Karoline Leavitt reveals Trump’s ‘patience is very thin’ with top world leader: Live updates

By NICK ALLEN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 13:19 BST, 23 April 2025 | Updated: 23:03 BST, 23 April 2025

President Donald Trump’s patience is wearing very thin with Ukraine’s Zelensky according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

It comes after he ripped into Zelensky for ‘harming peace negotiations’ with Russia. 

Earlier Trump announced he will put up two 100ft poles to fly the American flag outside the White House. 

Trump was seen touring the lawn outside the building as he chose where to put the two flags, which he will pay for. 

He said: ‘We’re putting up a beautiful, almost 100ft tall American flag on this side and another one on the other side. Two flags. Top of the line.’

Trump also said there would be a ‘fair’ trade deal with China as financial markets recovered some of their recent losses.

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White House turns its fire on Zelensky

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt warned that President Donald Trump is losing patience with Ukraine and the lack of a peace deal with Russia.

‘In order to make a good deal, both sides have to walk away a little bit unhappy,’ she told reporters outside the White House.

And she put the blame on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump, earlier in the day, blasted Zelensky for ‘harming peace negotiations’ by talking to the Wall Street Journal about why his country wouldn’t concede the Crimea to Russia.

‘Unfortunately, President Zelensky has been trying to litigate this peace negotiation in the press, and that’s unacceptable to the president,’ Leavitt said. ‘These should be closed door negotiations.’

She added: “The President frustrated. His patience is running very thin. He wants to do what’s right for the world. He wants to see peace. He wants to see the killing stop but you need both sides of the war willing to do that, and unfortunately President Zelensky seems to be moving in the wrong direction.’

AOC and Bernie Sanders blasted for sneaking off $7 million private jet after slamming Trump as an ‘oligarch’

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Two of the most identifiable progressive climate justice champions in Congress have been busted for flying around on a gas-guzzling private jet.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and self-proclaimed Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., were filmed by Fox News boarding a private, $15,000 per hour private jet to travel to events on their ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour.

The plane itself carries a hefty price tag as well, with models ranging from $5 million to $7 million.

According to the report, Sanders and AOC boarded the luxurious Bombardier Challenger jet in California on Tuesday afternoon after speaking at a tour stop in Bakersfield.

But their use of a private jet directly contradicts comments they have made in the past disparaging unnecessary polluting practices.

Trump says Elon Musk ‘was a tremendous help’ after DOGE head tells Tesla curtail government work

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Trump praised Elon Musk – at one point in the past tense – after the DOGE chief said he would pare back his government work to a ‘day or two’ a week after Tesla profits plunged.

‘He was a tremendous help both in the campaign and what he’s done with DOGE,’ Trump told reporters.

He complained that Musk was ‘treated unfairly’ and said he ‘can’t speak more highly about any individual.’

He complained that members of the public ‘took it out on Tesla’ amid controversy over DOGE firings.

‘I also want him to make sure that he’s going to be in great shape,’ Trump said, alluding to the car company’s problems.

‘He was always at this time going to ease out,’ Trump said of Musk, who is a designated Special Government Employee on a temporary assignment that can get renewed.

Trump wouldn’t quite endorse Commanders changing name back to Redskins – but mocked Cleveland’s name change

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

President Donald Trump wouldn’t quite endorse the Washington Commanders changing the NFL team’s name back to the ‘Redskins’ – which was considered a slur by a number of Native American groups.

He did voice support for the Kansas City Chiefs – and mocked Cleveland for changing the name of its MLB franchise from Indians to Guardians.

Trump was asked if he’d tie the Commanders’ football stadium deal in Washington, D.C. to riverting the name back to the original.

‘Now Washington, the Redskins, perhaps that’s a little different, a little different,’ he said. ‘I think it’s a superior name to what they have right now,’ he also volunteered.

He added that, ‘we’re about bringing common sense back to this country.’

Trump hands out large gold and black challenge coins to war vets

President Trump handed out large metal keepsakes to Afghan war veterans in the Oval office.

One vet is a man Trump visited at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Trump called the vets ‘great heroes,’ then reached inside a drawer in his desk to offer them large coins.

