Tag: US president

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Trump backtracks and Republicans promise a peaceful transfer of power, whoever wins on 3rd November

  

  Donald Trump will accept the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election, the White House said on Thursday, a day after the Republican president drew criticism for refusing to commit to accepting those results.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Trump's chief of staff self quarantined for contacting a person coronavirus positive

  

  Incoming White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has self-quarantined after he may have come into contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesperson said. Meadows is not exhibiting symptoms and a precautionary test came back negative, the spokesperson said on Twitter.

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Trump in very good health, after first medical checkup

  

  Despite all of his political and courts wrangling, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was in very good health, after undergoing what he said was the first phase of an annual medical checkup the previous day.

• Monday, June 3rd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Trump begins a three-day visit to UK; besides the pomp, massive protests and the inflatable Baby await in London

  

  United States president Donald Trump lands in London on Monday morning for a three-day visit. He will travel to Buckingham Palace, where he will be greeted by the Queen and her son, Prince Charles.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Ahead of UK visit, Trump praises Farage and Johnson: “they are friends of mine”

  

  United States president Donald Trump praised the two most high-profile proponents of Britain's departure from the European Union on Thursday ahead of his planned visit to London at a time of political turmoil following the resignation of Prime Minister Theresa May.

• Tuesday, May 21st 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  US judge rules President Trump must hand financial records to Congress

  

  A US judge on Monday ruled in favor of a US House of Representatives committee seeking President Donald Trump's financial records from his accounting firm, dealing an early setback to the Trump administration in its legal battle with Congress.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Trump again puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates

  

  United States president Donald Trump said on Friday the US Federal Reserve should lower interest rates and take other unconventional measures to ease pressure on an economy that he said they slowed down. “I think they should drop rates,” Trump told reporters. “I think they really slowed us down. There's no inflation.”

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2018 - 08:18 UTC

  Trump's 2015 “Super” health report was dictated by the president, claims doctor

  

  Donald Trump's former doctor has said he did not write a 2015 letter declaring the then-Republican presidential candidate's “astonishingly excellent” health, US media report. “[Trump] dictated that whole letter,” Harold Bornstein told CNN on Tuesday.