As world leaders converge on U.S., Trump seeks to demonstrate control
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- Three major news outlets sued the Trump administration for banning their reporters from the White House grounds.
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Trump wrote that his proposed arch near the National Mall would be used as a military complex for drones and snipers.
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President Trump on Monday headed into a week full of high-stake meetings with world leaders after spending a 72-hour period banning reporters from the White House, mulling whether it was time to “blow ... up” Iran, and proposing to house military drones and snipers in his triumphal arch in the nation’s capital.
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The weekend — which also included the announcement of a security deal over Greenland and the creation of a new “A.I. Force” — captured an American president operating unpredictably across multiple fronts even as each one drew friction.
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The actions now stand to color the backdrop of a week that will feature meetings with world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York and a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington.
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Each of those moves carries its own political weight ahead of the diplomatic talks, but also ahead of the midterm elections, where these topics are front and center in key races.
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Trump’s handling of the Iran war, its subsequent shocks to the global economy, his push to fast-track the development of artificial intelligence and the Greenland agreement are likely to come up in meetings with world leaders.
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His deal with Denmark to bolster U.S. military presence in Greenland, a territory Trump has repeatedly tried to annex, is expected to be signed Tuesday in New York, though action is still needed by the Danish and Greenland governments before it can be enforced.
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While all the details of the Greenland deal are not public yet, Trump has said it is a “dream come true for the United States of America.”
“This solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland and all of our Allies,” Trump wrote on social media Friday.
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“We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future with respect to this large, and highly strategic, parcel of land.
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In an interview Sunday, Trump also indicated that he was trying to make a decision on Iran as the war stretches into its eighth month.
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The president said he would “probably be open” to meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during the U.N. General Assembly.
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“My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?” Trump told Fox News.
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“They better behave.”
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico will challenge the constitutionality of President Trump’s order to ban the news organizations from the White House.
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Of all the actions Trump took, the press dispute has become the most contentious and drawn an immediate legal response.
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Three major news outlets — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — sued the Trump administration Monday for banning their reporters from the White House grounds, and major television networks suspended their pool coverage of the president’s activities.
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In a joint statement, the organizations said the White House has acted “without notice or process” and called the arbitrary decision a “blatant violation” of the 1st Amendment.
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Trump, meanwhile, argued Monday that the banned news outlets are “corrupt” and a “threat to our national security.”
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Vice President JD Vance defended the press ban.
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“He’s not banning media outlets.
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What he’s doing is saying we’re not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda,” Vance said Monday, arguing that the three outlets push out “negative” coverage of Trump.
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The tense showdown between Trump and the White House press corps led to audio problems during the president’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new helipad on the South Lawn.
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Without television cameras and microphones set up by the major TV networks, it was impossible to hear what Trump was saying through the White House’s official YouTube stream, signaling further technical difficulties in the week ahead.
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Behind the public displays of control, news reports have painted a picture of a president increasingly frustrated by the lack of credit he feels he is owed.
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At a recent closed-door meeting, reported by the Wall Street Journal, Trump told advisors he was aggravated that his allies hadn’t lauded him enough for his efforts to take over the Kennedy Center or other accomplishments made during his second term.
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Trump has tried to put his name on the building’s facade and run into resistance from Democrats, arts patrons and a federal judge who blocked the move last week.
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Trump was then photographed aboard Air Force One looking at a large printout appearing to show demolition plans for the center.
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Ahead of the meeting, rhetoric from Washington and Beijing has underscored only deepening acrimony and distrust over their rush to dominate the technological frontier.
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Over the weekend, Trump posted on social media a link to a news article that claimed he was seeking to fix “safety hazards” at the performance center.
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He then posted an image of him watching the Western Hemisphere with the words, “His Hemisphere,” and wrote that his proposed triumphal arch near the National Mall would be used as a military complex for drones and snipers.
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Trump also announced that he would be creating the “A.I. force,” modeled after the Space Force he launched during his first term, to ensure the country does not “in any way hinder or stifle the growth of the industry.”
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The announcement came amid growing backlash to data centers and the fast-paced development of artificial intelligence, an issue that in recent weeks has prompted stark warnings about the technology’s power and its threats to humanity.
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Tech executives, including Dario Amodei and Sam Altman, have even called for a slowdown on the technology’s advancement and last week, four leading AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google — faced a lawsuit claiming they made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development.
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Trump’s announcement over the weekend comes as lawmakers, including congressional Republicans in tight races, have called for new guardrails on the technology.
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Despite technology becoming a political flashpoint during the midterms, Trump has dismissed concerns about AI as a hoax and asserted that those who oppose data centers are intent on being “backwards and poor.”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) is among the lawmakers who have called for action on regulating the technology, and he has warned that not doing so could come at a cost on Nov. 3.
“We really need to send a memo around explaining we’ve got midterm elections coming,” Kennedy told Politico.
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“I may send that out.”
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