# Donald Trump

## Closing summary

This brings our live coverage of a world-historical day in Washington to an end. We will continue to chronicle the major events in the second  for you in real time in the days ahead.

### Documents seized in an FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago

Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, told reporters traveling with Trump to Florida on Friday that classified documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago in 2022 had been returned to Trump and were loaded on to Air Force One for the trip.

“...the FBl is giving the president his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them on to Air Force One,” Cheung said in a statement to reporters chosen by the White House to report on the journey.

According to a reporter for the conservative Washington Examiner, there were no seats on the plane for journalists from the Associated Press, or anyone chosen by the White House Correspondents Association, but the Daily Wire and Real America’s Voice, two pro-Trump rightwing outlets, were on hand to cover the president they support.

### Biden Remarks

When another reporter asked, “Did you tell Zelenskyy, ‘Leave the White House,’?” Trump at first refused to say, before adding: “I think you know the answer.”

“...Trump and Vance didn’t say a single bad word about Putin—a bloodthirsty dictator who invaded Ukraine, poisons his opposition, steals from his people, rigs elections, and murders those who speak out,” a Democratic representative from Massachusetts, .

### Zelenskyy’s Clothing

Lindsey Graham called on Zelenskyy to resign or change after Trump argument – video

### Bullying, Berating Trump Shows His Worst Self in Zelenskyy Ambush

Bullying, berating Trump shows his worst self in Zelenskyy ambush

## Democratic Team

### David Smith

David Smith, the Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, has more on the historic and histrionic Trump-Zelenskyy Oval office showdown.

For American readers unfamiliar with the term, political sketch writing is a British newspaper genre, described as “a form of verbal cartooning” akin to the kind of  we more commonly get from late-night comedians.

Here is how David’s latest sketch begins, but please do read it all:

> This is going to be great television,”  remarked at the end. Sure. And the captain of the Titanic probably assured his passengers that this would make a great movie some day.
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> Trump has just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised and protocol was shredded in the once hallowed Oval Office. , a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes.
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> Never before has a US president bullied and berated an adversary, never mind an ally, in such a public way. Of course reality TV star and wrestling fan turned US president had it all play out on television for the benefit of his populist support base – and a certain bare-chested chum in the Kremlin.
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> Zelenskyy had come to the White House to sign a deal for US involvement in Ukraine’s mineral industry to pave the way for an end to three-year war in . There was a hint of trouble to come when he arrived at the West Wing, wearing black – not a suit – and Trump greeted him with a handshake and sarcasm: “Wow, look, you’re all dressed up!”
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