For years, President Trump’s 2024 campaign manager and now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had said next to nothing in public, and now we know why. There was apparently always a high risk she would make a complete fool out of herself, her boss, and, most offensively, all of his supporters.
A parade of rock stars and former prime ministers had already earned the area around Charlbury the nickname of “Notting Hill-on-the-Wolds”.
Now, this corner of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds is earning a new nickname Stateside as the “Hamptons of England” due to its growing popularity with America’s super-rich.
Local wags believe this will be confirmed when it hosts JD Vance, the US vice-president, and his family next month when they head to the UK for their summer holiday.
A conservative health podcaster dressed in pearls, a tweed blazer and a miniskirt burst onto the stage at a Dallas conference hall to announce the beginning of a revolution for young American women.
“Less Prozac, more protein. Less burnout, more babies. Less feminism, more femininity,” Alex Clark announced to whoops from the audience. “Look around this room. Let’s be honest: it’s never been hotter to be a conservative.”
Hundreds of young women dressed in pastel dresses and cowboy boots, their perfect curls tied back with bows, hung on her every word.
Tech mogul Elon Musk signaled Monday that his white-hot public feud with President Trump may be starting to cool off.
“We had a great relationship and I wish him well — very well, actually,” Trump told reporters at the White House Monday in a clip reposted by X influencer ALX.
Musk responded by posting a heart emoji, signaling that the former “First Buddy” may no longer have hard feelings after his explosive falling-out with the president last week.
Elon Musk has deleted a tweet in which he alleged that Donald Trump was “in the Epstein files”.
The social media post was written on Thursday amid a fierce war of words between the tech billionaire and the US president – marking an abrupt end to their close alliance – following a dispute over Mr Trump’s flagship spending Bill.
As the disagreement escalated, Mr Musk also suggested that his former boss should be removed from office.
Oh dear. During the stunning rapid-fire deterioration of their working relationship, Elon Musk made a wild accusation against Donald Trump. Writing on social media, Musk declared, “@RealDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” The implication here (which Musk was careful not to actually write) is that Trump is guilty of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls, and that the evidence of this is hidden by the administration.
Elon Musk wanted his work at the White House to be extended but was rebuffed, according to two sources close to the world’s richest man.
The billionaire’s designation as “special government employee” to lead a cost-slashing initiative came with a 130-day time limit.
He was given an Oval Office send-off last week as he stepped down as head of the Department of Government Efficiency but has since lashed out at Donald Trump’s signature “big, beautiful bill,” dismissing it as a “disgusting abomination”.
Elon Musk announced that his time working in the Trump administration as a “Special Government Employee” is drawing to a close, and he thanked President Donald Trump.
“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Musk wrote in a post on X. “The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
About a year ago, Elon Musk quietly summoned a handful of Republican strategists and confidants to his sparsely decorated apartment overlooking downtown Austin. The Tesla CEO told the group that electing Donald Trump was essential to the country’s future, and he was willing to do anything — and pay any amount — to create a “red wave” around the country.
He did a lot, launching the U.S. DOGE Service to orchestrate sweeping layoffs and budget cuts. He spent a lot, plowing at least $288 million into the 2024 election. And this week, following a period of intense backlash against his political activity and his electric-vehicle company, he seemed to draw a line under all that work: “I think I’ve done enough.”
So what will be the next focus for the world’s richest person?
President Trump is replacing national security adviser Mike Waltz roughly a month after he put a journalist on a group text chat in which advisers discussed a sensitive military operation, according to people familiar with the matter, making him the first top official to lose his job in Trump’s second term.
Waltz lost favor with the president and his senior advisers after The Atlantic revealed that he added a journalist to a chat on the nongovernment messaging app Signal, a crisis that dominated headlines and became one of the first major embarrassments for the administration. Trump declined to fire Waltz immediately, but privately expressed his frustration with Waltz.
It is an open secret around the White House that many in the Trump administration are desperate to see the back of Elon Musk.
While the president himself still holds great affection for the world’s richest man, who bankrolled his election victory in November, many in the cabinet have wearied of the mercurial tech billionaire.
A row last week between Musk and Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, in which the two men went “chest to chest” in an expletive-ridden shouting match outside the Oval Office, is only the latest in a string of confrontations between the Tesla boss and senior Trump officials.
“Ivanka is Donald Trump’s biggest supporter and most trusted advisor,” gushed one woman’s magazine in 2017. And, by all accounts, nobody else in the Trump administration had the president’s ear more than his first daughter, Ivanka Trump. Along with her husband, real estate mogul Jared Kushner, Ivanka was the ultimate power behind the MAGA throne.
Indeed, she was even described as her father’s “eyes and ears.”
Wheels within wheels.
“Jared Kushner couldn’t find a buyer for 666 Fifth Avenue, an expensive office building that almost sank his family’s business. Brookfield leased the building whole, paying nearly a century of rent in advance.”https://t.co/sR4QP5Vn3V https://t.co/VjTBt867V3
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) March 29, 2025
Never much cared for Ivanka and her hubby.
h/t DMB
The Trump administration attempts to save Europe from itself.
The second Trump administration has hit the ground running, tackling the biggest problems faced by America and the world simultaneously. Some of the most vexing challenges facing humanity have their root in the European Union, which has created a spectacular failure for its member nations. Can President Trump and Vice President Vance force Europe to correct course before it slips away entirely?
We’re going to find out — because that’s exactly what the administration is pressuring them to do.
President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer as part of an extraordinary Friday night purge at the Pentagon that injected politics into the selection of the nation’s top military leaders.
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job, is to be replaced by a little-known retired three-star Air Force general, Dan Caine, who endeared himself to the president when they met in Iraq six years ago.
In all, six Pentagon officials were fired, including Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy; Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of the Air Force; and the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance was firing insults at Europe like ballistic missiles before taking office — emulating his mentor President Donald Trump.
Vance recently lobbed verbal grenades at European officials over a growing culture of tech censorship. They deserved it. In July of 2024, he took aim at the UK over millions of Muslim migrants that have flooded the country in recent years.
What’s not to like?
