Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit on behalf of Louisiana voting rights groups, asking a state court to block the state’s governor, Jeff Landry, and secretary of state, Nancy Landry, from suspending congressional elections.
Senate Democrats called BS, literally, on Donald Trump’s claim that the war in Iran is over, in a formal letter the president sent on Friday to Republican House speaker Mike Johnson and Republican senator Chuck Grassley, the president pro tempore of the Senate. “That’s bullshit,” Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the Senate, posted in response to the news. “This is an illegal war”.
A US appeals court temporarily blocked a federal rule allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail, significantly curtailing access to the drug nationwide and particularly in states that have banned abortion.
The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Nato ally Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, days after Trump lambasted the German chancellor for saying the US was “being humiliated” by Iran’s leadership.
The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called special legislative sessions for next week to give Republican state lawmakers the chance to redraw congressional district boundaries ahead of elections for Congress in November.
Trump delivered a pair of rambling speeches to friendly crowds in Florida, in which he repeated a large number of previously debunked false claims and reiterated his racist comments about Somali Americans.
Trump says assassination attempt 'was good for one thing: people are loving my ballroom now'
During his now concluded remarks on Friday night in Palm Beach, Donald Trump briefly referenced the failed assassination attempt last weekend at the White House Correspondents’ dinner.
“Consequential people get in a lot of danger,” Trump said. “You know what I’m talking about, Saturday night. It was good for one thing: people are loving my ballroom now, that’s the only thing. They love my ballroom. They love my ballroom. It’s going to be the best in the world, although I like the one at Mar-a-Lago very much too”.
