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Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.
Aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Washington from Florida on Monday, the president signed the order which baselessly states that trans people are both medically and morally unfit to serve.
Military personnel whose gender identity differs from their biological sex “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life,” Trump wrote in the order, adding that they fail to meet the “rigorous standards necessary for military service”.
Speaking to House Republicans at his Doral, Florida, property earlier on Monday, the president said he will get the “transgender ideology the hell out of our military” which he says will ensure the U.S. has the world’s most lethal fighting force.
At the retreat, Trump also mulled whether he could run for office again for a third term and how he might spend money he has raised for the next election cycle.
“I’ve raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can’t use for myself, but I’m not 100 percent sure,” he said. “I think I’m not allowed to run again.”
Microsoft mulls TikTok acquisition, Trump says
Microsoft is apparently in contention to buy TikTok, Donald Trump says.
Aboard Air Force One on Monday, reporters asked if the $3 trillion tech giant was involved in acquisition talks surrounding the purchase of the Chinese-owned app.
“I would say yes. A lot of interest in TikTok,” he said.
Trump later added: “I like bidding wars because you make the best deal. So if we have a bidding war, that’s a good thing. But we have a lot of interest in it.”
On Saturday, the president said he expects a decision to be made in he next 30 days.
James Liddell28 January 2025 10:19
Trump threatens tariffs on Taiwan’s computer chips
Donald Trump threatened placing up to 100 percent tariffs on computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals made in Taiwan in an attempt to return production to the U.S.
“They left us and went to Taiwan,” he told House Republicans during a retreat at his Doral, Florida, property on Monday. “We want them to come back.”
U.S. tech companies – including Apple and Nvidia – have been sourcing their processors from Taiwan’s multinational semiconductor manufacturer, TSMC.
Responding to Trump’s tariff threats on Tuesday, Taiwan’s economy ministry said that the semiconductor business between Taiwan and the United States is a “win-win” model, Reuters reports.
James Liddell28 January 2025 09:58
Watch: Ex-GOP strategist takes aim at Elon Musk ‘salute trutherism’ – but won’t copy gesture
James Liddell28 January 2025 09:37
In pictures: Both of Melania Trump’s official First Lady portraits
James Liddell28 January 2025 09:16
Trump wants U.S. to have Israeli-style ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense shield
The “next generation” missile defense shield would protect the U.S. from ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles and other advanced aerial attacks, according to a fact sheet seen by CNN.
James Liddell28 January 2025 08:56
Trump seeks to ban transgender service members from military
Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.
In a shockingly savage order Trump claimed that “the Armed Forces have been afflicted with radical gender ideology,” and baselessly claimed that trans people are both medically and morally unfit to serve.
It is estimated that there are around 15,000 transgender persons in the military. A 2016 study found that there were nearly 10,000. There are close to two million people serving in the US military across all branches.
Josh Marcus and Paul Farrell have the story.
James Liddell28 January 2025 08:35
Trump mocked for hitting the golf course — just a week after being sworn in again
According to CNN’s Betsy Klein, Trump was asked onboard Air Force One on Saturday whether he’d have time to play golf while visiting the resort. “No. I don’t think so. I’m busy,” he reportedly replied.
Oliver O’Connell28 January 2025 08:15
Judge allows convicted Oath Keepers to travel to Washington after Trump’s clemency
Stewart Rhodes and members of the Oath Keepers who were convicted on seditious conspiracy charges will be allowed to return to Washington, D.C., after Donald Trump’s hand-picked U.S. attorney pushed a judge to drop restrictions on their travel following the president’s clemencies.
The federal judge who tried members of the far-right militia group issued an order last week that prevented Rhodes and seven other defendants from entering Washington, without the court’s permission, after Trump commuted their sentences to time served.
Oliver O’Connell28 January 2025 07:15
Springfield’s Haitian immigrants are terrified Trump will make them an ‘example’
Four months ago, then-presidential nominee Donald Trump repeatedly told his supporters a baseless lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating residents’ pets.
Katie Hawkinson has the story.
Oliver O’Connell28 January 2025 06:15
