Rappler's latest stories on Donald Trump
Trump denies sheltering in White House bunker
'It was a false report,' Donald Trump tells Fox News radio, before elaborating that he did go into the secure area but only for a 'tiny, little, short period time'
Pentagon chief opposes using active duty troops to quell protests
'I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act,' US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says, two days after President Donald Trump said he could do so to call up the army to quash protests
Zuckerberg backs Facebook Trump policy despite anger, dissent – reports
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg defends a decision to not interfere with posts made by US President Donald Trump
White House race becomes digital dogfight due to pandemic
Digital will play a critical role in the 2020 White House race as social media takes the place of rallies and door-to-door campaigning
U.S. scrambles to stem anger as Trump faces backlash for violent crackdown
Protests have been held in cities across the country, mostly peaceful but many descending into mayhem as night falls, with both activists and officials blaming rabble-rousers, and thousands arrested
Trump angers American religious leaders with Bible photo op
'It was traumatic and deeply offensive, in the sense that something sacred was being misused for a political gesture,' Washington's Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde says
Amid protests, Pentagon squirms under pressure to do Trump's political bidding
'America is not a battleground. Our fellow citizens are not the enemy,' says retired General Martin Dempsey
George W. Bush calls on U.S. to examine its 'tragic failures'
'The heroes of America – from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman, to Abraham Lincoln, to Martin Luther King Jr. – are heroes of unity,' the former US president says
Activists rip Facebook's Zuckerberg over Trump comments
'We are disappointed and stunned by Mark's incomprehensible explanations for allowing the Trump posts to remain up,' says a statement
Spurs coach Popovich calls for change, dismisses Trump as 'fool'
'In the end, what we have is a fool in place of a president,' says Gregg Popovich who serves in a committee aiming for change after Floyd's death
Trump threatens military mobilization against violent U.S. protests
Despite the president's rhetoric, the June 1 protests appear largely peaceful in major cities, though some looting was reported in New York and Los Angeles
Biden condemns 'institutional racism,' Floyd death as he reignites campaign
(UPDATED) 'Hate just hides. Doesn't go away. And when you have somebody in power who breathes oxygen into the hate under the rocks, it comes out from under the rocks,' Joe Biden says of Donald Trump
Facebook employees speak out against company's refusal to police Trump's posts
'Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible way to change his mind,' tweets Ryan Freitas, the design director of Facebook's News Feed
WHO says it wants to keep working with U.S.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says US involvement with the organization has made a 'great difference' over the decades and 'it is WHO's wish for this collaboration to continue'
China threatens to 'counter-attack' U.S. over Hong Kong curbs
(UPDATED) 'Any words and actions that harm the interests of China will be met with counter-attacks on the Chinese side,' says foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian at a regular briefing, without providing details
Trump says will place 'Antifa' activist group on terror list
Antifa – the name is a contraction for anti-fascist – is a secretive grouping of radical activists that has emerged in recent years
Trump says he will delay G7 summit, invite other countries
The US President would like to invite Russia, South Korea, Australia and India to join an expanded summit in the fall
Trump warns to stop rioters 'cold' as race protests spread
'My administration will stop mob violence. And we'll stop it cold,' says US President Donald Trump as protesters rage over the killing of African American George Floyd
Trump strips Hong Kong privileges, restricts entry of some Chinese students
The US president attacks China over its treatment of the former British colony, saying it was 'diminishing the city's longstanding and proud status'
Trump cuts ties with WHO mid-pandemic, as Europe speeds reopening
The US is the WHO's biggest financial contributor, having given $400 million to the UN agency in 2019
Taylor Swift says Trump 'stoking fires of white supremacy'
'After stoking the fires of racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? We will vote you out in November,' the pop star writes to the US president on Twitter
White House dares Twitter in war over Trump tweets
The tit-for-tat marks a new escalation in the row between Twitter and Donald Trump, who has more than 80 million followers and uses tweets daily to announce policies, attack opponents, and comment on breaking news
Twitter conceals Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'
(3rd UPDATE) Twitter says it is placing a 'public interest notice' on a Trump message about protests in Minneapolis over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of the police
Trump signs order targeting social media after tweets flagged
(UPDATED) If enforced, the action would upend decades of precedent and treat internet platforms as 'publishers' potentially liable for user-generated content
WHO launches new foundation for private donations
The UN health agency launches the independently-run WHO Foundation, which the organization hopes will give it greater control to direct philanthropic and public donations
Trump threatens to 'close down' social media after tweets tagged
(UPDATED) 'Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen,' Donald Trump says in a tweet.
