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An angry weekend at Mar-a-Lago, a new travel ban, and pro-Trump rallies in the Philly area

A daily roundup of news about President Trump and his policies, from Philadelphia and around the country.

  1. Even as tweets from this president go, this weekend was a doozy. President Trump tweeted on Saturday morning that he believed former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign. Reporters and politicians alike scrambled to verify the claims, without much luck: The New York Times reported that FBI director James Comey had asked the Justice Department to publicly deny the claim. (A spokeswoman told Good Morning America this morning that Trump doesn't accept Comey's assertion.)

    Meanwhile, the Times tracked the wiretapping claim's path from conservative talk radio to the president's Twitter.  And the Washington Post wrote about Trump's reportedly very angry weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

  1. The administration is set to roll out a new immigration executive order today, to replace the order struck down by a federal judge in January that had spurred major protests across the country. The new order excludes Iraq from the list of seven majority-Muslim countries facing a 90-day travel ban, honors existing visas and suspends the refugee program for 120 days — including the Syrian refugee program, which, under the previous travel ban, had been suspended indefinitely.

  1. The Times takes a look at the regulations the Trump administration is rolling back in industries across the country, from Wall Street banks to the auto industry to gun-sellers.

  1. Rallies in support of the president were held across the country Saturday, including in Bucks County, where attendees told the Inquirer's Joseph DiStefano that they felt Trump had given them a voice, expressed continued support for his policies, and hoped the country could unite around him.

  1. A strong showing for Democrats in several states' special elections has party operatives hopeful they'll prevail in the 2018 midterms — but is also raising questions about exactly what went wrong for the party in the presidential election, Politico reports.

  1. After President Trump walked back Obama-era protections for transgender students, the Supreme Court vacated an appeals-court ruling on a transgender boy's case on school bathrooms. The case now returns to a lower court for "further consideration," the Times reports. If the Supreme Court had decided to hear the case, it would have been the first transgender-rights case to make it before the court.