Trump declined to apologize, saying he did not see the racist portion of the video when he passed it on to staff. South Carolina's Tim Scott, the only Black Republican senator and chair of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, criticized the image and urged the president to remove it.

The White House posted a Christmas-themed lo-fi livestream on its X account while digging at illegal immigrants amid its mass deportation operations. On the evening before Christmas Eve, the White House's official X account started a livestream, titled "Lo ...