White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow defended President Trump as impeachment hearings are under way in Congress. He said the President has had to “fight hard to do his task” in the political “toxicity” in Washington. “He has been attacked mercilessly and I have seen it up close daily. And he attacks back. I […]
It is not surprising that “stories are bouncing around” on the US-China trade deal, but the measure will be reached “in all likelihood,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Friday. “This Phase 1 is relatively limited in its scope, and what’s really being debated is how many limitations will there be on the scope of Phase […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin met Thursday in an effort to come to an agreement over funding for President Donald Trump’s wall for the southern border. Congressional and White House officials have been in a stalemate over $5-B for President Trump’s wall for months and now face a 21 November deadline. […]
Tuesday, President Trump on said the United States is close to signing a ‘Phase 1’ trade deal with China. President Trump added in a speech to the Economic Club of New York he will only accept a deal if it is good for his country and US workers. For weeks Trump has said the countries are close to […]
$SPY Over 1,350 people attended the lunchtime speech according to the Economic Club of NY spokeswoman. The club’s membership is a who’s who of New York’s financial elite, and its trustees include John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and billionaire hedge fund investor John Paulson, 1 of President Trump’s Top […]
The Trump Trade Policy is Working Collected a Record $7-B in Tariffs in September Tariff revenue rose 9% from August and was up more than 59% from a year earlier. The US collected a record $7-B in import tariffs in September, fresh figures show, as new duties kicked in on apparel, tools, electronics and other […]
$VLKAY, $BMWYY, $DDAIF The German economy is at the cusp of recession Now 30 yrs after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and 29 years after Germany was reunified into 1 country, Europe’s strongest economy is facing significant headwinds that risk spilling over into the rest of the EU and the world The closely watched […]
Friday, President Trump is responded to a possible run by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the Democratic Presidential nomination, saying “There is nobody” he would “rather run against.” President Trump responded to news that billionaire Little Mike Bloomberg is opening the door to a 2020 White House bid. President Trump predicted Friday […]
Thursday, China and the United States have agreed to cancel in phases the tariffs imposed during their months-long trade dispute, the Chinese commerce ministry said. The interim US-China trade deal is widely expected to include a U.S. pledge to scrap tariffs scheduled for 15 December on about $156-B worth of Chinese imports, including cell phones, […]
President Trump’s support among Latino voters is holding steady, but overall the numbers are not favorable toward him, according to a poll released Tuesday by Telemundo. According to the poll: 25% of Latinos said they’d vote to re-elect Trump, down slightly from the 28% who said they’d voted for him in 2016. 31% approve of his […]
Despite his reputation for being racially divisive, President Trump’s approval ratings have drifted upward among non-Whites in the last 2 years. While it’s impossible to say exactly why, but a reasonable explanation is that the US’s long economic expansion has been particularly beneficial for minority workers. There is strong evidence that President Trump’s rhetoric on […]
Monday, The Trump administration sanctioned members of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle. Separately, the administration is issuing an up to $20-M reward for information about missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson. He disappeared in Iran in Y 2007 but the Iranian government has never acknowledged arresting him. Senior administration officials announced the […]
President Trump has talked about pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate agreement for more than 2 years. Starting Monday he finally can do something about it. Even then, though, the withdrawal process takes a year and would not become official until at least the day after the 2020 Presidential election. In […]
Sunday, President Trump urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage to come together to safeguard prospects for expanded US-UK trade after Britain leaves the European Union. President Trump told reporters at the White House that both men were friends of his, but Mr. Johnson was “the right man for the […]
Friday President Trump suggested that he may read the transcript of his phone call with Ukraine’s president that’s at the heart of the House impeachment proceedings. “This is over a phone call that is a good call,” President Trump said of the inquiry in an interview. “At some point, I’m going to sit down, perhaps […]
President Donald Trump may make history once again, as he is on track to become the 1st US President to be impeached for being too successful doing all the right things. Yesterday’s House vote, along party lines, is setting in motion a plan to impeach the President because his record is so strong the Democrats […]
Fed statement: “the labor market strong and that economic activity rising at a moderate rate, job gains have been solid, on average, the unemployment rate low, household spending strong, business fixed investment and exports weak inflation sans than food & energy below 2% ” President Trump launched a fresh attack on the Fed Tuesday, saying […]
