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Donald Trump has accused Ukraine of being “difficult to deal with” as he attempts to force Kyiv to reach a peace deal with Moscow. The president also said he wants the war to end before making any security guarantees to Ukraine.
Friday 7 March 2025 21:50, UK
A tetchy exchange to bring you now from the White House.
Ahead of an order on a World Cup task force (see the post below) a reporter from our US partner network NBC News asked Donald Trump about reports of a clash between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state.
It’s been said the pair disagreed at a Cabinet meeting over cuts overseen by Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to save hundreds of billions of dollars in the government budget.
Trump was not happy with the question.
“No one clashed, I was there, you’re just a troublemaker – and you’re not supposed to be asking that question because we’re talking about the World Cup,” he said.
“Elon gets along great with Marco, and they’re both doing a fantastic job. There is no clash.”
He then asked who the reporter is with, and when he responded “NBC” Trump replied: “Oh, no wonder, that’s enough.”
Just before he wrapped up his remarks at the crypto summit a few minutes ago, Donald Trump signed yet another executive order.
Appearing alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino, he officially created a task force to prepare for the World Cup next year, which will be held in North America.
The tournament will be hosted across the US, Canada and Mexico, with millions of tourists expected on the continent.
“It’s a great honour for our country to have it,” Trump said of the World Cup, adding he’d like to attend multiple games.
Speaking now at the White House crypto event, Donald Trump says his administration will “end the federal bureaucracy’s war on crypto”.
He adds they will “pave the way for groundbreaking innovations and institutional finance”.
“And we are ending operation choke point 2.0,” he says.
Yesterday, he signed an order to form a strategic bitcoin reserve, which officials described as a “digital Fort Knox for digital gold”.
This order also created a separate stockpile of digital assets.
As we mentioned in a post a little earlier, Donald Trump was expected to speak during the crypto summit at the White House (see 19:54).
He’s now up for his second media appearance of the day. Watch in the live stream below, or stay with us for relevant updates.
Russia, according to Donald Trump, is “bombing the hell out of Ukraine” – and he acknowledged his pause in intelligence sharing is allowing Moscow to start “hitting harder”.
As a result of Trump’s order, Maxar Technologies, an aerospace company providing satellite imagery, has disabled access for Kyiv.
In a statement, the firm said it has contracts with the US government and dozens of allied nations, and “each customer makes their own decisions on how they use and share that data”.
“The US government has decided to temporarily suspend Ukrainian accounts in GEGD,” Maxar said, referring to the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery programme, which gives access to satellite imagery collected by the US.
Five words – all beginning with R – explain Donald Trump’s view of the world.
That’s according to former US deputy national security advisor Matt Pottinger, who spoke to us about the president’s thinking – and how it’s shaking up the world order.
The elite from the cryptocurrency industry are gathering at the White House to discuss Donald Trump’s vision to make the US the “crypto capital of the world”.
He’s expected to speak tonight – we’ll bring you the latest if and when he does – and he may well elaborate on an executive order he signed only yesterday.
That order was to form a strategic bitcoin reserve, which officials described as a “digital Fort Knox for digital gold”.
Fort Knox, for those who aren’t aware, is the country’s traditional home of a large part of the country’s gold reserves.
This order also created a separate stockpile of digital assets, which would address some of the concerns voiced by participants ahead of the summit about the prospect of creating a single multi-coin strategic reserve.
Two sets of rules<\/b>
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and commerce secretary Howard Lutnick will be allowed to “develop budget-neutral strategies for adding to that [bitcoin] reserve”.
Just as gold has been treated as a strategic asset held without worrying about price fluctuations, so too will the administration not worry about short-term movements in the price of bitcoin, according to officials.
But the rules are different for the digital asset stockpile, which will hold positions in cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin – and the Treasury may not purchase additional holdings for this stockpile.
In a blow to Elon Musk’s ambition to land astronauts on the moon and even Mars – an aim vocally backed by Donald Trump – his SpaceX Starship exploded again for the second time in two months.
Debris scattered in the sky near Florida last night, causing the Flight Aviation Authority to ground flights in the area for just over an hour.
The FAA has now confirmed nearly 240 flights were disrupted, with more than two dozen planes forced to divert over concerns about the falling debris.
Planes were held at for four Florida airports – Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Palm Beach. 
There were delays to 171 departures, while 28 flights were diverted and 40 airborne flights were held for an average of 22 minutes.
In a statement, SpaceX said: “During Starship’s ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly and contact was lost.”
It added they will review the operation and the flight “will offer additional lessons to improve Starship’s reliability”.
Beware any disloyalty towards Donald Trump.
Or, at least, that appears to be the message from a section of his supporters angered by one of his Supreme Court appointees.
Staunch conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett was picked in 2020 by Trump to form part of the nine-judge panel at the country’s highest court, and she has since voted to strike down abortion rights.
But that hasn’t calmed the outrage growing over her recent rulings, which have, in the eyes of Trump’s fans, seen her on the wrong side of 5-4 votes.
She was among the justices rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to avoid paying federal contractors as part of the gutting of the US foreign aid programme.
“She is a rattled law professor with her head up her a**,” said Mike Davis, who once worked for another Supreme Court justice.
For the full story, click on the link below…
A “Trump bump” pushed up share prices by more than 4% just two days after the election.
But since then, it’s gone into reverse – as our business and economics correspondent Paul Kelso<\/b><\/a> explains…
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