Author: Christian Datoc and Naomi Lim

President Donald Trump, a former reality TV producer, has reimagined foreign leader visits to the White House, using the usually buttoned-up bilateral talks as opportunities to hijack media coverage on his own terms. On Wednesday, for the second time this year, Trump gave a head of state or government visiting the White House a public…

WARREN, Michigan — President Donald Trump gambled his presidency and the economy on a sweeping tariff strategy that his blue-collar supporters in Michigan are counting on to work. After announcing “Liberation Day” tariffs on nearly 90 countries, ratcheting up a trade war with China, and hitting Canada and Mexico with fresh levies, it was fitting that…

President Donald Trump is defying projections of an economic recession, plowing forward with new tariffs and, in the process, abandoning one of the core economic measuring sticks of his first term in office: the stock market. Trump’s tariffs, specifically implemented-then-amended barrier taxes on the import of Canadian and Mexican goods, have led to a significant…