‘I think you’re going to really like them,’ Trump said. The coins came in gold and black – a color he said soldiers prefer. ‘Soldiers like the black,’ he said. They were much larger than traditional challenge coins.

‘I’ll take a gold one sir,’ said one vet. Trump kept a light-hearted count, saying that ‘gold has an edge’, before the gun metal black ‘picked up at the end.’

Trump signs orders on foreign gifts to universities as aide brings up Harvard

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Trump signed orders on Wednesday that put more pressure on elite universities amid his administration’s clash with Harvard.

The first order deals with ‘large foreign gifts’ to universities. White House staff secretary Will Scharf told Trump it would apply to ‘for example, Harvard.’

A second deals with accreditation for universities. According to Scharf, it deals with accrediting schools based on merit, ‘as opposed to how woke these universities have gotten.’

Trump then weighed in with his own pet peeve about education. ‘They’re allowing people into school that can’t do math,’ he complained.

Fabulist George Santos stages odd last-ditch defense against ‘pedophiles’ trying to sentence him to 7 years behind bars

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Former New York Republican congressman George Santos wrote a letter pleading with the judge overseeing his upcoming sentencing for fraud charges to take it easy on him.

Santos, 36, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft last year.

The Department of Justice has been seeking a seven-year prison sentence for the ex-lawmaker, who admitted to stealing the identities of close to a dozen people and deceiving donors into giving him campaign cash he would later spend on himself.

He served about a year in Congress, but was expelled in December 2023 after a House Ethics Committee report uncovered his sweeping misconduct.

The report found Santos had been funneling political donations into his personal bank accounts to fund Botox treatments, designer clothes, casino holidays, and OnlyFans fees.

But just days before his sentencing hearing on Friday, Santos struck a more humble and conciliatory tone in an attempt to escape a harsh prison sentence.

Outspoken Democrat Trump has called a ‘very low-IQ person’ challenges him to an intelligence test

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

President Donald Trump has called her a ‘very low-IQ person’ and now Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has said she’d challenge the Republican to an intelligence test.

Crockett made an appearance Tuesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live and was played some of the insults Trump had hurled at her for the first time.

‘He also called you “low-IQ,” I’m sure you’re aware of that,’ Kimmel said. ‘Would you be willing to take an IQ test publicly, head-to-head against the president of the United States?’ the comedian asked.

The Texas Democrat wholeheartedly agreed.

‘Absolutely, absolutely!’ she yelled, prompting Kimmel’s studio audience to cheer.

How a stark warning from Walmart boss convinced Trump to be ‘very nice’ to China on tariffs

It was a stunning change in tone for a president who has repeatedly accused China of ‘ripping off’ the United States.

‘No, no, we’re going to be very nice. They’re going to be very nice, and we’ll see what happens,’ Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday, suggesting that there was potential to lower the temperature in his trade war with China and substantially bring down tariffs he had imposed this month.

‘We’re going to live together very happily and ideally work together,’ Trump said. His new public approach came hours after the president met with three CEOs whose retail companies are highly dependent on imports.

They warned Monday that Trump’s spate of tariffs had the potential to once again further disrupt supply chains – leading to a spike in inflation just as Trump was championing a cooling in fuel and household goods.

Powerful Democrat shocks with sudden retirement announcement

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin has announced he will not run for re-election.

The powerful Democratic Whip, the second most powerful position in the chamber, first joined in 1997.

‘The decision of whether to run for re-election has not been easy,’ Durbin said Wednesday in a video he posted on social media.

‘I truly love the job of being a United States Senator, but in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch, so I’m announcing today that I will not be seeking re-election at the end of my term.’

‘The people of Illinois have honored me with this responsibility longer than anyone elected to the Senate in our state’s history, I’m truly grateful,’ he shared.

Trump blasts Zelensky for ‘harming peace negotiations’

The US President slammed Zelensky over his refusal to formally cede Crimea to Russia.

‘It’s inflammatory statements like Zelensky’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War,’ Trump said in a post on Truth Social, and adding that ‘We are very close to a deal.’