In a sign President Trump’s base continues to support him, 40% of voters agree he is the victim of a political “lynching,” according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll. Still, 54% of those polled disagree. USA Today noted that while the President’s core supporters do not make up a majority of the electorate, they do give […]
Tuesday, China Tuesday promised more improvements in conditions for foreign companies including an end to officials pressing them to hand over technology; a Key irritant in its tariff war with Washington. The announcement adds to a number of market-opening promises by the government, which is trying to make China’s cooling, state-dominated economy more productive. Beijing […]
$USD, $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX, $VXX The US Dem House’s impeachment focus is not even a distraction to the financial market, as nothing will or can come of it, as in the world of geopolitics something big happened at the weekend. Sunday, President Trump announced that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the so-called Islamic […]
Saturday, President Trump admonished the Washington Post for a “phony” story that reports he is irked and worried amid Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. In a Tweet, President Trump put down the Friday article reporting that he is frustrated witnesses are coming forward to testify before the House. “The Fake Washington Post keeps doing phony stories, with zero sources, that […]
Friday, President Trump waved off the need for any extra help in countering House Democrats’ impeachment efforts, declaring “I’m the team.” The remarks outside the White House before leaving for an event in South Carolina recalled Donald Trump’s 2016 declaration while accepting the GOP Presidential nomination that “I alone can fix it.” “Here’s the thing. I do […]
Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus, accused those seeking to impeach President Trump of engaging in an “Alice in Wonderland process.” He made his comments in a column posted Thursday on the Gatestone Institute’s website. “The goal of the impeach-at-any-cost cadre has always been the same: impeach and remove Trump, regardless of whether or not he […]
No US President has ever been removed from office via impeachment. Congressional Republicans pressed efforts to discredit the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Trump Thursday with plans for a Senate resolution calling it illegitimate, while the White House lauded lawmakers in his party who stormed into a high-security room and interrupted testimony. The House is […]
There is “no substance” to Democrats’ allegations Vs President Trump, and their closed-door hearings are being held “with a predetermined outcome,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs said Thursday while explaining why GOP lawmakers decided to push their way into a closed-door hearing. “What we felt was so important is to elevate the conversation for […]
The Pelosi/Schiff House led impeachment investigation Vs President Donald Trump is all about the collapsing the economy. “This economy is the best economy in 30 years,” Christopher Ruddy said in a TV interview Thursday, referencing the insights of Yale economist Robert Shiller. “He is not known for being a Republican,” Mr. Ruddy said. “An incredible […]
84% of The People now believe that “behavior that used to be seen as unacceptable is now accepted as normal behavior” The country is 67% of the way to the “edge of civil war,” according to the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service poll released Wednesday. Voters were asked on a 0-100 scale to rate the level […]
The initial deal on US-China trade will include much of the scuttled May deal’s agreement regarding IP (intellectual property) and will target enforcement mechanisms, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said early Thursday, adding that he hopes the Chinese negotiate in “good faith.” “The good news about this phase one … is it adopted virtually […]
Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley Tuesday defended President Trump’s use of the word “lynching” in a Tweet to describe the impeachment inquiry Vs him that when he talks about how the media and Democrats have been treating him since the day he announced his candidacy. “The day he was elected, before being sworn into office they were already […]
$SPY Equity indices in the Asia-Pacific region ended Tuesday on a higher note. Japan’s Nikkei Closed, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng +0.2%, China’s Shanghai Composite +0.5%, India’s Sensex -0.9%, SKorea’s Kospi +1.2%, Australia’s ASX All Ordinaries +0.3%. S&P 500 futures are up Tuesday, suggesting there is pace for the underlying gauge to extend gainers after it […]
Monday, Christopher Ruddy declared that the House impeachment probe against President Trump is a political “media effort to get the President without any evidence of a crime” that is backed by flawed polling and despite other surveys showing strong support for the President. “This has been a plan and a strategy for the Democrats from […]
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow says that the US is the only global economy that is growing. The financial guru and agrees with recent research that predicts that such economic strength will easily carry President Trump into a 2nd White House term. “We are the only economy that is really, really growing,” Mr. Kudlow […]
Mexico’s massive deployment of its federal forces along the US southern border is blocking migrants from reaching the United States providing and paying for President Trump’s border wall. A Mexican military operation by military police from Mexico’s National Guard has blocked a large caravan of migrants in Tuzantan, Mexico, who were trying to head North and […]
