Trump news - live: Top state department official resigns over president's 'actions surrounding racial injustice' as Facebook takes down his ads
Facebook has removed dozens of ads from Donald Trump's re-election campaign invoking Nazi imagery against political opponents while he has publicly sparred with the US Supreme Couty and his ex-national security adviser John Bolton over allegations in a new book.
Bolton say the “stunningly uninformed” president begged Chinese premier Xi Jinping for help with his re-election, said invading Venezuela would be “cool”, believed Finland was in Russia and did not realise the UK was a nuclear power. Several newspapers today carry extracts from The Room Where it Happened, which hits shelves next week and paints a damning portrait of the Trump White House and a blustering president willing to do “personal favours for dictators he likes”, ignorant of foreign policy and motivated predominantly by “re-election calculations”.
Trump wasted no time in angrily hitting back at Bolton, disparaging him as “a washed up guy” on Fox News and taking to Twitter to label him: “A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war.”
A senior State Department official meanwhile has resigned over the president's poor handling of racial tensions in the wake of the police killings of black Americans.
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