US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he and his wife Melania had tested positive for COVID-19 and were in quarantine, after Hope Hicks, one of his closest advisers, tested positive for the disease. In a Tweet, Trump said he and Melania would “get through this together”. Hicks travels regularly with the president on Air
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President Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns. Trump’s comments came after published reports that the administration is planning to order China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok. There were also reports Friday that
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Donald Trump received a written briefing about alleged Russian bounties offered to Afghan militants to kill American troops as early as February, The New York Times said Monday in a new report undercutting the US president’s assertion that he was not told of the threat. Trump has come under increasing pressure to explain mounting media
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu speaks on Presidents Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump impersonators. Howard X, a Hong Kong resident is a Kim Jong Un (The North Korea President) lookalike, while Russell White from Canada is a Donald Trump (United States President) lookalike. They are known for
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For many, the president of the United States Donald Trump is a man you either love or hate. The love that some of Trump’s fans have for him is so great that they have begun a form of hero-worship. A report by Reuters has it that India’s Trump super fans gear up for his arrival
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The House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi reiterated that she shredded her copy of the SOTU speech because the President, Donald Trump shredded the truth. Pelosi acknowledged that during the closed door caucus meeting of the Democrats. While the din of applause echoed from the elated Republicans at the House Chamber on Trump’s SOTU speech, the
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Sequel to President Donald Trump’s acquittal on the two articles of impeachment yesterday, by the Senate with the Republicans dominating, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi fires from all cylinders. The first article had 52 votes against 48 in favour of Trump and the second article also led to his acquittal. Pelosi who had earlier
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Nigeria did not adequately share public-safety and terrorism-related information necessary for the protection of the national security and public safety of the US. The United States has given reasons for imposing visa restrictions on Nigerians and five other countries’ nationals. It said Nigeria did not comply with the established identity-management and information-sharing criteria assessed by the
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Donald Trump demanded the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine and a key figure in the president’s impeachment trial, according to a video recording released to US media on Saturday. The footage was reportedly taken during an April 2018 donor dinner at a hotel and released to news outlets by an attorney for
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The 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has reiterated his vision to Keep America Great (KAG). “After years of rebuilding OTHER nations, we are finally rebuilding OUR nation. We are finally putting AMERICA FIRST! #KAG2020”, Trump remarked. Keep America Great “#KAG2020” is the new 2020 Campaign Slogan as against the Make
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the impeachment of Donald Trump was based on “made-up” grounds, adding he did not believe it marked the end of the US president. “It still needs to go through the Senate, where the Republicans have a majority,” Putin said after the House of Representatives voted to impeach
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A Twitter user, Mr. Joey Saladino, says he has donated one of his own testicles in protest against the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Saladino’s claim is allegedly in fulfillment of a promise he made in a tweet on September 24, 2019: He said “If Trump gets impeached; I will donate my Left testicle to
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Hillary Clinton, a former Democratic presidential candidate, has said that the impeachment suffered by President Donald Trump was the only “remedy” to check his “abuse of power.” Recall that the ex-First Lady’s husband, Bill Clinton, had also suffered Trump’s fate on December 19, 1998 during his second term as president. She argued that Trump’s impeachment
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The White House has hit back at lawmakers after President Donald Trump was impeached, slamming the “illegitimate articles of impeachment” and voicing confidence the president would be acquitted in the Senate. “Democrats have chosen to proceed on this partisan basis in spite of the fact that the President did absolutely nothing wrong,” spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham
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US President Donald Trump has been impeached for abuse of power in a historic vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting up a trial in the Senate on removing him from office. By a 230 to 197 vote in the Democratic-controlled House, the 45th US president becomes just the third occupant of the
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