The U.S. took issue with the first draft of a Group of Seven nation’s statement that was circulated last week and reportedly removed all instances where Russia could be perceived as the aggressor—which was seen as a significant break from the previous administration.
U.S. President Donald Trump stopped being delicate and ripped into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on several occasions last week and made it clear that he will not allow the status quo to continue in Ukraine and will not allow the “moderately successful comedian” to stop the progress for peace.
On 21 December 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received a standing ovation before he addressed a joint meeting of Congress where he assured lawmakers that Ukraine would emerge victorious against Russia.
Now that Donald Trump has vowed to make the U.S. “the crypto capital of the planet” and “a Bitcoin superpower” and has promised a light regulatory touch, mainstream money managers are getting ready to give digital assets the bear hug that crypto’s boosters have been urging.
Now that Donald Trump has laid a 10-percent tariff on everything coming into the U.S. from China—and could raise the import tax higher if he wishes—everything from smartphones and microwave ovens to shoes and cosmetics could cost U.S. consumers more.
During his presidential campaign and after taking office, Donald Trump said interest rates must come down “immediately.”
Elon Musk, the Tesla head who donated over $250 million to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has been tasked by the White House to seek and destroy government inefficiencies and waste, but critics wonder how effective the world’s richest man could be given that his companies pull in $20 billion a year in government contracts.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week that suspends enforcement of anti-bribery laws that banned companies or individuals from bribing foreign government officials to get new business—calling the law “good on paper,” but in practicality a “disaster.”
A key element of the Occupy Peace movement that Gerald Celente launched over a decade ago is for the U.S. to close its 800 military bases in some 70 countries and bring home the hundreds of thousands of its troops to secure the homeland.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Washington and Tel Aviv will stand shoulder-to-shoulder to confront Iran and said—with the help of Donald Trump—“we can and will finish the job.”