1/ Trump proposed a $4.75 trillion budget, dubbed the “Budget for a Better America.� Trump requested an additional $8.6 billion for his border wall, and proposed increasing military spending by 5% to $750 billion while cutting funding for domestic discretionary spending $597 billion to $543 billion – a 9% cut in 2020. The budget calls for a 23% cut in State Department funding, a 15% cut in spending by the USDA, and a 31% cut in the budget for the EPA. The budget for Homeland Security would increase by 7.4%. The budget forecasts a $1.1 trillion deficit in 2019, 2020, and 2021, and a $1 trillion deficit in 2022 with the national debt ballooning to more than $31 trillion in the next decade by 2029. It currently stands at more than $22 trillion. Trump’s acting budget chief called the budget a “return to fiscal sanity.� (CNN / New York Times / Washington Post / The Guardian / Reuters / NPR / Wall Street Journal / CNBC)

2/ Trump claimed that “the Democrats hate Jewish people� during a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. He said he didn’t understand how anyone could vote for a Democrat and that they’ve become the “anti-Jewish party.� Trump also speculated that he would be at 98% in the polls if he were to run to become the prime minister of Israel. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, meanwhile, refused to say whether Trump believes Democrats hate Jewish people, saying “I think you should ask Democrats.� (Axios / The Hill)

A Trump 2020 campaign adviser dismissed a question about diversity within the administration by asking “How many black people were in Abraham Lincoln’s West Wing?� Katrina Pierson added: “I’m not going to participate in the attempt to make this all about race. It’s ridiculous.� (The Hill)

Trump tried to persuade Republican donors not a trust a video where he called the CEO of Apple “Tim Apple.� Trump told the donors that he actually said “Tim Cook Apple� really fast, but the “Cook� part of the sentence was soft. Later, Trump claimed he intentionally said “Tim/Apple� instead of Tim Cook and Apple “as an easy way to save time and words.� Tim Cook changed his Twitter profile to “Tim Apple.� (