Overview
- On the Federal Reserve, Trump said a president should influence policy, affirmed no current plan to remove Jerome Powell, and pledged to announce his preferred chair within weeks while citing Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh as strong options.
- On Ukraine, he asserted Vladimir Putin is ready to make a deal and identified Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the holdup, adding the U.S. could assist with security guarantees if an agreement takes shape.
- On Iran, he said the crackdown on protesters may be easing without citing a source, declined to back exile Reza Pahlavi as a potential leader, and remained noncommittal about possible U.S. strikes.
- Trump said he had a good talk with Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez and plans to meet opposition leader María Corina Machado, signaling continued engagement with rival factions.
- Defending ICE deployments after the fatal Minneapolis shooting, he vowed to keep sending militarized agents and claimed without evidence they removed “thousands of murderers,” while also dismissing a Reuters/Ipsos Greenland poll as “fake” and calling the U.S. economy the strongest in history as he mused, “we shouldn’t even have an election.”