They have been circling each other carefully for seven days now — sending out invitations to talk, mixing a few jabs with ego-stroking, suggesting that the only way to end the Ukraine war is for the two of them to meet, presumably without the Ukrainians. President Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, whose relationship was always … Read more
President Trump had barely reacquainted himself with the Oval Office after his second inauguration when he began shredding the D.E.I. initiatives of the Biden administration, fulfilling a cause célèbre for conservatives that had helped power his political comeback. On his second day back in power, Mr. Trump ordered that agency heads place those officials who … Read more
His vice president, JD Vance, said he “obviously” wouldn’t do it. His nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, agreed there was no way: “The president does not like people that abuse police officers,” she told senators last week. The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, gave similar assurances that President Trump would not pardon … Read more
“Nothing will stand in our way.” With that six-word vow, President Trump described how he planned to make his second term in office differ from his first. Now, after a four-year interregnum that began with political exile and ended with his improbable resurrection, the great disrupter made clear that he does not intend to be … Read more
As Donald J. Trump takes office once again, he will represent millions who enthusiastically support him, millions who forcefully oppose him and, perhaps most critically, millions in between. This last group of voters may have been decisive in the November election: people who were unhappy about their choices, frustrated with the nation’s leadership and skeptical … Read more
The effort to prosecute the violent mob that ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the leaders of far-right groups who egged them on, represented the biggest and most logistically complex investigation in the history of the Justice Department. President Donald J. Trump erased it in an instant on Inauguration Day. Mr. Trump has … Read more
The crowd cheered and the music blared. On Monday night outside the D.C. jail, some of the family members, fervent supporters and former detainees gathered there swiveled their hips and pumped their fists to a remix of “Y.M.C.A.,” in a scene reminiscent of a Trump rally. They were there to celebrate President Trump’s broad grant … Read more
In the weeks before he took office, Donald J. Trump repeatedly vowed to carry out the largest deportations in U.S. history and to militarize the border, all while his transition team rebuffed requests from regional leaders to meet over the effects of his promised moves. He made countries such as Mexico targets of his attacks, … Read more
Hillary Clinton chuckled merrily when President Trump said he would rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” A phalanx of Proud Boys marched past partygoers streaming into the Canadian Embassy and chanted, “Are you ready to be the 51st state?” Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, shouted out to 1,500 revelers that … Read more
Donald Trump spent much of the last two years promising that catastrophe would befall the nation if he were to lose the presidential election: World War III. An economic “blood bath.” America practically ceasing to exist. He opened his second term with the inverse promise that a “golden age” — one that only he can … Read more