Joseph Gedeon

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon

The Trump administration has unveiled a news-style website that publishes exclusively positive coverage of the president on official White House servers. White House Wire, published at the government domain WH.gov/wire, resembles the rightwing website the Drudge Report, with a list of headlines from right-leaning outlets praising the administration. It also promotes White House press releases and social media posts by high-level officials.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon

Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC journalist in a tense TV interview to mark 100 days of his second term in office, in which among other confrontations he angrily pushed correspondent Terry Moran to agree with him that a doctored photo was actually real, telling him: “Why don’t you just say yes.” The 40-minute interview in the Oval Office veered off course when Moran pressed Trump on the case of Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in Maryland who was deported despite a protective...

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Hugo Lowell |Joseph Gedeon |Joan E. Greve |David SMith |David Smith |Rachel Leingang | +3 more

Donald Trump has completed an extraordinary return to power as the 47th president, vowing to impose his vision and re-altering the political and cultural landscape of the nation. To keep up with the dizzying array of executive orders, directives, firings and policy changes, the Guardian tracked the major developments of the second Trump administration’s first 100 days, just like we did during the first 100 days of Trump’s first presidency in 2017.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, has abruptly banished the Pentagon’s Women, Peace and Security program as part of his crusade against diversity and equity – dismissing it as “woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative” despite it being a signature Donald Trump achievement from his first term. In a post on X, Hegseth wrote: “This morning, I proudly ENDED the ‘Women, Peace & Security’ (WPS) program inside the [Department of Defense].

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Joseph Gedeon

Illinois’s Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, scorched Donald Trump’s administration Sunday night, calling for “mass protests” and declaring that Republicans “cannot know a moment of peace” during a fiery speech in New Hampshire that immediately sparked presidential speculation. “It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once,” Pritzker said to a ballroom filled with Democratic activists, officials and donors.