Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Thursday the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump earlier put a price tag on returning to the kingdom as his first foreign trip. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump’s 2017 trip to Saudi Arabia upended a tradition of U.

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President Donald Trump sat down with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, a self-described “friend,” for the first sit-down interview of his presidency. Here are some takeaways from “part one” of their conversation, which aired Wednesday night. Trump suggests he would like to see Biden investigated Trump suggested he would like to see investigations into former President Joe Biden. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump is the first President to be convicted of a felony—in a case relating to business records of hush money payments—and had faced criminal charges over his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Normally, far-right politicians in Europe have been pretty friendly to Trump, but Anders Vistisen, a right-wing lawmaker from Denmark whose party, Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF), sometimes espouses similar populist rhetoric to Trump, draws the line at Trump's comments to take over Greenland. Source: Huffington Post A member of the European Parliament didn’t mince words when he offered a public message to President Donald Trump this week about his wish to make Greenland part of the United States. “Dear President Trump, listen very carefully,” Anders Vistisen, a right-wing lawmaker from Denmark, said on Tuesday in Parliament.

“The Trump administration is attempting to amass a larger force of law-enforcement officials to help carry out deportations by granting agents across the federal government the same powers as an immigration officer,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Shortly after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump set out to fulfill many of his campaign promises, signing a flurry of executive orders and pardoning roughly 1,500 people convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U. S. Capitol. While many of these moves have earned him plaudits from both members of the media and his base, polling shows they’re divisive, if not outright unpopular, with the American electorate. Mass deportationsread more