Trump to sign more executive orders today; president launches fresh attacks on Zelensky: Live updates

Following the bromance between Donald Trump and “first buddy” Elon Musk on Trump confidant Sean Hannity’s show last night, a “concerned” Vice President JD Vance could be driven to the point of “day drinking” over the chummy relationship, a CNN panel joked on Wednesday.

Justin Baragona has more.

Here’s Andrew Feinberg’s report on the president’s wild attack on the Ukrainian leader a short while ago.

The president’s Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) has joined the video sharing platform Rumble in suing Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes in a U.S. federal court in Tampa, Florida, accusing the judge of illegally attempting to censor a “well-known politically outspoken user” of Rumble with orders to suspend that user’s U.S.-based accounts.

Moraes happens to have clashed with Elon Musk last year in a battle that led to the temporary shutdown of X in his country.

TMTG is weighing into the matter, according to the lawsuit, because Truth Social “relies on Rumble’s cloud-based hosting and video streaming infrastructure to deliver multimedia content to its user base.”

“If Rumble were to be shut down, that shut down would necessarily interfere with Truth Social’s operations, as well,” it adds.

The suit also comes a day after Brazil’s prosecutor-general charged the country’s former president, Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro, with orchestrating an attempted coup as he tried to remain in office following his 2022 election loss.

The Department of Government Efficiency claimed they had saved $8 billion by cutting a single contract – but the actual value was $8 million.

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, tasked with gutting the federal government, claims it has saved a total of $55 billion, but a recently published list of contracts it has canceled so far only accounts for $16.6 billion, Bloomberg reports.

DOGE, upon further inspection, appears to have overstated the value of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency contract, which has since been corrected.

Here’s the president’s angry Truth Social response to his Ukrainian counterpart after he accused him of being taken in by Russian “disinformation” earlier, in which he even goes so far as to refer to him as a “dictator” and accuse him of presiding over a corrupt regime embezzling defense donations:

“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle. The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation. On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is “MISSING.” He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden “like a fiddle.” A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only “TRUMP,” and the Trump Administration, can do. Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…..”

That rocket comes as special envoy Keith Kellogg meets with Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, in Kyiv.

The president will attend a meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in Miami, Florida, today before making a belated return to Washington, D.C.

Trump will join global financiers and tech executives for a conference that will reportedly focus on U.S. investments and business, according to a White House official.

The president is expected to deliver an address at the gathering following his call in January for Riyadh to invest $1 trillion in the United States but also follows the country objecting to his proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza as part of an American-led rebuilding plan.

This was Trump a short while ago en route to the event:

Federal Judge Anthony J Trenga has temporarily blocked the president’s move to force the dismissal of 11 CIA agents briefly assigned to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs within the agency.

The ruling comes after a group of anonymous intelligence officers, who had been temporarily reassigned to roles implementing DEI initiatives, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA – now occupied by Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe – to oppose their ousting.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, names ODNI, the CIA, and their respective heads as defendants.

The plaintiffs, identified only as “John Does 1-6” and “Jane Does 1-5,” argue they are being unfairly targeted, with Judge Trenga agreeing and granting an administrative stay, meaning those concerned will remain on leave with full pay and benefits until the court rules further on the matter.

Here’s the president using his bully pulpit to hustle Congress into passing his preferred version of an upcoming reconciliation bill combining all of his “America First” initiatives, issuing a very public smackdown to the South Carolina senator in the process for daring to defy him.