Follow along with the latest updates on the Trump administration Friday as President Trump will swear in Kevin Warsh, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Warsh will replace outgoing Fed Chair Jerome Powell whose term expired last week. He will be sworn in at the White House.
Shortly after the swearing-in ceremony, Trump will head to Suffren, New York, where he’ll campaign for Republican Congressman Mike Lawler who is up for reelection in November. The president will then head to his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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Donald Trump mocked New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, calling her a “nice woman” who “is never going to take you to the promised land.” He impersonated her asking for help, despite her public opposition to him, highlighting what he called “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” President Trump brought members of an Angel family on stage to talk about the horrific loss of their daughter, Sheridan Gorman. “This beautiful, beautiful 18 year old college student from Yorktown, New York, right across the Hudson River, was walking in a park in Chicago, when she was gunned down by the illegal alien monster in cold blood. Nobody knows even why this happened,” Trump said. Sheridan’s mother, Jessica, wept as she talked about the night her daughter was killed by a Venezuelan man who was illegally in the country. Sheridan was a college student at Loyola at the time. “Her life was stolen by a man who should have never been in this country, a man who should have never been set free in that community, and every step the system had a chance to stop him, and at every step it failed, and my daughter paid for those failures with her life,” Jessica Gorman said. “No mother should ever have to wonder if her child called out for her in her final moments. No mother should ever have to imagine her baby lying alone and bleeding on the cold pavement, and no family should ever have to bury a child because public officials failed to put innocent American lives first,” she added. She held a photo of Sheridan. President Trump comforted her after she spoke.Trump mocks 'nice woman' Kathy Hochul's groveling phone calls
By Steven Nelson Sheridan Gorman's mother speaks out at Trump rally: 'No mother should ever have to imagine her baby lying alone'
By Emily Goodin 
President Trump announced he’s giving the Presidential Medal of Honor posthumously to Welles Crowther, known as the “the man in the red bandana.”
“He's become a legend who heroically gave his life on 9/11 to save 18 people from the World Trade Center,” Trump said of Wells.
Welles, a volunteer firefighter, was working on the 104th floor of the South Tower on the day of the attack. Putting a red bandana around his mouth, he helped lead people to safety before losing his life.
His mother Alison was in the audience for Trump’s announcement.
“I just want to congratulate his great mother in doing a phenomenal job in raising that young man, boy, what bravery saved those people, and became a legend in a sense nobody else would have done what he did,” Trump said.
He brought Alison on stage. Wearing a red bandana around her neck, she thanked Trump and said; “I just want to say it to me is such a beautiful thing that even 25 years later Welles' light still shines brightly.”
President Trump mocked New York Gov. Kathy Hochul after mentioning his opposition to congestion pricing — calling her a "nice woman" who "is never going to take you to the promised land."
"She calls me up a lot. I immediately know it's her because I do have friends in Buffalo but they haven't called me too much lately," Trump said Friday at a Rockland County rally, before impersonating the Democrat.
"Hi, Mr. President, it's Kathy. Hi! Hi! Could you help me here, could you help me there? And we're having a little problem getting this, and we're trying to get that. Could you give me a little hand?" Trump paraphrased the governor telling him.
"I say, 'Kathy you're always killing me, why the hell would I give you — ?'
"'Well, I just thought I'd try. Okay. Thank you very much.'
"And the next day she goes out — 'We must stop Donald Trump.' It's crazy. Trump Derangement Syndrome."
He added: "I don't want to say anything negative. She's a very nice woman. But she's never going to take you to the promised land, ever. There will never be a promised land with Kathy."
President Trump was given a special Giants welcome during a rally for Republican Rep. Mike Lawler on Friday.
New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart introduced Trump to the stage at Rockland Community College -- but not before starting a “Go Big Blue” chant for the crowd.
“What's up, what's up, what's up,” Dart said with a smile.
“What an honor, a privilege it is to be here,” Dart told the crowd. “And without further ado, I'm grateful, and honored, and pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.”
Trump then walked out on stage to the song “God Bless the USA” and embraced Dart while the two shook hands.
“I wanna thank Jaxson Dart, this is gonna be a future hall of famer in my book,” Trump said.
President Trump bragged about his success in recent Republican primaries, pointing out he took out Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.
“I had a good night the other night, right?,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Rockland County. “We knocked out a bad senator from Louisiana. We knocked out Massie, a horrible - one of the worst Republican congressmen.”
