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Trump says all Canadian trade talks ‘terminated’ over tariffs amid criticism of ad
Hello, welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news over the next few hours.
We start with the President’s news. Donald Trump said on Thursday that he was ending all trade talks with Canada following what he called a fake ad from Canada in which former and late US president Ronald Reagan spoke negatively about tariffs..
“Due to their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE TERMINATED,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The post on Trump’s social media site on Thursday night came after Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said his country aimed to double its exports to countries outside the United States because of the threat posed by Trump’s tariffs.
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation announced that Canada fraudulently used a fake ad showing Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs,” Trump shared.
“They did so only to interfere with the decisions of the US supreme court and other courts,” the president wrote. He added: “Tariffs are crucial to the national security and economy of the United States. Due to their egregious behavior, all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated.”
Carney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night. The Prime Minister will leave to attend a summit in Asia on Friday morning, while Trump will do the same on Friday evening.
Earlier Thursday, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation + Institute reported that the ad created by the Ontario government on X “misrepresents the ‘Presidential Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade’ of April 25, 1987.” He added that Ontario had not received permission from the foundation to “use and edit the statements.”
The foundation stated that it was “reviewing legal options on this matter” and invited the public to watch the unedited video of Reagan’s speech.
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The White House announced that major companies in the technology, defense and crypto industries helped finance Donald Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom; work is underway here to demolish the entire East Wing.
The list of donors includes tech companies Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google; defense contractors Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Palantir; and communications companies T-Mobile and Comcast. CNN.
The list includes Miriam Adelson, widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson; Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman; oil tycoon Harold Hamm; and cryptocurrency billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Howard Lutnick, secretary of commerce and former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, is also on the list.
Last week, some donors, including representatives from Google, Amazon and Lockheed Martin, were invited to a White House dinner celebrating their contributions to the ballroom project.
“Throughout history, senior executives have helped make the White House special, and nothing of this magnitude has ever been done,” Trump told donors at the beginning of the dinner. Wall Street Magazine.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said the ballroom’s expenses were “paid 100 percent by me and some of my friends.” The president initially said the 90,000-square-foot ballroom would cost $200 million, but on Wednesday he increased that figure to $300 million.
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Donald Trump canceled plans to deploy federal troops to San Francisco, prompting widespread condemnation from California leaders and prompting protesters to spill into the streets.
The Bay Area region was on edge Wednesday after reports emerged that the Trump administration was poised to send more than 100 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agents to the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, a city in the East Bay, as part of a large-scale immigration enforcement plan. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Coast Guard base early Thursday morning, holding signs that read “No ICE or Troops in the Bay!” There were banners with slogans such as.
But a few hours later, the president said he would not move forward with a “surge” of federal forces in the region after speaking with Mayor Daniel Lurie and Silicon Valley leaders, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, who recently apologized for saying Trump should send in national guard troops.
Lurie said he spoke with the president Wednesday night and Trump told him he would cancel the deployment.
“In that conversation, the President told me clearly that he was canceling the plan for a federal deployment to San Francisco. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reaffirmed that aspect in our conversation this morning,” Lurie said in a statement.
Trump confirmed this conversation on the Truth Social platform, saying: “I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he very kindly asked me to give him a chance to see if he could turn the situation around.”
Trump says all Canadian trade talks ‘terminated’ over tariffs amid criticism of ad
Hello, welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news over the next few hours.
We start with the President’s news. Donald Trump said on Thursday that he was ending all trade talks with Canada following what he called a fake ad from Canada in which former and late US president Ronald Reagan spoke negatively about tariffs..
“Due to their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE TERMINATED,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The post on Trump’s social media site on Thursday night came after Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said his country aimed to double its exports to countries outside the United States because of the threat posed by Trump’s tariffs.
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation announced that Canada fraudulently used a fake ad showing Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs,” Trump shared.
“They did so only to interfere with the decisions of the US supreme court and other courts,” the president wrote. He added: “Tariffs are crucial to the national security and economy of the United States. Due to their egregious behavior, all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated.”
Carney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night. The Prime Minister will leave to attend a summit in Asia on Friday morning, while Trump will do the same on Friday evening.
Earlier Thursday, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation + Institute reported that the ad created by the Ontario government on X “misrepresents the ‘Presidential Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade’ of April 25, 1987.” He added that Ontario had not received permission from the foundation to “use and edit the statements.”
The foundation stated that it was “reviewing legal options on this matter” and invited the public to watch the unedited video of Reagan’s speech.
Read our full story here:
In other developments:
-
The federal government remains closed.
-
Donald Trump canceled plans for a federal deployment to San Francisco at the request of two billionaire supporters but reiterated his threats to Chicago.
-
Trump said he did not plan to ask Congress to declare war on Venezuela ahead of possible attacks targeting suspected drug cartels, saying “we’ll just kill people.”
-
Trump said an unnamed “friend” sent him “a check for $130 million” to be used to pay military salaries during the government shutdown.
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A federal judge in Texas on Thursday dismissed a case It was introduced by a Republican congressman who argued that California’s redistricting proposal would cause personal injury and should be blocked.
-
Trump has claimed his militarized war on drugs is a major improvement over the Biden administration’s efforts, but a government database shows drug seizures are down from 2022.
-
The White House announced that major companies in the technology, defense and crypto industries helped finance Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom; work is underway here to demolish the entire East Wing.
-
House Democrats accused Donald Trump of orchestrating an illegal scheme to get taxpayers to pay him $230 million, demanding he immediately drop claims they say violate the constitution.
