2 h. ago US treasury considers special $1 Trump coin reading ‘fight, fight, fight’

US treasurer says officials looking at drafts for country’s 250th anniversary featuring president with raised fistTo commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US’s independence, the treasury department is mulling production of a $1 coin displaying Donald Trump with a clenched first under an American flag and the words “fight, fight, fight”.The words overtly reference what Trump said immediately after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt four months before he won a second presidency. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Taxpayers fork out £50k as US flags were wrong shade of red for Donald Trump visit

The expensive gaffe meant that the Government's official flag supplier had to reprint hundreds of American flags before US President Donald Trump visited

Economics

35 h. ago American flags for Trump’s UK state visit ‘had to be replaced because they were the wrong shade of red’

The flag supplier said 66 hand-sewn Stars and Stripes flags were replaced, estimated to have cost taxpayers more than £50,000

Politics

38 h. ago Stars and stripes flags for Trump UK visit had to be changed for brighter red

Switch of 66 hand-sewn flags for use along Mall and at Windsor Castle cost estimated £52,800 in public fundsDozens of US flags used for Donald Trump’s unprecedented second state visit to the UK last month had to be replaced because the stripes were the wrong shade of red, a government supplier has claimed.The switch of the 66 hand-sewn flags that had been due to be used along the Mall in London and at Windsor Castle cost an estimated £52,800 in public funds. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Stars and gripes! US flags used by UK for Presidential visits were rejected by Team Trump for not being MAGA red

Officials were supposedly forced to replace 66 hand-sewn Stars and Stripes flags last month, at a cost of £800 each, ahead of the President's three-day visit in September.

Politics

44 h. ago American flags had to be replaced for Donald Trump's state visit 'because they were the wrong shade of red'... and overhaul 'cost taxpayers £50,000'

Officials were supposedly forced to replace 66 hand-sewn Stars and Stripes flags last month, at a cost of £800 each, ahead of the President's three-day visit in September.

Economics

2 w. ago The Guide #209: Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel and the battle for the future of late

In this week’s newsletter: Once the preserve of backslapping celebrity interviews and inoffensive segments, late-night TV is now in Trump’s sights – giving its hosts unprecedented political weightIf nothing else, the Trump administration’s assault on late-night talkshows is creating some proper old-school water cooler TV. The first thing I did this morning was fire up YouTube and watch Jon Stewart’s monologue on last night’s Daily Show. Stewart usually only does the Monday edition, but he had made an exception in the wake of ABC’s decision, at the encouragement of the Federal Communications Commission and its Trump acolyte head, Brendan Carr, to indefinitely sideline Jimmy Kimmel. Stewart’s midweek appearance, then, was an event – and one that didn’t disappoint.Set to the images of soldiers saluting and American flags billowing in the wind, the opening voiceover trumpeted the “all-new, government-approved Daily Show, with your patriotically obedient host Jon Stewart”. Cue Stewart, h...

Events

2 w. ago Army veteran who burned American flag near White House pleads not guilty to federal charges

An Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on flag burning has pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges

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2 w. ago Trump’s state visit: American flags, armed police, and tourists swarm Windsor Castle

The Independent visited Windsor in Berkshire ahead of Donald Trump's state visit to the town on Tuesday (16 September), where he and his wife Melania will be staying until Friday (19 September).

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2 w. ago Trump hints at how he could arrest flag burners despite free speech protections

‘It really causes unrest and violence when they burn American flag,’ Trump said Monday

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