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President Donald Trump connected Tuesday was acceptable to motion caller enforcement orders from his Florida location portion his archetypal associated TV interrogation with advisor Elon Musk airs successful premier time.
Trump's Florida location volition besides beryllium the mounting for an awards programme by a blimpish radical led by Mike Flynn, who concisely served arsenic nationalist information advisor successful the Republican president's archetypal term.
Trump was spending portion of Tuesday astatine his play nine successful West Palm Beach, Florida.
President Donald Trump gestures to supporters gathered for a Presidents Day rally arsenic helium leaves the Trump International Golf Club, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, successful West Palm Beach, Fla.
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The White House had nary contiguous remark connected the enforcement actions Trump was signing aboriginal Tuesday astatine Mar-a-Lago, his backstage nine and residence successful Palm Beach. In the archetypal weeks of Trump's 2nd term, helium has utilized enforcement orders - signed statements astir however the president wants the national authorities to beryllium managed - to code issues including borderline security, the situation and transgender rights, among others. The White House said the lawsuit volition beryllium opened for property coverage, aft initially saying it would not beryllium allowed.
Trump and Musk, caput of the caller Department of Government Efficiency, gave their archetypal associated interrogation to Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel. The interrogation was taped connected Friday astatine the White House and is acceptable to aerial arsenic Musk leads Trump's effort to chopped national spending and slash the national workforce.
Musk has drawn disapproval from Democrats successful Congress and others for the methods helium and his squad astatine DOGE are utilizing to chopped spending, including overseas aid, and destruct jobs crossed the bureaucracy.
The Fox News interrogation besides follows Musk's quality with Trump successful the Oval Office past week, erstwhile some defended Musk's attack to national cost-cutting.
In an excerpt from the interrogation that Fox News released connected Sunday, Musk said helium "used to beryllium adored by the left" but "less truthful these days" due to the fact that of the enactment he's doing astatine Trump's direction.
"They telephone it Trump derangement syndrome. You don't recognize however existent this is until you can't crushed with people," Musk said, adding that mean conversations with Democrats astir the president are hard due to the fact that "it's similar they've go wholly irrational."
Trump's Mar-a-Lago nine is the mounting Tuesday nighttime for an awards programme by America's Future, which is led by Flynn to sphere idiosyncratic rights and beforehand American values and traditions, according to its website. The event, celebrating American exceptionalism, volition grant 1 subordinate from the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force and the Space Force.
The lawsuit includes a poolside reception, philharmonic performances and meal successful Mar-a-Lago's Grand Ballroom, wherever different grant presentations are expected from a lineup that includes specified names arsenic Russell Brand, Ted Nugent and Mike Tyson.
It's unclear whether Trump volition enactment successful the event.
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