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President Donald Trump's administration appears unbowed by broad domestic and international criticism of his planned import tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying Sunday that the president is not planning on exempting any countries from the stiff duties. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union , White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said: "At this point in time there's no country exclusions."
Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Allison Janney, and Gary Oldman pose in the press room during the 90th Annual Academy Awardsin Hollywood, California. CREDIT: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic By the time Jimmy Kimmel, host of the 90th Academy Awards, took the stage at the Dolby Theatre, there was already an uncomfortable tension surrounding what Hollywood loves to call its biggest night.
President Donald Trump leaves out a big component of trade when he complains about the huge imbalance between what the U.S. buys from abroad and what the world buys from the U.S. He ignores services, an American strength and part of the trade equation. So it was in a tweet Saturday, capping a week in which he seemed itching to start a trade war that he said would be "easy" to win.
There's much to celebrate but plenty of cause for trepidation, too, as President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet Monday at the White House. For all his talk about brokering the "ultimate deal" between Israelis and Palestinians, Trump's long-awaited peace plan has yet to arrive, even as Palestinians and other critics insist it will be dead on arrival.
Two Rio Grande Valley congressmen are pushing back against President Donald Trump's Easter Sunday declaration that any deal to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, is off the table. In a flurry of Easter tweets, Trump reversed his February claim that Republicans haven't forgotten young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents and were working hard to pass legislation regarding their temporary status.
A Tuesday ruling by a federal judge may mean a setback for the Trump administration's efforts to phase out an Obama-era immigration program that shielded young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
President Donald Trump is embracing the potential for a trade war after announcing his intent to place tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, as he rebuffs allies who have pushed to be exempted from the stiff duties. The protectionist policy will be made official in the next two weeks, White House officials said Sunday, as the administration defended the decision from critics in Washington and overseas.
Former Trump adviser Carl Icahn apparently sold off millions of dollars of steel industry stock one week before Trump made his announcement. For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.
The primary goals of American foreign policy is to make our citizens, friends and allies secure and to make our adversaries think twice. There are moments in history when well-timed, well-placed military action will have the effect of causing fear - and moments that, if allowed to pass by, ensure the opposite.
Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to Elizabeth Warren as 'Pocahontas' to try to discredit a potential rival in 2020 by calling into question her claims of heritage US Senator Elizabeth Warren is hoping to defuse an issue that has dogged her for years, her claims of Native American heritage, ahead of a possible run for president in 2020. Last month, Warren addressed the National Congress of American Indians, trying to cast her family's story in the larger context of challenges facing native peoples.
After last year's successful drive to cut taxes, what does the majority party in Congress do for an encore? The answer for Republicans seems to be, "Not so much." For sure, Republicans in Washington feel good about the effect their overhaul of the nation's tax code is having on the economy, and recent polling suggests it's getting more popular as the midterm elections draw closer.
Tom van Overbeek made a point that even if Donald Trump is a narcissist, perhaps nearly all our presidents have been narcissists. While perhaps not as knowledgeable about our presidents as van Overbeek, who thinks Gerald Ford and Harry Truman were probably the only exceptions, perhaps James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama and others were also exceptions.
US President Donald Trump has joked about impeachment, his son-in-law Jared Kushner's security clearance and his wife Melania Trump leaving him as he attended his first Gridiron Club dinner, a highly formal and traditional event full of the news media he often dubs "fake news".
READ: Trump Says Rep. Maxine Waters Needs 'An IQ Test' At Gridiron Dinner - President Donald Trump on Saturday night addressed the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, an event he skipped last year and one known for presidential humor. - Though he poked fun at his own administration's dysfunction GOP Panic Spreads to Pennsylvania - Republicans have spent over $9 million in a blue-collar district Trump carried by 20 points.
READ: Trump Says Rep. Maxine Waters Needs 'An IQ Test' At Gridiron Dinner - President Donald Trump on Saturday night addressed the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, an event he skipped last year and one known for presidential humor. - Though he poked fun at his own administration's dysfunction The most memorable jokes from Trump's Gridiron dinner speech - on Saturday participated in the Gridiron Club dinner's long-standing tradition of presidential speeches filled with self-deprecating humor, flinging barbs at his own administration as well as the usual targets.
President Donald Trump's administration appears unbowed by broad domestic and international criticism of his planned import tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying Sunday that the president is not planning on exempting any countries from the stiff duties. Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said: "At this point in time there's no country exclusions."
President Donald Trump, with U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, speaks in the Oval Office on Jan. 23, 2018. President Donald Trump, with U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, speaks in the Oval Office on Jan. 23, 2018.
President Donald Trump's announcement that he will impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum has labor unions and liberal Democrats in the unusual position of applauding Trump's approach, while Republicans and an array of business groups are warning of dire economic and political consequences if he goes ahead. Trade politics often cut along regional, rather than ideological, lines, as politicians reflect the interests of the hometown industries and workers.
Less than two years after Donald Trump won Pennsylvania by double digits, a special election race between a young Democrat and a deeply conservative Republican is now closer than either side had expected. The congressional race is being run in Pennsylvania's 18th district, but the March 13 election is expected to offer clues about how voters will turn out in the November midterms.