{"id":156311,"date":"2025-07-09T05:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-complains-about-putins-bullshit-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T05:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:15:55","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-complains-about-putins-bullshit-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-complains-about-putins-bullshit-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president complains about Putin\u2019s \u2018bullshit\u2019 – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump voices increasing irritation with Russia\u2019s leader and promises to send more weapons to Ukraine. Key US politics stories from 8 July 2025
Donald Trump has voiced his irritation with Vladimir Putin<\/a>, telling a cabinet meeting he was getting increasingly frustrated with the Russian leader.
The US president told the televised meeting of top officials: \u201cWe get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He\u2019s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.\u201d
Asked if he wanted to see further sanctions against Russia, Trump replied: \u201cI\u2019m looking at it.\u201d He refused to give further details but said any action would come as \u201ca little surprise\u201d.
Here\u2019s more on that and other key US politics<\/a> stories of the day:
As well as voicing his frustration with Putin, Trump promised to send 10 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, according to an official familiar with the matter. Trump had announced on Monday that US weapons deliveries would resume, just a few days after they were halted by the Pentagon.
On Monday, the president said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d with Russia\u2019s president and would send \u201cmore weapons\u201d to Ukraine<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna send some more weapons we have to them. They have to be able to defend themselves. They\u2019re getting hit very hard now,\u201d Trump said, alongside a US and Israeli delegation.
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The United States only has about 25% of the Patriot missile interceptors it needs for all of the Pentagon\u2019s military plans after burning through stockpiles in the Middle East in recent months, an alarming depletion that led to the Trump administration<\/a> freezing the latest transfer of munitions to Ukraine, according to sources in the government.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Trump<\/a> vowed to further escalate his trade wars on Tuesday, threatening US tariffs of up to 200% on foreign drugs and 50% on copper, amid widespread confusion around his shifting plans. Hours after saying his latest deadline for a new wave of steep duties was \u201cnot 100% firm\u201d, the US president declared that \u201cno extensions will be granted\u201d beyond 1 August.
\u201cThere has been no change to this date, and there will be no change,\u201d Trump wrote on social media, a day after signing an executive order<\/a> that changed the date from 9 July.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US supreme court<\/a> has cleared the way for Trump\u2019s administration<\/a> to resume plans for mass firings of federal workers that critics warn could threaten crucial government services.
Extending a winning streak for the US president, the justices on Tuesday<\/a> lifted a lower court order that had frozen sweeping federal layoffs known as \u201creductions in force\u201d while litigation in the case proceeds. The decision could result in hundreds of thousands of job losses at the departments of agriculture, commerce, health and human services, state, treasury, veterans affairs and other agencies.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A new study of defense department spending previewed exclusively to the Guardian shows that most of the Pentagon\u2019s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 has gone to outside military contractors, providing a $2.4tn boon in public funds to private firms in what was described as a \u201ccontinuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing\u201d.
The report, from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Costs of War, said that the Trump administration\u2019s new Pentagon budget will push annual US military spending past the $1tn mark.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The deadly Texas floods could signal a new norm in the US, as Trump<\/a> and his allies dismantle critical federal agencies that help states prepare and respond to extreme weather and other hazards, experts warn.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
An unknown fraudster has used artificial intelligence<\/a> to impersonate the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/a>, contacting at least five senior officials.
According to a state department cable first seen by the Washington Post<\/a> and confirmed by the Guardian, the impostor sent fake voice messages and texts that mimicked Rubio\u2019s voice and writing style to those targets, including three foreign ministers, a US governor and a member of Congress.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A Houston pediatrician is \u201cno longer employed\u201d<\/strong> after a posting on social media that the \u201cMaga\u201d voters in Texas \u201cget what they voted for\u201d amid deadly flash flooding<\/a>.
A federal judge has ruled against five non-profit organizations<\/strong> that sued the Trump administration over the rescinding of hundreds of millions of dollars meant to prevent and respond to issues such as gun violence, substance abuse and hate crimes.<\/a>
Fifa\u2019s relationship with Trump now has a physically tangible marker<\/strong>, with soccer\u2019s world governing body announcing it has opened an office in Trump Tower<\/a> in New York City.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 7 July 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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