Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of generals to a meeting with little notice last week. Trump is a late addition.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth touted the new name, the Department of War, saying "the era of the Department of Defense is over."

When he left office, Trump had roughly 90 holdings, mostly ETFs and mutual funds. Now he has stakes in more than 700 stocks and plenty of conflicts of interest.

When word reached the White House on Friday afternoon that Hamas had, after nearly five days, responded to President Donald Trump’s 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza, officials were so quick to embrace the group’s statement they posted it in full on social media,

Trump has repeatedly threatened to fire federal workers as he blamed Democrats for the shutdown despite Republicans controlling all three branches of government. The Trump administration also escalated its attacks on Democrats by freezing federal funds to blue-states, including New York.