Trump news today: White House attacks journalist in Signal chat as an ‘anti-Trump hater’ and blames leak on media

Graig Graziosi has the story.

President Donald Trump introduced his newest spherical of tariffs on Wednesday, telling reporters at a press convention that the US would levy duties of 25 p.c on all imports of fully-assembled automobiles.

John Bowden experiences from Washington, D.C.

Not with its personal retaliatory tariffs, or shutting down each department of Tim Horton’s and Lululemon within the U.S. — however by banning entry to the Canadian-owned grownup leisure web site Pornhub.

“If Canada may ban Pornhub in the States, we win the commerce warfare. That’s it. There isn’t any commerce warfare,” Toronto-based comic Matthew Puzhitsky joked to the New York Post earlier this month, referring to it as “Canada’s nuke.”

Throughout his Oval Workplace tariffs announcement, President Donald Trump stated that he may give China just a little discount in tariffs to get a deal associated to Chinese language-owned TikTok achieved, whereas including that he was prone to lengthen a deadline if an settlement over the social media app was not reached.

“With respect to TikTok, and China goes to must play a job in that, probably within the type of an approval, possibly, and I believe they will try this. Perhaps I will give them just a little discount in tariffs or one thing to get it achieved,” Trump instructed reporters.

When requested about Signalgate, President Donald Trump says Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth is “doing an important job” and had “nothing to do” with Sign chat.

Hegseth is the one who despatched the apparently labeled details about the assault’s minute-by-minute timeline and army gear to the chat.

The president additionally known as it a witch hunt and made positive to say: “I wasn’t there.”

Requested whether or not he believes labeled info was shared Trump stated: “Nicely, that is what I’ve heard. I do not know.”

He added: “I am unsure, you’ll must ask the varied folks concerned. I actually don’t know.”

He additionally claimed that the Sign platform may be defective. There is no evidence of that.

President Donald Trump was requested how he may guarantee Individuals that new tariffs wouldn’t trigger a long-term enhance in costs.

His reply appeared to discuss with the inventory market and wider economic system and never the query of costs for American shoppers.

Trump’s intention is for overseas producers to construct automobiles within the U.S. The president stated he’ll quickly additionally do the identical with prescription drugs.

President Donald Trump has introduced that automobiles and light-weight vans imported into the U.S. might be topic to a 25 p.c tariff along with any present tariffs.

Vehicles manufactured within the U.S. is not going to be topic to the brand new tax, whatever the firm’s nation of origin.

He’ll signal an government order shortly however has not stated at what level the tariffs will take impact.

Trump additionally has not stated if there might be any exemptions, reminiscent of for automobiles in-built Canada and Mexico underneath USMCA.