Trump Presidency News

Original reporting on the Trump presidency with in-depth coverage of the administration’s policies, appointments, and governance. Explore news, commentary, and analysis on how President Trump’s presidential leadership continues to define America’s political, economic, and cultural direction.
Filter articles by
  • news

    This Conservative Millennial Explains Why Trump’s Policies Are Better for Black Americans

    Turning Point USA’s Candace Owens spoke to The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey about why conservative policies are better for the African-American community. Owens appeared at the White House’s Generation Next forum for millennials Thursday. An edited transcript of her Daily Signal interview is below. Rob Bluey: How did you become a conservative? Candace Owens: I…
    Read More
  • news

    Daily Signal Exclusive: Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Trump’s Job-Creation Success

    Labor Secretary Alex Acosta spoke to The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey about the Trump administration’s approach to job creation, reducing government regulations, and what it’s like to work for President Donald Trump. Acosta spoke Thursday at Generation Next, a White House forum for millennials. An edited transcript of his Daily Signal interview is below. Rob Bluey:…
    Read More
  • news

    Daily Signal Exclusive: Ivanka Trump on Jobs, Millennials, and #MeToo

    Ivanka Trump, senior adviser at the White House, speaks to The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Harkness about her efforts to promote workforce development and job opportunities for Americans. Trump spoke Thursday at Generation Next, a White House forum for millennials. An edited transcript of her Daily Signal interview is below. Kelsey Harkness: We are here today…
    Read More
  • news

    Here Are 6 of the 146 Key Trump Nominees Stalled by Senate Democrats

    Senate Democrats have slowed President Donald Trump’s efforts to build his administration by pushing the maximum 30 hours of debate for nearly every one of his executive branch nominees. “At this rate, the United States Senate would take 11 and a half years to confirm our nominees,” @MarcShort45 says. Of the 642 key government posts…
    Read More
  • news

    Conservatives Grapple With Trump Call for Death Penalty for Drug Dealers

    Two conservative lawmakers say they understand President Donald Trump’s push during the opioid epidemic to pursue the death penalty for drug dealers in some instances. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., addressed the proposal Wednesday during Conversations with Conservatives, a monthly meeting with reporters hosted on Capitol Hill by conservative lawmakers and…
    Read More
  • opinion

    Trump Should Condemn Cuba’s Illegitimate Transfer of Power at Summit of the Americas

    Over the weekend, the Castro regime held yet another unfree and unfair election. Only Communist Party officials were allowed to run, international observers were banned, and new dissidents were imprisoned. It has been the same process for over half a century. Unique to these elections, though, is the upcoming retirement of Gen. Raul Castro from…
    Read More
  • news

    Trump Pushes Death Penalty for Drug Dealers and Cut in Prescription Costs

    When campaigning in 2016, President Donald Trump often noted how America was trailing other countries, and vowed to reverse that. On Monday, the president highlighted two specific issues: criminal punishment for drug dealers and the price of prescription medicines. “Every day, 116 Americans die from an opioid-related overdose,” @POTUS says. “This scourge of drug addiction…
    Read More
  • news

    Actor Jim Carrey Appears to Target Sanders, Trump With Ugly Portraits

    Jim Carrey revealed his new portrait that resembles President Donald Trump in a tweet Monday. Carrey, the star of “Ace Ventura” and “Dumb and Dumber,” took to Twitter to show off his latest artwork, the Daily Mail reported. The comedian referred to the portrait as “the Wicked Witch of the West Wing and Putin’s flying monkeys”…
    Read More
  • news

    Majority of Voters in Blue States Like Trump Tax Cuts, Survey Finds

    More than half of registered voters in blue or battleground states that Donald Trump won in the 2016 presidential election, each of which has a Democrat senator up for re-election, say the economy is better than it was a year ago, according to a new survey.   The survey, conducted by Axios and SurveyMonkey, polled…
    Read More
  • opinion

