Author: NAOMI LIM Washington Examiner

President Donald Trump is struggling to rewrite the public narrative regarding affordability, underscored by this week’s closer-than-expected special election in Tennessee. Trump has dismissed concerns about affordability as a Democratic hoax after Democrats emphasized the issue last month before off-year elections in New Jersey and Virginia. However, his rhetoric has apparently not placated the public,…

President Donald Trump is underscoring his “Trump accounts” program as he shifts into election mode and works to preserve Republican control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s announcement Tuesday that Michael and Susan Dell will donate $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for at least 25 million American children, excluded from the president’s…

President Donald Trump raised the prospect of War Secretary Pete Hegseth and military courts looking into Democrats the president has accused of sedition for their appeal to active service members and intelligence operatives to defy illegal orders from their commander in chief. Trump made the comments during an interview with Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade…

President Donald Trump is welcoming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House, years after former President Joe Biden promised to make him a pariah over his ordering the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The remarkable about-face comes after Biden first started softening his approach to Saudi Arabia at the start…

During his first term, President Donald Trump complained that the United States had spent too much time trying to remake countries in its own image, imposing the American way of life on others, instead of advocating for its security interests. Trump underscored that complaint when he traveled to Saudi Arabia for his first overseas trip of…

The MAGA movement that President Donald Trump created keeps pushing back on him, from his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files to his comments this week regarding visas for foreign workers. Trump says that he decides what it means to “Make America Great Again,” but the repeated disputes underscore how the ideological purity of…

Jeffrey Epstein died more than six years ago, and yet, he continues to haunt President Donald Trump from beyond the grave. House Oversight Committee Democrats disclosed on Wednesday that some of the convicted sex offender’s emails in their possession in which the disgraced financier writes that Trump “knew about the girls.” The revelations come hot…

Vice President JD Vance warned that the air travel industry would face greater strain the longer the government shutdown lasts, placing blame for the already historically long lapse in funding at the feet of Democrats, whom he accused of throwing a tantrum. Vance hosted a roundtable on Thursday at the White House with Transportation Secretary…

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are preparing for their first in-person meeting during Trump’s second administration, a high-stakes moment in the diplomatic battle for superpower supremacy. Their sit-down on Thursday in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders summit, comes as the United States and China…

President Donald Trump is embarking on his first trip to Asia during his second administration, facing headwinds on the home front and from abroad. Trump departs on Friday for Malaysia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders summit before traveling to Japan on Monday for trade talks with new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to…