Tag: Donald Trump

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  US not pleased with Alberto Fernandez foreign policy outlook

  

  The US government has warned Argentine president Alberto Fernandez that his first actions in foreign policy could endanger both IMF support as well as US investments in the country's energy sector.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  “US president ordered the killing of Iran revolutionary Guards' commander”

  

  US President Donald Trump ordered the killing of Iran Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, who died in Baghdad “in a decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad”, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  US/China Phase One trade deal to be signed 15 January at the White House

  

  A partial new US-China trade agreement will be signed in the middle of next month, US President Donald Trump said, announcing that he will also then travel to China for continued talks.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:14 UTC

  Teenage climate change Greta Thunberg said talking to president Trump would be a waste of time

  

  Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg said on Monday that talking to US President Donald Trump at a United Nations summit on global warming would have been a waste of time since he would not have paid any attention.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  Putin thanks Trump for helping to foil terrorist attack in St Petersburg

  

  Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Sunday thanked US counterpart Donald Trump for intelligence that helped to foil attacks on Russian soil, the Kremlin said. Putin thanked Trump “for the transfer, through special services, of information allowing the prevention of terrorist acts in Russia”, the president's office said in a statement.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Influential evangelical magazine “Christianity Today” criticizes Trump's “obvious misuse of power”

  

  Christianity Today, the magazine founded by the late Reverend Billy Graham renewed its criticism of President Donald Trump in a new editorial that cited his “misuses of power” and asked fellow Christians to examine their loyalty to him, days after a controversial editorial that called for his impeachment.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 23:06 UTC

  Trump invites Johnson to the White House, but the impeachment and Brexit could delay potential dates

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump has invited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to visit him in the White House in the new year, British media reported on Sunday. Trump’s invitation was made after the British prime minister’s election win this month, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. Britain wants to strike a new trade deal with the United States after it leaves the European Union at the end of January.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 11:00 UTC

  It's official: US creates the sixth military branch, the Space Force

  

  President Donald Trump signed legislation on Friday to create a full-fledged Pentagon force for combat in outer space - the first new military service in seven decades. Capping an ambitious order Trump issued in June 2018, the US Space Force officially came into being when Trump signed the annual military budget, the US$738 billion National Defense Authorization Act.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:34 UTC

  Trump accepts Pelosi's invitation for the state of the union speech on February 4

  

  US President Donald Trump has accepted the invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver his state of the union speech on Feb 4, the White House said on Friday. The invite for the annual presidential speech to Congress comes at a charged political moment, with Trump freshly impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and facing a trial in a US Senate that is almost certain to acquit him.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:31 UTC

  Trump will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum, Bolsonaro says

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that US President Donald Trump told him in a phone conversation that his administration will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum as threatened earlier this month.