On the foreign policy front, Trump is ramping up his attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after calling him a "dictator" and falsely blaming him for starting the war with Russia. Trump said on Friday he's had "good talks" with Russia's Vladimir Putin but not Ukraine, who he said has "no cards" as negotiations unfold.

President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the military’s top general (a Black man) and the Navy’s top admiral (a woman)—a move that the Defense One newsletter called a “bloodbath”—is sending a spate of distressing messages to officers of all ranks,

Gen. CQ Brown's public support of Black Lives Matter after the police killing of George Floyd had made him fodder for the administration's wars against "wokeism" in the military. Also fired were Chief of Naval Operations Adm.