President Donald Trump is an “aspiring dictator,” likened to both Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, according to a Presidents Day Salon piece that warns his presidency is leading to the downfall of American democracy.
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Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) said Monday on "MSNBC Reports" that Vice President JD Vance's Munich Security Conference address used "some of the same language that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust."
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman commended Vice President JD Vance's artificial intelligence (AI) speech in Paris on Tuesday while laying out his vision for how people can take advantage of the rapidly evolving technology at the same conference.
Altman and Vance appeared Tuesday at the AI Action Summit in Paris, where world leaders, top tech executives and policymakers teamed up to hash out tech policy and its intersection with global security, economics and governance.
During his remarks, Vance called for AI systems developed in the U.S. to remain free of "ideological bias" and vowed that the U.S. would "never restrict our citizens' right to free speech."
Vance also pushed for a "deregulatory flavor" to emerge at the conference while cautioning against the pitfalls of "excessive regulation" that could hamper a transformative industry. He also vowed that the U.S. would back pro-growth AI policies.
"We believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off, and we'll make every effort to encourage pro-growth AI policies and I'd like to see that deregulatory flavor making its way into a lot of the conversations at this conference," the vice president said.
When asked about his advice to everyone trying to get in the AI race and advantage of new models, Altman told the conference there are two directions people can take to harness their capabilities.
"Vice President Vance said a lot of things that I really liked but one of them, a point that he hit a few times, was just the scale of the economic opportunity …. he used the phrase "lightning in a bottle" and I really think it's this moment – I think it was like a great a great phrase – we are in this moment that I've never seen before," he said.
Altman opined that perhaps the world was in a similar situation during the Industrial Revolution or the beginning of the internet but noted that there would be a massive economic impact as the cost of computers lowers and the monetary value of AI work increases.
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He pointed to software engineering agents as just one example of how companies can run better people and do "way more with way less."
Altman noted that the second direction is building consumer-facing and business-facing products that use AI in this fundamental way.
"Chat GPT is one example of that – a lot of other companies have done great stuff there. I think people should be imagining more than they are – I think a lot of people are still thinking about like last year's AI which was just much more limited, and what you can do now is like really quite remarkable," he added.
Other world leaders who attended the AI Action Summit include French President Emmanuel Macron, Indian Prime Minister Shri Modi and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing.
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During the event, Vance also issued a warning to other foreign governments about "tightening the screws" on U.S. tech companies with international footprints, claiming the Trump administration would not tolerate such limitations. He also cautioned against working with adversaries who have "weaponized A.I. software to rewrite history, surveil users and censor speech."
Vance's comments coincide with some recent actions from the Trump administration to advance AI in the U.S.
In January, Trump unveiled a new $500 billion AI infrastructure project called Stargate, a datacenter joint venture between investment holding company Softbank, and tech companies OpenAI and Oracle that Trump labeled the "largest AI infrastructure project in history."
The project includes an initial investment of $100 billion that is slated to grow to $500 billion over Trump's term in office and will build "colossal" data centers in the U.S. to power AI.
Fox News' Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
Pope Francis on Tuesday issued a major rebuke of the Trump administration’s plans for the mass deportations of migrants, stressing that the forceful removal of people simply for their immigration status deprives them of their inherent dignity and "will end badly."
Francis wrote a letter to U.S. bishops, in which he appeared to criticize Vice President JD Vance's religious argument in defense of the deportation policies.
U.S. border czar Tom Homan responded to the pope, saying that the Vatican is a city-state surrounded by walls and that Francis should leave immigration enforcement to him. Homan, a Catholic, also said Francis should focus on fixing the Catholic Church rather than U.S. immigration policies.
"He wants to attack us for securing our border. He's got a wall around the Vatican, does he not?" Homan told reporters. "So he's got a wall around that protects his people and himself, but we can't have a wall around the United States."
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As the first Latin American pope, Francis has long held the position of caring for immigrants, pointing to the biblical command to "welcome the stranger" in calling on countries to welcome, protect, promote and integrate people fleeing conflicts, poverty and climate disasters.
Francis and President Donald Trump have long butted heads over the issue of immigration, including prior to Trump's first term, when Francis said in 2016 that anyone who builds a wall to keep migrants out was "not a Christian."
