Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

Trump becomes the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl.

Last Updated: February 9, 2025, 7:18 PM EST

President Donald Trump's second administration continued its swift recasting of the federal government, prompting pushback from Democrats and legal challenges.

The president said Sunday that he will announce tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum on Monday but didn't say when they'll take effect.

Trump, meanwhile, is at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night to take in the Super Bowl. Trump picked the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in an interview aired before the game on Fox.

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Feb 09, 2025, 10:37 PM EST

Court grants request to block 3 Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo

A federal court on Sunday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from sending three Venezuelan detainees from being sent to a migrant holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, according to a report from AP News.

The three men had been accused of having connections to the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, the report said. Texas Gov. Glenn Abbott designated the gang a foreign terror organization in September 2024.

The first flight carrying so-called high-threat migrants to the newly established migrant holding facility in Cuba arrived Feb. 4. All 10 people on the flight were also suspected members of Tren de Aragua, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

However, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the three men, said in a filing early Sunday that they "have a pending case before the court challenging their unlawfully prolonged detention" and asserted that they are "migrants who fled Venezuela seeking protection" in the United States.

The filing asked that the U.S. District Court of New Mexico block their transfer on the grounds that “the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction,” AP News said.

Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales granted the temporary order to prevent their relocation after a brief hearing on Sunday, according to the AP News article.

Trump said last month that the United States will work to prepare the naval base to hold 30,000 migrants awaiting processing to return to their home countries.

Feb 09, 2025, 10:37 PM EST

Trump instructs Treasury to stop producing pennies

President Donald Trump said Sunday night that he has instructed the Treasury Department to stop making new pennies.

"For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

Feb 09, 2025, 8:06 PM EST

Trump implies rioters were the victims on Jan. 6

During his flight to New Orleans on Sunday, President Donald Trump said he would be honoring first responders by meeting with some at the 2025 Super Bowl.

Members of the New Orleans Police Department, New Orleans Emergency Medical Services, New Orleans Fire Department, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and Louisiana State Police were on the field for the coin toss, each holding a photo of one of the 14 victims killed in the truck-ramming terror attack on New Year's Day.

President Donald Trump reacts after posing with family members of victims in the January 1 attack on Bourbon Street and emergency responders prior to Super Bowl LIX, Feb. 9, 2025 in New Orleans.
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Reporters aboard Air Force One then asked why, if Trump supports first responders, he had pardoned those who were convicted of assaulting police officers on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump implied that it was the rioters who were victimized in the attack on the Capitol, claiming they had been assaulted by the government.

“No, I pardoned people that were assaulted themselves," he said, without offering evidence. "They were assaulted by our government."

He went on to repeat a claim he has made in the past, saying, "They were treated unfairly.”

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

Feb 09, 2025, 8:06 PM EST

Trump signs executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico

During President Donald Trump's flight to New Orleans on Sunday to attend the 2025 Super Bowl, Air Force One flew over the Gulf of Mexico.

As the plane passed over the body of water, Trump signed an executive order renaming it the Gulf of America.

Trump said "no" when asked if he had talked with Mexico about the move in advance.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie