President Trump this week revoked a security detail for retired Gen. Mark Milley and announced an investigation into the former Joint Chiefs chair’s conduct, enacting promised retribution while

Donald Trump’s first 10 days back in office were filled with a series of “shock and awe” executive orders intended to overwhelm the opposition.

Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... reportedly called Trump “fascist to the core” in comments included in a 2024 book by journalist Bob Woodward. “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump ...

Chief of Staff Susie Wiles could make or break Trump's second term. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.

President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens.

Feeling burned by the holdover of Obama administration appointees during his first go-around, Trump swiftly exiled Biden holdovers and moved to test new hires for their fealty to his agenda.

Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was appointed by Trump in 2019 during his first administration. Trump and Milley became at odds after Milley disagreed with Trump’s desire to overturn the results of the 2020 election ...

Proclaiming a new American “Golden Age,” Trump consolidated power hours into his new term, wielding massive executive authority in seeking to obliterate large chunks of Joe Biden’s legacy and showing he plans to learn from his first-term failures to pull off a transformational presidency.

With temperatures reaching a high of 24 degrees in Washington, D.C., Trump's political comeback was cemented inside the Capitol Rotunda, with a reduced audience.

In his 29-minute Inaugural Address, Trump promised to defeat inflation and to “end the chronic disease epidemic.” He promised national power so great that it could “stop all wars,” and expand the nation’s territory. He even promised to “restore American promise.”

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.