Huge U.S. labor union endorses Biden over Trump
'[Trump's] response to COVID-19 has been delinquent, delayed, disorganized and deadly,' says AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka
Trump sounds warning over Hong Kong's future
Trump promises a 'very interesting' US response within days
Twitter calls Trump tweets 'unsubstantiated' for the first time
Trump tweets a conspiracy theory accusing one of his media critics of murder, prompting an agonized letter from the victim's wife and calls for the company to block the Republican leader's 'vicious lie'
Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina
Trump wants the state's Democratic governor to guarantee that he will swiftly lift restrictions on large gatherings of people during the coronavirus pandemic
China 'open' to international effort to identify coronavirus source, says FM
Foreign Minister Wang Yi also blasts what he called efforts by US politicians to 'fabricate rumors' about the pathogen's origins and 'stigmatize China'
Europeans rally around defense pact dropped by Trump
The US accuses Russia of blocking flights over certain sites and forbidding surveys of military exercises, normally allowed under Open Skies
Trump to withdraw U.S. from 'Open Skies' treaty
Donald Trump says Moscow did not stick to its commitments under the 18-year-old Open Skies Treaty, which is designed to improve military transparency and confidence between the superpowers
Senate approves Trump political ally as U.S. intelligence czar
The Senate approves Ratcliffe 10 months after he first withdrew from consideration for the job amid broad doubts about his qualifications
Trump urges quicker U.S. reopening from virus lockdown
Trump adopts the theme of 'Transitioning Back to Greatness' as states reopen at different speeds
Jailed Trump lawyer Michael Cohen released due to pandemic
Michael Cohen is serving a three-year sentence after admitting paying hush money to two women who said they slept with Donald Trump, for tax fraud, and for lying to Congress
China rebuts Trump accusation of coronavirus 'mass killing'
Tensions between the US and China have been on the rise as the deadly coronavirus, which first surfaced in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, ravaged the global economy
Trump blames China for 'mass worldwide killing'
His early morning tweet also refers to an unidentified 'wacko in China'
Trump proposes in-person G7 summit as pandemic rages
Trump also lashes out again at China, saying its 'incompetence' was responsible for 'this mass Worldwide killing'
WHO faces coronavirus probe after Trump threat
Trump threatens to make permanent a temporary freeze on US funding to the body
Trump threatens to pull out of WHO over virus response, China
(UPDATED) Donald Trump is locked in a bitter spat with Beijing, alleging it covered up the initial outbreak in central China late last year before the disease unleashed death and economic devastation across the planet
Trump defends firing watchdog said to probe Pompeo, Saudi arms
The sacked inspector general, Steve Linick, was investigating in part whether Pompeo ordered a government employee to walk his dog, pick up dry-cleaning and make dinner reservations
WHO to review coronavirus response as Trump renews attack
'They're a puppet of China, they're China-centric to put it nicer,' Trump says about the WHO
Trump reveals he is taking hydroxychloroquine
US government regulators warn that hydroxychloroquine has 'not been shown to be safe'
White House hits out at 'Deep State' after Trump fires watchdog
The president and his allies regularly rail against a 'Deep State' of shadowy forces they see as committed to undermining Trump. There is no evidence that such a movement exists.
Leaders 'aren't even pretending to be in charge' – Obama
Former US president Barack Obama also expresses outrage at the shooting of 25-year-old black jogger Ahmaud Arbery
Trump fires State Dept watchdog said to be probing Pompeo
US President Donald Trump removes State Department Inspector General Steve Linick in his latest abrupt dismissal of an official tasked with monitoring wrongdoing inside a government agency
Trump threatens to cut China ties as virus toll tops 300,000
Despite fears of a second wave of infections, national and local governments around the world are easing lockdown orders as they try to get stalled economies moving again
Trump calls on Senate to question Obama in conspiracy theory
'The first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama,' Trump tweets
Trump threatens China ties, says in no mood for Xi talks
Asked how the US might choose to retaliate, the President gives no specifics but strikes a threatening tone, saying: 'There are many things we could do. We could do things. We could cut off the whole relationship.'
