Presidency of Donald Trump

It took seven months, but President Donald Trump finally has a Senate-confirmed secretary of defense.

The Trump administration said on July 22 it will expand and speed up deportations of migrants who enter the United States illegally by stripping away court oversight, enabling officials to remove people in days rather than months or years.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the situation with Turkey is very complex and tough, and that he is talking to officials in Ankara.
Trump's comments to reporters, made at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, follow Turkey's purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defence system, which has raised tensions with the United States and other NATO allies. [Reuters]

Just a week after insisting that he was "absolutely moving forward," President Donald Trump abandoned his effort to insert a citizenship question into next year's census.

U.S. President Donald Trump on July 9 defended his Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who is under pressure from Democrats to resign over his handling of a decade-old sex abuse case against financier Jeffrey Epstein, but said he, too, would look into it.

The United States Department of Commerce said it would impose additional duties on imports of steel from China and Mexico as a result of an investigation into the so- "countervailing duties," BNR reported.

President Donald Trump, facing renewed criticism from Democrats and activists over his handling of a migrant crisis on the U.S.- Mexico border, said in a Twitter post on July 3 that immigrants unhappy with conditions at detention centers should be told "not to come."

Just days after the agreement for peace in the US-China trade war, US officials increased the pressure on Europe in the long-term dispute over Airbus aircraft subsidies, threatening to impose high tariffs on imports of additional EU goods worth 4 billion dollars, reports Econ.bg

US President Donald Trump became the first US acting head of state to cross the border between South and North Korea.

This happened as he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the demilitarized area, which continued with a one-hour tripartite conversation with the leaders of the two Koreas on the southern side of the border.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping struck a trade war truce on June 29, as Washington vowed to hold off on further tariffs and declared trade negotiations with China "back on track."