A long-awaited meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will take place in Beijing on May 14 and 15, the White House said Wednesday. Trump and first lady Melania Trump will also host Xi and Madame Peng Liyuan for a "reciprocal visit" in Washington, D.C., at a to-be-announced date later this year, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a briefing.
President Donald Trump gets a daily two-minute video briefing of "stuff blowing up," according to Trumpworld sources who made the revelation to NBC News. As the Iran war rages through its fourth week, attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have exacerbated surging prices and roiled the stock market, and Iran has continued to strike Israel and other targets in the region. But one prominent feature of the war has been a relentless stream of attacks on the media by Trump and his officials over coverage of the war. A new exclusive report by the NBC News reporting team of Katherine Doyle, Courtney Kube, and Dan De Luce purports to explain at least some of the disconnect. Citing four insiders, the report suggests Trump's daily video briefing may be distorting his perspective:
A jury convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud and identity theft for requesting the ballots of Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent. Jurors in Racine County on Tuesday found Harry Wait guilty of two misdemeanor election fraud charges and one felony identity theft charge following a two-day trial. He was acquitted of a second count of identity theft. Wait leads a group that makes false election claims, including that Wisconsin's elections are riddled with fraud and that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 by about 21,000 votes.
Global energy leaders have been jolted by the enormity of what the U.S.-Israel war with Iran means for their business " and they're not liking what they're seeing. "We've not seen anything like this " there's been no disruption of this scale in the past," Gareth Ramsay, chief economist at oil and gas giant BP, told the conference. "It's every oil analyst's study piece or worst nightmare " one that we never thought would happen." The energy market fallout is becoming political as well. Trump's approval rating fell to 36 percent amid the public's anger over the war and the steep jump in gasoline prices, according to a Reuters poll released Tuesday. The dissatisfaction threatens to doom Republicans' attempts to keep control of Congress in this year's midterm elections.
Americans are feeling more pessimistic about the job market, a worrisome signal for the White House as it navigates economic blowback from the Iran war. read more
Another day, another MAGA jizzfart convicted of election fraud.