Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, speaks during a dinner with Donald Trump at the White House on 19 March. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP
Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Friday. Here are the latest developments:
Donald Trump created an extremely awkward moment for Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, in the Oval Office on Thursday when he responded to a question from a Japanese reporter about why the US attacked Iran without warning allies like Japan, by joking about Imperial Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Japan’s prime minister said later she explained to Trump that Japan’s ability to deploy military forces overseas, as he wants, is still limited by the constitution drafted for Japan by the United States after the second world war.
A federal arts commission approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing Donald Trump’s image to celebrate the US’s 250th birthday on 4 July.
The John F Kennedy Presidential Library foundation announced on Thursday that it is awarding Profile in Courage awards to staunch opponents of Donald Trump: the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell and the people of the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
Senator Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican who has shown a willingness to cross Trump since he announced that he will not run for re-election, said he will not vote to eliminate the filibuster to force changes to US election law.
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A federal arts commission on Thursday approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing Donald Trump’s image to help celebrate the US’s 250th birthday on 4 July, the Associated Press reports.
The vote by the US Commission of Fine Arts, whose members were appointed by Trump earlier this year, was without objection. It clears the way for the US Mint to begin production on the coin, whose size and denomination are still under discussion.
Federal law says no living president can appear on US currency. But Megan Sullivan, the acting chief of the office of design management at the Mint, said the treasury secretary has authority to authorize the minting and issuance of certain coins.
The design of the coin features a portrait of Trump taken by White House photographer Daniel Torok in which the president leans forward on his desk in a pose that he’s struck before, and seems borrowed from a genre of stock photographs of “a determined bussinessman” available online. It also echoes a viral image of Trump being confronted by an exasperated Angela Merkel during his first term that is considerably less flattering to the president.
The portrait was also installed in the National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, in January, when it replaced an old portrait of Trump with the new image of him standing in the Oval Office with a scowl and his fists on the desk.
The gallery also removed the description of Trump which accompanied his previous portrait: “Impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, he was acquitted by the Senate in both trials”.
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