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"Much like the USA, the people of Germany got tired of the no common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration, that has prevailed for so many years. This is a great day for Germany," President Trump says reacting to the German election results.

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Babe are you ok? You've barely touched your pickle fountain. #Gewürzgurkenbrunnen

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BREAKING: Exit polls in the German election put the conservative CDU/CSU bloc with 29% of the vote, followed by the far-right AfD in second place with 19.5%.

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Elon Musk has shared a clip of far-right German politician Höcke, who was fined for using a Nazi slogan and who can legally be called a fascist.

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Also attending #CPAC2025 is former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was serving a 22-year prison term for helping initiate the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Trump pardoned him.

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Presidente Javier Milei en la #CPAC2025 dice que "todos los que estamos aquí tenemos una misma misión: quitar el poder al partido del Estado y devolvérselo a la sociedad."

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Standing ovation for Argentinian President Javier Milei at the CPAC main stage where he handed Elon Musk the "Chainsaw of Bureaucracy" a couple of days ago.

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US negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources have told Reuters. t.co/4czjVTESWk

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A major Berlin university canceled a public lecture by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories, following pressure from the Berlin mayor. Many academics are outraged. t.co/9jfGtzc2mF

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Argentinian President Javier Milei shows up at #CPAC2025 to hand Elon Musk a chainsaw that he immediately starts swinging around.

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En Chile, el presidente alemán Frank-Walter Steinmeier se reunirá el próximo 4 de marzo con víctimas de Colonia Dignidad en el Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos.

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What President Trump is doing with Ukraine is "unacceptable," Chile's Gabriel Boric says.

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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is a "legitimate" leader that, unlike Vladimir Putin, has taken office through a free election process, French President Macron says ahead of his meeting with Trump in the White House next Monday.

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The US Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as Director of the FBI. The final vote was 51-49. Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against Patel. Democrats were unanimous in their opposition.

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New Economist cover with Trump and Putin

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The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, five western officials familiar with the matter say. www.ft.com/content/7380...

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President Trump announced that Elon Musk would lead the Department of Government Efficiency, but now the White House says Musk is not even an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service. Who is leading that department?

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The Education Department has warned U.S. schools that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions — or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”

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The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC. t.co/pQY0pRwR7f

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Ed Martin, who echoed Trump's baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election and defended Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, has been nominated by the president to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington on a permanent basis. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Thread: Argentinian President Javier Milei shared a meme coin called $LIBRA, stating it's a project dedicated to Argentina's economy growth. Within hours, the project erased $4.4 billion from the market. He later deleted his post, saying he wasn't aware of the details. t.co/TbbVB960Wg

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President Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg says he doesn't think Europeans will have a seat at the table for the peace talks. He adds the Minsk negotiations failed, because "a lot of people" at the table "had no ability to execute some type of peace process." #MSC2025

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"I am not the world's most important and famous deal maker," German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius just said in Munich. "But if I were, I would know that I don't take any essential point of negotiations off the table before the negotiations begin." #MSC2025

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President Trump once again calls on Europe to boost defense spending. On his phone calls with Putin and Zelenskyy, he adds he feels both of them want to make a deal to end the war.

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Three Justice Department officials resign after Trump administration orders end to prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

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Indian Prime Minister Modi arrived at the White House to meet President Trump.

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Ahead of his meeting with President Trump, Indian Prime Minister Modi met Elon Musk.

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The Senate confirmed RFK Jr. as Trump's health secretary, "putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country." t.co/HVE9oeiJpN

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NPR: The Trump administration is expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles, according to a StateDept document detailing procurement for fiscal year 2025. t.co/WYKJp0AqPB

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"We do need to delete entire agencies, as opposed to leave part of them behind," Elon Musk said earlier today addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai. "If you don't remove the roots of the weed, then it's easy for the weed to grow back," he stated.

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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius says it is "regrettable" that the Trump administration made public concessions to Putin "before negotiations have even begun."

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President Trump says Putin has agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. They had a long call in which they agreed to "stop the millions of deaths taking place," Trump says.

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The US Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. She will now oversee the entire US intelligence community.

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The Associated Press says the White House told them "that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office."

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Now: Elon Musk and his son X join President Trump in the Oval Office for DOGE related Executive Orders. Picture via @jeffmason1.bsky.social

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In Paris, US Vice President JD Vance met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Kaja Kallas.

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"Stop Elon's Billionaire Grift. Hands off the CFPB." Protesters have gathered in front of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as the White House targets the watchdog agency.

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President Trump says the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas should be canceled if Hamas doesn’t release all remaining hostages by midday Saturday. He said it was ultimately up to Israel, but warned that "all hell is going to break out" if all hostages aren't released.

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New: "Donald Trump's presidential victory has buried the US post–Cold War foreign policy consensus," the 2025 Munich Security Index reads. The chapter about the United States: securityconference.org/en/publicati...

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Downtown Philadelphia 🦅 #FlyEaglesFly #SuperBowl

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President Trump says he is revoking former President Biden's security clearance and stopping his daily intelligence briefings.

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The Time Magazine's new cover: "Inside Elon Musk's war on Washington."

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The US Senate has confirmed Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to lead the White House budget office. apnews.com/article/trum...

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