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Jack White and the Trump administration continued to exchange insults this week after the former White Stripes singer called out the White House decor and the administration responded.
Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has directed several major renovations at the White House. Trump redesigned the previously minimalist Oval Office, making some of the most significant changes to the room's appearance in modern presidential history, adding gold medallions, gold vermeil figurines, gold eagles, and gilded Rococo mirrors.
With the L.A. Olympics just three years away, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order creating a White House task force to oversee the games. Who will lead that task force? President Trump.
As President Trump asks Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps, some Indiana conservatives are pushing back. “They should leave it alone,” one legislator said.
The musician described the Oval Office as a "vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler's dressing room."
President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday, an event the U.S. president called "a very good, early step" to possibly resolve the war in Ukraine.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief the media around 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday after two huge diplomatic meetings between Trump and Putin on Friday and Trump, Zelensky, and EU leaders on Monday.
Rubio's announcement is the latest in a series of actions taken by White House officials to clamp down on foreign truckers and boost the American trucking industry at a time when truckers carry more than 70% of all goods shipped in the country.