The East Wing was not much,” Trump argued, so it shouldn’t “hurt a very expensive, beautiful building” like his White House ballroom.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump as a “builder-in-chief" amid backlash from critics over the demolition of a part of the East Wing.

A summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine has been cancelled, the White House confirmed on Tuesday. The US and Russian leaders had been expected to meet in Budapest, Hungary,

The back-and-forth was the latest example of President Trump teasing a breakthrough, only to be pulled back by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.