Trump was angry at Cassidy for voting to convict him during his 2021 impeachment trial following the January 6th Capitol attack. And he was angry at Massie for pushing a legislative move in Congress that required the Justice Department to release all its Jeffrey Epstein files.
The president endorsed their primary opponents, who went on to win.
“We knocked out everybody,” he bragged. “We have Make America Great Again - MAGA. We have a movement the likes of which his country has never seen.”
President Trump taunted hecklers Friday — ordering security to take the second person who interrupted his remarks "home to mommy" before urging others not to follow that example or risk getting "whacked."
"Whatever happened to that guy? It's so quick," Trump said after the man was removed from his Rockland County rally.
"I tell people, 'Please don't do it, it's dangerous.' To do it in this crowd is not a good thing. You don't want to do it in Trump crowds," the president said.
"I used to have a lot of that. The first couple of months I'd have people screaming, and they just learned it's not a good thing to do. It's not good. It's sort of dangerous. and of course, I like things that are not dangerous. I don't like to see people get whacked. I don't like it. So don't do it."
When a third person heckled, Trump said: "Don't hurt him! I do that for legal reasons... Now I can say, 'I'm innocent.'"
President Trump described Republican Rep. Mike Lawler as a “pain in the a–” during a rally for the congressman in New York.
Trump was referring to Lawler heavily lobbying him to expand the SALT deduction during the contentious negotiations over Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Lawler was successful, a point he brings up repeatedly as he runs for re-election in his swing House district.
“Mr. Salt, Mr. Salt, where's your hat?,” Trump said, referring to the logo baseball cap Lawler wears.
“He didn't stop,” Trump added of him. “This guy was a pain in the a–. It was terrible. He didn't stop.”
He went on to tell the crowd: “You're lucky to have him in this community.”
President Trump claimed Friday afternoon during a visit to New York that home-state Rep. Hakeem Jeffries inspired his demeaning new nickname for Democrats.
"I was thinking about this character we have in the House, his name is Hakeem Jeffries, and he's a low IQ person, very low IQ," Trump told his audience in Rockland County.
"And I watched what he was saying, watching the horrible things he was saying, and I said, 'He's a dumb guy.' I said, wait a minute, he's a 'Dumocrat', that's how I got the name."
President Trump declared he loved New York at an event for Republican Rep. Mike Lawler in Rockland County but added: “We got to straighten it out.”
Trump, who was born in Queens, reminded the crowd: “I was born and raised in New York State, and my heart has always been here.”
But, he noted in a nod to Democrats who have been running the state: “We got to straighten it out. We got to get it back. We got to get it back.”
“We're going to get it back,” he said, pivoting back to endorsing Lawler - who he called “Mr. SALT” - and other Republicans.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will resign from her post on June 30, citing the need to care for her husband.
In her resignation letter, Gabbard said her husband has an "extremely rare form of bone cancer" and she needs to be by his side.
Read the letter in full below.
"Dear Mr. President,
I am deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.
Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.
Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage — standing steadfast through my deployment to East Africa on a Joint Special Operations mission, multiple political campaigns, and now my service in this role. His strength and love have sustained me through every challenge. I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position.
While we have made significant progress at the ODNI — advancing unprecedented transparency and restoring integrity to the intelligence community — I recognize there is still important work to be done. I am fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the coming weeks so that you and your team experience no disruption in leadership or momentum.
Thank you for your understanding during this deeply personal and difficult time for our family. I will remain forever grateful to you and to the American people for the profound honor of serving our nation as DNI.
With love and aloha,
Tulsi Gabbard
Director of National Intelligence"
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told the IRNA state media outlet Friday that a final peace agreement with the US is not likely anytime soon -- despite President Trump's threats to bomb Tehran if no progress is made.
"We cannot say that we will definitely reach a conclusion within a few weeks or months with a few visits or negotiations," Baghaei said. "Diplomacy takes time and the parties use every opportunity to convey their views."
The spokesman's remarks come as Pakistani and Qatari mediators are in Tehran to help secure an agreement as Trump's threats to restart the war as soon as this weekend hang heavy over the region.
Baghaei further said Iran refuses to discuss its nuclear program with the US until the war is formally ended.
"If we try to go into the details of this issue at this stage, we will not reach a conclusion," he said. "The reason for this is quite clear; we have already gone this route and the differences were so great that we were unable to reach an agreement.
"On the other hand, the other side, due to its unreasonable demands, ultimately caused the negotiation table to collapse."
