Trump reveals whether he'll give the EU another tariffs extension as he fawns over Italy's Giorgia Meloni: Live updates
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Donald Trump is meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House as she hopes to strike a tariffs trade deal.
Meloni and Trump expressed confidence they could come to a trade deal to prevent the European Union from being hit with Trump's 20 percent reciprocal tariff.
Earlier, he lashed out at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after he has refused to cut interest rates and urged his firing.
The president posted to Truth Social ripping into 'too late and wrong' Powell who has not yet cut interest rates.
Stocks took another historic tumble Wednesday after Powell warned in a speech that Trump's tariffs are 'highly likely' to cause more inflation likely angering the president.
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Trump, Meloni express confidence they can make a trade deal before the 90-day pause expires
By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House
President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed confidence they could come to a trade deal to prevent the European Union from being hit with Trump's 20 percent reciprocal tariff.
Trump and Meloni huddled in the Cabinet Room with top advisers minutes after she arrived at the White House Thursday.
The U.S. president was asked what would happen if there wasn't a deal made between the U.S. and the European Union after the 90 days was up.
'Oh there will be a trade deal, 100 percent,' he replied.
Meloni echoed the sentiment.
'I'm sure we can make a deal. And I'm here to help on that. I cannot deal in the name of the European Union. My goal will be invite President Trump to pay an official visit to Italy and understand if there's a possibility when he comes to organize also such a meeting with Europe,' Meloni said.
Trump suggests TikTok deal won't happen until trade war with China is settled
By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that a TikTok deal wouldn't happen until the U.S. and. China settled its current trade war.
We have a deal for Tiktok, but it'll be subject to China, so we'll just delay the deal 'til this thing works out. And I think it's a good deal for China.
Trump was asked for a TikTok update in the Oval Office late Thursday afternoon as he signed executive orders related to fisheries.
Trump applauds Supreme Court taking up his birthright citizenship challenge
By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House
President Donald Trump reacted ecstatically to the Supreme Court's decision to hear the birthright citizenship case.
'Well you're just telling me that for the first time - I am so happy. I think the case has been so misunderstood,' Trump said.
The president argued that the case is 'all about slavery.'
'That's not about tourists coming in and touching a piece of sand and then all of the sudden there's citizenship, you know they're a citizen, that is all about slavery,' Trump argued. 'If you look at it that way, that case is an easy case to win.'
The 14th Amendment was ratified directly after the Civil War, defining all the previously enslaved African-Americans as citizens.
In a January 20th executive order, the Trump administration tried to redefine the 14th Amendment by saying children born to illegal immigrants or to those on temporary non-immigrant visas are not citizens at birth.
Josh Hawley tears into Google after judge's stunning ruling on whether ad 'monopoly' is legal
Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com
Sen. Josh Hawley is celebrating a landmark court case that found Google holds an illegal monopoly over online advertising technology.
'Huge news: Google officially found to have violated the antitrust laws,' the Missouri Republican posted on X Thursday afternoon after a ruling was announced.
Hawley has long been outspoken about Google's online monopoly, posting just last month how he hopes the company gets what it deserves after the firm exerted control over recent U.S. elections.
'Google and Meta are massive monopolies with political agendas—and they're using their market power to control our elections,' he wrote. 'Google even rigged its search results to sway voters & tip elections.'
'And until we take away their power, nothing is going to change,' he continued.
Republican congressman posts selfies with infamous MS-13 gang members at El Salvador's CECOT prison
Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com
Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.V., traveled down to El Salvador to tour the nation's Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.
Visiting the Central American prison alongside other Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, Moore stopped to take some shocking images.
Pictured standing in front of the cells of inmates, many of whom were inked head to toe in gang-related tattoos, Moore took a selfie.
In another image, he can be seen flashing a thumbs-up.
'I just toured the CECOT prison in El Salvador,' Moore wrote. 'This maximum security facility houses the country’s most brutal criminals, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and terrorists.'
'Several inmates were extremely violent criminals recently deported from the U.S.,' he continued. 'I leave now even more determined to support President Trump’s efforts to secure our homeland.'
