Now that the tariffs are on pause - well, most of them - the Trump administration is settling back into its comfort zone for a while. Trump and those around him are engaging in some of his favourite pastimes, other than golf - being mean to foreigners and trans people. The case of Kilmer Abrego Garcia - the Maryland man the regime accidentally arrested and abducted to a foreign gulag from which nobody has ever been released - keeps getting wilder. And the Trump administration is waging a legal war about trans athletes, against a state that has statistically no trans athletes. Here's what the Trump White House has been up to in the last 24 hours. Noted details man JD Vance has been constructing an argument on Twitter , seemingly trying to soften the public up for a draconian project of stripping alleged illegal migrants of their right to due process. And it's all based on a completely fabricated figure. " Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country," he declares, later adding "more if you count those already here." This is, of course, not true. But that didn't stop Vance using it to argue the US lacks the resources to treat these people as, you know, people, and therefore shouldn't have to bother. For the record, the total number of undocumented migrants in the US was estimated at around 14 million when Biden left office. And that's from a Conservative leaning anti-immigration think tank, the Center for Immigration Studies. The 14m figure was an increase of about 3.8 million since January 2021 - a bump to be sure, but not 20 million - and that was from a Covid-era low. Sane estimates peg it at somewhere around 11-12 million, and suggest it hasn't actually increased that much over the years because people have left or gained residency. I've been unable to find a source for Vance's nonsense number. But I think what happened is that Marco Rubio, during his primary campaign, that the total number of undocumented people was 20 million. Then Trump mistakenly started using 20 million as the figure for the increase under Biden, and so Vance started using it. None of this has any basis in reality. Which leads us on to. The White House, over the last 24 hours has repeatedly lied about, smeared and defamed an apparently innocent man to excuse having accidentally sent him to a brutal foreign gulag, probably for the rest of his life. The Trump administration admitted to mistakenly deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran father of a 5-year-old disabled child. Abrego Garcia, who is married to a US citizen has no criminal record in the US. And after fleeing gang threats in El Salvador to the US in 2011, aged 16, he was granted protected legal status known as "withholding of removal" from a judge who found he would be targeted by gangs if he was deported back. He's now, it's thought, in CECOT - El Salvador's brutal, probably illegal mega prison, with no way of contacting his family or lawyers. Despite the Supreme Court ordering him to be brought back to the US, the White House has refused. And to justify their refusal, various members of the administration have been broadcasting lies about him. Both Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy White House Chief of bug munching Stephen Miller claimed in the Oval Office yesterday that two judges had "ruled" that Mr Abrego Garcia was a member of the gang MS-13 - and therefore, because MS-13 has been declared a terror group, he is a terrorist. There are no such rulings. Mr Abrego Garcia has never been charged with - much less convicted of - being a member of MS-13. According to the New York Times, during his deportation proceedings, some "evidence" was introduced in court that he was a gang member, which judges decided was enough to keep him in custody while it was investigated. This "evidence" consisted of ...a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie and an uncorroborated claim from an informant that Mr Abrego Garcia was in the gang's New York "clique". He has never lived in New York. Later, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Mr Abrego Garcia was "engaged in human trafficking". There is no evidence of this. The White House has not provided evidence of this or explained where it comes from. It has never been brought up in court. As far as anyone can tell, Leavitt is the only person who has made this claim. Of the estimated 332 million US citizens living in America, around 1.3 million adults and 300,000 young people 13-17 identify as transgender. Research has indicated that of those, there are unlikely to be more than 100 trans women hoping to compete in women's sport at any level. The NCAA, the US college sports association, says there are "less than 10" transgender athletes taking part at that level - across *all* sports. There are thought to have been about 45 ever. Maine is best known for producing lobster, lighthouses and Stephen King. It is not well known for producing elite athletes, nor dominating in sport. It's statistically likely that there are no trans athletes hoping to compete at any serious level in Maine. And yet...the Trump White House is now suing Maine's education board for failing to comply with the President's executive order banning transgender athletes from girls sports. The lawsuit follows a standoff at a White House event where, after being threatened with government funding being withdrawn, Maine's Democratic Governor told the President: "We'll see you in court." Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the legal action at a news conference in Washington alongside former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who has emerged as a public face of the opposition to transgender athletes. This morning, Bondi went on Fox News (where else?) to complain about this. First of all, she claimed Ms Gaines "made it to the Olympics", which isn't true. She was a successful swimmer, but not an Olympian. And then she was played comments by Democrat Janet Mills, pointing out there were - at most - two trans athletes playing sports in any school in Maine - and got very angry about it. For many years, the White House Correspondents Association has run the 'pool' for events held in limited spaces - like the Oval Office and Air Force One. Each time it has included reporters from the wire services Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg. One print reporter was also allowed, selected on a rotating basis from more than 30 news outlets. The White House now says it will lump the three wire services with print reporters for two slots - meaning roughly three dozen reporters will rotate for two regular slots. Wire services typically report and write stories that are used in multiple locations around the country and the planet. Even with the rotation, the White House said Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt "shall retain day-to-day discretion to determine composition of the pool." But the new policy says reporters will also be allowed in "irrespective of the substantive viewpoint expressed by an outlet."