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‘Am I allowed to run once more?’ asks Trump
Donald Trump has publicly questioned whether or not he is likely to be allowed to run for a 3rd time period as US president.
Below a constitutional modification launched in 1951, no particular person is allowed to serve greater than two phrases within the White Home.
Chatting with a gathering of Home Republicans in Florida on Monday, Trump stated: “I’ve raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can’t use for myself, but I’m not 100% sure, because I don’t know.
“I think I’m not allowed to run again. I’m not sure, am I allowed to run again?”
The feedback drew laughter from the viewers.
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Extra now on that sequence of govt orders signed by President Trump on Monday
In addition to the one directing the Pentagon to reassess its coverage on transgender troops, there was an order that eliminated range, fairness, and inclusion initiatives from the US navy.
The order directed the Pentagon to eliminate “any vestiges” of such initiatives, saying they promote a “race-based preferences system that subverts meritocracy” and perpetuate “unconstitutional discrimination”.
It additionally prohibited the promotion of “un-American” theories that recommend America’s founding paperwork are racist or sexist.
One other order supplied reinstatement to the roughly 8,200 personnel who needed to go away the navy as a result of they refused to get the Covid vaccine in the course of the pandemic.
Trump has additionally stated they are going to be restored to their full rank and obtain again pay.
A fourth order known as for the event of an “American Iron Dome” defence system, much like the one utilized by Israel.
It stated the specter of assault by “ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks, remains the most catastrophic threat facing the United States” and directed the Pentagon to submit a plan inside 60 days.
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Up to date at 11.33 GMT
What was in Trump’s govt order on transgender troops?
Amongst a variety of govt orders signed by Donald Trump on Monday was one which the White Home stated was supposed to remove “gender radicalism in the military”.
The order directed Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s coverage on transgender troops, and is broadly anticipated to result in a ban.
It stated the adoption of a gender id completely different to an individual’s organic {sex} “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life” and was dangerous to navy readiness.
Throughout his first time period, Trump stated he would ban transgender troops from serving within the navy. He didn’t totally observe by way of with that ban, however his administration froze recruitment of transgender individuals whereas permitting serving personnel to stay.
Joe Biden overturned the choice when he took workplace in 2021.
About 1.3 million energetic personnel serve within the navy, Division of Protection information exhibits. Whereas transgender rights advocates say there are as many as 15,000 transgender service members, officers say the quantity is within the low 1000’s.
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Up to date at 11.36 GMT
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Donald Trump signed a sequence of govt orders late final night time to take away range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the navy, reinstate 1000’s of troops who have been kicked out for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, and direct officers to reassess the navy’s coverage on transgender troops.
As Reuters studies, Trump signed the manager orders whereas flying again from Miami to Washington DC. One of many govt orders stated that expressing a “gender identity” completely different from a person’s {sex} at start didn’t meet navy requirements.
The transfer does look like paving the best way for a ban of transgender troopers within the navy. Trump had tried to implement such a ban throughout his first time period, however it was twisted up within the courts for years earlier than being overturned by Joe Biden shortly after he took workplace.
Legal professionals for transgender troops who challenged the ban within the courts throughout Trump’s first time period have already pledged to combat a brand new ban.
We’ll be bringing you extra on this quickly. In different developments:
Yesterday Pete Hegseth, who narrowly secured sufficient votes to change into protection secretary, referred to the names of Accomplice generals that have been as soon as used for 2 key bases throughout his remarks to reporters as he entered the Pentagon on his first full day on the job. Hegseth referred to Fort Moore and Fort Liberty by their earlier names, Fort Benning and Fort Bragg. The names honouring Accomplice officers have been modified beneath former Biden as a part of an effort to reexamine US historical past and the Accomplice legacy.
Trump has prompt that Microsoft is in talks to accumulate TikTok and that he wish to see a bidding warfare over the app. When requested final night time if Microsoft was in talks to purchase the app, the US president stated “I would say yes”, including: “A lot of interest in TikTok. There’s great interest in TikTok.” Microsoft declined to remark.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will reportedly be the primary international chief to satisfy Trump on the White Home since his inauguration. It’s thought the assembly may come as early as subsequent week.
Trump known as the obvious success of an AI mannequin launched by Chinese language firm DeepSeek a “wake-up call” for US tech. The share costs of a number of the main tech corporations fell on Monday following the discharge of the mannequin, which may carry out in addition to current fashions however at a a lot decrease value, in response to its builders.