In his letter, Francis acknowledged that governments have the right to defend their countries and keep their communities safe from criminals, but he added the deportation of people who fled their countries due to various difficult circumstances damages their dignity.
"That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness," he wrote.
Pointing to the Book of Exodus in the Bible and Jesus Christ's experience, Francis emphasized the right of people to seek shelter and safety in other lands and said the Trump administration's deportation plan was a "major crisis."
Anyone educated in Christianity, he said, "cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality."
"What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly," he continued.
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The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, thanked the pope for his letter.
"With you, we pray that the U.S. government keep its prior commitments to help those in desperate need," Broglio wrote. "Boldly I ask for your continued prayers so that we may find the courage as a nation to build a more humane system of immigration, one that protects our communities while safeguarding the dignity of all."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that more than 8,000 people had been arrested since Trump took office Jan. 20 as part of the president's plan to detain and deport immigrants in the country illegally, although hundreds of those arrested have since been released back into the U.S. Others have been deported, are being held in federal prisons or are being held at the Guantánamo Bay Cuba, detention camp.
Vance, a Catholic convert, has defended the administration's deportation plans by citing a concept from medieval Catholic theology known in Latin as "ordo amoris," which he has said describes a hierarchy of care: prioritizing the family first, then the neighbor, community, fellow citizens and lastly those from other regions.
However, Francis sought to fact-check Vance's understanding of the concept.
"Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups," Francis wrote in his letter. "The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the ‘Good Samaritan,’ that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception."
As Homan referenced, the Vatican is a walled-in, 108-acre city-state inside Rome, and it recently increased sanctions for anyone who enters illegally. The law, approved in December, calls for people to face up to four years in prison and a fine of up to 25,000 euros, or $25,873, if they enter with "violence, threat or deception," including by evading security checkpoints.
The U.S. bishops conference had already released a statement condemning Trump’s immigration policies after his first executive orders.
Anyone "focused on the treatment of immigrants and refugees, foreign aid, expansion of the death penalty, and the environment, are deeply troubling and will have negative consequences, many of which will harm the most vulnerable among us," the statement said.
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago praised Francis' letter, telling Vatican Media that it showed the pope viewed "the protection and advocacy for the dignity of migrants as the preeminent urgency at this moment."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will enable American workers to become more prosperous by reaping the rewards of higher wages, Vice President JD Vance told world leaders Tuesday at the Global AI Action Summit in Paris.
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Vice President JD Vance will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday after years of railing against the U.S.’ continued funding of Ukraine in the war against Russia.
The vice president will meet with Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, a Vance spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital, just ahead of U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg’s trip to Ukraine on Feb. 20.
Trump announced on Tuesday he would also send Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to meet with Zelenskyy in Ukraine.
"This War MUST and WILL END SOON — Too much Death and Destruction. The U.S. has spent BILLIONS of Dollars Globally, with little to show," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Bessent is expected to talk about sanctions, rare Earth minerals and where U.S. funding has gone with the Ukrainian leader.
Trump tasked Kellogg with hashing out a peace deal with Ukraine and Russia to bring the three-year-long war to an end. Last week Kellogg met with Ukrainian delegations at the State Department.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are also attending the conference where the Russia-Ukraine war is sure to be a top focal point.
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The U.S. does not have a concrete plan yet to end the war, contrary to public reporting, and is listening to concerns and proposals from allies, a European official familiar with peace talks told Fox News Digital.
"Munich is too soon to unveil a Ukraine peace plan," the official said. "The negotiations between the principals – Trump, Zelenskyy, Putin – will be tough. All options to end the killing are on the table – the course of action will be Trump’s call. There’s still plenty of room to ramp up sanctions."
Trump said last week he might meet with Zelenksyy himself in the days ahead.
"I will probably be meeting with President Zelenskyy next week and I will probably be talking to President Putin," Trump said.
In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier Monday night, Trump emphasized the need for Ukraine to give the U.S. access to its rare Earth minerals in exchange for its defense. He also suggested Ukraine "may be Russian" someday.
"They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian some day, or they may not be Russian some day," Trump mused.
"We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare Earth," Trump said. "And they have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don’t feel stupid."
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Both Zelenskyy and Putin have remained opposed to direct talks with each other. Putin is demanding that Ukraine withdraw from regions in the south and east that Kyiv still has control over. Zelenskyy has scoffed at any territorial concessions to Moscow, though he has admitted Ukraine may have to rely on diplomatic means to take back some of its territory.
