Trump’s chilling new warning to Iran’s Ayatollah over Houthi attacks: live updates

President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran will be held responsible and face ‘dire’ consequences for any further attacks by Yemen’s Houthis.

Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN.

Any further attack or retaliation by the “Houthis” will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there

Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a brutal takedown after a far-left French politician called for Donald Trump to return the Statue of Liberty.

Leavitt was asked about the provocative comments by French Socialist MEP Raphaël Glucksmann at Monday’s White House briefing.

She said President Donald Trump would ‘absolutely not’ be giving the statue in New York Harbor back to France.

Leavitt added: ‘And my advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.

‘So they should be very grateful to our great country.’

First Lady Melania Trump is still an ‘incredibly important advisor’ to her husband, according to the author of yet another book on the president’s 2024 reelection.

Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt detailed in an interview with DailyMail’s Welcome to MAGAland podcast on Monday that when aides would call Trump to talk late at night, he would often put them on speakerphone so Melania could join the conversation.

In fact, Melania advised her husband not to make his first post back on Twitter after his account was reinstated to attack then primary adversary Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis because it would ‘make him look small.’

President Donald Trump made a cryptic comment about his golf game over the weekend that left his MAGA fans wondering if he’ll ever tee up again.

He announced he won ‘probably my last’ championship at his Trump International Golf Club Palm Beach.

Trump is a renowned golfer who owns 11 golf courses in the United States, two in Scotland, one in Ireland, two in Indonesia, one in Oman, and one in the United Arab Emirates for a total of 18.

But, on Sunday, he indicated he might be hanging up his clubs.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The White House released a video of Customs and Border Protection agents frisking illegal immigrants in handcuffs before putting them on a deportation flight.

Audio of the video was the iconic chorus to the 1998 jam Closing Time by Semisonic and the X post was captioned with the lyrics: ‘You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.’

It came the day after it was announced the Trump administration flew roughly 250 alleged gang members from Venezuela down to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) to be imprisoned there.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan told reporters that Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members are ‘invading this country’ – but said he’s not familiar with the case of every person who got deported amid a court clash.

He defended the legal basis of using the 200-year old Alien Enemies Act, which allows for deportation of enemies during a time of war.

‘An old law? Not as old as the Constitution and we still pay attention to that, don’t we?’ he said.

Asked by DailyMail.com if every migrant who was deported was a gang member, Homan responded: ‘I’m not familiar with every single case on that plane. But that’s my understanding, MS-13 members and TDA members’ – meaning Tren de Aragua.

He defended the decision to continue with the removal despite a judge’s order, because the planes were over international waters. He called it ‘a plane full of terrorists and significant public safety threats’ and said to ‘turn a plane around over international waters’ wouldn’t be consistent with Trump’s promises.

He said the administration determined whether someone was a gang member through investigations. ‘Whether through social media, through activities. You know, criminal records here and abroad. The review of this issue was at the highest level I’ve seen. I stand by everything we did this weekend,’ he said.

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor is meeting with President Trump at the White House on St. Patrick’s Day – where he called for celebration but also vented about illegal immigration.

McGregor, a Trump fan and former lightweight and featherweight Ultimate Fighting champ, made a surprise trip to the White House podium Monday morning.

He was accompanied by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who was showing him the room where she battles the press. Both wore green – with McGregor decked out in a sharp three-piece suit.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

President Donald Trump is denying reports he refused a court order to turn around two planes of illegal Venezuelan gang members.

Talking with reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump defended this operation deporting 200 ‘monsters’ from the United States back to El Salvador.

‘These were bad people. That was a bad group of, as I say, hombres,’ he said.

Asked about using the Alien Enemies Act outside of wartime, Trump said: ‘This is a time of war because Biden allowed millions of people – many of them criminals, many of them at the highest level.’

‘They emptied jails out – other nations,’ he alleged. ‘It’s an invasion and these are criminals.’

But a federal judge at the last minute tried to block the planes while they were en route.

President Donald Trump confirmed that he will speak to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

‘I’ll be speaking to [President Putin] on Tuesday. A lot of work’s been done over the weekend,’ Trump revealed.

‘We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,’ Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled back to D.C. from Mar-a-Lago on Sunday. ‘Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.’

Donald Trump has said pardons issued by Joe Biden are void because he used an autopen.

The list of those pardoned includes Dr. Anthony Fauci and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.

It also includes nine members of the January 6 Committee.

They are Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif; former Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Elaine Luria, D-Va., and Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla.; and current Reps. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.

Biden also commuted almost 2,500 prison sentences, a presidential record.

That included some federal prisoners on death row.