Trump calls for famed Alcatraz prison to be reopened, expanded
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closed in 1963 and operates as a museum.
President Donald Trump on Sunday that he doesn't know if he is supposed to uphold the Constitution and relies on his lawyers to follow the law.
"I don't know. I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said," Trump told NBC in an interview that aired Sunday on "Meet the Press."
Trump also said that he wouldn't seek a third term as president, though he has teased the possibility several times, and that he wouldn't fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell before his term ends in 2026.
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Trump says he wants to rename Veterans Day to 'Victory Day for World War I'
President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he is renaming Veterans Day, which is celebrated on Nov. 11, as "Victory Day for World War I."
May 8, he said, will now be marked as "Victory Day for World War II."
"We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything — That's because we don't have leaders anymore, that know how to do so! We are going to start celebrating our victories again!," Trump wrote.
He added that many allies celebrate the end of those wars on the respective dates. It is unclear what mechanism Trump will use to rename the holidays, as it has not been released that he has signed any action about the dates.
Establishing a federal holiday or a patriotic or national observance requires the passage of a law, according to the Congressional Research Service. Lawmakers created "Armistice Day" in 1938 to commemorate World War I. Then, in 1954 after World War II and the Korean War, they renamed it "Veterans Day" at the urging of veterans groups.
-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart
Executive order blocks federal funding to NPR, PBS
On his way to Florida aboard Air Force One on Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to “cease direct funding to NPR and PBS.”
According to a fact sheet from the White House, the order blocks federal funding to NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service to the maximum extent allowed by law. It also prevents indirect funding to PBS and NPR by prohibiting local public radio and television stations, and any other recipients of CPB funds, from using taxpayer dollars to support the organizations.
The order mandates that the CPB revise its 2025 General Provisions to explicitly prohibit direct or indirect funding to NPR and PBS. It directs all federal agencies to terminate any direct or indirect funding to NPR and PBS and to review existing grants and contracts for compliance. Additionally, it instructs the Federal Communications Commission and relevant agencies to investigate whether NPR and PBS have engaged in unlawful discrimination.
In the fact sheet, the White House claims the two news organizations “have fueled partisanship and left-wing propaganda with taxpayer dollars.”
NPR and PBS are primarily funded through a combination of public and private sources. The CPB, a federal agency, provides a portion of the funding, along with private donations from individuals, foundations and corporations.
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie
Trump touts 1st 100 days in University of Alabama speech, offers advice
Graduates at the University of Alabama greeted President Donald Trump with loud cheers and applause as he touted the first 100 days of his second term and offered advice in an address.
In his speech, Trump, who called his audience the first graduating class of the "golden age of America," referenced his second-term agenda and blasted judges who have impeded parts of his immigration policy.
“They have to let us do the job that the voters want us to do," Trump said. "Judges are interfering, supposedly based on due process. But how can you give due process to people who came into our country illegally? They want to give them due process. I don't know.”
Trump also shared his experiences of "beating the odds" and told the graduates to be passionate about what they do and think big.
"If you want to change the world you have to have the courage to be an outsider," he said. "In other words, you have to take certain risks and do things a little bit differently. Otherwise, if that weren't the case, everybody would be successful.”
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie
Pentagon inspector general now reviewing 2nd Hegseth Signal chat: Official
The Department of Defense's inspector general is now looking at a second Signal chatroom that Hegseth created in which he shared timing for the impending attack on the Houthis in Yemen with family members and his attorney, an official with knowledge of the investigation told ABC News.
"The DOD OIG's evaluation of the secretary of defense's reported use of a commercially available messaging application for official business remains ongoing, and as such, I am unable to speak about the scope or timeline to protect the integrity of the process," a DOD Office of Inspector General spokesperson said when asked to comment on the development, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
-ABC News' Luis Martinez