Donald Trump is moaning about the media again, JD Vance’s holiday looks less like a holiday every day and there’s more on Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison status. Here’s everything you need to know.
After spending most of the weekend (illegally) fishing and talking about Ukraine with David Lammy at Chevening, the Vice President had breakfast with Nigel Farage this morning, is having a zoom call with Starmer and European leaders about Ukraine right now, and he’s speaking to US troops at a UK airbase in a couple of hours.
If I were him I’d fire my travel agent.
Meanwhile., the President has been moaning about media coverage of his meeting with Putin – which looks more and more like an objectively bad idea by the minute.
Oh, and Ghislaine Maxwell might have been approved for work release…which seems like a great idea all round.
Here’s everything that’s happened in Trump World over the last 24 hours that you need to know about. Strap in.
1. Trump moans about media coverage of his summit with Putin
Because what else would he be doing at 8am on a Wednesday?
The President complained on Truth Social that the coverage of his forthcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska was “very unfair.”
He wrote: :Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, “Putin has already won.” What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!).”
He added: If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal!”
It would certainly be a weird deal, not least because Leningrad hasn’t existed since 1991.
2. David Lammy makes a rod for his own back…and for JD too?
In undoubtedly the funniest story of the week, probably the year, David Lammy has reported himself to environmental authorities for fishing without a rod licence, during his angling adventure with JD Vance on Friday.
