Fallout continues after it was learned that top officials in the Trump administration inadvertently added The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to an unsecured Signal group chat discussing a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen.
Later Wednesday, the president spoke in the Oval Office after signing an executive order than places a 25% tariff on foreign automakers.
President Donald Trump is warning that he will impose “large scale tariffs” on the European Union and Canada if they work together to respond to his recently announced tariffs.
“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had,” Trump posted on Truth Social early Thursday morning.
The European Union has delayed its tariffs on the U.S. until mid-April.
In a statement last night, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called Trump’s auto tariffs a “direct attack” and that he would meet with his cabinet on Thursday to discuss trade options.
Ahead of a visit by Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, President Donald Trump was asked how far the U.S. would go to take ownership of Greenland.
“We need Greenland for national security and international security,” Trump said Wednesday, taking reporters’ questions in the Oval Office. “So we’ll, I think, we’ll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And, you know, we’ll see what happens. But if we don’t have Greenland, we can’t have great international security.”
Trump added, “I view it from a security standpoint, we have to be there.”
Trump also said that he understood “JD might be going,” but did not seem to know other details about the trip.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede earlier this week called the upcoming visit by U.S. officials part of a “very aggressive American pressure against the Greenlandic community” and called for the international community to step in to rebuke it.
President Donald Trump disregarded concerns about his national security adviser’s Signal conversation and called it a “witch hunt” as he answered a question about the military strike against the Houthis.
The president reiterated that Mike Waltz took responsibility but would not admonish Hegseth for any role in the chat.
President Donald Trump was asked about the effects of the tariffs on the stock market, given drops seen Wednesday in anticipation of the foreign automaker tariff.
He said he didn’t hear about the drop but claimed the effects won’t be long term.
“That will take care of itself. That could take care of itself in one day, two days or one week,” Trump said.Show Less
The president on Wednesday signed an executive order that issued a 25% tariff on foreign-made cars, which will go into effect on April 2.
“I think our automobile industry will flourish like it hasn’t before,” President Donald Trump said.
The Social Security Administration announced Wednesday that it is delaying its plan to require in-person identity verification for millions of new and existing recipients.
Originally set to take effect on March 31, the change will now begin on April 14. Previously, recipients of Social Security could verify their identity over the phone.
“We have listened to our customers, Congress, advocates, and others,” acting SSA Commissioner Lee Dudek said in a statement.
Dudek added that the delay will “ensure our employees have the training they need” before the policy takes effect.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to lift Judge James Boasberg’s block on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
