Trump News for Monday, March 3, 2025

US Senate confirmed Trump ally and ex-wrestling executive as chief of department president wants dismantled

U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday for suggesting that the end of Russia's war against Ukraine likely "is still very, very far away."

In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump referenced an AP report in which Zelenskyy said the war's end remains "very, very far away," arguing that the Ukrainian leader "doesn't want there to be peace as long as he has America's backing."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Monday to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places her atop a department that President Donald Trump has vilified and vowed to dismantle.

When President Donald Trump addresses the nation from Capitol Hill on Tuesday, he’ll get the first opportunityto sell Americans and Congress on his new proposal unveiled Sunday in a pair of social media posts more than an hour apart, that the US needs to create a strategic reserve of cryptocurrency.