Overview
- Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry was named a special envoy on Greenland with the stated aim, as he described it, to make the island part of the United States.
- Vladimir Putin received a red-carpet welcome in Alaska in August, including a public embrace with President Trump during a high-profile visit.
- During a February White House meeting, Trump and Senator JD Vance openly criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to the coverage.
- On April 2, Trump unveiled a poster-board list of new tariffs in the Rose Garden, including a 10% levy on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands.
- Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk fractured after disputes over a spending bill, culminating in a viral Musk post alleging the president appears in Epstein-related files.