{"id":113396,"date":"2025-09-02T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113396\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:51:09","slug":"live-updates-trump-to-make-oval-office-announcement-as-congress-returns-after-recess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/113396\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump to make Oval Office announcement as Congress returns after recess"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"President<\/p>\n

\n As we\u2019ve been reporting, President Donald Trump is due to make an announcement at the White House from 2 p.m. ET today.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump made 26 public engagements last month \u2014 most recently, a three-plus-hour Cabinet meeting last Tuesday where the president fielded questions on topics from Taylor Swift\u2019s engagement to global conflicts.\n <\/p>\n

\n So it was certainly unusual when, for three weekdays at the end of August, Trump\u2019s public schedule went uncharacteristically dark.\n <\/p>\n

\n There were no events on his schedule last Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, and the president spent his Labor Day weekend in Washington also with no public appearances scheduled. The conspicuous absence lit conspiratorial corners of the internet and group chats ablaze with questions.\n <\/p>\n

\n But on Saturday, the president emerged, spotted by pool reporters in a white polo, black pants, and signature red \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d hat <\/a>on the way to his Virginia golf club. Grandchildren Kai Trump and Spencer Trump were also along for the ride.\n <\/p>\n

\n He returned to his club on Sunday \u2014 posting an undated photo<\/a> of himself seated in a golf cart during a matchup with former football coach-turned-Barstool Sports personality Jon Gruden \u2014 and again Monday.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we\u2019ve been reporting, President Donald Trump is due to make an announcement at the White House from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-113396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}