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Trump backs down on Bill Pulte after bipartisan Senate revolt

“He’s not going to be permanent because, you know, I don’t think he’d want to be permanent,” Trump said, calling Pulte a “very smart guy."

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Trump claims he’s close to a deal with Iran and ‘if they don’t agree, the bombing starts’

Elsewhere, China's foreign minister called for a comprehensive ceasefire Wednesday after meeting in Beijing with Iran's top envoy.

06.05.2026 5

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‘That alone should win us the midterms’: Trump wants voters to ignore higher costs, giant pharma profits and focus on drug prices

White House economists estimate deals with pharma companies to drop some prescription drug prices could save $529 billion over the next 10 years.

06.05.2026 4

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White House estimates Trump’s Big Pharma dealmaking will save Americans $529 billion over the next 10 years

“Now you have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world,” Trump said at a Friday rally before a crowd of seniors in Florida. “And that alone...

05.05.2026 7

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Trump says he’ll hike EU auto tariffs to 25%, jolting a world economy that really didn’t need it

Trump said in a social media post that the EU “is not complying with our fully agreed to Trade Deal,” though he did not flesh out his objections.

01.05.2026 5

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White House chief of staff to meet with Anthropic CEO about dangerous new Mythos model, official says

The meeting comes after tensions have run hot between the Trump administration and the safety-conscious Anthropic.

17.04.2026 7

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Trump’s White House: America is short 10 million houses

The White House said regulatory cuts could lead to more construction to stabilize prices, increase home ownership and fuel faster economic growth.

14.04.2026 10

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Why Trump just can’t talk the oil price down—and why markets and Americans are starting to tune him out

Trump's strategy of giving mixed messages has started to work against him, said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor at the Yale University School of...

31.03.2026 9

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Trump bragged about gas $2.30 a gallon just a month ago. He’s changed his tune

Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike, President Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low...

13.03.2026 9

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Trump said the ‘economy is roaring’ but the job market has evaporated, soaring gas prices could boost inflation, and stocks have plunged

The latest batch of data on jobs, pump prices and the stock market suggests that Trump's roar has started to sound far more like a whimper.

08.03.2026 10

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Trump admits the hyperscalers ‘need some PR help’ because the American taxpayer is on the hook for their data centers

“Trump is trying to cover up his mistakes with a photo op,” said Lena Moffitt, executive director of Evergreen Action, an environmental group.

06.03.2026 10

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Trump on ruling that he violated Constitution: Justices were ‘disloyal to our Constitution’

President Donald Trump paid a price for going it alone on tariffs — with the Supreme Court on Friday delivering a rare rebuke by ruling he lacked...

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Trump’s plan to send home prices higher will help him with baby boomer voters ahead of midterm elections but could spark a ‘generational war’

In the 2024 presidential election, 81% of Trump's voters were homeowners, according to AP VoteCast data.

08.02.2026 30

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Trump threatens to hike tariffs on South Korea as national assembly has yet to approve last year’s trade deal

South Korean Industry Minister Kim Jung-Kwan, who is currently visiting Canada, will soon travel to the U.S. for talks with Secretary of Commerce...

27.01.2026 20

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Leader-Herald

DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump on Wednesday scrapped the tariffs that he threatened to impose on eight European nations to press for...

24.01.2026 10

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Trump seems to be changing his mind on Greenland as he rolls back threat of tariffs amid talks with Denmark, NATO

One idea NATO members have discussed as part of a compromise with Trump was that Denmark and the alliance would work to build more U.S. military...

22.01.2026 10

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Trump was wrong about tariffs funding the ‘Warrior Dividend’ of $1,776—troops were already set to get the money

The “Warrior Dividend” that President Donald Trump announced during his televised address to the nation Wednesday is not a Christmas bonus made...

19.12.2025 30

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After Trump used prime-time speech to deny economic reality, his aides reassured him he did great

Trump spoke at a rapid-fire clip with a tone that bordered at times on anger, as if Americans aren't appreciating what he's done, or tried to do.

18.12.2025 20

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A week after telling Americans their kids may get fewer dolls and pencils because of tariffs, Trump vows ‘THE BEST IS YET TO COME’

A report released on Tuesday showed a jobs market that looks increasingly fragile, even if the overall economy still appears to be stable.

17.12.2025 20

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Trump says he’ll allow Nvidia to sell advanced chips to ‘approved customers’ in China

Trump said on social media that he had informed China's leader Xi Jinping about his decision and “President Xi responded positively!”

09.12.2025 10

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‘We fixed inflation, and we fixed almost everything’: Trump travels to Pennsylvania to talk affordability while denying it’s a problem

At Tuesday's Cabinet meeting, Trump called affordability “a hoax” that was “started by the Democrats who caused the problem of pricing.”

05.12.2025 10

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Trump envoy Witkoff set to meet with Putin in coming days after Miami talks with Ukraine delegation

Trump told reporters “Ukraine's got some difficult little problems,” referring to a corruption scandal, but "there's a good chance we can make a...

01.12.2025 10

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Trump commutes 7-year prison sentence for private equity exec convicted in scheme to defraud more than 10,000 investors

Gentile had been the CEO and co-founder of GPB Capital, which had raised $1.6 billion in capital to acquire companies in the auto, retail, health care...

01.12.2025 20

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Ukrainian officials visit Florida as Trump White House pushes for negotiated end to war

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Miami.

