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President Donald Trump’s climbdown on Greenland capped one of the most erratic episodes involving a modern president on the world stage. Within hours Wednesday, Trump flipped from demanding “right, title, and ownership” of the semiautonomous Danish territory to celebrating an “infinite,” “forever” framework deal over its future. Outside the right-wing bubble, Trump is being mocked for another “TACO” (“Trump always chickens out”) moment after dropping the threat of tariffs on European nations until they agreed to give him Greenland. Just as with his “Liberation Day” tariffs, the president may have been spooked by the result of his own actions.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump used a “SpongeBob SquarePants” meme on Truth Social to mock federal employees after an email from Elon Musk to federal works sparked an outcry. The meme, posted to Truth Social Sunday afternoon, depicts SpongeBob reviewing a checklist entitled “Got Done Last Week.” Items on the checklist are “Cried about Trump,’ “Cried about Elon,” “Made it into the office for once,” and “Cried about Trump and Elon some more.” The hoopla began Saturday when Musk, labeled a special advisor to Trump for the new Department of Government Efficiency, warned federal employees of a new policy requiring...

Elon Musk’s much-hyped interview of former President Donald Trump on the social media platform X was quickly derailed by technical glitches in the first minutes of the scheduled start time on Monday evening. Social media users trying to log on to the event, which was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET, reported that they could not join X’s livestream platform. Shortly after 8:20 p.m., Musk, the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, blamed a cyberattack for the freezing screens. He said that the company had tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier on Monday to preempt any technical...

Donald Trump is releasing a 35-page document that takes down Hillary Clinton's foreign policy and economic stances — a 50-point attack that pulls together news articles, documents and speeches critical of the former secretary of state. https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/ClintonFacts.pdf