Trump LIVE: Musk slams Pentagon critic who mocked his ultimatum to federal employees

The former vice president and defeated Democratic presidential candidate used her first public speech since leaving the White House to slam Trump, Musk and DOGE.

Harris was honored on Saturday evening with the Chairman’s Award at the 56th NAACP Image Awards and said in her speech: “This chapter will be written, not simply by whoever occupies the Oval Office, nor by the wealthiest among us.

“The American story will be written by you, written by us, by We the People.”

Here’s Katie Hawkinson’s report.

The world’s richest man has lashed out after a Pentagon official called the ultimatum email he sent out to federal workers over the weekend, asking them to justify their roles or risk losing them, the “silliest thing in 40 years.”

“Anyone with the attitude of that Pentagon official needs to look for a new job,” the billionaire snapped on X after the email prompted a confused reaction from department heads.

Here’s Rhian Lubin on new polling suggesting Americans are already growing tired of Musk’s antics.

The French president has arrived to participate in a G7 Leadership Summit call with Trump.

They’ll be speaking together later.

The president’s move to take control of Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has reportedly led to a staggering 50 percent drop in ticket sales.

I don’t know what else he thought was going to happen.

Here’s more from Graeme Massie.

The president has nominated Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after firing General Charles Q Brown Jr on Friday.

“Today, I am honored to announce that I am nominating Air Force Lieutenant General Dan ‘Razin’ Caine to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“General Caine is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a ‘warfighter’ with significant interagency and special operations experience.”

Here’s Katie Hawkinson with everything we know about Caine – and his relationship with Trump.

In case you missed this one over the weekend, Kash Patel is going to be kept pretty busy, managing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on an acting basis as well as the FBI.

Ariana Baio has more.

Here’s Elon’s latest DOGE pronouncement, resuming his attack on employees who work from home:

While we’re back on Musk, here’s James Liddell with more on his subsequent moves to downplay his weekend email.

The Last Week Tonight host began his show yesterday by concentrating on Musk and DOGE and comparing the department’s “stark disconnect between marketing and reality” to the notorious Glasgow Willy Wonka experience, which went viral around the world last year after its shoddiness left Scottish children bitterly disappointed and their parents angry.

Here’s more from Greg Evans.

The president’s ever-busy daughter-in-law made her debut on Fox this weekend and called in a few favors from the administration for her opening episode, interviewing Trump’s press secretary, director of national intelligence and attorney general.

Here they are knocking softballs out of the park:

He’s not sounding any less mad writing in all caps like this – and “without witch”?

Which witch?

Update: He’s since deleted and reposted the above with that typo corrected.

Shouldn’t he be prepping for Macron?