Trump says his ballroom is an ‘honor’ as demolition crews get to work tearing down part of White House

After spending the day golfing while his allies downplayed and mocked millions of Americans marching against his administration, Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social post with an AI-created video showing himself wearing a crown, flying a “KING TRUMP” fighter jet, and bombing a crowd of No Kings protesters with brown liquid.

The video, shared on the president’s personal and government social media accounts, shows the president soaring above a protest crowd in what appears to be Times Square. The jet then dumps brown liquid on the demonstrators as Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone” plays in the background, an apparent reference to the Top Gun movies.

In the lead-up to the No Kings demonstrations, which organizers estimate drew nearly 7 million people across all 50 states, Republicans have responded with a mixture of hyperbole, criticism, and mockery.

Alex Woodward and Josh Marcus have the story.

As President Trump boarded the plane to travel to the Middle East for his Gaza peace summit this week, he stuck his head out of the plane window and told a gaggle of journalists that he would be looking to find out how popular Tony Blair was in the region before deciding on whether to appoint him to his new Board of Peace.

“I just don’t know that,” he said, rowing back on reports that Blair was a shoo-in for the top job. “I like Tony, I have always liked Tony. But I want to find out that he is an acceptable choice to everybody.”

The answer he gets will not be clear cut.

Read former UK ambassador in the Gulf Nicholas Hopton’s take.

Speaking with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, President Donald Trump weighed in on whether he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin would end Russia’s war in Ukraine without taking property from the country.

“Did you get any sense from Putin that he would be willing and open to ending this war without taking significant property from Ukraine?” Bartiromo asked in an interview that aired Sunday.

Trump replied: Well, he's gonna take something. I mean, they fought and he has a lot of property. I mean, he's won certain property.”

The president added that the U.S. is the “only nation that goes in and wins a war and then leads, like we did under President Bush in the Middle East.”

President Donald Trump told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo about his “initial vision” for how the U.S. could help develop war-torn Gaza.

Watch part of the interview, which aired Sunday, here:

Former Congressman George Santos said he was “degraded and dehumanized” by prison wardens in his first public statement since President Donald Trump commuted his sentence.

The disgraced former New York Congressman had served just 84 days of his seven-year sentence when the president announced Friday he hadcommuted his sentence, which was handed down in April after the 37-year-old pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft stemming from several schemes to deceive donors and steal identities to fund his campaign.

In his first public comments since leaving New Jersey’s FCI Fairton, Santos posted on X that he holds “no anger toward anyone” — but then bashed two prison wardens by name: “No one should ever be dehumanized or degraded like I was by the FCI Fairton Warden Kelly and Assistant Warden Nobile.”

The Independent has asked the prison for comment.

Read the full story.

Donald Trump told a Fox anchor that he expected Ukraine to make territorial concessions in any peace agreement his administration could potentially orchestrate between Kyiv and Moscow to bring the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine to an end.

In an interview that aired on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, the U.S. president indicated that under the terms of a deal authored by the White House, Russia would likely be allowed to retain territory it has occupied since February of 2022.

Trump spoke with Russia’s Vladimir Putin by phone for two hours on Thursday, then met the following day with Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House where all signs of the tension between the two men which had erupted at a meeting this spring had vanished.

John Bowden has the story.

Asked about the indictments against his perceived political rivals, President Donald Trump told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo that he’s “allowed” to be involved in the prosecutions, but he hasn’t “chosen to.”

“You know, I'm allowed to be involved in this. I'm the chief law enforcement officer of the United States,” the president said, praising Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.

“I didn’t know it was happening but I see John Bolton just got indicted. That’s a good thing, he’s a bad guy,” he added. “Stupid kind of a guy, actually.”

Watch some of the interview here:

President Donald Trump signals his administration could be sending troops to San Francisco next.

“We're gonna go to San Francisco. The difference is I think they want us in San Francisco,” he told Maria Bartiromo in an interview aired Sunday.

San Francisco was once one of the great cities of the world, Trump said. But then, 15 year ago, it “went wrong, it went woke.”

The Trump administration has sent National Guard troops to several U.S. cities in recent months, including Los Angeles, Portland, Memphis, and Washington, DC.

He’s now trying to send troops to Chicago. After a lower court ruled that he couldn’t deploy troops to the Windy City, Trump has made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.

Here’s what he told Bartiromo:

President Donald Trump repeated a threat that he could invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.

“Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act... And that's unquestioned power,” the president warned, speaking to Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo.

“I choose not to. I’d rather do this,” he said, apparently referring to sending troops to several U.S. cities. as part of his crime crackdown.

The Insurrection Act authorizes the president to deploy military forces inside the United States to quell domestic violence or rebellion.

The law has been used dozens of times in U.S. history since its passage, but was most recently invoked by former President George H.W. Bush in 1992.

Earlier this month, Trump said he would invoke the law “if it was necessary,” but “so far it hasn’t been necessary.”

He added: “But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason.”

“If I had to enact it, I didn't. I do that if people were being killed ... and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I do that,” he said. “I mean, I want to make sure that people aren’t killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe.”

Here’s more on the Insurrection Act.