Vance was long at the forefront of opposition to Ukraine aid in the Senate.
"I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another," he said in February 2022 as Russia invaded.
"Vladimir Putin is not Adolf Hitler. It doesn't mean he's a good guy, but he has significantly less capability than the German leader did," Vance said in an April 2024 speech on the Senate floor.
A Munich Security report, released just days before world leaders gather in Germany, said that Trump’s election has turned the U.S. into a "risk to be hedged against."
"Without global leadership of the kind provided by the United States for the past several decades, it is hard to imagine the international community providing global public goods like freedom of navigation or tackling even some of the many grave threats confronting humanity," the report warned. "The US may be abdicating its historic role as Europe’s security guarantor – with significant consequences for Ukraine."
Judges across the country have taken action to block President Donald Trump’s agenda since he took office in January. Vice President JD Vance triggered a social media frenzy on Sunday by affirming his support for Trump’s executive authority.
"If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal," Vance posted on X. "If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power."
Vance's comments followed a ruling that blocked the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing personal data. Judges in New Hampshire, Seattle and Maryland have blocked Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. New York Attorney General Leitita James advised hospitals to ignore Trump’s executive order ending sex change procedures for minors.
Democrats were quick to lash out at Vance on social media on Sunday, equating his comments to "tyranny" and "lawlessness." Illinois Gov. JV Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender, said Vance's comments mean "the Trump administration intends to break the law."
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"JD Vance is saying the quiet part out loud: the Trump administration intends to break the law. America is a nation of laws. The courts make sure we follow the laws. The VP doesn’t control the courts, and the President cannot ignore the Constitution. No one is above the law," Pritzker said.
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Pete Buttigieg, former Transportation secretary and a 2020 presidential candidate, said the vice president does not decide what is legal.
"In America, decisions about what is legal and illegal are made by courts of law. Not by the Vice President," Buttigieg said.
Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman who led the Jan. 6 Select Committee and campaigned for former Vice President Kamala Harris, accused Vance of tyranny.
David Hogg, the first Gen Z vice chair of the Democratic Party, said Vance’s comments are a power grab by the executive branch.
"He’s saying this to normalize a power grab by the executive to consolidate the power of the president and make him a king," Hogg said. "If liberals ever said this, conservatives would (rightfully) lose their godd--- minds."
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy called Vance’s comments the "meat" of the current "constitutional crisis."
"For those of us who believe we are in the middle of a constitutional crisis, this is the meat of it," Murphy said on X. "Trump and Vance are laying the groundwork to ignore the courts – democracy's last line of defense against unchecked executive power."
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the first-term senator whom Trump nicknamed "Schifty Schiff" on the campaign trail, said Vance’s comment "puts us on a dangerous path to lawlessness."
"JD, we both went to law school. But we don’t have to be lawyers to know that ignoring court decisions we don’t like puts us on a dangerous path to lawlessness. We just have to swear an oath to the constitution. And mean it," Sen. Adam Schiff, D-CA, responded.
Some conservatives fired back at the onslaught of comments. Columnist Kurt Schlichter jumped into the conversation, implying Schiff is a bad lawyer.
Jed Rubenfeld, a Yale Law School professor, lawyer and constitutional scholar, said he agreed with Vance that judges cannot "constitutionally interfere."
"JD is correct about this, and his examples are exactly right," Rubenfeld said. "Where the Executive has sole and plenary power under the Constitution – as in commanding military operations or exercising prosecutorial discretion – judges cannot constitutionally interfere."
More X users, who joined the debate, said Vance and his supporters' comments are ironic. AJ Delgado, a self-described "MAGA original but now proudly anti-Trump," said those attacking Vance lacked principle.
"Weren't you all cheering when a federal judge halted Biden's student loan forgiveness? You have ZERO principles," she wrote on X.
When the Supreme Court ruled against President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, he did not waver in his commitment to relieving student debt, vowing "to keep going" despite the court's order.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., during a February 2024 episode of "Pod Save America," gave credit to Biden for finding alternative ways to alleviate student loan debt.
"Whatever tools he's got, he’s sharpening and building some new tools through his Department of Education. We are now at about just a little shy of 4 million people who have had their student loan debt canceled. Joe Biden is just staying after it," Warren said.
