PresidentDonald Trump was greeted by a wildly supportive crowd when he arrived at the NCAA men’s wrestling championship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening – his first return to the state since he won it in the presidential election.
“We’re going to the big fight. The reason I’m going is in Philadelphia. They have the NCAA, world, wrestling for college. And I’ve always supported the wrestlers,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House on Friday evening.
Trump’s right-hand man, Elon Musk, as well as Representative Jim Jordan and Senators Dave McCormick and Markwayne Mullin were also in attendance in the president’s floor-level booth.
It is the second time in three years the president has attended the NCAA wrestling championships and the latest sports-related trip Trump has embarked on since he took office. Trump attended the Super Bowl in New Orleans and the Daytona 500 in Florida.
Trump is a fan of attending public sporting events and has often used them to bolster his political persona.
Before attending the fight in Pennslyvania, the president flew to New Jersey to spend time at his golf club in Bedminster. The president has used most of his weekends to play golf at his club in Mar-a-Lago
Republican Congresswoman urges Trump to allow migrants “protections” they were promised
Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar is urging Donald Trump to allow Central and South American migrants who entered the country under a “humanitarian parole” during the Biden administration to stay in the U.S. and enjoy the protections they were promised.
Salazar made the comments in a post on X and avoided criticizing Trump’s draconian actions towards migrants by blaming everything on former President Joe Biden and “failed communist regimes.”
On Saturday, Trump announced he was revoking the protections for 530,000 migrants who traveled to the U.S. from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, and other parts of Central and South America.
Salazar’s post, translated from Spanish, appears below:
“Trump is correcting the immigration mess left by Biden. There’s no doubt: the legal limbo Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans face today is a direct consequence of the Biden administration’s empty promises. These people fled failed communist regimes hoping to find freedom and opportunity in the United States, only to be betrayed by incoherent and mismanaged policies. The Trump administration should acknowledge this reality and not punish them for Biden’s mistakes. Let’s give them the opportunity to access the protections they were promised.”
DHS pulls legal status for 500,000 Cubans, Venezuelans and others in latest Trump immigration crackdown
More than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans had their temporary legal status revoked in the latest move by the Donald Trump administration to push his changes on immigration.
Trump accuses U.S. district court judge grounding his migrant flights of ‘conflict of interest’ for standing near Kamala Harris’s husband in a photo
Donald Trump accused U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg — the same judge who grounded his migrant deportation flights — of a “conflict of interest” in a post on Truth Social on Saturday evening.
His evidence was a photo from a 2022 mock trial in which Boasberg was pictured standing in a line of people. The man standing next to him in the photo is Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Emhoff is an attorney.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says ‘activist judges’ will face Republican-led hearing
On Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Republicans are planning to subject “activist federal judges” to a “high profile hearing.”
He also warned that Republicans are preparing legislative action to counter members of the judiciary who have ruled against the executive actions taken by Donald Trump since returning to the Oval Office.
Trump walks out to massive applause at NCAA wrestling championship
Donald Trump walked out onto the floor of the NCAA wrestling finals in Philadelphia separately from the rest of his cohort — which included Elon Musk, Representative Jim Jordan, and Senators Dave McCormick, and Markwayne Mullin, among others — to a massive applause.
Trump wandered to his seat, waving to the crowd and shaking hands with his fellow Republicans as a loud contingent in the audience chanted “USA” over and over.
Venezuela says it will resume accepting U.S. deportation flights
Venezuela said on Saturday it would resume accepting deportation flights from the United States after reaching an agreement with the Trump administration after the president invoked the Alien and Enemies Act in order to expedite the removal of Venezeulans to prison in El Salvador.
“Migration isn’t a crime, and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all of those in need and rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador,” a representative for the Venezuelan government said in a statement obtained by the New York Times.
Trump had invoked the Alien and Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, who he claimed were members of the gang Tren de Araguas, without due process. A federal judge placed a temporary injunction on the flights.
It is unclear who was on the flights or if they are members of the Venezuelan gang. Officials admitted that many of the individuals do not have criminal records.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have arrived in Philadelphia to attend the NCAA wrestling finals
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are in Philadelphia this evening to attend the NCAA wrestling finals.
They arrived in the city just before 7pm EST.
Trump sends a second destroyer to patrol US-Mexico border waters
The U.S. Navy, under the orders of Donald Trump, has deployed a second destroyer to patrol the waters near the US-Mexico border, according to the US Northern Command.
Naval officials said in a Saturday news release that the USS Spruance departed Naval base San Diego and will assist in “combating maritime related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction, and illegal seaborne immigration.”
The U.S. Navy sent another destroyer to the region last week.
Source: independent.co.uk