President Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Friday unveiled the trophy for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, a competition of 32 international soccer clubs that will be held in the United States this summer. The White House also announced a new task force that will oversee preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the prestigious quadrennial tournament that will be jointly hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico. #fifa #worldcup #worldcup2026 #trump #cspan

Bill Nye, the former host of PBS’s “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” spoke Friday at the “Stand Up for Science” rally held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. #billnye #billnyethescienceguy #cspan

President Trump on said Friday he was finding it “easier” to work with Russia than Ukraine as he seeks to broker a peace deal to end the three-year war. “I think we’re doing very well with Russia. But right now, they’re bombing the hell out of Ukraine,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “I’m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. And they don’t have the cards.” Senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials are planning to meet in Saudi Arabia next week to try to revive the minerals deal that was scuttled last week after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Oval Office meeting turned into a shouting match. “In terms of getting a final settlement, it may be easier dealing with Russia, which is surprising because they have all the cards,” President Trump said. Asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was taking advantage of the U.S. suspending its military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, the president said, “I actually think he is doing what anybody else would do.” “I think he wants to get it stopped and settled and I think he’s hitting them harder than he’s been hitting them. And I think, probably, anybody in that position would be doing that right now,” the president said. “I think Ukraine wants to get it ended. But I don’t see — it’s crazy, they’re taking tremendous punishment. I don’t quite get it, but I suspect … [President Zelensky] wants to get it ended.” Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on Ukrainian energy facilities on Friday in the wake of the U.S. halting its intelligence sharing that had helped Kyiv target incoming fire. In response, President Trump threatened Moscow with sanctions and tariffs, a notable shift for the U.S. leader who had spent weeks railing against Ukraine and praising Russia. #ukrainewar #trump #cspan

President Trump reversed course on Thursday, signing a one-month suspension of his sweeping tariffs for most goods from Canada and Mexico. Goods traded under the rules of the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade pact he signed in his first term, will be exempt from the 25% levies he imposed earlier in the week. The move came a day after he gave a one-month reprieve to carmakers, who argued the tariffs would severely hurt the U.S. auto industry. The president has upended North American trade with his tariff policies, roiling markets, stoking diplomatic tensions, and inserting uncertainty into industries heavily reliant on trade. He said the tariffs were intended to spur the Mexican and Canadian governments to do more to address migrants and drugs coming into the U.S. “After speaking with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay Tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA Agreement,” the president wrote on social media. “I did this as an accommodation, and out of respect for, President Sheinbaum. Our relationship has been a very good one, and we are working hard, together, on the Border, both in terms of stopping Illegal Aliens from entering the United States and, likewise, stopping Fentanyl.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president denied the reversal was influenced by turmoil in the stock market, his favorite economic indicator. “No, nothing to do with the market,” he said. “I’m not even looking at the market because long term, the United States will be very strong with what’s happening.” Asked again about the market, which is heading for a losing week, the president blamed the recent selloff on “globalists.” “I think it’s globalists that see how rich our country’s going to be and they don’t like it,” he said. “But again, they’ve been ripping off this country for years. And they’re going to do great — everyone’s going to do great. But we can’t let this continue to happen to America.” #tariffs #trump #cspan

Eric Adams, the embattled Democratic mayor of New York, on Wednesday denied he cut a deal with the Trump administration to avoid prosecution on corruption charges in exchange for helping it meet its immigration goals. “There’s no deal. There’s no quid pro quo. I did nothing wrong,” the mayor told the House Oversight Committee, which was holding a hearing with mayors from so-called sanctuary cities. Mayor Adams was supposed to go to trial in April on charges of bribery, wire fraud and soliciting illegal campaign donations, but the judge postponed the trial indefinitely after the Justice Department ordered prosecutors to drop the charges shortly after President Trump came into office. #ericadams #newyorkcity #sanctuarycities #cspan

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday called Democrats’ conduct during President Trump’s address to Congress “disgraceful.” “The behavior of Democrats last night was completely disgraceful and demonstrated how severely out of touch they are with the American public,” she said. “It was the most shameful moment in the history of presidential addresses in that beautiful chamber.” Democratic lawmakers repeatedly demonstrated during the speech, holding up signs, coordinating outfits and walking out of the chamber in protest. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) stood up toward the beginning of his remarks, heckling the president while waving his cane, prompting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to have him removed from the chamber. “Last night was a clarifying moment for our country,” Ms. Leavitt said. “The Democrats exposed themselves as the party of insanity and hate, the party that wants to put America last.” #karolineleavitt #trump #cspan

The White House on Wednesday announced a one-month tariff exemption for automakers after President Trump spoke with the heads of General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The Big Three automakers urged the president to grant the exemption on vehicles that comply with the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement’s (USMCA) rules of origin. “Reciprocal tariffs will still go into effect on April 2, but at the request of the companies associated with USMCA, the president is giving them an exemption for one month so they are not at an economic disadvantage,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing. The announcement came a day after the Trump administration levied 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, the U.S.’s top two trading partners. The president said the tariffs were meant to get the Canadian and Mexican governments to take tougher action on migrants and fentanyl coming across the border. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is set to leave office once new parliamentary elections are held, reacted angrily to the tariffs and levied his own taxes on U.S. goods. “Canadians are reasonable and we are polite, but we will not back down from a fight — not when our country and the wellbeing of everyone in it is at stake,” he said, calling fentanyl merely a “pretext” for the tariffs. President Trump spoke on Wednesday with the prime minister, whom he said was unable to convince him that Canada was doing enough to stem the flow of fentanyl. “He said that it’s gotten better, but I said, ‘That’s not good enough.’ The call ended in a ‘somewhat’ friendly manner!” the president wrote on social media. Ms. Leavitt sidestepped questions about what Canada would need to do with respect to fentanyl, less that 1% of which comes in from the northern border. “You are asking me for what the president’s justification is for these tariffs. It is not up to you. You are not the president,” she said, calling the reporter’s question “disrespectful to the families who have lost loved ones at the hands of this deadly poison.” #whitehouse #karolineleavitt #tariffs #cspan

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Tuesday night urged Americans to stay engaged in the political process as she delivered the Democratic response to President Trump’s address to Congress. She told Americans to not tune out, hold elected officials accountable and organize. Watch more at c-span.org #elissaslotkin #trump #cspan

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Tuesday night criticized President Trump for the recent Oval Office blowup with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying former President Ronald Reagan “must be rolling in his grave.” “We all want an end to the war in Ukraine, but Reagan understood that true strength required America to combine our military and economic might with moral clarity,” she said in her Democratic response to the president’s address. “And that scene in the Oval Office wasn’t just a bad episode of reality TV; it summed up Trump’s whole approach to the world. He believes in cozying up to dictators like Vladimir Putin and kicking our friends like the Canadians in the teeth.” Watch more at c-span.org #elissaslotkin #trump #reagan #cspan

President Trump closed his address to Congress on Tuesday night by proclaiming “the golden age of America has only just begun.” “It is our turn to take America’s destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country. This will be our greatest era,” he said. “Over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, more advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth.” Watch more at c-span.org #trump #congress #cspan