Tag: Donald Trump

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 07:47 UTC

  Trump threatens “rocket man” with total destruction; warnings to Iran, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.

• Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

  Trump's first address to the UN Assembly: all countries will be listening

  

  United States President Donald Trump, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, will harshly criticize North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. “He will speak in extremely tough terms about the North Korean menace and the threat it poses to our security and the security of all the nations in that room,” according to a senior White House official who gave reporters a preview of the address.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2017 - 09:14 UTC

  PM May rings President Trump over a threat to Bombardier jobs in Belfast

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has phoned US President Donald Trump over a threat to jobs at Bombardier in Belfast from a trade dispute. In 2016, Canadian firm Bombardier won an order to supply up to 125 CSeries passenger jets to US airline Delta. The wings for the CSeries are made at Bombardier's Belfast plant.

• Tuesday, September 12th 2017 - 09:03 UTC

  Trump's firing of FBI Director, “the biggest mistake in modern political history”

  

  Ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon says President Trump's firing of the FBI's director was the biggest mistake in “modern political history”. Mr Bannon told CBS News if James Comey had not been sacked, a special counsel would not have been appointed to probe alleged Russian election meddling.

• Tuesday, September 5th 2017 - 08:47 UTC

  Kim Jong un is challenging Donald Trump or Xi Jinping?

  

  North Korea's display of missiles and nuclear weapons seems more directed to challenge Xi Jinjping's China than United States and president Donald Trump. In effect the timing of events seems to indicate Pyongyang is clearly on tack to disappoint and embarrass Beijing.

• Saturday, August 26th 2017 - 08:17 UTC

  Maduro reacts to Trump's sanctions: “we will sell our oil to other markets”

  

  Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has said that a preliminary analysis shows that new financial sanctions imposed by the United States will lead to a halt in oil exports to the US. President Trump's order bans trade in Venezuelan debt and blocks its state oil firm from selling bonds in the US.

• Thursday, August 24th 2017 - 11:41 UTC

  Populist strategist and Breitbart news criticize Trump's Afghanistan policy

  

  Minutes after President Donald Trump concluded his Afghanistan policy speech Monday night, the conservative site Breitbart news took an aggressive, critical approach to the address and Trump’s new policy. A banner headline blasted the president’s decision to extend the U.S. military commitment in Afghanistan as a “flip-flop” that “reverses course.”

• Tuesday, August 22nd 2017 - 06:10 UTC

  Trump announces greater involvement in Afghanistan; Taliban pledge to fight on

  

  President Donald Trump announced on Monday night his administration’s plans to continue the engagement of the United States military in Afghanistan, a strategy meant to combat the influence of the Taliban and the ISIS affiliate in the country that will for go a formal timetable and instead rely upon “conditions on the ground” to guide U.S. activities.

• Saturday, August 19th 2017 - 07:21 UTC

  Trump's advisor and top electoral strategist Steve Bannon, abandons White House

  

  Steve Bannon is set to return to his previous position at Breitbart News after he was forced to resign from his post Friday as White House chief strategist, the news outlet announced late Friday. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the departure, effective Friday, was “mutually agreed” to by Bannon and Chief of Staff John Kelly. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” Sanders added in a statement.

• Friday, August 18th 2017 - 20:54 UTC

  General Lee statues controversy: Trump drops plan for an advisory group on infrastructure

  

  United States president Trump is dropping plans to create an advisory group on infrastructure, a day after two other business panels were dissolved. The president has faced a backlash from business leaders over his remarks this week on white supremacists.