On September 12, Boeing started putting out 30-second videos in which employees tout its planes’ safety, hoping to reassure travelers about the 737 MAX that’s been grounded worldwide since two crashes that killed 346 people. “Safety is at the core of our business. We have put hundreds of engineers to work to ensure that this […]
$DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX, $VXX Stock market guru, Jim Cramer said President Trump has the upper hand in the China trade distpute because tariffs are hurting the Chinese economy way more than the US economy. “Hate him or like him, he has them where he wants them,” Mr. Cramer said on TV Friday. “I always […]
“Whatever happened to Hunter? Where the hell is he?” President Trump asked his rally crowd. “Let’s do another T-shirt. Where’s Hunter?” Soon after the rally, President Trump’s 2020 campaign website started selling $25 T-shirts emblazoned with “Where’s Hunter?” Forcing him out of his low-profile stance on the brewing China-Ukraine scandal. President Trump has called on […]
Does a US employer have the right to sack a worker because they are gay or transgender? That question, which has caused deep divisions within US society, will go before the Supreme Court on Tuesday at a time when the political scene has already reached fever pitch over efforts to impeach President Donald Trump. The […]
The National Basketball Association won’t gag its personnel or apologise over a team executive’s tweet that ignited a firestorm in China, commissioner Adam Silver insisted Tuesday, standing firm despite a growing backlash that imperils the league’s lucrative Chinese following. The tweet last Friday by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong […]
Friday, President Trump signed a Proclamation suspending entry of immigrants who will not be covered by health insurance within 30 days of entering the United States or do not have the means to pay for their healthcare costs themselves. The Proclamation, issued by the White House, said it would not affect any individual’s eligibility for […]
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow speculates that next week’s China trade talks with the US could very well stun everyone. Mr. Kudlow held out hope for progress in opening China’s financial services markets to American companies in trade talks next week, adding the US team was heading into them “open-minded.” “There could be positive […]
Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a TV interview said she does not think the impeachment inquiry on President Trump has gone past no return, and she does not think a vote to impeach him is inevitable in the House. “We just go forward and follow the facts,” the California Democrat said. “There are some […]
$BA, $EADSF Thursday, President Trump hailed as a “nice victory” when the United States got the Green light to place tariffs on European Union goods in a row over EU aircraft subsidies. Wednesday’s decision by the WTO left Scottish whisky makers, Spanish winemakers and French cheesemakers fuming as the US tariffs targeted products from countries […]
Asian markets tanked Thursday after a below-par US jobs report compounded worries about the world’s top economy as impeachment proceedings dominate left wing media, while the WTO fanned fresh trade war fears by allowing Washington to impose tariffs on the European Union. Just the thought of a Democrat led USA has Investors around the world […]
Eight EU countries have joined INSTEX, the mechanism set up to trade with Iran while circumventing US sanctions, and another two are set to follow, according to an aide to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. “Apart from the three countries that initiated the creation of the mechanism – France, Germany and Great Britain – eight […]
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said his work with the Ukraine was not about finding dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, but investigating Ukraine-Hillary Clinton collusion in the Y 2016 Presidential election and “proving Donald Trump was framed by the Democrats.” “I am defending my client the best way I know how,” Mr. […]
Sunday, UK PM Johnson vowed he would not quit as Britain’s Prime Minister even if he fails to secure a deal to leave the European Union, saying only his Conservative government can deliver BREXIT on 31 October. At the beginning of his party’s annual conference in Manchester, PM Johnson wants to rally his party with […]
Friday, President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced that they are spending a combined $10-M on ads attacking Joe Biden over Ukraine and the House Democrats for beginning an impeachment inquiry of the President. One e-Mail mailing that went out Saturday referred to the “phone call from hell” — a reference […]
Dems are basing their impeachment inquiry on “snitches, and rats, and backstabbers,” Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera predicts. Just another day in the life of the woebegone Presidency. “So it’s going to be the president of the United States in a conversation that was intercepted by a rotten snitch – I’d love to wap him, […]
Tuesday, President Trump denounced Iran’s “blood lust” and called on other nations to join the United States to pressure Iran after attacks on Saudi Crude Oil production facilities, but said there is a path to peace. “America knows that while anyone can make war, only the most courageous can choose peace,” President Trump said Tuesday […]
Incoming ECB President Christine Lagarde said the global economy is likely to dodge an outright contraction, though the trade tensions remain the Key threat to the growth outlook. “It is not in the baseline to have a recession,” Ms. Lagarde said in a TV interview Tuesday. “That said, it’s mediocre growth, it’s at risk because of essentially […]
