For much of this past week,the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?
Some are predictable picks for their roles,most are not. Meet the people you’ll be seeing a lot in the next three years.
Whether you’re organising a golf weekend or a tactical strike against the Houthis,the rules of the group chat apply to us all.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.
The US vice president said he didn’t want to let his wife “have all that fun by herself” as he planned to visit a US military base in the territory.
For any other government,accidentally adding a journalist to a chat about military airstrikes would be a crisis. For Trump’s,it’s barely a blip on the radar.
Washington is in shock after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he had been accidentally included in highly sensitive Signal messages about planned strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.
After a victory lap speech to Congress this week,the president must now face reality:legislative delays,court setbacks,fading popularity and a looming government shutdown.
Even Nigel Farage,Britain’s right-wing populist figure and a close ally of Trump,was left incensed by the vice president’s comment,which was seen as disrespectful of British soldiers.
With the US president parroting Putin talking points,America’s allies must rethink their security strategies.