"Their beautiful cars are going to make freedom roar. This will be a freedom that's roaring like never before," Trump said at the White House earlier this month as he promoted the event.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected calls for wartime elections, saying such political contests at a critical moment in his country's war with Russia would "split Ukraine" apart.
Key Iranian officials warned over the weekend of "seismic" retaliation against the country's Middle East neighbors and the U.S. ahead of the Trump administration's massive new economic sanctions push, expected early this week.