ReutersGood morning and welcome as we continue to bring you the latest from Donald Trump’s first week back in office.
Trump kicked off the week with a speech at the World Economic Forum in which he laid out his plans to boost the US economy and warning that “nothing will stand in our way”.
Doubling down on his suggestion that Canada could become a US state to avoid tariffs, yesterday he told the BBC: “They do almost 90% of their business with the United
States, whereas with us it’s the opposite.”
“It’s irrelevantly small. So I don’t
want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a country unless that
country is a state. And if it is a state, the people of Canada would pay a much
lower tax,” he adds.
Trump also renewed his appeal for Denmark to relinquish control of the autonomous territory of Greenland to the US, citing international security.
“I think we’re going to have it,” he told the BBC while on Air Force One last night, adding that the island’s 57,000 residents “want to be with us” despite Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen firmly stating that Greenland is not for sale earlier this week.
To top off the week, the US president called Gaza a “demolition site”, saying he had spoken to King Abdullah II of Jordan about the possibility of his country and Egypt taking in displaced Palestinians.
Stick with us as we bring you the latest developments and analysis on Donald Trump’s second term in office.
