Trump, State of the Union
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President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential race after his initial opponent, then-President Joe Biden, withdrew over worries about his age and mental sharpness.
Days after the Supreme Court struck down the administration's tariffs and amid growing geopolitical crises, President Trump delivered the first State of the Union address of his second term on Tuesday night.
U.S. President Donald Trump has stepped up arrests of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, cracked down on unlawful border crossings and stripped legal status from hundreds of thousands of migrants since taking office in 2025.
During his second term, Trump imposed broad new import levies that have propelled America’s overall average tariff rate to 18% — the highest since 1934 — while raising costs for U.S. households by $1,600 to $2,600 per year, according to independent estimates.
Focusing on political victories during his State of the Union address, Trump gave himself and Republicans high marks while scolding Democrats for their stances on the economy and immigration.
The protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate will lie in repose for two days at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition before events in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, where he was born.
A fierce Washington D.C. grandmother stole the show at President Trump’s Black History Month celebration, defending him against charges of racism. Forlesia Cook, whose grandson was killed in a 2017 shooting,
The Trump administration came under fire for an operation that turned lethal and politically toxic. But the show of force may also have had a bigger purpose: to serve as a warning.