Washington (Hornpost) The US president Donald Trump held news conference at the Oval Office in Washington and discussed key international and US issues in press conference.
here are the key points:
Trump’s Space Command shift to Alabama:
Trump said the headquarters of the US Space Command would move from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama, a move he said was motivated by the state’s political leanings.
Trump announces US strike on a “drug vessel” originating from Venezuela, with top diplomat Rubio claiming the ship was run by a “designated narco-terrorist organization.”
Trump says he will send the National Guard to ‘hellhole’ Chicago.
US President Donald Trump confirms he will deploy troops to Chicago, though he would not say when he planned to launch his latest crackdown on a US city.
Trump tells US needs a ‘very serious’ rate cut
Trump says the US needs a rate cut from the Federal Reserve.
“We need a very serious cut,” Trump told reporters.
The Republican leader has been overly critical of Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates.
Trump again slams India for ‘very one-sided’ relationship.
Asked if he would roll back high tariffs recently imposed on India, Trump said India and the US would have a good relationship but that trade between the two nations would have to be more balanced.
“We’ll get along with India very well. But India, you must understand, for many years it was a one-sided relationship. Only now since I came along, and because of the power that we have with tariffs, India was charging us tremendous tariffs, the highest in the world,” Trump said.
Trump says will seek expedited ruling on tariff policy.
Trump has said his administration will take a case related to his tariff policy to the Supreme Court “tomorrow”.
That comes after a judge blocked the majority of Trump’s global tariff policy, saying it was illegal without congressional approval.
Trump said the administration will seek an expedited ruling.
“If you took away tariffs, we could end up being a third world country,” Trump said.
“That’s how big the ruling is.”
Trump downplays speculation about his health.
Over the last several days, speculation spread over social media that Trump’s health could be deteriorating as he was temporarily absent from the public eye. The US president downplayed those rumors.
“I didn’t do any [news conferences] for two days and they said, ‘there must be something wrong with him’,” Trump said. “Biden wouldn’t do them for months, you wouldn’t see him, and nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him and we know he wasn’t in the greatest of shape.”
“I was very active over the weekend,” he added.
Trump says federal forces ‘going in’ to Chicago.
Trump appeared to confirm that he would deploy federal law enforcement to Chicago, Illinois, although it remained unclear if that would include National Guard troops.
When asked directly if he would send the National Guard to the city, Trump responded: “I didn’t say when.”
He then went on a long screed, describing crime in Chicago, Baltimore and Los Angeles. He then added, referring to Chicago: “We’re going in. I didn’t say when, but we’re going in.”
“If the governor of Illinois would call up. Call me up. I would love to do it now. We’re going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it because I have an obligation to protect this country,” Trump said.
Trump spoke shortly after a federal judge ruled his deployment of National Guard to support law enforcement in California – without the governor’s request – was illegal.
Hornpost Staff Reporter
