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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump reacted Wednesday to Republicans' midterm election losses by showing off the White House ballroom he's building as he demonstrated the kind of detached behavior that voters around the country said was a key reason they opted to punish his party.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump gave extended comments Wednesday, not about the Republican Party's midterm election wipeout but justifying his building a sprawling White House ballroom.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trump speaks at White House on ballroom construction after GOP midterm losses where voters said he didn't focus on them.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a flurry of rallies where he implored supporters to pretend that he was on the ballot, President Donald Trump led his Republican Party to a stunningly complete wipeout in the midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is making his closing pitch of the midterm elections at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, pushing his slow, expensive and problem-plagued efforts to repair it back into the spotlight on the eve of Election Day.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump signaled Sunday that he'll make his closing pitch of the midterm elections at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, pushing his slow, expensive and problem-plagued efforts to repair it back into the spotlight as Election Day looms.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump likes to play make-believe with his supporters.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trump Tower had just opened and "The Art of the Deal" was three years from publication when 38-year-old Donald Trump suggested he could negotiate Russian arms control better than Ronald Reagan.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trump Tower had just opened and "The Art of the Deal" three years from publication when 38-year-old Donald Trump suggested he could negotiate Russian arms control better than Ronald Reagan.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The midterm elections are looming and the first hurricane of the Atlantic Season is menacing the Gulf Coast.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The midterm elections might look ominous for President Donald Trump, but there are places where his Republican Party could turn the tables on Democrats if it can peel off a few key wins in key congressional races.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Monday that he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements glorifying himself that sparked a major backlash, and instead tap his super PAC to cover costs going forward.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer -- often and glitzier -- details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China's leader Xi Jinping.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer -- often and glitzier -- details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China's leader Xi Jinping.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sits where, their body language throughout the night and what's on the menu: these are the softer -- often and glitzier -- details of diplomacy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Friday defended his son's recent wedding party being partially bankrolled by a Russian oligarch, but also said he'd been told the money would be paid back.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is embracing his inner cowboy, seeking to gallop into this week's Republican convention in Dallas and save the midterm elections for his party just in the nick of time.
MURDOCK, Neb. (AP) -- They aren't toss-up races. Not even close.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has frequently suggested he wants to seek a third term, posting about mounting another campaign, donning 2028 caps and discussing ways to make it happen -- even as he's acknowledged the Constitution prohibits it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has frequently suggested he wants to seek a third term, posting about mounting another campaign, donning 2028 caps and discussing ways to make it happen -- even as he's acknowledged the Constitution prohibits it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump plans to visit Ireland next month to attend the Irish Open golf tournament at his golf course in Doonbeg in County Clare on the country's Atlantic coast, according to a White House official.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- "Do they still like Trump in Nebraska? I think so," the president said during a recent event in Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It is among the most famous phrases in presidential history: " The buck stops here." Except with President Donald Trump, it almost never does.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a "different plane" due to a threat that he insisted didn't scare him.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One after a recent summit in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a "different plane" due to a threat.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidents have taken secret overseas trips in the past for security reasons, with schedules and logistics kept classified until after the fact to protect the commander in chief.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) -- Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, said Sunday he has spoken with Barack Obama and hopes the former president campaigns with him as the party tries to unite after a bitter primary that exposed deep rifts between its progressive and moderate wings.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump will tell you: The grass is always greener on his side of the fence.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump hosted on Thursday dozens of Winter Olympians and Paralympians for a reception honoring their accomplishments in the Milano Cortina games earlier this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is welcoming Shohei Ohtani and the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House on Thursday with a Rose Garden event celebrating their second title in as many years.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jimmy Carter used to be one of President Donald Trump 's favorite political targets, a catchall foil for feckless Democrats that he could jeer at to make himself look strong and decisive.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is headlining a defense summit at the U.S. Army War College on Wednesday, planning to tout major investments in battlefield technology when the war in Iran has reduced the U.S. supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles and Patriot and THAAD interceptors.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is headlining a defense summit at the U.S. Army War College on Wednesday, planning to tout major investments in battlefield technology at a time when the war in Iran has reduced the U.S. supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles and Patriot and THAAD interceptors.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he had finally had enough of the man who was championed by the mob that stormed the pillar of American democracy: President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Crews are again draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as President Donald Trump's problem-plagued efforts to revamp the waterway pushes well past his initial goal of having it ready by July 4 to mark the nation's 250th birthday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the U.S. and Iran reached a tentative agreement to end the war, President Donald Trump managed to both trumpet the deal and raise questions about its viability, all in the same answer.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Showing off towering new flagpoles he had erected on the White House North and South Lawns last summer, President Donald Trump suggested that he wanted to make similar renovations in his first term but was worried about the negative press.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the White House's storied South Lawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the White House's storied South Lawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a once unfathomable cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump marked turning 80 on Sunday by hailing an agreement to end the war in Iran hours before a birthday celebration that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump marks turning 80 on Sunday with a birthday celebration that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump celebrates turning 80 on Sunday with a showstopping birthday spectacle that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If President Donald Trump is coming to the game, bet on the visiting team.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When nearly all the scheduled musical performers pulled out of a concert series marking America's 250th anniversary -- fearing the event had become too closely tied to President Donald Trump -- he responded by making it official.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When nearly all the scheduled musical performers pulled out of a concert series marking America's 250th anniversary -- fearing the event had become too closely tied to President Donald Trump -- he responded by making it official.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Yet another White House construction project is underway, though this one is meant to be only temporary.
BEIJING (AP) -- It's a verbal tightrope American presidents have had to walk for nearly 50 years, where even small slip-ups when stating official U.S. policy toward Taiwan and China can trigger geopolitical alarm bells.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Weeks before his trip to China, President Donald Trump was already predicting on social media that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, would "give me a big, fat hug when I get there."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was somberly contemplative and unusually conciliatory after confronting what he saw as a third attempt on his life in less than two years. He suggested that his personal politics had made him a repeated target, but he also called for unity and bipartisan healing in an increasingly violent world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump, who helped push the term " fake news " into the mainstream, now seems to have a new favorite subject: fake math.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump had two bags of McDonald's delivered to the Oval Office on Monday by a DoorDash driver he tipped $100, using his favorite food and a reality TV flourish to promote a tax policy he says has meant big rebates for Americans who earn gratuities.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump may believe the adage that the pen is mightier than the sword -- as long as it's a Sharpie.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Political warning signs that have privately worried some Republicans for months are starting to flash red ahead of November's midterm elections, as the war in Iran keeps gas prices high, travelers face unprecedented airport security wait times and Americans remain concerned about steep costs of living.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump may delay his China trip due to the Iran war, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday it's not to pressure Beijing on the Strait of Hormuz.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is suggesting he may delay his much-anticipated visit to China at the end of the month as he seeks to ramp up the pressure on Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and calm oil prices that have soared during the Iran war.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump plans to visit Ohio and Kentucky on Wednesday to argue that his policies can steady an economy facing shock waves from the war on Iran and to try to defeat one of the few congressional Republicans who has dared to defy him.