Winding remarks, paper tossing: Trump recaps first year

US President Donald Trump wanted to recap his first year back in office.

- MICHELLE L. PRICE & MEG KINNARD

A woman holds a sign reading ",LA melts ICE" alongside other demonstrators carrying a Palestinian flag during a protest against US President Donald Trump's policies on the one-year mark into his second term in office in Los Angeles. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani also called for dismantling the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, revitalizing the ",Abolish ICE" rhetoric that became popular in progressive discourse during the last Trump administration as pushback against the latest deportation efforts intensifies

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For more than 100 minutes, the president held forth Tuesday at the White House, where he went on a winding journey through his last year, interspersed with plenty of asides, a few impressions of other politicians and critics and, eventually, questions from the media.