominated to be D.C.'s top prosecutor but is now serving as Trump's pardon attorney, posted in a thread about Jenkins' pardon, "No MAGA left behind."
Martin's comment sends the message that the pardon power is being "totally and thoroughly politicized" Liz Oyer, the former DOJ pardon attorney, told PBS.
One thing that is easy to see is, setting aside the January 6 clemencies, that there's really been a focus on grants to people who committed financial crimes," said Mark Osler, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas and a former federal prosecutor.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/trump-pardons-ex-staten-island-rep-michael-grimm/
Hoover received a life sentence from the state of Illinois in 1973 for allegedly ordering the murder of William “Pooky” Young, 19, after Young stole drugs and money from the gang. That charge cannot be pardoned by the president, but it was not immediately clear whether Hoover would be returned to Illinois custody.
Hoover, now 74, received six federal life sentences in 1998 for allegedly continuing to run the gang from prison — with prosecutors alleging his illicit business empire raked in $100 million annually selling heroin, cocaine, crack and other drugs.
“You were able to do what you did in jail for 25 years — you’re amazing,” Chicago federal judge Harry Leinenweber told Hoover during sentencing.
Trump, who has for years threatened federal intervention to address gang violence in Chicago, did not immediately issue a public statement explaining his decision.
Hoover’s commutation, first reported by NOTUS and confirmed by The Post, follows a push by rappers Kanye West — a Chicago native — and Drake, both of whom argue Hoover is a changed man.einenweber told Hoover during sentencing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/what-is-an-autopen-and-trump-claims-examined/105064992
Donald Trump claims Joe Biden's January 6 committee pardons are "void" because the former president signed them using an "autopen".
Presidents — including Trump — have used autopens for decades to sign documents and correspondence.
And one expert says that by raising the issue, Trump is only opening himself up for potential problems down the track.
Trump hasn't offered any evidence to support his claims, and neither has the White House.
When asked whether Trump had legal authority to void pardons signed by autopen, press secretary Karoline Leavitt questioned Biden's awareness of the pardons in the first place.
Dr Melkonian says there is no evidence to support Trump's claims, but if pardons were being signed without Biden's knowledge, it would be "a constitutional failure".
"Trump is really exaggerating the Biden situation," he said.
"The mere fact you disagree with what Joe Biden did does not mean he was mentally incompetent. There’s a big difference."
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330709/autopen-biden-pardon-void
President Trump is claiming without evidence that some of former President Joe Biden's actions are invalid because he allegedly used a machine to automate signatures on documents, which is a longstanding practice in the White House.
The notion that Biden relied on the autopen to sign important documents was heavily perpetuated by the Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation that played a key role in promoting false claims about noncitizen voting last year.
It is not clear whether Biden actually used an autopen to sign the documents in question. And even if he did, legal experts say it's not clear the pardons could be rescinded — for that or any other reason.
Jay Wexler, a professor of constitutional law at Boston University School of Law, told NPR he thinks the autopen issue is a "nonstarter" and a "distraction." Importantly, he says, there is nothing in the Constitution that requires pardons be in writing at all.
