Donald Trump Declines Request to Testify Under Oath in His Second Impeachment Trial

President Donald Trump.Photo: Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty Donald Trumphas been invited to testify under oath next week, either before or during his Senate trial, House impeachment managers announced Thursday. However, Trump adviser Jason Miller tells PEOPLE the former president “will not testify” next week. The optional request comes after lawyers for Trump, 74, filed their initial trialpaperworkTuesday, which both denied his responsibility for last month’sdeadly U.S. Capitol riotand continued to push his baseless claims that the 2020 election was somehow “stolen” from him.

Donald Trump Denies He Asked His Justice Department to Do Something About 'SNL'

Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump onSaturday Night Live(left) and Donald Trump.Photo: Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty; Chip Somodevilla/GettyDonald Trumpreleased a bizarre statement Tuesday night railing againstSaturday Night Liveonce again, this time denying a recent report that he had asked the Justice Department while in office to step in and somehow undercut the show.The Daily Beastreportedthat Trump, 75, allegedly once asked his White House aides about the possibility of having the DOJ take action against the long-running comedy show after he got upset watching an episode in whichAlec Baldwinspoofed him.

Donald Trump Denies Knowing of Son's Trump Tower Meeting and Attacks Michael Cohen on Twitter

Donald Trumplashed out at his former personal attorney Michael Cohen on Twitter Friday morning after Cohen reportedly claimed that the president knew in advance about his son Donald Jr.‘s June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians offering dirt onHillary Clinton.“NO … I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?

Donald Trump Didn't Mention Melania When Celebrating Mother's Day on Twitter

Photo: Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty PresidentDonald Trumphad a lot to say on Twitter on Mother’s Day — about China, about his Democratic challengers, about the Russia investigation — but one person he did not talk about was First LadyMelania Trump. It was the secondMother’s Dayin a row that the president didn’t mention his wife on social media, which is one of his preferred methods of public communication. He did, however,posta broader “Happy Mother’s Day” message on Twitter,as didthe first lady.

Donald Trump Didn't Recognize the Gift He Brought Queen Elizabeth on Last Year's U.K. Visit

While taking a tour of royal artwork on Monday during the first day of his U.K. state visit, PresidentDonald Trumpdid not remember that a pewter horse among the exhibits was actually a gift he and First LadyMelania TrumpgaveQueen Elizabethduring a trip last year. The first couple was touring pieces from the Royal Collection in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace when they came across the horse where it was sitting on a red table, according to the pool of reporters covering the trip.