El Salvador's president says notorious megaprison will double in size
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele plans to double the size of the notorious megaprison where the country is holding migrants that President Donald Trump deported.
The plan would make room for more prisoners and comes after Trump has openly mused about sending Americans convicted of violent crimes to the South American country.
Bukele would expand the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), which is already the largest prison in the world, he told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when she visited last month, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump rips into reporter and blames economic woes on Fed Chair Jerome Powell in spectacular Oval Office theatrics
By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House
President Donald Trump slammed a reporter who asked him Thursday about rising prices, while pointing a finger at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for refusing to cut interest rates.
Trump was hosting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office - the first European leader to come see him since he paused a 20 percent tariff on European Union imports for 90 days.
Trump was asked by ABC News' Rachel Scott about his timeline to make trade deals, with the journalist observing, 'Americans are seeing prices rise.'
'So they've already seen it get much better. Because if you were truthful, which you're not, I know you very well. You have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states,' Trump replied. 'The prices of groceries are substantially down.'
Trump boasted that egg prices - which were heightened due to the bird flu - have come down.
'The only thing that's gone up, actually, is interest rates, because we have a Federal Reserve chairman that is playing politics,' Trump said. 'Somebody that I've never been very fond of actually. He's playing politics.'
Meloni officially invites Trump to Rome
By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni officially invited President Donald Trump to Rome.
She spoke of the future visit sitting alongside Trump Thursday in the Oval Office.
'So I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome in the near future,' Meloni said. 'And consider the possibility in that occasion to meet also with Europe.'
'The goal for me is to make the West great again, and I think we can do it together,' Meloni added.
Earlier, in the Cabinet Room, Meloni had teased that invitation as she suggested that she believed the U.S. and the EU could make a trade deal before Trump's 90-day deadline.
Trump praises Italy's Meloni during Oval Office meeting
Trump gives warm welcome to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House
President Donald Trump gave a warm welcome Thursday to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni is the first European leader to visit Trump since he announced 20 percent reciprocal tariffs on the European Union - only to turn around and put those tariffs ona 90-day pause.
There's a 10 percent tariff currently placed on the EU.
Meloni arrived at 12 p.m. on the dot and was greeted by Trump outside the West Wing.
Trump expressed that he could make a trade deal and pointed to Meloni calling her a 'great person' before entering the White House.
Lara Trump reveals who she thinks is the 'most influential' MAGA star with sway over the president
Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com
Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, has lifted the lid on who Trumpworld's favorite media superstar is.
In a glowing tribute written for Time Magazine's '100 Most Influential People of 2025,' Lara Trump, the former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, wrote that former Fox News host Megyn Kelly is redefining media in the MAGA age.
'Megyn Kelly is a force,' Trump wrote, adding that her 'journalism is unparalleled, and fearless.'
The tributes on the list are typically written by friends with deep histories with those they are profiling.
In the case of Kelly, Lara Trump, who now hosts her own show on Fox News, penned glowing praise for the journalist she has likely known for the past decade since her father-in-law jumped into politics.
Top Pentagon official resigns after Jackie Robinson controversy
Ullyot became infamous, however, as he attempted to defend the Pentagon after a DOD website deleted a page describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson's military service.
Exclusive:Wife of deported 'Maryland man' reveals horrors she experienced at his hands in scathing police report
The wife of deported Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia accused her husband of violently beating her multiple times in a 2021 court filing exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.
Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration on March 15 over connections to the violent MS-13 gang.
Fed chair's ominous warning sends Wall Street into meltdown as tariff carnage hammers retirement savings
'The level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated,' Powell said at an event in Chicago. 'The same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth.
'Tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation. The inflationary effects could also be more persistent,' he added.
Trump tears into the Fed Chair as he tries to get interest rates down for Americans
The ECB is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, “Too Late” Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete “mess!” Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. Too Late should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now. Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!
The president's criticism comes after Powell gave a speech critical of him.
'The level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated,' Powell said at an event in Chicago on Wednesday. 'The same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth.
'Tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation. The inflationary effects could also be more persistent,' he added.
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