Trump's White House
Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself as pope, drawing internet outrage
The US president posted the image just days after joking he would “like to be pope” and less than a week after attending Pope Francis’ funeral.
- Andrea Shalal
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Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech
Three months in and the bosses of America’s most valuable firms have little to show for all their toadying.
- The Economist
- Opinion
- Putin's Russia
The tables have turned – and Putin’s country is now in dire trouble
The alarm bells are ringing for the Russian president as he tries to hold together an exhausted war economy.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
‘Skimp on the Barbie’: Murdoch US tabloid skewers Trump tariffs with Aussie jibe
Donald Trump’s throwaway line about children having fewer dolls has gone viral in the US, and was spoofed on the front page of one of his favourite newspapers using a phrase Americans still associate with Australia.
- Michael Koziol
‘They fired the wrong guy’: Blowtorch turns to Hegseth as Waltz pays for Signalgate
US President Donald Trump has removed national security adviser Mike Waltz from his post and sent him off to be an ambassador to the United Nations, a body the president holds in contempt.
- Michael Koziol
- Updated
- Elon Musk
Tesla chair denies plans to look for new CEO to replace Musk
Robyn Denholm says the Wall Street Journal report is “absolutely false”.
Fight back harder, Harris tells Democrats after Trump hits 100 days
In her first major speech since leaving office, the former vice president said Donald Trump was enacting an agenda decades in the making.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Trump says Biden is to blame for America’s shrinking economy. The data says otherwise
The US president blames his predecessor for the sharemarket slump and the fall in America’s GDP. In reality, it’s the “dumbest trade war in history” that’s responsible.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
- Updated
- Anthony Pratt
Trump called this Australian billionaire a ‘red-haired weirdo’. Now, they’ve met again
Packaging magnate Anthony Pratt pledged to invest billions in American manufacturing, scoring him an invitation to the White House, where the US president described him as a friend.
- Michael Koziol
US kids may get ‘two dolls instead of 30’, but China will suffer more, says Trump
The US president has tried to reassure a nervous country that his tariffs will not provoke a recession, after a government report showed the US economy shrank since he took office.
- Josh Boak
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