Trump orders military to take control of border lands as he continues to crack down on migrants crossings: Live

While Trump has ordered the military to take control of land near the U.S.-Mexico border, the details of how it will work are still undetermined.

Officials are still working to determine how to execute the plan or how long troops could detain migrants before turning them over to Border agents, according to the New York Times.

There could also be signs to warn migrants that they are entering a military reservation if they cross the border into the U.S.

If you read one thing today…

Donald Trump has made an art form of selling his failures as triumphs, and this week’s capitulation on tariffs was his Mona Lisa.

Trump has ordered the U.S. military to take control of some federal lands. Most notably, the military will be taking over the Roosevelt Reservation.

That is a stretch of land that runs along the U.S.-Mexico border in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

It stretches about 600 miles and is 60 feet wide.

The area was created in 1907 by Theodore Roosevelt to keep the stretch “free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico.”

Businessman and Shark Tank panelist Kevin O’Leary has emerged as one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters in his trade war against China.

In an appearance on CNN this evening, he called for 400% tariffs on China to force President Xi Jinping to the negotiating table — and not just regarding trade.

He reiterated the point, saying it was a “game of chicken” between the two nations, claiming that millions of workers might rise up against Xi if they lose their factory jobs if the U.S. stops buying Chinese goods, with no market to replace it.

O’Leary went on to say that the U.S. is not in a recession — no matter what others say.

Here’s BlackRock CEO Larry Fink saying that we might already be in one:

Reacting to the news that Donald Trump has authorized the military to occupy and take jurisdiction over public land along the southern border, Rep. Greg Casar has accused the president of wanting to change the dominant story of the week — that of the tariffs debacle.

In a presidential memorandum released on Friday evening, Trump says it will be a “phased implementation” that begins on a “limited sector of federal lands” chosen by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but it can be expanded at any time.

Casar, a Texas Democrat, wrote on X: “Trump wants to shift the news off his tariff economic disaster, so he’s deploying the military into our own country and targeting immigrants.”

He added: “Insane, an abuse of our military, and true to form.”

As he departed a rainy Washington, D.C., for Florida on Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump climbed the steps of Air Force One holding a very large umbrella.

Here’s what happened when he got to the top of the steps to board the plane:

Law firm Susman Godfrey is suing the U.S. government after being targeted by President Donald Trump in an executive order.

The firm is representing Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation case against Newsmax.

The complaint reads in part:

In America we have, in the words of John Adams, a government of laws and not men. President Trump’s campaign of Executive Orders against law firms and others, including the Executive Order he signed on April 9, 2025 against Susman Godfrey, is a grave threat to this foundational premise of our Republic. The President is abusing the powers of his office to wield the might of the Executive Branch in retaliation against organizations and people that he dislikes. Nothing in our Constitution or laws grants a President such power; to the contrary, the specific provisions and overall design of our Constitution were adopted in large measure to ensure that presidents cannot exercise arbitrary, absolute power in the way that the President seeks to do in these Executive Orders.

Unless the Judiciary acts with resolve—now—to repudiate this blatantly unconstitutional Executive Order and the others like it, a dangerous and perhaps irreversible precedent will be set. Whatever opinions one may hold about President Trump, or about Susman Godfrey’s litigation on behalf of its clients, someday a different president with an entirely different set of policy priorities and personal grievances will sit behind the Resolute Desk. That future president may genuinely believe that an entirely different set of organizations or people have “engage[d] in activities detrimental to critical American interests,” to quote the accusation President Trump has leveled at Susman Godfrey. If President Trump’s Executive Orders are allowed to stand, future presidents will face no constraint when they seek to retaliate against a different set of perceived foes. What for two centuries has been beyond the pale will become the new normal.

Put simply, this could be any of us.

Here’s Justin Baragona with the background on the case:

Visitors to the White House on Friday were greeted with a new addition to the executive mansion’s art collection — a painting depicting the now-iconic photograph of President Donald Trump raising his fist just moments after a bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.

White House staff installed the painting just outside the East Room, in the main foyer of the White House, at a location traditionally reserved for a painting depicting the most recent president to have his official portrait unveiled.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, D.C.