Trump slaps fresh tariffs on all non-U.S. cars as trade war escalates: Live

Yes indeed friends, he really did say this – apologies if you happen to be eating your breakfast while reading this.

Speaking at a White House celebration of female achievement on Wednesday, the president declared: “We’re going to have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too, between the fertizilation and all the other things we are talking about, it’s going to be great.

“I am still very proud of it, I will be known as the fertilizaion president, that’s OK, that’s not bad.”

Donald Trump has announced a 25 percent tariff on all fully-assembled cars imported to the U.S., the latest escalation of his chaotic trade war that is intended to boost American manufacturing but which could hit consumers.

Here’s what he had to say about it in the Oval Office yesterday, apparently not having thought about the consequences for his “first buddy” Elon Musk.

The president was also up late on Truth Social raging about tariffs and threatening to hike them for the EU and Canada if they attempt to bypass the U.S. on imports by collaborating behind his back.

Here’s John Bowden’s report.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student in the graduate school of arts and sciences at the Massachusetts university, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers outside her off-campus apartment on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends, according to her attorney and activists.

Trump said he will be satisfied with the agency’s work — led by Elon Musk — within the next few months during a cabinet meeting Monday.

“We’re getting down to a point we think probably over the next two or three months, we’ll be pretty much satisfied with the people that are working hard and want to be members of the administration and our country,” Trump said.

“Our country was riddled with fat, and we’re getting rid of the fat,” he added.

Katie Hawkinson reports from Washington, D.C.

Elon Musk’s teen protege, known online as “Big Balls,” provided tech support to a criminal gang that cyberstalked an FBI agent two years before working at the Department of Government Efficiency, a new report alleges.

“There’s nothing’s being made up here,” Portnoy declared. “Somebody’s got to go down for this!”

Justin Baragona has the story.

Calling the White House’s bluff, The Atlantic released the messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent to a Signal chat group — which inadvertently included Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg — detailing the attack plans on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Immediately and unsurprisingly, the denizens of President Donald Trump’s favorite morning talk show dismissed the bombshell revelation as a nothingburger, insisting that Goldberg had “overpromised” when he first reported that Hegseth had shared “war plans” in an unclassified text chain that included a journalist who was randomly added to it.

Newly published texts reveal a minute-to-minute breakdown of “war plans,” weapons and targets in Yemen as Trump administration officials and military leaders discussed the operation with a journalist privy to the entire conversation.

The messages from Hegseth, sent on the day of the attack, March 15, contain a detailed timeline of when U.S. forces would strike Houthi targets in Yemen.