Tag: Donald Trump

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 09:48 UTC

  Trump advances plans for his first day: quitting TPP, ending visa abuses and “job killing restrictions”

  

  President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House. He made the announcement in a video messaged outlining what he intends to do first when he takes office in January. The TPP trade deal was signed by 12 countries which together cover 40% of the world's economy. Trump also pledged to reduce “job-killing restrictions” on coal production and stop visa abuses.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 12:06 UTC

  Peña Nieto says Mexico willing to discuss NAFTA with Trump

  

  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is well aware of his country's need to take a new approach at bilateral relations with the United States under the coming Republican presidency of Donald Trump. “We’re at the stage of prioritizing dialogue as the path through which we may able to establish a new agenda for bilateral relations,” Peña Nieto said in Lima at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.

• Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 11:57 UTC

  Trump avoids 'presidential' embarrassment with out of court US$ 25m settlement

  

  United States President elect Donald Trump has reversed course and agreed on Friday to pay US$25 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from his defunct for-profit education venture, Trump University, finally putting to rest fraud allegations by former students, which have dogged him for years and hampered his presidential campaign.

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 09:22 UTC

  Trump's presidency short lived? Two experts who anticipated his victory make the prediction

  

  Donald Trump caught the world by surprise when he emerged victorious at the United States elections, but his stay at the White House could be short-lived, according to university professor who has correctly predicted presidential poll outcomes for the last 30 years. A similar prediction has been made by journalist and filmmaker Michael Moore who also forecasted Trump's victory with weeks' anticipation.

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 09:15 UTC

  Yellen intends to remain her four-year term; anticipates rate increase “relatively soon”

  

  The United States Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told Congress on Thursday that she is not stepping down. Her statement follows on strong attacks during the campaign from president elect Donald Trump who claimed the Fed was favoring president Barack Obama and candidate Hillary Clinton with its low interest rate policy.

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:27 UTC

  Trump-nomics: Speculation iPhones could soon be manufactured in the US

  

  iPhones might soon be made in the U.S., a result of Donald Trump’s win on Election Day, according to Nikkei Asian Review report. Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, a main Apple assembler, has allegedly been looking into the possibility of making iPhones in the United States, sources revealed to Nikkei.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 09:54 UTC

  Soros believed to be behind counter-revolutions where the other party wins elections

  

  Anti-Trump protests so strong and well coordinated make spontaneity unlikely to the reasoning observer who makes out that ”someone is stirring the pot because America has never traditionally had a problem with accepting the outcome of an election,” as one analyst put it.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2016 - 09:06 UTC

  Trump receives Japan's Abe in New York expecting to reassure Asian allies

  

  Donald Trump is expected to use his first meeting with a foreign leader as U.S. president-elect this week to try to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Asian allies rattled by his campaign rhetoric, advisers to Trump said. Abe, a political blue blood and veteran lawmaker, and Trump, a brash outsider with no diplomatic or government experience, have differences on policy issues such as free trade.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:25 UTC

  Macri, Trump bound for closest relationship ever after phone call

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri spoke with US President-elect Donald Trump, who invited him to visit him in Washington next year. “Argentina is a great country, and we will have the closest relationship between our countries in history,” Trump reportedly said.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 09:02 UTC

  Trump promises Argentina, a great country, “the closest relation in history”

  

  “Argentina is a great country” and Argentina and the US will have “the closest relation in history”, according to the official version from the administration of president Mauricio Macri who on Monday was on the phone with president elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on his presidential victory.