Trump snaps at Fox News reporter’s serious question on silly social post: Live updates

Donald Trump snapped at a Fox News reporter when asked about a viral meme depicting him as pope from over the weekend.

Trump responded: It was all in fun. We’re entitled to a little fun. My wife thought it was cute.

Heinrich continued: Does it diminish the substance of the White House account to post that?

Trump fired back: Oh give me a break.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

A Florida Republican is facing claims about his military service record.

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., is a veteran of the war in Iraq and was awarded a Bronze Star in 2021 for his actions on the battlefield in 2003.

After the war, he worked as a military contractor and helped evacuate a family from Afghanistan in 2021 when the U.S. withdrew its military forces.

The decorated veteran turned a blue seat red after winning in 2022.

His heroics for taking ‘great risk to his own life’ whilst saving the lives of multiple men under ‘intense enemy fire,’ according to the submission document for his Bronze Star, earned him the award.

But now, multiple men who served on the mission say they don’t remember him.

‘He didn’t save my life,’ Private First Class Joe Heit, one of the men listed on the award submission form, told NOTUS.

The 78-year-old football fan made the announcement Monday at the White House alongside NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris, Democrat DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Housing Secretary Scott Turner, a former Redskins defensive back.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump finally stated emphatically that he will not run for reelection in 2028 after alarming constitutional experts by repeatedly flirting with the idea of a third term.

For the first time the president brushed off those within MAGA circles encouraging him to balk the Constitution and remain in office beyond his eight, nonconsecutive years.

Instead, he listed some potential political heirs for the 2028 presidential election.

Trump directly highlighted rising GOP stars he sees as capable of carrying on the MAGA agenda including Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Colorado is the latest state facing a lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s Justice Department over their sanctuary city laws and policies.

The administration is suing Colorado and the city of Denver claiming that both the state and local governments interfered with federal immigration enforcement.

‘The United States has well-established, preeminent, and preemptive authority to regulate immigration matters,’ reads the lawsuit filed in federal court in Denver.

The DOJ has filed lawsuits in Chicago and Rochester, New York challenging the cities’ so-called sanctuary policies.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Donald Trump will meet with freed Russian-American ballet dancer Ksenia Karelina in the Oval Office this afternoon, CNN reported.

Karelina was freed last month in a prisoner swap.

The amateur ballet dancer had been convicted of treason in Russia after she made a donation of just over $50 to a US-based charity that supported Ukraine.

Karelina was exchanged for Arthur Petrov, a dual Russian-German citizen who was being held in the U.S. on charges of criminal offences related to export control violations, smuggling, wire fraud and money laundering.

President Trump has vowed to bring all American citizens held hostage home. Karelina was set free after Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about her case.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

The White House unveiled a plan that will pay migrants up to $1,000 if they deport themselves from the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared a plan incentivizing self-deportation through the repurposed CBP Home app, which the Trump administration is using to facilitate the removal of migrants in the U.S. illegally.

‘Any illegal alien who uses the CBP Home App to self-deport will also receive a stipend of $1,000 dollars, paid after their return to their home country has been confirmed through the app,’ a DHS press release released on Monday states.

‘Currently the average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an illegal alien is $17,121,’ it adds.

Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller, one of the masterminds behind Trump’s sweeping immigration agenda, said the long-term savings per self-deported family could be well over $1 million.

‘The savings are as much as $1 million per illegal alien family given the long-term costs of free welfare and public support,’ he wrote on X.

President Donald Trump sparked a liberal meltdown and is facing an onslaught of criticism from California Democrats after detailing an ambitious plan to reopen and expand the notorious Alcatraz prison.

Trump announced on Truth Social on Sunday night a plan to restore Alcatraz to all its glory, 62 years after it was shut down due to the exorbitant cost of running it.

‘It was just an idea I had,’ Trump proudly revealed later on Sunday, slamming ‘radicalized judges’ who made him look outside the box after repeatedly trying to block his efforts to deport illegal migrants.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Hollywood film company stocks slid Monday in early trading after President Trump said he would slap a 100% tariff on all films ‘produced in Foreign Lands.’

‘This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda,’ Trump posted Sunday. ‘We’re on it,’ wrote Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in response.

Trump’s missive rattled investors in the movie industry, with shares in Netflix dropping 2 percent. Paramount and Warner Brothers both saw their stock price drop more than 1 percent. Disney was down less than 1 percent, after suffering a steep drop after Trump’s April 2 tariffs, which prompted fears of a recession and a drop in travel.

The industry drops were modest compared to some of the market turmoil that followed Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs on countries around the world. Trump’s post didn’t specify whether it would apply to both feature films and streaming services, nor did it say how he would define foreign production or whether it would be based on box office revenue or some other metric. The post comes as a host of countries have tried to lure production inside their borders with tax incentives. Australia and New Zealand – the location for ‘Lord of the Rings’ – both said Monday they would continue to advocate for their film industries.

President Donald Trump slammed Mexico’s president for being ‘afraid’ of the cartels as he confirmed reports he offered her U.S. troops to help fight the drug war there.

He blasted President Claudia Sheinbaum for rejecting his aid.

‘She’s so afraid of the cartels she can’t walk, so you know that’s the reason. And I think she’s a lovely woman. The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think straight,’ Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday evening.

‘If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honored to go in and do it. I told her that. I would be honored to go in and do it. The cartels are trying to destroy our country. They’re evil.’

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump tore into a reporter questioning him on the details of the first rearrangement of his Cabinet since starting his second term.

Two months after the Signal scandal that rocked the national security, intelligence and defense community, President Trump announced that his National Security Advisor Mike Waltz would be leaving his post to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

‘It’s not a big deal. He was fine and where he is, he’ll do a good job,’ Trump said onboard Air Force One on Sunday.

Many see Waltz’s change from national security to diplomacy as a demotion in the wake of the Signal scandal. But Trump insisted he would personally want the cushy UN assignment over the NSA position if he had to choose which one was preferable.

He’s going to the United Nations. To me I think it’s – personally, if I had a choice for myself of doing, I’d rather have that job than the other.

Trump has directed the Bureau of Prisons to work alongside the Department of Justice, FBI and Homeland Security to ‘reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt’ Alcatraz.

The order comes as Trump has repeatedly clashed with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members and illegal migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The maximum security prison, which was shut down in 1963, will provide Trump a workaround to those court orders barring him from carrying out the mass deportation scheme.

‘We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally,’ he wrote, appearing to suggest illegal migrants will be the first sent to the prison.

Trump has also directed the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 of what he has labeled the ‘worst criminal aliens.’