Trump unveils new steel tariffs and mocks Taylor Swift after Super Bowl booing: Live

Ivanka Trump’s eight-year-old son has become a social media star after appearing with the president in New Orleans yesterday.

The president said yesterday that he was in “no rush” to execute his proposal to take over Gaza but reiterated: “We’ll own it. It’s totally demolished right now.

“It’s a demolition site. It’ll be reclaimed. It’ll be leveled out, and fixed up. There won’t be anybody there. Hamas won’t be there.”

Madeline Sherratt has more.

Here’s more from the president aboard Air Force One, where he again boasted he could end a three-year war with one phone call.

Let’s see, shall we?

The House speaker was part of the president’s large entourage in New Orleans, a brief respite before he once more finds himself tasked with crafting budget legislation that will satisfy all sides of the Republican Party, from the president to the disparate groups that make up the House and Senate Republican caucuses.

Here’s John Bowden on Johnson’s latest headache waiting to happen.

The president’s attention switched to small change last night as he announced that he had instructed Scott Bessent to stop producing America’s smallest unit of currency.

Here’s Madeline Sherratt’s report.

Experts and officials expressed alarm on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance suggested federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the White House’s “legitimate power.”

The controversy began yesterday morning, when Vance tweeted his views on executive power.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” he wrote on X.

“If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

This was Trump’s response to Vance’s post aboard Air Force One:

Josh Marcus has more.

Departing Louisiana, the president was grilled by the press pack on a range of issues from his pardoning of the Capitol rioters (“a great thing for humanity”) to Canada, Gaza, diversity in the NFL and his hatred of “woke” Kennedy Center arts events that he has never actually attended.

He was joined by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who had this to say on pressuring Google Maps and Apple Maps on renaming the Gulf of Mexico – not an issue Trump was elected on, unlike, say, bringing down the price of groceries.

En route to the Super Bowl, which he became the first ever sitting president to attend in person, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he will formally announce plans for the U.S. to implement tariffs of 25 percent on imports of steel and aluminum, the first salvo in what could be the beginning of a global trade war.

John Bowden reports.

Here’s the president confidently predicting a Chiefs win in his pre-game interview, which did not come to pass.

“I hate to do it but.. I watched this great quarterback who has a phenomenal wife. She’s a MAGA fan… she’s a great person. I guess you have to say that when a quarterback wins as much as he’s won, I’d have to go with Kansas City,” he said, referring to Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany.

Ultimately it was the Philadelphia Eagles that won the day, as they did in 2018 during Trump’s first term, after which multiple members of the team chose not to attend the customary invitation to the White House that is extended to all Super Bowl champions.

Whether they will do so again this time remains to be seen.

Here’s Mike Bedigan on Trump leaving the great occasion more than an hour early.

Before the game, the president gave an interview to Bret Baier of Fox News, a tradition begun by George W Bush and continued by Barack Obama but abandoned in the Joe Biden era.

Trump used the sitdown with Baier to double-down on his support for billionaire Elon Musk’s increasingly controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in its efforts to strip back waste in the federal government, denying that Musk had anything to gain from his activities.

John Bowden has more.