Trump secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions from kids about Trump's favorite food, whether he liked hugs ‒ and how many people he'd fired.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took questions from children in the briefing room on Tuesday, where one perceptive child asked an otherwise mundane question about President Donald Trump that contained an amusing qualifier.

The White House addressed Donald Trump's recent derogatory remarks about Taylor Swift, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt downplaying them as commentary on Swift's political influence. This isn't the first time Leavitt has criticized Swift's political endorsements.

South Africa's president has faced tough challenges before - he was the chief negotiator for Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) during talks to end white-minority rule in the early 1990s - but his forthcoming meeting in the White House will require all his charm.

Nonpartisan research groups studying the proposal have estimated that it would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal debt—currently at an all-time high of $36.8 trillion—over the next decade. Despite those projections,

The White House is responding after President Trump took to Truth Social to declare that Taylor Swift is "no longer hot," continuing months of occasional jabs at the pop megastar.

Kids at White House Take Your Child to Work Day quiz Trump on his favorite food and president (besides himself) -

President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge over the weekend that tariffs function as a tax ultimately paid by American consumers—not foreign manufacturers—despite years of claiming the opposite. The remark sparked ridicule and forced the White House to scramble to clarify his comments,