4 d. ago The one official Trump world is ready to blame if tariffs are a disaster

Lutnick has reportedly pushed for ‘more aggressive’ tariffs during talks

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4 d. ago The top Trump official who will take the blame if Liberation Day tariffs go south

President Donald Trump will take all the credit if his 'Liberation Day' tariffs bring manufacturing stateside and give the U.S. economy a boost.

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6 d. ago Trump says he’s ‘p*****’ off with Putin over lack of ceasefire deal and threatens more tariffs on Russian oil

Trump has shifted the blame for the protracted nature of the ceasefire negotiations on Putin

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8 d. ago ‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physiqueUberto Pasolini likes to say he has been thinking about adapting The Odyssey for 30 years – 10 years longer than it took Odysseus to win the Trojan war. A nephew of the director Luchino Visconti, the 67-year-old Italian film-maker has lived in London for 50 years. Pasolini, who won a Bafta for producing The Full Monty, first approached Ralph Fiennes to play Odysseus in 2011, after the actor had made his directorial debut with Coriolanus, believing Fiennes might also be able to direct the film.They got as far as a location scout in Turkey, where Fiennes, then about to play Prospero in a Trevor Nunn production of The Tempest, practised his “Such stuff as dreams are made on” speech in an abandoned outdoor amphitheatre at dusk. “It was me and two goats,” recalls Pasolini over a video chat. “I get t...

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1 week ago Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown | Musa al

Both parties are responsible for the mess facing Columbia and other institutions. It’s time for their leaders to take a standDonald Trump trying to cow higher education institutions into submission using the power of the purse. The administration has withheld $400m in federal funds from Columbia University and has vowed to remove even more if its demands are not met.Columbia has an endowment of $14.8bn and an annual operating budget of $6.6bn. The cuts amount to roughly 6% of its annual budget – a non-trivial share. In order to keep it, Columbia was instructed to adopt a number of illiberal measures: it must put its Middle East, South Asia and Africa Studies department into academic receivership; change its admissions policies to reduce admits of people from those regions and admit more Jewish students;and grant campus police more power to surveil, detain and remove people from campus without following the usual due process. It must accept permanently heightened restrictions on camp...

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1 week ago Trump pins blame for Signal group chat leak on ‘lower level’ employee

Donald Trump has blamed a ‘lower-level’ employee working under his National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, for the Signal group chat security blunder.

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1 week ago Trump blames ‘employee’ for Signalgate and ‘billionaires on left’ for Tesla attacks in Newsmax interview: Live

President suggests no punishment for security officials over blunder that saw Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg added to highly-sensitive Signal group chat by mistake

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1 week ago Trump claims ‘billionaires on the left’ partly to blame for violence against Tesla

The president said that the same group of mysterious people were also ‘probably involved’ in his various legal battles

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1 week ago Trump blames leaked war plan group chat on 'lower level' Mike Waltz staffer: 'Somehow this guy ended up on the call'

Donald Trump revealed who he believes is at fault for a reporter being added to a White House group chat that was detailing war plans.

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1 week ago Trump shifts blame for Signalgate texts onto mystery ‘lower level’ employee

In an interview with Newsmax, Trump offered a theory on how Jeffrey Goldberg had ended up on a Signal group chat with senior officials in his administration

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1 week ago Trump shifts blame for Signalgate texts onto ‘lower level’ mystery employee

In an interview with Newsmax, Trump offered a new theory on how journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic ended up on a Signal group chat with senior officials discussing bombing plans in Yemen earlier this month

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1 week ago Trump blames ‘employee’ for Signalgate and ‘billionaires on the left’ for Tesla attacks in Newsmax interview: Live

President suggests no punishment for security officials over blunder that saw Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg added to highly-sensitive Signal group chat by mistake

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1 week ago Hunt for mystery White House 'mole' staffer Trump blamed for stunning Signal war plans blunder

The hunt is on for a White House aide being blamed for putting The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat alongside key Trump administration officials.

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1 week ago 'Mike Waltz is a f***ing idiot': Official blamed for revealing Trump team's texts saying they 'loathe bailing out' Europe's 'pathetic free

Some White House officials believe that Waltz will need to be pushed out or resign to save President Trump from being put in a 'bad position'.

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1 week ago ‘Insecure baby’: Trump’s Colorado capitol portrait removed after he throws fit

Even some Republicans have called president’s public demand to remove the painting ‘petty’US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump critics aimed ridicule at the president after he publicly demanded the removal of his portrait at Colorado’s state capitol building, calling it “truly the worst”.In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump shared an image of the portrait and complained about the painting, saying it was bad and blaming it on Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis – whom the president insulted as being “radically left”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump demands removal of 'purposefully distorted' portrait

The US president demands the portrait by British artist Sarah Boardman hanging in the Colorado state capitol is removed

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1 week ago 'World's biggest narcissist Donald Trump's portrait tantrum proves he's all about Art of Conceal'

While the world burns, President Donald Trump is throwing a tantrum over a portrait hanging in Colorado's State Capitol because it doesn't make him 'look like a Greek God'

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1 week ago ‘Insecure baby’: Trump draws ridicule after throwing fit over Colorado capitol portrait

Even some Republicans have called president’s public demand to remove the painting ‘petty’US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump critics aimed ridicule at the president after he publicly demanded the removal of his portrait at Colorado’s state capitol building, calling it “truly the worst”.In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump shared an image of the portrait and complained about the painting, saying it was bad and blaming it on Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis – whom the president insulted as being “radically left”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump slams ‘radical left’ Colorado governor for ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait hanging in state capitol building

President Trump labels portrait of himself ‘truly the worst’ by the same artist who made Barack Obama look ‘wonderful’

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1 week ago Trump blames ‘radical left governor’ for ‘truly the worst portrait’ hanging in state capitol building

President Trump labels portrait of himself ‘truly the worst’ by the same artist who made Barack Obama look ‘wonderful’

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