Monday, The Trump Administration told UN member nations that there is no “international right” to abortion, and called on other countries to fight efforts promoting abortions, drawing criticism from reproductive rights groups and other world nations. “We do not support references to ambiguous terms and expressions such as ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ in […]
Monday, President Trump told reporters at the UN Monday that while he was deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize, he does not expect it to be awarded to him, but he does deserve it. “I think I’m going to get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which […]
Sunday, President Donald Trump’s run-up to the UN General Assembly was a visit to 2 Key political states, Texas and Ohio, with 2 world leaders at very successful events. Sunday, in Wapakoneta, Ohio, President Trump and Australian PM Scott Morrison visited a recycled paper factory being opened by Anthony Pratt, an Australian businessman who is […]
Sunday, President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a stage and showered each other with praise at a “Howdy, Modi!” rally attended by upward of 50,000 people, a rare mass showing for a foreign leader on American soil. President Trump called the huge gathering a “profoundly historic event,” was greeted with a standing […]
President Trump is resday to significantly ramp up pressure on China if a trade deal is not agreed to soon, according to an outside adviser to the White House who called tariffs so far “low level.” In an interview in Hong Kong Thursday with the South China Morning Post, Michael Pillsbury said President Trump has been “remarkably restrained […]
Thursday, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that trade uncertainty issues are giving China “real” structural problems, as the nation’s supply chains are starting to “hollow out.” “China is no longer really the cheapest place in the world to manufacture,” Secretary Ross said in a TV interview, adding the US does not know what China wants […]
$OIL Wednesday, President Trump said Wednesday there were many options short of war with Iran after US ally Saudi Arabia displayed remnants of drones and missiles it said were used in a crippling attack on its oil sites that was “unquestionably sponsored” by Tehran. “There are many options. There’s the ultimate option and there are […]
$DIA, $QQQ, $SPY, RUTX, $VXX President Trump Tweeted: “Fed, Powell ‘Fail Again’”After FOMC Rate Cut The Fed cut interest rates for the 2nd time since July, and it was not enough for President Trump. President Trump assailed policy makers just mins after their decision Wednesday to cut the benchmark interest rate by 25 bts. “Jay […]
Huawei will step up its presence in the global market for computer hardware, a top company official said on Wednesday, as the Chinese telecom giant weathers a US assault on its 5G network and smartphone business. Deputy chairman Ken Hu said the strategy is based on expectations that “incredible computing power” is going to be […]
US House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and other House Democrats are pushing for “imaginary impeachment” proceedings against President Trump that “nobody in America” wants, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared Tuesday. “There are no facts for it,” the California Republican said in a TV interview. “Here is Nadler who campaigned to become chairman on the […]
Tuesday, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), declared that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will serve on the Supreme Court “as long as he chooses to serve” despite a disputed weekend report in The NY-T’s on new sexual-assault allegations. “Make no mistake about it: Justice Kavanaugh is going to be on the Supreme Court […]
Precious metals traders at JP Morgan made millions through fraudulent trades, operating a sprawling criminal conspiracy to manipulate prices, according to the US Justice Department, which appears to be signaling a crackdown. Current and former JP Morgan precious metals traders Gregg Smith, Michael Nowak, and Christopher Jordan engaged in “a massive, multiyear scheme to manipulate […]
Monday, President Trump again demanded that the Fed cut interest rates in the wake of an attack in Saudi Arabia over the weekend led to a major Crude Oil disruption. In a pair of tweets Monday, the President questioned whether the Fed would “ever get into the game” and said the central bank and its Chairman, Jerome […]
$OIL, $USO Monday, President Trump said said that it looked like Iran was responsible for attacks at the weekend on Saudi Arabian Crude Oil plants, but he does not want war with anyone, is in no rush to respond and is trying to find out who was behind the strikes. Several of his Cabinet officials […]
Now, less than 14 months before Election Day, the President’s team is banking his re-election hopes on identifying and bringing to the polls hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters; people in closely contested states who did not vote in Y 2016. The campaign is betting that it may be easier to make voters out of […]
More than 67% of North American CFOs (chief financial officers) surveyed by CNBC say President Trump will be re-elected in Y 2020. About a 25% believe former Vice President Joe Biden will win. This is the 1st time the CNBC Global CFO Council survey has asked executives about the upcoming elections. The survey also showed that a majority […]
The Senate confirmed President Trump’s 150th judicial nominee this week, bringing the total to 152, including 2 Supreme Court justices, a milestone lauded by Trump himself Friday. “Historic Milestone indeed!” President Trump said on Twitter, referencing a report from The Washington Examiner . The 150 milestone was reached Wednesday, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC). “I’m […]
