Nicky Woolf

3 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nicky Woolf

For years before he won his first presidential election, Donald Trump repeatedly criticised then-president Barack Obama for the amount of time he spent on the course. “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, president Obama spent the day playing golf,” he tweeted in 2014. It was a recurring refrain for him. “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” he said during the 2016 campaign. Obama did, in fact, play a lot.

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nicky Woolf

The footage is grainy; it was shot at a distance, because the meeting wasn’t announced in advance. It had a clandestine air. But quickly, reporters identified the woman who arrived at the west portico entrance of the White House around midday on April 2. Partially obscured by flags in the foreground, the cameras still captured enough to see president Donald Trump emerge personally to greet the scarlet-coated figure as she climbed from the back of a black town car. The president hustled her inside.

2 months ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nicky Woolf

The private office of Fred Trump Senior, at the headquarters of the family company in Brooklyn, was a square room. Low lighting illuminated walls covered with plaques and framed certificates, and wooden busts of Native American chiefs were scattered about. On his desk were thick pads of cheap notepaper and an endless supply of blue Flair markers, which his granddaughter Mary would play with as a child, spinning around in his desk chair.

Mar 18, 2025 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nicky Woolf

Lie: The US has sent $350 billion in Ukraine aidTrump has made now this claim on a number of occasions, including in a February speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and during a joint press conference with French president Emanuel Macron, where he said “We’ve spent more than $300 billion, and Europe has spent about $100 billion.

Jan 20, 2025 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nicky Woolf

It was a day to chill the blood. Donald Trump’s second inauguration dawned bright but deathly cold in Washington DC. Flags at the Capitol flew at half-staff, their ropes frozen to the poles. Behind the Trumps at a church service before the inauguration ceremony began, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos sat, alongside Joe Rogan, as the faces of America’s now-ruling billionaire oligopoly – later joined by Elon Musk at the ceremony.