    We Hear You: Don’t Prejudge the Worth of Trump’s Presidency 

    Editor's note: Many in The Daily Signal's audience are fed up with the continuing malice toward, and underestimation of, President Donald Trump. Today we begin with a sampling of related thoughts. Write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: As Jarrett Stepman's commentary suggests, evaluating a president's foreign policy and national security legacy takes at least…
    Read More
  • news

    Industry Leaders Defend Violent Video Games in Meeting With Trump

    President Donald Trump met Thursday with representatives of the video game industry to discuss the impact of violent games as he advocates ways to make schools safer. “For a warped mind that is either evil or troubled, we have to ask ourselves, what kind of impact does that have?” @BrentBozell says. Among the president’s guests…
    Read More
  • news

    Trump to Latinos: ‘Push’ Democrats on DACA Fix

    President Donald Trump asked a gathering of Latino business owners to “push” Democratic members of Congress on his proposal to grant legal status to a subgroup of illegal immigrants in exchange for stronger border security. “This is our time. This is our moment. Go get DACA,” Trump said in his remarks Wednesday to the Latino…
    Read More
  • news

    Democrat Obstruction Leads to More Court Vacancies Than When Trump Took Office

    President Donald Trump had a successful year in seating appeals court judges, but it is lower-level federal courts that have blocked much of his policy agenda, including withholding funds from sanctuary cities and restricting travel from some nations. “Despite Senate Democrats’ use of petty political tactics to delay his nominees, the president will continue nominating…
    Read More
  • news

    Where Trump Amnesty Proposal Could Repeat Reagan’s Mistakes

    A Republican president offers legal status to some 2 million illegal immigrants in exchange for stronger border security. However, in part because of chain migration, more than 1 million more gained amnesty than initially estimated. That’s what happened after President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration reform bill in 1986. And some border hawks fear that…
    Read More
  • news

    Trump Considers Raising Age for Buying AR-15, Touts Tougher Background Checks

    President Donald Trump pushed for expanding background checks and floated the idea of raising the age to buy semi-automatic rifles, as he called for a “comprehensive” and “beautiful” bill to address guns and school safety. Trump met Wednesday with a bipartisan group of members of Congress, two weeks after a gunman used an AR-15-style rifle…
    Read More
  • opinion

    Podcast: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Explains How Agency Has Changed Under Trump

    The weaponization of the Environmental Protection Agency is over, says Administrator Scott Pruitt in an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal. Plus: President Donald Trump’s new remarks on Parkland, and the Supreme Court decides not to hear a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals case.
    Read More
  • opinion

    Podcast: President Trump Addresses CPAC

    The Daily Signal continued to cover the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, where attendees heard from President Donald Trump. He spoke about the Second Amendment, tax cuts, immigration, and more. He strongly cautioned conservatives to avoid becoming complacent. The Daily Signal also sat down with David Bozell, president of ForAmerica, and Ken Klukowski, with…
    Read More
  • news

    5 Things Trump Talked About While Wowing CPAC

    A loudly supportive crowd greeted President Donald Trump as he delivered a wide-ranging speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that lasted nearly 90 minutes. Here are five of the president’s key topics at the nation’s largest annual convergence of conservatives. 1. Proof of His Conservatism At the 2016 CPAC, Trump didn’t speak. But…
    Read More
  • news

    Trump Cabinet More Conservative Than Reagan’s, CPAC Panelist Says

    President Donald Trump’s Cabinet is more conservative than President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet was in the 1980s, a top official with the American Conservative Union declared during a Thursday panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Addressing fellow panelists and hundreds of conservative activists gathered at the annual conference, Dan Schneider, executive director of the…
    Read More
  • news

    Congressional Investigators Struggle to Find Source for Anti-Trump Dossier

    Congressional investigators are struggling to track down a source that allegedly provided some of the most salacious claims made in an anti-Trump dossier cited by federal officials as reason to begin spying on one or more of the president's associates. House and Senate committees investigating Russian interference in the presidential campaign have tried for months…
    Read More