Sarah Huckabee Sanders

U.S. President Donald Trump will not hold formal meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and South Korea's Moon Jae-in, but will instead speak informally with those leaders at the conference, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. June 25, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

The Guardian - Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are tentatively scheduled to meet at 9am Singapore time on 12 June, according to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said that planning for the historic summit continues.

The close associate of US President Donald Trump, who is director of communications at the White House, Hope Hicks, has resigned, reports BNT.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has demanded the dismissal of ESPN sports journalist Jamele Hill, reports Variety. 

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been removed from his job after just 10 days in a move that has only increased the sense of chaos at the heart of the Trump administration.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer abruptly resigned on July 21 following the appointment of Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci as the executive mansion's Communications Director. 

Spicer reportedly told President Donald Trump he disagreed with Scaramucci's appointment. 

U.S. President Donald Trump's enthusiasm to call Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to congratulate him over his referendum victory on day one raised quite many eyebrows in Washington. The usual suspects of the political scene in the U.S. capital immediately started voicing concern that Trump's call gave the stamp of U.S. approval of the referendum result on a silver plate to Erdoğan.