President Donald Trump on Sunday agreed to delay the deadline for a 50% tariff on the European Union. The president also weighed in on Russia's escalated, overnight attacks on Ukraine while criticizing both Putin and Zelenskyy.
Trump also continued to criticize Harvard on Sunday, questioning the university's transparency and demanding that it reveal its international students' identities.
On Capitol Hill, the House this week passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" to fund Trump's domestic agenda. It now heads to the Senate, where it will likely be changed.
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem meets with Netanyahu in Jerusalem
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Sunday, according to a readout from Netanyahu's office.
"The Secretary of Homeland Security expressed great appreciation for the Prime Minister's policy of building the fence on the Egyptian border and conducting the war," the readout said.
The U.S.'s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, also attended the meeting.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
May 25, 2025, 4:59 PM EDT
Trump demands IDs of Harvard international students
Trump continued to rant about Harvard University's international students, claiming that some students come from countries that do not have the best interests of the United States in mind.
Trump questioned Harvard's transparency and demanded that it reveals its student identities and the countries of these students, especially given the financial support it receives from the government.
People walk through Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachussetts, April 15, 2025.
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"We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming. We want those names and countries," Trump wrote.
The president's post comes days after his administration's move to revoke the school's ability to enroll international students. A court hearing to determine if the temporary block should be extended is scheduled for Thursday.
-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh
May 25, 2025, 4:52 PM EDT
EU Commission president says it needs more time on tariffs
President of the European Union Commission Ursula von der Leyen said she spoke with Trump in a post on X Sunday.
Von der Leyen said in the post it was a “good call.” The EU would “need” until July 9 “to reach a good deal.”
“Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively,” Von der Leyen said. “To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9.”
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni welcomes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Palazzo Chigi prior their meeting in Rome, May 18, 2025.
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On Friday, Trump said that negotiations with the EU were "going nowhere" and said that he is "recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025" in a post on his social media platform. Trump said that the European bloc has been "very difficult to deal with.” -ABC News’ Ellie Kaufman
May 25, 2025, 11:23 AM EDT
West Point professor who resigned: Trump executive orders ‘telling us what to think’
As Trump touted his purge of diversity, equity and inclusion programs in his address to West Point’s graduating cadets on Saturday, a longtime West Point professor who resigned in protest of the administration’s changes to the academy said he objected to the president’s choice to wear his signature red Make America Great Again hat.
“Making cadets salute him in the hat – that crosses a line for me,” Graham Parsons said. “He seems really to struggle separating the office of the presidency from himself, and that sort of captured it in a microcosm.”
In the first days of his second term, Trump signed an executive order ending DEI programs in the armed forces. Parsons published an op-ed in May, saying that West Point began “eliminating courses, modifying syllabuses and censoring arguments to comport with the ideological taste of the Trump administration.”
President Donald Trump and US Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland listen to the national anthem before Trump delivers the commencement address at the 2025 graduation ceremony at the US Military Academy West Point ,on May 24, 2025, in West Point, New York.
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“These orders are to indoctrinate, not educate. They’re telling us what to think,” said Graham Parsons, who was a professor of philosophy at West Point focusing on military ethics. Parsons spent 13 years on the faculty before resigning.
“It just became professionally untenable – no longer able to pursue the questions that I find important, that my discipline fins important. And it’s not just me, it’s the entirety of the academy,” Parsons told me. “It felt like a real professional betrayal.”
Parsons said the administration is telling professional scholars what “areas of inquiry are legitimate and illegitimate”, calling it “a very dangerous removal of the boundary between politics and education.”
“My research agenda was effectively banned. The message to cadets was this is not ok, and sometimes you have to put your career aside to do the right thing.”
