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Trump jokingly jabs Air Force pilots as they get louder applause: 'End of your job!'

President Donald Trump seemed mildly taken aback when a pair of Air Force officers got a bigger round of applause than he did, while speaking about the unveiling of the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Friday."That's pretty good. That's the best hand. You got a bigger hand than I did," said Trump. "That's the end of your job. I don't like that. I'm not happy about it."Trump then seemed to find himself again. "Nah, these are great pilots. These are great, very talented people."The president's new plane was a gift from the government of Qatar, which has made it controversial from the start as observers believe it was intended to curry favor with the U.S. government and shape American foreign policy.Previous reporting indicated that the interior of the plane will be far more luxurious than prior aircraft used to transport the president — and have limitations compared to previous aircraft, including an inability to fly so-called "Golden Eagle" missions carrying the remains of former presidents.

UFC fighter gets last laugh on critics over calling Michelle Obama ‘a man’

UFC Freedom 250, held in the shadow of the White House and attended by President Donald J. Trump, was called “the greatest night of fights of all […]

Biden gets lost again at Obama’s museum

Images of a seemingly lost Joe Biden wandering around on stage were a common experience marking his one term as president of the United States. Turns out, […]

Obama Center opens, and Joe Biden displays his ability to get lost on stage

Public invited to pay to visit concrete tower that is hundreds of millions over cost estimate with contractors left unpaid

Trump’s bungled pool project gets vicious review from DC residents: 'Feel for the ducks'

Multiple residents of Washington, D.C. told CNN Friday their unfiltered thoughts on President Donald Trump’s $14 million restoration of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool – and the feedback was scathing.“It looks bad!” one D.C. resident told CNN’s Tom Foreman. “I just see green – green slime.”Trump’s restoration of the Reflecting Pool has been just one of many of his D.C. beautification projects. It’s proven controversial given that the Trump administration handed the project to a contractor with ties to the president in a no-bid deal, bypassing what critics say should have been a competitive bidding process.After the completion of the $14 million renovation project, blue paint from the pool’s bottom appears to have peeled off, and the pool’s water has turned a deep green – as experts predicted it would last month. Federal workers have attempted to combat the growing algae by pouring peroxide into the pool, though as of Friday, it's largely had no effect.“Pouring all that peroxide into it clearly didn't help,” another D.C. resident told CNN. “I feel for the ducks.”Foreman told CNN’s John Berman that, after walking around the pool’s rim “over and over again” Friday, there were “very few places where you can see” any blue “at all.”“Those people behind you, they're just vacuuming full time?” Berman asked Foreman about federal workers seen wading in the pool with suction equipment. “Is this going to be a permanent thing, people standing in the pool vacuuming?”Foreman said, “There were more than a dozen of them out here all day long yesterday doing just that, working steadily to try to clear it. What is here is kind of what was here before in the eyes of many people passing by and about as bad as it's ever been.”"I feel for the ducks"DC residents give scathing reviews of Trump's $14M Reflecting Pool restoration pic.twitter.com/l0lyIFUOpF— Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) June 19, 2026

Opinion | Not So Fast—Congress Gets a Say on the Iran Deal

The laws that applied to Obama’s JCPOA apply to Trump’s memorandum of understanding too.

Aging Air Force One jet gets mothballed as Trump preps Qatar’s luxury 747 for flight

The largest Air Force One jet that has carried US presidents for more than three decades was put out to pasture Thursday -- fueling speculation that President Trump could soon begin flying aboard the controversial Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar.

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