Trump to celebrate ‘very special’ first 100 days in office with Michigan rally: Live

At the start of this year, the Liberals looked all but certain to drift to defeat when the country next went to the polls amid growing frustration over their party’s failure to rein in inflation under Trudeau, with Poilievre waiting in the wings ready to pounce.

Josh Boak and Alexa St. John write:

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday to relax some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts, the White House said, a significant reversal as the import taxes threatened to hurt domestic manufacturers.

Automakers and independent analyses have indicated that the tariffs could raise prices, reduce sales and make U.S. production less competitive worldwide. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a Tuesday briefing that Trump would sign the order later in the day but declined to provide details on the order.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who joined Leavitt at the White House briefing, said the goal was to enable automakers to create more domestic manufacturing jobs.

The Senate has confirmed former Senator David Perdue as Donald Trump’s ambassador to China amid the tariff showdown between the world’s two largest economies.

Perdue, a Republican who served one term as a U.S. senator from Georgia, was confirmed 67-29 with some Democratic support. At his confirmation hearing this month, the former business executive called the U.S. relationship with China the “most consequential diplomatic challenge of the 21st century.”

“Our approach to China should be nuanced, nonpartisan and strategic,” Perdue said.

While the Trump administration appears to be betting that the substantial 145% tariffs it’s imposed will be unsustainable for the Chinese economy and bring Beijing to the negotiating table, the Chinese leadership has vowed to “fight to the end.” China is readjusting domestic policies to expand the domestic market and reduce reliance on the U.S.

Justin Baragona has the story:

For years now, conservatives have reveled in Donald Trump‘s abrasive and coarse behavior in the political arena, applauding him for profanely raging at his political opponents while proudly flying flags with MAGA catchphrases like “F*** Your Feelings.” At the same time, Trump supporters have embraced the meme “Let’s Go Brandon,” which is a euphemism for the phrase “F*** Joe Biden.”

However, now that Democrats and liberals have begun to openly curse in public with a little more frequency throughout Trump’s first 100 days in office, right-wing media is suddenly up in arms over the “undignified” language, claiming it’s “embarrassing” that they are “constantly swearing.”

Early last month, Politico noted that in the first couple of months of the new Trump administration, Democratic politicians were “cursing up a storm” as they “careened from strategy to strategy to respond” to the president and his chaotic White House. “But one unifying thread as they try to invigorate their connection to the American voter has been a reach for profanity,” Politico reported.

A bill that seeks to end the nonconsensual use of someone’s likeness to create deepfake pornography is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk.

In a rare display of bipartisan support, the House voted overwhelmingly to pass the Take it Down Act on Monday, a bill backed by First Lady Melania Trump and social media websites such as Meta, TikTok and X.

Under the legislation, offenders could be subject to fines or imprisonment for publishing depictions of both real or computer-generated people without their consent or with harmful intent.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson marked 100 days of the second Trump presidency by lamenting that it was “one hundred days of Making America Bigoted Again.”

“This trend cannot continue,” Johnson said in a statement. “We refuse to go back to Jim Crow. And we refuse to return to pre-1776, when America answered to a monarch. The rule of law matters. That’s why we’ve been fighting the Trump Administration for its unlawful and unconstitutional actions — and why we’re organizing nationwide to mobilize the masses.”

“This is no time to stay silent,” Johnson added. “Our democracy is on the brink of extinction. Everyone’s voice matters now more than ever.”