Trump news: President demands billions for border wall as Pelosi says he 'isn't worth' impeaching

The president was busy retweeting support for his "no collusion" mantra over the weekend (spent at his Mar-a-Largo resort in Florida), posting complimentary job statistics and making his familiar attacks on the media.

He also found time to brand right-wing commentator and former ally Ann Couter a "wacky nut job".

"The Isis threat will remain", said US national security adviser John Bolton on ABC's This Week yesterday, warning of the situation in Syria and endorsing the opinion of General Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command.

"But one reason that the president has committed to keeping an American presence in Iraq and small part of an observer force in Syria, is against the possibility that there would be a real resurgence of Isis and we would then have the ability to deal with that if that arose," he said.

"The president has been, I think, as clear as clear can be... When he talks about the defeat of the Isis territorial caliphate, he has never said that the elimination of the territorial caliphate means the end of Isis in total. We know that's not the case."

"Isis fighters [are] scattered still around Syria and Iraq and Isis itself is growing in other parts of the world."

"The importance of the territorial caliphate goes to an ideological point of Isis itself, namely that they were a caliphate because under their view of what a caliphate is, you have to control a territory," Mr Bolton said.

Mr Trump has certainly come a long way from this bold statement a week before Christmas and has already rolled back his initial plan for the complete withdrawal of US troops of the region.

Speaking of US peacekeeping forces overseas, here's an astonishing idea for the billionaire businessman president - charging foreign powers for hosting them!

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The Republicans are still seeking to exploit Democratic division by accusing the opposition of antisemitism over the Ilhan Omar affair.

The Minnesota congresswoman criticised the influence of lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, sparking a rift within her party and prompting Mr T to call them "anti-Israel" on Friday.

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has since been rebuked by the network (a rare occurrence) for suggesting Ms Omar's wearing a hijab is somehow at odds with American democracy.

"Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?" she asked viewers of her Fox show Justice.

Liz Cheney, daughter of all-powerful former vice-president Dick Cheney, was one of 23 House Republicans to vote against a resolution condemning prejudice in the lower chamber on Thursday (407 representatives were in favour) and appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to accuse the opposition of "enabling" bigotry.

A useful qualifier on President Trump's spending proposals with the Office of Management and Budget.

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg - mayor of South Bend, Indiana - has launched an absolutely stinging attack on vice-president Mike Pence, a famously devout Christian.

Speaking at a CNN Townhall event at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Mr Buttigieg said: "How could he allow himself to become the cheerleader of the porn star presidency? Is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in Donald Trump?"

Jay Caruso for Indy Voices on why it's important for political opponents not to ignore the achievements of the Trump administration and why applauding what it does right does not mean "enabling" a world leader widely disapproved of. 

2020 presidential candidate and universal basic income champion Andrew Yang is having a good day.

So far today Donald Trump has not been composing many tweets himself, but he has been retweeting quite a bit.

Here's the most recent tweet he had from last night. Of course, he's calling out witch hunts.

He must have been watching this blog. Donald Trump has tweeted a couple doozies, including a message that he would be fine with making daylight savings time permanent (the clocks changed on Sunday in the US).