Trump news: President lashes out amid widespread ridicule over fake weather map, after repeating 'kill 10 million' Afghans remark

With Jason Greenblatt's announcement, here's a look at all of the top departures from Donald Trump's administration, a historic and unprecedented overturning for any presidency: 

The Trump administration has finalised its rollback of an Obama-era rule that would have required light bulbs to be more energy efficient.

The move stalls a years-long bipartisan push by Congress and past administrations to transition the US to energy-saving LED bulbs and other lighting that uses less electricity.

Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that the Energy Departmentcancelled the rule because “what’s saved is not worth it.”

However, environmental groups have warned that the rollback is likely to have negative consequences.

We're beginning to learn more about Donald Trump's new Middle East coordinator, and it's exactly as you might expect - 

Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg says he feels “sorry” for Donald Trump after the president presented the public with an altered official map of Hurricane Dorian’s forecast to seemingly back his unfounded claims Alabama was within the storm’s trajectory. 

The 2020 presidential hopeful slammed Mr Trump in an interview with CNN on Thursday morning, saying: “On one level it’s laughable, on another it’s exactly why we’ve got to do something.” 

Mr Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, spoke the day after Mr Trump showed media the National Hurricane Centre’s forecast for the storm Dorian on a large map in the Oval Office, along with an addition. Alabama’s southern coastline had seemingly been circled in with a black marker. A black sharpie pen of the sort Mr Trump uses to sign bills was reportedly seen near the president’s Resolute Desk. 

New reports indicate the federal government will pull millions of dollars from national projects and social initiatives as part of an effort to fund Donald Trump's long-promised border wall, a move causing controversy online:

A new Mother Jones report suggests a massive loan Donald Trump has never managed to outright explain could be an example of tax fraud:

Donald Trump said that Chinese manufacturing would “crumble” if the country did not agree to the United States’ trade terms. 

His comments come as newly released data shows his trade war was washing back to American shores and hurting the factories that the president has aimed to protect.

Days after new tariffs went into effect on both sides of the Pacific, a closely watched index of American manufacturing activity fell to 49.1 from 51.2, signalling a contraction in US factory activity for the first time since 2016.

The companies responding to the Institute for Supply Management survey, which the index is based on, cited shrinking export orders as a result of the trade dispute, as well as the challenge of moving supply chains out of China to avoid the tariffs.

At least one tornado has swept through South Carolina as up to three million people were warned to evacuate from the possible path of a re-energised Hurricane Dorian as it pounded the US southeast coast.

Authorities warned of the potential for deadly floods, record rainfall and a path of destruction across multiple states.

The life-threatening storm, which has already killed at least 20 people in the Bahamas, knocked out power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses.

Although Dorian has decreased in intensity since its peak over the weekend and swept past Florida at a relatively safe distance, the storm still poses a serious threat to North Carolina’s Outer Banks islands. Dorian has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane, as tornadoes were spotted in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and another in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. The National Weather Service issued a total of 43 tornado warnings across both states, with the threat of tornadoes lasting into the night. 

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Donald Trump‘s former press secretary has announced she will publish a memoir about her experiences in his administration.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the as yet untitled book, to be released in 2020, will tell of the ”challenges of being a working mum at the highest level of American politics”.

She said it would also deal with her role in “the historic fight raging between the Trump administration and its critics for the future of our country”.

“A trusted confidante of the president, Sarah advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy,” the book’s publisher, St Martin’s Press, said in a statement.

US representative Bill Flores has announced that he will not seek re-election, meaning he will be the fifth of Texas’s 23 Republican house representatives to retire under Donald Trump.

The Texas congressman shared the news in a series of tweets, writing: “After much prayer over the past few days and following conversations with my wife, Gina, during that time, I have decided that my current term will be my last.

“Serving my country as the Representative of the hardworking Texas families in the 17th Congressional District has been an honour and one of the greatest privileges of my life.”