Trump News Live: Latest Twitter Updates When President Says He Will Never Accept Defeat

The major players on Capitol Hill are returning for a final, perhaps futile, attempt to make deals on a challenging menu of year-end business, including Covid relief, a $ 1.4 trillion spending package, and a defense policy.

Ambassadors from all 27 EU countries will meet today to consider how the bloc can repair relations with the United States after four tumultuous years with Trump in the White House.

They are said to be looking at five policy areas where cooperation could be improved, including Covid-19 and climate change.

Those discussions will set the stage for a meeting of EU presidents and prime ministers next week. Some European leaders have only grudgingly welcomed Biden’s victory, notably Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who called Trump their “Plan A.”

Trump supporters are conducting a bus tour of the March for Trump, a two-week multi-state rally in support of the U.S. president.

On Sunday they began their rally in Doral, Florida. His intention is to arrive in Washington DC on December 12.

Biden’s favorability rating has risen six percentage points to 55% since the election, according to a Gallup poll.

Meanwhile, Trump’s favorability has fallen three points to 42 percent.

The current rating of the president-elect is the highest since February 2019, two months before he declared his candidacy for the presidency, when it was 56 percent.

The survey was conducted between November 5 and 19.

Biden has the exception of appointing several of his top economic advisers in the coming days, a group that is expected to include several liberal economists and policy specialists from the two previous Democratic administrations.

Among them is Janet Yellen, who could become the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in its nearly 232-year history.

Trump launched a Twitter tirade against CBS 60 minutes program Sunday after an interview with Chris Krebs, the cybersecurity director who was fired by the president for claiming the 2020 election was the safest on record.

Trump accused CBS producers of failing to reach out to his team for comment.

He called the interview “ridiculous, one-sided” and in a subsequent tweet called them “fake news.”

Trump has had another brush with the coronavirus, according to an Associated Press report, which quotes a source as saying that the president held a meeting with the Pennsylvania state senator who abruptly left a West Wing meeting after being informed he had tested positive for the disease. .

Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator, was told that the White House medical staff would take care of him, his son and his son’s friend, who also attended the Oval Office meeting and tested positive. The meeting continued after he left.

Trump himself was defeated by the virus during the October election campaign and his son, Don Jr, tested positive two weeks ago.

Positive coronavirus cases are on the rise across the United States, and Dr. Anthony Fauci said the country could see “surge after surge” in the coming weeks.

Everyone close to the president should undergo a rapid coronavirus test.

All participants in Wednesday’s meeting underwent Covid tests, but positive results were not announced until they were in the west wing of the White House.

Trump wished Biden a speedy recovery Sunday after the president-elect suffered minor fractures to his foot while playing with one of his dogs.

Biden will likely have to wear a protective boot for several weeks, his personal physician said.

The 78-year-old Democrat sprained his ankle on Saturday and a day later visited an orthopedist for X-rays and a CT scan.

Doctors initially thought the former vice president had simply sprained his ankle, but ordered a further exploration of the injury.

Joe Biden’s communications team will be all female, and four of the seven designated individuals are women of color.

Biden described the team as “skilled and experienced communicators” who would bring “diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to better rebuild this country.”

As the Associated Press puts it, Trump’s Fox interview contained a number of false claims.

Here’s her face-to-face fact check with the news network’s Maria Bartiromo.