## “F**k You”: Entire Trump Team Hated Elon Musk, Damning Report Reveals

Authored by newrepublic.com

Donald Trump had arranged the volatile meeting: “Bring them all in here, and we’ll have at it,” Trump said, according to The Atlantic.

The advisers were frustrated with what they felt was Musk overstepping into their agencies.

Musk’s tenure wasn’t a total failure, according to former federal employees.

He had managed to force out some of the federal workforce and shutter agencies (while “traumatizing the employees who remain,” The Atlantic reported).

But ultimately, his Department of Government Efficiency’s Silicon Valley, hacking-and-slashing approach to reshaping the government failed to make bureaucracy more efficient.

And some of his haphazardly introduced policies, such as requiring federal employees to submit weekly bullet-pointed progress reports, have quietly fallen by the wayside.

But it’s different when you do that and you don’t even have the buy-in of the agency you’re setting on fire,” one outside Trump adviser told The Atlantic. »

### US secretary of state refuses to call Putin a war criminal

Authored by pravda.com.ua

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declined to label Russian ruler Vladimir Putin a war criminal.

Keating interrupted him, repeating his simple question of whether Putin, with whom the US is negotiating, is a war criminal.

On 7 May, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent agreed when asked whether he considered Russian leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal. »

### ‘World-first’ gonorrhoea vaccine to be rolled out in England

Authored by theguardian.com

The move, hailed as a “landmark moment for sexual health”, will aim to tackle rising levels of the sexually transmitted infection (STI).

Gonorrhoea cases in England topped 85,000 in 2023, the highest since records began in 1918, with warnings over some strains being resistant to antibiotics.

Eligible patients will be identified and contacted in the coming weeks, with the jab offered through local authority-commissioned sexual health services from 1 August. »

### Engaged couple dies in separate crashes; leave behind young son

Authored by wafb.com

(WAFB) - Alexus Lee and John “JR” Collins were building their futures together and were engaged to get married.

Tragedy took them, and they leave behind their 4-year-old son.

Holding back tears, the families of Alexus Lee and John “JR” Collins remember the engaged couple’s lives cut short. »

### South African President Calls Out Trump: ‘I’m Sorry I Don’t Have a Plane to Give You’

Authored by rollingstone.com

President Donald Trump spent much of Wednesday’s Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rambling about disproven claims and conspiracy theories that white South African farmers are the victims of a genocide.

The claims have been repeatedly disputed, with both international and South African investigations finding that rural crime against South African farmers victimizes both Black and white farmers and employees.

Trending Stories South African President Calls Out Trump: ‘I’m Sorry I Don’t Have a Plane to Give You’ A Momfluencer’s Son Drowned. »

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