01.12.2025 20

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Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed amid largest buildup of U.S. firepower in the region in generations

The statement also said that U.S. immigration authorities had unilaterally suspended biweekly deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants.

30.11.2025 20

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Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause migration’ from poor countries: ‘Only reverse migration can fully cure this situation’

Donald Trump spent part of his Thanksgiving holiday railing against immigrants on social media.

28.11.2025 20

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Trump says South Africa is not welcome at the next G20 Summit in Miami—’and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them’

The president said South Africa refused to hand over its G20 hosting responsibilities to a senior representative of the U.S. Embassy when the summit...

27.11.2025 10

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‘Yes, it is an ambitious, crazy thing’: Scenes from the Kennedy Center’s Saudi-U.S. AI mind-meld, with Trump, MBS, Musk and Huang

“While we were taking the picture, I said, ’Could you make it $1.5 trillion?’” Trump said about Saudi investment. “So he’s got something...

20.11.2025 10

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Trump is sounding ‘weirdly, eerily similar’ to Biden by trying to play down inflation, economist says

“I think President Biden didn’t take this concern seriously enough in his first few months in office and President Trump isn’t taking this...

15.11.2025 10

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Trump admits the GOP was blindsided by economy fears as Democrats sweep key races: ‘Republicans don’t talk about the word affordability’

"We have the greatest economy right now. A lot of people don’t see that," Trump said.

06.11.2025 10

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Trump tells Japan’s first woman Prime Minister she has a ‘very strong handshake’ in Tokyo meeting

A putter from Shinzo Abe, gold golf balls, and American steak — Takaichi played to Trump’s taste for “golden age” diplomacy in Tokyo.

28.10.2025 10

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Nearly half of U.S. adults aren’t confident they could find a good job, while electricity and grocery costs are major sources of stress, poll says

The poll found that 36% of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling the economy, a figure that has held steady this year.

19.10.2025 20

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Trump’s short-term aid ‘during this little transition’ turns into an automaker rebate running through 2030

According to Kelley Blue Book, buyers of new autos spent an average of $50,080 in September, the highest average on record.

18.10.2025 10

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Trump claims China holding the world ‘hostage’ on rare earths is ‘especially inappropriate’ after Gaza peace deal

Markets had their hopes up on trade peace between China and the U.S. That was shattered on Friday.

10.10.2025 10

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Trump calls on NATO to stop buying Russian oil and to hit China with up to 100% tariffs, after Moscow sends drones into Poland

“China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia," Trump said on Truth Social, and powerful tariffs “will break that grip.”

13.09.2025 10

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Economy’s hiring collapse turns Trump’s promises of instant results into plea for patience

Approval of Trump’s economic leadership hit 56% in early 2020, but that figure was 38% in July of this year, according to AP polling.

08.09.2025 30

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By many measures, Trump has dug himself into a hole on the economy as its performance has yet to come anywhere close to his hype

The jobs data exposed the widening gap between the booming economy Trump promised and the more anemic reality of what he’s managed to deliver so far.

06.09.2025 10

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Trump’s Fed nominee says he’d take an ‘unpaid leave of absence’ from his White House job if confirmed by the Senate

Stephen Miran, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said he wouldn't immediately resign from Trump administration upon his...

04.09.2025 10

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Trump announces tariffs ‘of approximately 100%’ on chips and semiconductors

The president announced the tariff plan during an Oval Office meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook. "But if you’re building in the United States of...

07.08.2025 20

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Trump hikes tariffs on India to 50%, scrambling the country’s plans to be an alternative to China

"These actions are unfair, unjustified and unreasonable,” India Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said in a statement.

07.08.2025 10

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Leader-Herald

WASHINGTON (AP) — For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It was an...

03.08.2025 10

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Trump extends Mexico negotiations by 90 days, keeps 25% tariff rates in place

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that his phone conversation with Mexican leader Claudia Sheinbaum was “very successful in that, more and...

01.08.2025 10

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‘We have made a few deals today that are excellent deals for the country’: Trump is coy as tariff scramble ensues

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that Trump “at some point this afternoon or later this evening” would sign an order to...

01.08.2025 10

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Trump calls the Japan trade deal on autos a major win. Detroit says it’s ‘definitely at a disadvantage’

“This is a deal that will charge lower tariffs on Japanese autos with no U.S. content,” said Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive...

23.07.2025 10

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Trump says U.S. will hike tariffs on Canada to 35% because it has ‘many Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers’

President Donald Trump said in a Thursday letter that he will raise taxes on many imported goods from Canada to 35%.

11.07.2025 20

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Trump slaps Brazil with 50% tariff, explicitly tying action to trial of ally Jair Bolsonaro

Trump's economic emergency rationale for implementing tariffs is problematic in at least this particular instance.

10.07.2025 10

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Trump says it was ‘too time-consuming’ to negotiate trade deals so it was just easier to send letters

Trump chose to send form letters with random capitalizations and punctuation and other formatting issues.

09.07.2025 20

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Trump’s tariffs would cost mid-sized U.S. employers $82.3 billion, JPMorganChase Institute study finds

The sum that could be potentially managed through price hikes, layoffs, hiring freezes or lower profit margins.

02.07.2025 20

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Trump is open to regime change in Iran, after his administration said that wasn’t the goal

“It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why...

23.06.2025 10

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Trump leaves G7 summit early with hints of more conflict in the Middle East: ‘Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!’

As Trump posed for a picture Monday evening with the other G7 leaders, he said simply, “I have to be back, very important."

17.06.2025 10

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