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Trump to Gen Z: You 'Owe Me Big' for Saving Tiktok

'To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok'

(Newser) - President Trump is reminding Gen Z who he thinks they should thank for TikTok. "To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big," the president declared in his first TikTok post since the election. "And now, you're looking...

White House Is Getting a $200M Ballroom

Melania Trump's office will be relocated when construction begins in September

(Newser) - The White House on Thursday announced that construction on a $200 million ballroom will begin in September and be ready for entertaining before President Trump's term ends in early 2029. It will be the latest change introduced to what's known as the "people's house" since Trump...

Trump Has Surprisingly Nice Words for Whitmer

As Michigan governor softens her stance on him

(Newser) - In quite a departure from their past interactions, President Trump praised Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer during an Oval Office appearance Wednesday. Whitmer, a Democrat who has previously traded barbs with Trump, was at the White House for a meeting with the president to discuss tariffs following a speech she...

Russia Really Loved the Zelensky-Trump Meeting

Russian leaders are praising Trump for going after the "insolent pig"

(Newser) - Although leaders from around the world have condemned President Trump's contentious meeting in the Oval Office with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, those from one country couldn't be happier. Russian leaders love how things turned out, and they've released statements that praise Trump and Vice President...

The Diet Coke Button Is Back
The Diet Coke Button Is Back
Jan 21, 2025 11:53 AM CST

The Diet Coke Button Is Back

Trump's Oval Office includes that and other personal preferences

(Newser) - American presidents add personal touches to the Oval Office upon arrival, notes Axios , and President Trump already has some notable ones in place. The Wall Street Journal got an early look:
  • The famous Diet Coke button that sat on Trump's desk in his first term is back. The button
...

Trump in Oval Office Return: 'It Is a Nice World Today'

He meets with President Biden, as per tradition

(Newser) - Donald Trump's official return to the Oval Office won't happen until January, but the president-elect made a temporary return on Wednesday. President Biden invited the 47th US president to meet with him in a ceremonial tradition that's seen as part of a smooth and peaceful transfer of...

Biden to Give Oval Office Address on Wednesday
Biden Will Speak Wednesday
Jul 23, 2024 11:04 AM CDT

Biden Will Speak Wednesday

President will speak on 'what lies ahead' and how he plans to 'finish the job'

(Newser) - President Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid . Biden posted on X that he would speak "on what lies ahead" and how he will "finish the job for the American people." He...

Biden Makes Ask of Americans in First Oval Office Speech

'Lower the temperature,' the president implores after talking about 'crisis averted' on debt ceiling

(Newser) - President Biden gave his first speech to the public from the Oval Office on Friday evening, and it centered on the debt ceiling deal approved by the House and Senate this week that will keep the United States out of default. "Crisis averted," Biden declared of the agreement...

Trump's 'Diet Coke Button' Removed From Oval Office

Trump used it to summon White House butler

(Newser) - President Biden has made some changes in the Oval Office—including the removal of a red button his predecessor enjoyed showing off to visitors. Times Radio correspondent Tom Newton-Dunn tweeted Thursday that Donald Trump's "Diet Coke button" no longer sits on the Resolute Desk, NBC Philadelphia reports. He...

Son Spots Cesar Chavez Over Biden's Shoulder

Family sees a message in putting the bust in a place of honor

(Newser) - Paul Chavez had no idea where a sculpture of his father, Latino American civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez, would end up in the White House. He agreed just this week to lend the bronze bust to President Biden and hustled to get it wrapped up and shipped across...

Awkward or Not, Trump and Pence Meet

They discussed the past and the rest of their terms, administration official says

(Newser) - For the first time since Vice President Mike Pence had to be spirited out of the House chamber and guarded in a more secure location, he met with President Trump on Monday evening. "The two had a good conversation" in the Oval Office, a senior administration official said. Trump...

'Knock-Down' Fight Erupts in Oval Office

Two key presidential advisors argue in the White House

(Newser) - A "knock-down, dragout" argument broke out in the Oval Office last week when two key presidential advisors fought in front of their boss, an insider tells the Washington Post . Trade adviser Peter Navarro and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reportedly locked horns over the fate of TikTok, the Chinese-owned video...

Erdogan Played Anti-Kurd Film in Oval Office. It Didn't Go Well

Lindsey Graham among GOP senators left miffed

(Newser) - President Trump had to umpire a tense exchange between Republican senators and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, which reportedly began when Erdogan aired a propaganda film against Syria's Kurds. Axios first reported that five Republican senators critical of Turkey's incursion into Syria watched as Erdogan whipped...

Fact-Checkers Pounce on Trump Address
Fact-Checkers Pounce
on Trump Address
the rundown
Jan 9, 2019 3:33 AM CST

Fact-Checkers Pounce on Trump Address

Post calls address 'misleading and bleak'

(Newser) - President Trump delivered an address on the "crisis" at the US-Mexico border Tuesday night—and fact-checkers started work as soon as he got to the word "crisis." The Washington Post, which calls Trump's description of the situation "misleading and bleak," reports that while the...

Clinton Found This Note When He Took Office

From an outgoing president to an incoming one

(Newser) - It was a grace note for the ages. "Dear Bill," George HW Bush scribbled Jan. 20, 1993, to the Democrat about to succeed him as president, the AP reports. "When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that...

Report: Trump's Schedule Has Been Steadily Shrinking

'Executive Time' apparently includes watching cable news

(Newser) - President Trump's schedule has been steadily shrinking over his year in office, and it now includes a lot of "Executive Time," which is often code for watching TV and using Twitter in his residence, according to Jonathan Swan at Axios , who says he has seen copies of...

'No More Yellow': Inside the $3.4M West Wing Renovation

While Trump works from New Jersey, the White House gets a refresh

(Newser) - "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off," said Donald Trump in 2015, per NPR . And the White House insists that working is what he'll be doing during his 17-day vacation , which began Friday, at his...

Kellyanne Conway: Couch Photo Caught Me Doing What I Was Asked

'I was asked to take a certain angle and was doing exactly that'

(Newser) - Kellyanne Conway says she was just trying to capture a big moment, not create one. In an interview on Lou Dobbs Tonight on Tuesday, the White House adviser says the viral photo of her kneeling on an Oval Office couch simply caught her doing what she was asked: "What...

America Keeps Staring at This Photo of Kellyanne

Some call it disrespectful, some don't see the big deal

(Newser) - When former President Obama was photographed with his feet propped up on the Oval Office desk, the accusations that he was "desecrating" the office were so loud that Snopes weighed in (and found near-identical shots of George W. Bush and Gerald Ford). The latest accusations of disrespect are now...

Trump's 'Amazing' Letter From Nixon Will Hang in Oval Office

'You will be a winner!'

(Newser) - He's not exactly measuring the drapes, but Donald Trump has reportedly settled on one particularly interesting piece of decor for the Oval Office. It's a letter from a previous occupant of the Oval Office, Richard Nixon, written to Trump back in 1987, reports Politico , which calls the letter...

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