Author: John Fritze, USA TODAY

Trump’s response to a question about whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power drew a firestorm of criticism on social media.

Trump has in the past often used his address at the United Nations General Assembly to frame his foreign policy in domestic terms.

In a previously unpublicized memo cited by USA TODAY on Friday, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter the Stars and Stripes newspaper this month.

Trump signed a disaster declaration for Louisiana ahead of a trip to survey damage caused by Hurricane Laura, which made landfall on Thursday.

“Harvard’s going to return the money,” the president asserted at his daily press conference on Tuesday. “They shouldn’t have taken it.”

As unemployment claims soar with coronavirus, Trump has indicated a desire to ease social distancing guidelines. But states will make the final call.

Trump threatened sanctions on nations that have raised concern about accepting U.S. deportees because it could further spread the coronavirus pandemic.

The White House requested $2.5 billion Monday to deal with the coronavirus, but congressional Democrats slammed the request as “woefully insufficient.”

Trump’s campaign described the parade of events in Iowa as a warning to Democrats that their operation is far better organized than it was in 2016.