President Donald Trump's Justice Department pushed to undo an "anti-Constitutional" ruling from a federal judge that blocked Elon Musk and any of his close associates from accessing Treasury Department data on Monday.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer's Saturday ruling blocked Department of Government Efficiency officials from accessing personal data such as social security numbers and bank account numbers. While the Trump administration says it has "substantially complied" with the order, the DOJ has attacked the order as "anti-constitutional."
The White House noted that the Senate-confirmed Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, is also prohibited from accessing the data under the order.
Vice President JD Vance argued that ruling was unconstitutional on X, saying it was an example of judicial overreach.
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"If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power," Vance wrote Sunday.
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Other White House officials echoed Vance's statement over the weekend, arguing the judge was blocking DOGE's legitimate efforts to purge government waste.
"What we continue to see here is the idea that rogue bureaucrats who are elected by no one, who answer to no one, who have lifetime tenure jobs, who we would be told can never be fired, which, of course, is not true, that the power has been cemented and accumulated for years, whether it be with the Treasury bureaucrats or the FBI bureaucrats or the CIA bureaucrats or the USAID bureaucrats, with this unelected shadow force that is running our government and running our country," Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller said on "Sunday Morning Futures."
Musk himself condemned Engelmayer as a "corrupt judge protecting corruption" and called for him to be impeached.
Trump weighed in on the issue later Sunday on his way to the Superbowl in New Orleans, telling reporters that he is "very disappointed" in the ruling, but adding that "we have a long way to go.
"No judge should frankly be allowed to make that kind of a decision," he said.
New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit claims Musk's DOGE is seeking access to the data to "illegally block" payments to "essential programs."
Vice President JD Vance has emerged as a key player in President Donald Trump's effort to close the deal with senators and move his Cabinet nominees through the at-times difficult confirmation process.
Vance is becoming an increasingly trusted voice among Republican senators, sources familiar shared with Fox News Digital.
Republicans in the upper chamber also view the vice president as an honest broker in their talks about how to push Trump's agenda forward, sources added, noting that this had established trust in Vance.
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When it came to getting two of Trump's most controversial nominees past their respective committees, Vance stepped up to assist, sources said.
Both Director of National Intelligence (DNI) nominee Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced uncertainty ahead of key hurdles in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Finance, respectively.
Each committee housed potentially hesitant Republicans, who expressed initial uncertainty about the nominees. During the crucial committee-level votes, Gabbard and Kennedy could not afford to lose even one Republican's support.
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Ultimately, Gabbard earned the support of moderate Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in addition to the last-minute backing of Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind.
Similarly, Kennedy managed to snag Young's support before the committee vote, and holdout Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., a doctor, announced his plan to vote for the nominee just minutes before it took place.
To lock down these votes, a significant effort was underway behind closed doors — which included Vance's crucial counsel to the senators.
The vice president spoke to both Young and Cassidy several times in the days leading up to the recent committee votes that saw Gabbard and Kennedy advance to the Senate floor, the sources told Fox News Digital. In those conversations, Vance talked through any remaining concerns the senators had with the nominees.
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A number of other administration officials had phone calls with Young and Cassidy, as well, also helping to parse through their lingering doubts.
Vance's conversations proved persuasive, in part because of his long-maintained relationships with both senators, whom he served with up until January, the sources detailed.
"I think he's been tasked with this role because of his preexisting relationship with us," Young told reporters.
According to the senator, Vance was respectful and actually "listened a lot more than he talked."
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The vice president was also "effective" in getting the necessary concessions that Young, in particular, needed to get to a yes on the nominees.
"He came through, he delivered for me, and I'm grateful for that," Young said, noting he also delivered for Trump.
The Indiana senator further explained he has "a certain affinity for Senator Vance," adding, "He's a Midwesterner. He is a U.S. Marine. And we share a lot of concerns about people who are left behind and overlooked and underprivileged."
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President Donald Trump on Thursday told a prayer breakfast in Washington that he will create a task force to “immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI and other agencies.”
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"I'm with the vice president," President Donald Trump said Friday in reference to Vice President JD Vance's statement that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) should rehire a former staffer.
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Vice President JD Vance told Breitbart News during an exclusive White House interview Tuesday that establishment media, Democrats, and some Republicans were wrong about President Donald Trump's tariff strategy because of their "bias of inaction."
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