NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Thursday launched a scathing attack on his predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama, calling them “stupid” and “incompetent” for not taking on China earlier over trade issues.“I happen to pick the Resolute Desk, but I blame the people sitting behind this desk for being stupid and incompetent and […]
The US-China trade war deepened dramatically on Wednesday as Beijing announced a sweeping hike in tariffs on American goods, raising rates from 34% to 84%, just a day after President Donald Trump’s new 104% tariffs on Chinese imports came into force.Calling the US action a violation of trade norms and a threat to global stability, […]
TOI correspondent from Washington: MAGA supremo Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that many countries are calling him and “kissing my ass… dying to make a deal” after he unleashed a tariff war that has upended global trade. In a speech at a Republican Congressional Committee dinner, the US President did not identify any countries but […]
US president Donald Trump on Monday declared full support for the Senate’s newly approved budget plan.Posting on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the bill includes “all the elements we need”—from permanent tax cuts to major spending reductions and border security. “The budget plan just passed by the United States Senate has my complete and total […]
On April 5, Saturday Night Live opened with James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump standing at a podium, selling the American public on his latest economic strategy: tariffs, or as he calls them, “short for terrific idea.” The sketch was inspired by Trump’s real-life April 2 press conference, where he used a baffling chart to explain […]
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday declared that the United Kingdom is prepared to deploy direct state intervention to protect British industries from the shockwaves of sweeping tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Starmer said the world had entered a new era where the “old assumptions can no longer […]
Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away, an orange-tinted Palpatine stood in a rose garden and declared economic war on half the planet. On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump emerged from political semi-retirement to announce a sweeping new tariff regime. The internet’s response? Memes. Glorious memes. The Senate Would Revoke Their […]
President Trump upended the international trading system on Wednesday with a blunt package of global tariffs, making the case that the United States faces a dire economic emergency as a result of trade imbalances with countries across the globe. It’s a sentiment that Mr. Trump has expressed for decades, one that helped propel him to […]
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump held discussions on Sunday regarding ongoing negotiations for a UK-US trade agreement, Downing Street announced.Since the UK’s departure from the European Union, successive British governments have sought to establish a comprehensive trade […]
Canadian airlines are reducing the number of seats for US. Canadian airlines have started eliminating seats for the United States even in April, the peak tourism time between the two countries, the New York Times reported, stating that the aviation industry is telling under the heat between the US-Canada trade war. The United States also […]
