Donald Trump

Independent, UK -   President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (31 March) that he “doesn’t believe in libraries or museums” two days after announcing plans to build a skyscraper for his presidential library. Taking questions in the Oval Office, Trump said, “ It's a library. It's a museum.”

“It's a presidential… but I wouldn't start it till I'm out of the office. I don't believe in building libraries or museums.”

On Monday, Trump shared a video on his Truth Social, with an AI-generated video of his plans of building the “Donald Trump Presidential Library” with a gold statue and gold staircase. Initially announced as a library, Trump now said “ you know, this concept could be office, but it's most likely gonna be a hotel with it."

The Guardian - Trump has reportedly polled advisers about firing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief in recent weeks, apparently frustrated by her shielding a former deputy, Joe Kent, after he undermined the president’s rationale for the Iran war.

Roll Call -   President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-running litigation from Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers.

Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, in an opinion found that a range of actions Trump took leading up to the attack did not qualify for the legal immunity presidents have for official acts.

Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech before a crowd of supporters on the Ellipse was not an official act, the judge said. Neither were certain social media posts from the campaign, certain remarks Trump made at other political events and comments Trump made a day after the 2020 contest claiming the election results were a fraud on the American public, the judge ruled.

The official act immunity shield was first outlined by the Supreme Court in a 2024 decision stemming from federal criminal charges against Trump. That decision found presidents have “absolute immunity” from federal charges for acts taken at the “core” of their constitutional duties, and the possibility of a lesser immunity for official acts outside of that undefined core.

“President Trump has not shown that the Speech reasonably can be understood as falling within the outer perimeter of his Presidential duties,” Mehta wrote, weighing in on the Ellipse speech. “The content of the Ellipse Speech confirms that it is not covered by official-acts immunity.”