Trump issues ‘dangerous’ warning to anti-MAGA judges stopping his big deportation plans

President Trump issued another warning to judges who have issued rulings that would curb his migrant deportation plans – saying ‘you can’t have a trial for all of these people.’

The president directed his comments at judges after yet another federal jurist, this one in New York, blocked migrants being held in the state from being deported without due process.

‘And I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because, you know, we have thousands of people that are ready to go out, and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,’ Trump said at the White House Tuesday.

Trump sends the markets wild with promise for ‘fair’ trade deal with China amid growing uncertainty

Markets spiked Wednesday after President Trump and his Treasury secretary spoke optimistically about a deal to lower tariffs on China amid a disruptive trade war.

Trump spoke to reporters Wednesday about a potential deal with China, after slapping on tariffs totalling 145%, and prompting retaliatory tariffs of 125% by Beijing.

‘It’s going to be fair,’ Trump said.

Trump says U.S. no longer the ‘laughingstock’ of the world

Karoline Leavitt trolls the ‘fake news’

Trump walks White House lawn looking for a spot for flag pole

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Donald Trump took a surprise stroll on the North Lawn of the White House to look for a spot to put a flag pole.

The president, along with head groundskeeper Dale Haney, walked around examining the terrain for the perfect spot.

He told reporters he was putting up a 100-foot flag pole on the North Lawn and another one on the South Lawn.

‘We’re putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side and another one on the other side, two flags top of the line,’ he said. ‘It’s going to be two beautiful poles.’

He added: ‘Paid for by Trump.’

Trump has a massive American flag flying outside of his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla.

Fox News host tears into Democrat for bizarre claim about why she traveled to El Salvador

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Fox News host Laura Ingraham ripped into a Democrat lawmaker for the explanation she gave for her recent trip to El Salvador to see a suspected migrant gang member.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., was one of four Democratic lawmakers who traveled to El Salvador this week hoping to meet with deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Salvadoran migrant was deported from the U.S. because of his suspected ties to the MS-13 cartel, though during the process, the Trump administration admitted they made an ‘administrative error,’ prompting the Supreme Court to demand his return.

‘What was this? What was your point in traveling to El Salvador? Senator Van Hollen had just been there. Ingraham asked, referencing the visit last week by another Democrat lawmaker.

‘To me, there is nothing more American than due process and the rule of law,’ Ansari responded.

Exclusive:Barron Trump’s shock new student look as Secret Service control dating life with harsh rule

Barron Trump debuted a new pragmatic look, sporting a polo shirt and khakis as he left the campus of NYU Tuesday, as its revealed security have prevented him from giving his phone number to girls.

President Donald Trump’s youngest son is often seen looking the part of a future businessman in formalwear and slicked back hair, bearing a striking resemblance to his father.

On Tuesday, however, DailyMail.com’s exclusive photos show Barron in New York City in a white polo shirt, khakis and a belt as he dragged his backpack away from campus.

JD Vance reveals what it was like to meet with Pope Francis hours before his death

Vice President JD Vance spoke with reporters Wednesday about his visit with Pope Francis on Sunday, just hours before the Holy Father’s death.

He acknowledged the timing was “pretty crazy” and considered himself lucky to meet with the Holy Father.

‘Obviously when I saw him, I didn’t know he had less than 24 hours still on this earth … I try to just, you know, remember that I was lucky that I got to shake his hand and tell him that I pray for him every day…’ he said.

When asked about the differences the administration had with Pope Francis, Vance told reporters he was aware of them but also that the Holy Father had issues they agreed with.

‘I’m not going to soil the man’s legacy by talking about politics, I think he was a great Christian pastor and that’s how I choose to remember the Holy Father,’ he said.

When asked what kind of pope he wanted to see in the Vatican, Vance chuckled.

‘I won’t pretend to give guidance to the cardinals on who they should select as the next pope … I’ll just say a prayer for wisdom,’ he said.

JD Vance issues ultimatum to Moscow and Kyiv

Gingrich reveals Trump’s thinking on raising taxes on rich

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich received a note from President Donald Trump on taxes.

There have been reports Trump is considering raising taxes on those earning over $1 million.

After getting the note Gingrich told Politico: ‘It’s pretty clear that that conversation should now be over.’

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