The Hanoitimes - The two leaders will have a working lunch today before a joint signing ceremony for an agreement. Trump and Kim meet in Metropole Hanoi Trump - Kim summit to take place in Hanoi’s Metropole hotel: White House US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again Thursday morning in Hanoi. The White House has released the schedule for the second and final day of their summit. US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi on February 27. Photo: Fortune 9:00 am The day will start with a one-on-one session which will begin at 9 am local time. 3:50 pm The two leaders will then have a working lunch before participating in a joint signing ceremony for an agreement, the details of which are not yet known. US President Donald Trump will hold a press meeting in the JW Marriot hotel in the afternoon. On February 27, in the first day of the meeting, the two leaders met at 6:30 pm local time at … [Read more...] about Trump-Kim summit second day schedule: White House
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Ivanka Trump to help select candidate to lead World Bank: White House
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process is not public, dismissed a report in the Financial Times that floated Ivanka’s name as a possible candidate and was repeated by several other media outlets over the weekend. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney "have asked Ivanka Trump to help manage the U.S. nomination process as she’s worked closely with the World Bank’s leadership for the past two years," the official said. "Reports that she is under consideration are false." A U.S. Treasury spokeswoman could not immediately be reached for comment. Ivanka Trump has worked with the World Bank and departing President Jim Yong Kim over the past two years, jointly launching a $1.6 billion women’s entrepreneurship fund with 13 other donor countries to raise capital for female entrepreneurs in developing countries. The United States, which has a controlling voting interest in the World Bank, has … [Read more...] about Ivanka Trump to help select candidate to lead World Bank: White House
Trump not building a “wall”: White House chief
File photo of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. (Olivier Douliery/AFP) Outgoing White House chief John Kelly said in an interview published on Sunday (Dec 30) that he had "nothing but compassion" for undocumented migrants crossing into the US, and undercut President Donald Trump's claims to be building a "wall" at the Mexico border. As a partial government shutdown entered a ninth day due to an impasse over Trump's demands for funding the US-Mexico border barrier, the president's chief of staff told the Los Angeles Times: "To be honest, it's not a wall." "The president still says 'wall.' Oftentimes frankly he'll say 'barrier' or 'fencing,' now he's tended toward steel slats," Kelly said. "But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it," he added. Building a solid "wall" along the 3,200-kilometre US-Mexico frontier was a central plank of Trump's 2016 election campaign, and he has tweeted about it … [Read more...] about Trump not building a “wall”: White House chief
Trump pushes out senior advisor at start of expected White House reshuffle
US President Donald Trump speaks during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo: AFP/MANDEL NGAN) Melania Trump made the extremely rare demand for deputy national security advisor Mira Ricardel to be fired on Tuesday, saying "she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House". The protocol-busting move followed a falling out that press leaks say was partly linked to a dispute over seating arrangements on the plane that took the first lady for a tour of African countries in October. Ricardel was also reportedly blamed for negative news coverage of Melania Trump. The first lady at least partially got her way Wednesday when presidential spokeswoman Sarah Sanders announced that Ricardel "departs the White House to transition to a new role within the Administration". The start to the second half of Donald Trump's first term is enveloped in gloom as the president surveys the damage from the midterms, tension with some of … [Read more...] about Trump pushes out senior advisor at start of expected White House reshuffle
Trump insists White House a ’smooth-running machine’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that his daughter played no role in the abrupt departure of his top lawyer and pushed back at the notion of a White House in chaos, calling it "a smooth-running machine with changing parts." The announced departure of White House counsel Don McGahn, who has emerged as a key witness in the Russia probe shadowing his presidency, was the latest in a long string of firings and resignations to buffet Trump’s administration. The New York Times reported that McGahn was not forewarned before Trump announced Wednesday on Twitter he would be leaving his post this fall. The Times said Ivanka Trump had complained bitterly to her father after a report by the newspaper that claimed McGahn’s testimony to Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been far more extensive than the president or his lawyers knew. In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump said Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, "had NOTHING to do with the so called … [Read more...] about Trump insists White House a ’smooth-running machine’