Tag: Donald Trump

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:27 UTC

  Mexicans furious with Trump; president Peña Nieto considering dropping White House visit

  

  When Donald J Trump called some Mexican immigrants rapists, threatened to deport millions of them and promised to build a wall to keep others out, Mexican officials counseled caution, saying it was merely bluster from an unlikely candidate who, if elected, would never follow through. However with only five days in office president Trump is making Mexicans furious.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 18:40 UTC

  Trump keeps his promise: dumps TPP and pledges to lower corporate taxes to 20% from 35%

  

  President Donald Trump has fulfilled a campaign pledge by signing an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The 12-nation trade deal was a linchpin of former President Barack Obama's Asia policy.

• Saturday, January 21st 2017 - 00:13 UTC

  Clashes, traffic blockades and smashed windows by anti Trump protestors

  

  Black-clad activists smashed store windows and blocked traffic in Washington during US President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, and fought with police in riot gear who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. About 500 people, some wearing masks, marched through the city's downtown, using hammers to claw up chunks of pavement to smash the windows of a Bank of America branch and a McDonald's outlet, all symbols of the American capitalist system.

• Saturday, January 21st 2017 - 00:00 UTC

  Trump pledges “America First” and “transferring power from Washington back to the people”

  

  Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, outlining his forceful vision of a national populism echoing the same “America first” catchphrases that swept him to victory last November. In his first address as chief executive, Trump pledged that his inauguration will mark a moment in history when “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”

• Thursday, January 19th 2017 - 07:13 UTC

  Renegotiating NAFTA trade deal with Mexico and Canada, confirmed as Trump administration priority

  

  The incoming Trump administration's top trade priority is to renegotiate the Nafta trade deal with Canada and Mexico, according to commerce secretary nominee Wilbur Ross during a confirmation hearing on his nomination before US senators.

• Monday, January 16th 2017 - 08:10 UTC

  CIA director cautions Trump about his off-the-cuff remarks: spontaneity does not protect national security interests

  

  Outgoing CIA director John Brennan on Sunday offered a stern parting message for Donald Trump days before the Republican U.S. president-elect takes office, cautioning him against loosening sanctions on Russia and warning him to watch what he says.

• Saturday, January 14th 2017 - 09:36 UTC

  Labour and BBC warn on risks of being infected by contagion of fake news stories

  

  British politics risks being “infected by the contagion” of fake news stories, a senior Labour MP has said. Michael Dugher said the problem was not confined to the US and news outlets everywhere had a duty to scrutinise politicians on the basis of “truth and reality” not “click-bait nonsense”.

• Saturday, January 14th 2017 - 09:11 UTC

  Warning to Trump: Beijing prepared to a large scale war over the South China islands

  

  Global Times, the official English language spokesperson of the Chinese Communistry party has sent a very strong reply to the incoming Trump administration referred to the disputed South China islands occupied by Beijing.

• Thursday, January 12th 2017 - 09:31 UTC

  Trump's first press conference: the showman added little and beat the media

  

  Defiant and unyielding, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday adamantly denied reports that Russia had obtained compromising personal and financial information about him, calling it a “tremendous blot” on the record of the intelligence community if it had released such material.

• Thursday, January 12th 2017 - 05:54 UTC

  Secretary of State nominee closer to US Senate thinking than to Trump's

  

  Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state signaled he is prepared to diverge from the US president-elect on numerous key issues, notably nuclear non-proliferation, climate change and Russia, which he branded a “danger.”