In just a week, the president has floated financial reprisals for Mexico, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Colombia. The hostilities could backfire.
Trump has previously promised to reinstate the 8,000 personnel who were discharged, with full backpay expected to be given. This move would follow his revoking of a mandate that federal workers must be vaccinated against Covid introduced by Joe Biden, one of a number of reversals of his predecessors policies.
Here’s what to know about Trump’s proposal to add new restrictions in the U.S.—and how that compares to other countries.
Google said it would follow the Trump administration in renaming the Gulf of Mexico once the new name is updated in government sources.
When Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused military planes carrying deportees, infuriating President Trump, he revealed how heated the question of deportations has become.
A candidate running to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister is calling for an international summit to develop a response to President Donald Trump’s economic threats.
A victory for Putin means, in due time, a re-charting of the entire map of Europe, to suit his vision of a Russian empire that never lost the Cold War. The only way to end the war in Ukraine is to ensure that Russia loses and that Ukraine wins.
Trump briefly raised the idea of buying Greenland in his first term and expressed shock—even calling off a planned visit to Copenhagen—when his offer was refused. This time around, he’s not backing down. He has held at least one reportedly tense phone conversation on the matter.
Trump’s mass deportation plans, including the Laken Riley Act, which awaits his signature, will be very expensive to implement across the country. Trump wants to target every single undocumented immigrant in the U.S., estimated at 11 million people, and would need assistance from local and state law enforcement.
Five years after the party took a hard pro-police stance in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Vice President JD Vance believes it’s okay to support individuals who beat and kill cops, so long as they do so in support of Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump appears to be strong-arming unwilling leaders into negotiating, according to aides and foreign policy experts.
Momentum is growing among President Trump’s advisers to place 25 per cent tariffs on Mexico and Canada as soon as Saturday, bucking conventional wisdom in Washington and on Wall Street that he would back off the threatened levies as he has in the past in exchange for concessions.