OnPolitics Today: McMaster ousted, Dowd lost, Biden threatened — all day's work for Trump

McMaster is out: President Trump axed his latest administration member on Thursday in H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser and three-star Army general. Also gone is John Dowd, an attorney on Trump's defense team who reportedly clashed with the president on strategy. (Here's all 20-plus people gone from Trump's White House, if you're keeping score at home.)

Oh, and he also claimed his punch would make a former vice president "go down fast and hard." It was all very "modern day presidential."

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Bolton replaces McMaster, while Dowd declares 'love' for Trump

John Bolton, a 69-year-old lawyer who served as President George W. Bush's U.N. ambassador, will take over McMaster's advisory role on April 9. His addition (and McMaster's ouster) reflect the current chaos within Trump's national security team, which just last week lost Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Meanwhile, Dowd's resignation came after Trump reportedly got fed up with his cautious approach to Russia investigator Robert Mueller, who's now looking into Trump's business. "I love the president," Dowd said in a brief statement.

Trump calls Biden 'weak, both mentally and physically'

Two days after Joe Biden compared Trump to "the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room," Trump fired back his inevitable response, calling the former vice president "weak, both mentally and physically" and taking issue with Biden's claim that he could have beaten Trump in fisticuffs. "He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way," is a thing the president of the United States actually said.

Trump's China tariffs: Maybe not good if you buy iPhones

Trump called for a list of tariffs on Chinese products Thursday aimed at addressing what the White House calls China's "economic aggression" in unfair trade practices. Here's how that's playing out: China's threatening to raise U.S. tariffs on products such as pork and aluminum, the Dow fell 700-plus points amid fears of a trade war, and Trump's tariffs themselves could up the price of Chinese-made goods such as the beloved iPhone.

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