Attention: Now what really matters is just what the President does and is going to do. President Trump blames the Fed for a slowing US economy, some blame it on him. A survey conducted with YouGov showed 28% of American adults believe the President in general is most responsible for the economy. That surpasses the […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is prepared to keep or even raise tariffs on Chinese imports amid ongoing trade talks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday, after both sides granted concessions ahead of the next round of negotiations. Still, Mnuchin said in an interview on CNBC, U.S. officials were looking to make progress when talks […]
President Trump is reportedly considering a French plan to allow a $15-B credit for Iran should it come back and comply with the Iran nuclear deal, according to US and foreign officials. The plan was originally floated by French officials but contingent on US approval. President Trump has recently lightened his stance and appeared to […]
The MSM labeled Democrats like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of (D-NY) as liberals when they are really radicals a Rutgers University history professor argued Thursday, saying that such “sloppy labeling” is confusing Democratic politics on many levels. “For several years now, reporters and pundits have been incorrectly applying the word ‘liberal’ […]
In a series of Tweets early Wednesday, President Trump wrote that “boneheads” at the Fed should lower interest rates to Zero or below so that the US could decrease its borrowing costs. As a property developer, President Trump is thinking about negative rates from the perspective of a borrower. But, the Fed’s lukewarm appetite for negative […]
$DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $RUTX, $VXX Wall Street finished higher on the strength in growth and value stocks President Trump met with economic aides Wednesday to discuss the possibility of cutting the tax on capital gains by indexing them to inflation His advisers updated on the issue, and a final decision on whether to pursue the […]
Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that President Trump may meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the upcoming United Nations meeting, with “no preconditions.” Secretary Pompeo made the comments at a press briefing to unveil new sanctions on groups including Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. An official familiar with the disagreements between President […]
Tuesday, President Trump sacked John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser with whom he had significant disagreements on Iran, Afghanistan and a number of other global challenges. “I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others […]
$FB, $TWTR President Trump has used Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) as a direct connector to his supporters throughout his Presidency sidestepping the MSM, and he will soon have another tool to get his message out unfiltered. The Trump reelection campaign is launching a social networking app to harness the dedicated energy among his army of supporters. The coming […]
President Trump and his administration has taken a lot of heat for the policies put in place to stem illegal immigration and border crossings, and the moves are working. A new report cites government data for border arrests, which dropped to 51,000 in August, a 60% decrease from a high in May. “What the numbers […]
The tariffs on China have not had a significant effect on the United States’ economy, and will continue until or unless a solid trade deal is reached between the 2 countries, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday. “If we can get a good deal, a deal that is good for us, we will sign […]
The Trump Administration will continue to impose sanctions on whoever purchases Iran’s Crude Oil or conducts business with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and no Crude Oil waivers will be re-issued. “We will continue to put pressure on Iran and as President (Trump) said there will be no waivers of any kind for Iran’s oil,” said Sigal […]
Saturday evening, President Trump said he canceled peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders after the insurgent group said it was behind an attack in Kabul that killed an American soldier and 11 other people. President Trump said he planned a secret meeting with the Taliban’s “major leaders” Sunday at the Presidential compound in Camp David, Maryland. […]
On Thursday morning, 5 September,Chinese and US chief trade negotiators spoke on the phone call, China initiated the call, agreeing to hold the 13th round of high-level economic and trade talks in Washington in early October and maintain close communications going into that negotiation. The message, made public, lifted the stock markets in many countries, […]
The Trump Administration wants to see “near term results” from renewed US-China trade talks in October, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Friday. Speaking on network TV, Mr. Kudlow confirmed that the top US and Chinese trade negotiators would meet in early October but a date certain had not been set. The 14-month US-China […]
Friday, President Trump hammered Fed Chairman Powell for not lowering interest rates, asking “where did I find this guy,” in a Tweet. President Trump was responding to Jim Cramer, who said Friday that Mr. Powell should acknowledge that he should not have raised rates last year. “Why can’t the Fed chief say, ‘You know what? I […]
Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked resigned to meeting between President Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, after voicing opposition to world powers opening a dialogue with Iran. The Israeli leader, who earlier in the day asserted that this was not the time to hold talks with Iran, said he recognized the possibility of […]
According to The Trump Administration, America is winning the trade war with China. However, the Middle Kingdom’s economic machine may be slowing, but President Xi Jinping is unlikely to sue for peace anytime soon, at least not on terms acceptable to American interests. China’s economic system is antithetical to American democratic capitalism. Its buccaneer commercial policies flaunt the […]
The US Federal Reserve will not need to cut interest rates soon if the world’s largest economy continues on its current path, a voting member of the Fed said Tuesday. The remarks by Eric Rosengren, head of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, came two weeks before the central bank is due to hold its next […]
President Trump began work on the Wall himself all that will span the entire US-Mexico border. “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” he said after that inaugural swing, “and the same is true for this Wall. I will be dead long before it’s completed. But that is okay, because it’s never been about me. It […]
Tuesday, President Trump said that trade talks between the United States and China were going well, though he warned that he would be “tougher” in negotiations if they dragged on until his 2nd term. “We are doing very well in our negotiations with China,” President Trump wrote on Twitter, arguing that Beijing could not afford […]
…got the Trump Kiss of Death and sacked! James Comey tried to ‘frame‘ President Trump in memos the former FBI director kept of their conversations, President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani charges. In an interview aired Sunday the former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor called the tactic “horrid.” “In a case involving the President […]
The United States began imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods Sunday, but U.S. President Donald Trump said the sides would still meet for talks later this month. President Trump Tweeting, said his goal is to reduce US reliance on China and again urged American companies to find alternate suppliers outside China. This fresh round of […]
“We’re going to win the fight,” President Trump told reporters. “We are having conversations with China, meetings are scheduled, calls are being made. I guess the meeting in September continues to be on, it has not been canceled,” he said. The White House has not announced a date for that meeting. Tariffs kick in on […]
Again Friday, President Trump hammered the Fed in 3 Tweets; declaring in 1 that the US economy does not “have a tariff problem, we have a Fed problem.” “The Euro is dropping against the dollar ‘like crazy,’ giving them a big export and manufacturing advantage … and the Fed does NOTHING!” President Trump said in 1 […]
Friday, President Trump, while speaking out on Twitter about the Inspector General’s report on James Comey’s actions, Tweeted a compilation of comments from a Democratic former CIA officer who said on Fox News that Comey tried to “kneecap our duly elected President.” President Trump pointed out the former officer, Bryan Dean Wright, had commented on “Fox and Friends” that […]
President Donald Trump said US and Chinese trade officials were due to hold discussions on Thursday, days before Washington is due to raise tariffs on billions in Chinese goods. “There’s a talk scheduled for today at a different level,” Trump told Fox News Radio, without elaborating. He rebutted prior news reports skeptical of his claims […]
President Trump tweeted Wednesday that the wall on the southern US border was “going up very fast despite total obstruction by Democrats in Congress and elsewhere” from varying news reports about the structure’s status. The tweet also linked to an Instagram post showing drone footage from US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) of the wall’s progress. President Trump’s […]
President Trump emerges from the G-7 Summit in France as the unchallenged Leader of the free world. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, praised President Donald Trump’s accomplishments, and said under his leadership, “America is finally leading again.” Her comments came in a Tweet Monday night She wrote: “Under @realDonaldTrump “We are standing up to China. […]
President Trump said the United States would not imminently impose new tariffs on autos imported from Japan as the largest and 3rd-largest economies continue negotiations to firm up a preliminary trade agreement. At a press conference during a G-7 Summit in Biarritz, France, President Trump was asked if he was still considering the levies, which […]
President Trump said Monday that China is taking a significant financial hit as a result of his escalating trade fight. “China has taken a very hard hit over the last number of months,” President Trump said, and they are likely ready to make a deal with the United States. President Trump noted that China had […]
President Trump is open for diplomacy with Iran after French President Emmanuel Macron flew in Iran’s foreign minister to a G-7 Summit in an effort to reduce US-Iranian tensions. EU leaders want to ‘tamp down‘ down the confrontation between Iran and the United States since President Trump pulled Washington out of the multinational Y 2015 […]
President Trump has scaled back a US-China trade dispute partly blamed for a global economic slowdown, declaring Monday that the 2 sides will begin serious negotiations soon. President Trump said his trade negotiators had received 2 “very good calls” from China Sunday. He said the Sunday evening conversations were a sign China is serious about […]
