US President Donald Trump

Iran says it begins 20% uranium enrichment amid US tensions

Iran warns US attack would imperil interests across Mideast

8:56 pm June 22, 2019

Tehran: Tehran warned Washington Saturday that any attack would see its interests across the Middle East go up in flames after US President Donald Trump said he called off a strike at the 11th hour. The aborted US military action was to have been in response to Iran’s downing of a US reconnaissance drone, which […]

Trump launches 2020 re-election bid with mega rally, says ‘Keep America Great’

3:25 pm June 19, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign with a jam-packed rally in Florida on Tuesday, urging his supporters to “keep this team in place” for four more years as he vowed to “Keep America Great”. The 73-year-old real estate investor-turned-politician, who became the 45th President of the United States of America […]

Trump campaign fires pollsters after mixed messaging

8:15 pm June 18, 2019

Washington: When President Donald Trump’s internal polling suggested he was trailing Democrats in crucial states earlier this year, it did what any campaign would do: tried to bury the bad numbers. When the findings leaked to the media anyway, an infuriated Trump and his aides first disputed the poll’s existence, then tried to dismiss its […]

Let’s tree again: Macron offers Trump replacement ‘friendship’ oak

12:32 pm June 13, 2019

Paris: French president Emmanuel Macron will send a replacement oak tree to US President Donald Trump after the original was dug up from the White House garden and died. The French leader offered the young oak to Trump during a state visit to Washington in 2018, and the two shovelled dirt around it under the […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

50 percent tariff on US motorcycles by India unacceptable says Trump

2:03 pm June 11, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump said that even though India has reduced its import tariff on American motorcycles from 100 percent to 50 percent, it is still too high and not acceptable to him. Trump said the United States, under his leadership, is a country that can no longer be fooled. “We’re not the foolish […]