Trump news at a glance: president complains about Putin’s ‘bullshit’ | Trump administration
Donald Trump expressed his irritation with Vladimir Putin, telling a meeting of the cabinet that he was increasingly frustrated by the Russian chief.
The American president told the television meeting of senior officials: “We get a lot of bullshit which are launched to us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He is very nice all the time, but it turns out that it does not make sense.”
When asked if he wanted to see other sanctions against Russia, Trump replied: “I look at him.” He refused to give more details but said that any action would be “a little surprise”.
Here is more about this and other stories of key American policy of the day:
Trump promises to send Ukraine 10 Patriot missiles
In addition to expressing his frustration with Putin, Trump promised to send 10 patriotic missiles to Ukraine, according to a familiar official with the issue. Trump had announced on Monday that American arms deliveries resumed, just days after their stop by the Pentagon.
On Monday, the president said that he was “disappointed” by the Russian president and would send “more weapons” to Ukraine. “We are going to send more weapons than we have to them. They must be able to defend themselves. They are very harshly affected now,” said Trump, alongside an American and Israeli delegation.
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They ‘has only 25%’ ‘of all necessary patriotic missile interceptors
The United States only counts around 25% of the Patriot missile interceptors which it needs for all military plans of the Pentagon after having burned stocks in the Middle East in recent months, an alarming exhaustion which has led to the Trump administration freezing the last transfer of ammunition to Ukraine, according to sources of the government.
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Trump threatens to degenerate the trade war in the midst of confusion on new rate rates
Trump promised to degene his commercial wars more on Tuesday, threatening American prices of up to 200% on foreign drugs and 50% on copper, in the midst of a generalized confusion around his changing plans. A few hours after saying that his last deadline for a new wave of steep tasks was “not 100% firm”, the American president said that “no extension will be granted” beyond August 1.
“There was no change on this date, and there will be no change,” wrote Trump on social networks, one day after having signed an executive decree that changed the date from July 9.
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Trump obtains a green light for federal mass dismissals
The United States Supreme Court has paved the way for Trump’s administration to resume mass dismissal plans for federal workers that criticisms will be able to threaten crucial government services.
Extending a sequence of victories for the American president, the judges raised on Tuesday an order of the lower court which had frozen the federal layoffs frozen under the name of “force reductions” while the disputes in the case take place. This decision could lead to hundreds of thousands of job losses in the departments of agriculture, trade, health and social services, state, treasury, veterans and other agencies.
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Exclusive: the Pentagon provided 2.4 TN to private arms companies to “finance war and arms”, the report finds a report
A new study of the Ministry of Defense’s expenses was presented exclusively in The Guardian shows that most of the Pentagon discretionary expenses from 2020 to 2024 have gone to external military entrepreneurs, providing a boon of 2.4 TN of public funds to private companies in war and the weapons described.
The report, from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and War Costs, said that the new Pentagon budget of the Trump administration would push annual US military expenditure beyond the 1 TN bar.
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The deadly floods could be normal news because Trump Guts Federal Agencies
Texas’ fatal floods could report a new standard in the United States, as Trump and its allies dismantle criticism agencies that help states to prepare and meet extreme weather and other dangers, the experts warn.
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AI crook posing as Marco Rubio targets civil servants in a growing threat
An unknown fraudster used artificial intelligence to pretend to be the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, by contacting at least five senior officials.
According to a cable from the State Department seen for the first time by the Washington Post and confirmed by the Guardian, the impostor sent false vocal messages and texts that imitate Rubio’s voice and writing style to these targets, including three foreign ministers, an American governor and a member of the Congress.
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