Trump news today: President slaps new 25% tariff on non-U.S. cars; threatens E.U. and Canada with higher levies

The president also found time late last night to lash out once more at U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, the justice with whom he sparred over the legality of those El Salvador deportation flights, who was yesterday appointed to oversee a new case brought by American Oversight against the administration over the Signal group chat leak.

Trump accused him of suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (which is not a real condition) and threatened an investigation into his assignment and the whole “rigged system”

Also on the president’s late-night grievance list were the benign but liberal publicly-funded broadcasters, home to such terrors to democracy as Terry Gross, Ken Burns and Sesame Street, which he insists should be defunded.

Here’s Alex Woodward on Democrats mocking Republican hysteria on the subject at a particularly mad House hearing yesterday.

The president sparked a certain amount of anger yesterday after he claimed to know nothing about four American soldiers who are missing in Lithuania, despite search operations having been underway for hours.

The president was asked Wednesday if he had been briefed about the men, who disappeared during a training exercise outside Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, and were mistakenly initially declared dead.

“No, I haven’t,” Trump replied simply.

His response prompted astonishment on social media and among critics, with some comparing it to the president’s apparent total lack of knowledge of the recent so-called Signalgate security breach (much more on which shortly) in which a journalist was inadvertently given access to a group chat on messaging app Signal about details of a U.S. bombing attack in Yemen earlier this month.

Yes indeed friends, he really did say this – apologies if you happen to be eating your breakfast while reading this.

Speaking at a White House celebration of female achievement on Wednesday, the president declared: “We’re going to have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too, between the fertizilation and all the other things we are talking about, it’s going to be great.

“I am still very proud of it, I will be known as the fertilization president, that’s OK, that’s not bad.”

Donald Trump has announced a 25 percent tariff on all fully-assembled cars imported to the U.S., the latest escalation of his chaotic trade war that is intended to boost American manufacturing but which could hit consumers.

Here’s what he had to say about it in the Oval Office yesterday, apparently not having thought about the consequences for his “first buddy” Elon Musk.

The president was also up late on Truth Social raging about tariffs and threatening to hike them for the EU and Canada if they attempt to bypass the U.S. on imports by collaborating behind his back.

Here’s John Bowden’s report.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student in the graduate school of arts and sciences at the Massachusetts university, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers outside her off-campus apartment on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends, according to her attorney and activists.

Trump said he will be satisfied with the agency’s work — led by Elon Musk — within the next few months during a cabinet meeting Monday.

“We’re getting down to a point we think probably over the next two or three months, we’ll be pretty much satisfied with the people that are working hard and want to be members of the administration and our country,” Trump said.

“Our country was riddled with fat, and we’re getting rid of the fat,” he added.

Katie Hawkinson reports from Washington, D.C.

Elon Musk’s teen protege, known online as “Big Balls,” provided tech support to a criminal gang that cyberstalked an FBI agent two years before working at the Department of Government Efficiency, a new report alleges.