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Trump announces violent tariffs on films
Updated on 05.05.2025 – 8:50 a.m.Reading time: 21 min.
Trump wants to build up the notorious Alcatraz prison and have it opened again. He also insults the central bank boss again. All developments in the news blog.
Donald Trump and his advisors “have had some very good conversations” in the past few days about Russia and Ukraine, says Trump journalists in front of the White House. “There is a lot of hatred there.”
According to his own information, Donald Trump has discussions about trade agreements with several countries, including China. The aim is to conclude a fair deal with China, he explains journalists on board the Air Force One. However, he has no plans for discussions with XI Jinping for this week. When asked whether trade agreements will be announced this week, he says: “Could be”. He does not call details.
Donald Trump again emphasizes his willingness to support Mexico in the fight against drug trafficking. He offered the posting of US troops because the drug cartels are “terrible people” who have caused thousands of fatalities, says Trump journalists on board the Air Force One. “If Mexico needed help in the fight against the cartels, it would be an honor to intervene and to afford it.” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum had rejected the offer.
US President Donald Trump has announced tariffs of a hundred percent of films produced outside of the United States. On Sunday, Trump named the weakening domestic film industry as the reason for this on Sunday on his online platform Truth.
US President Donald Trump is considering the appointment of his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, a national security advisor. He wants to find a successor to Mike Waltz within six months, he says reporters on board the Air Force One. Waltz, who accidentally invited a journalist to a chat to attack plans against the Huthis in Yemen in March, had to vacate his post and is now supposed to become a US ambassador to the United Nations (UN).
Donald Trump wants to reopen the notorious Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco bay. To “accommodate America’s most reckless and violent criminals,” he writes on Truth Social. Read more about this here.
US President Donald Trump wants to build a large ballroom in the White House. Trump told the NBC television station that he would have a “beautiful ballroom of world class” built at the government center. He promised that he would not finance the hall with tax money, but he promised to pay for it himself.
“I am sure that we will get some donations for it.” It is not a cheap project. “It will cost a lot of money.” So far, larger evening events in the government center have often been aligned in tents in the garden of the White House, Trump complained. This is not appropriate for the United States.
Who could follow Donald Trump in almost four years? The Republican has a few ideas. Or does he want a third term? Read more about it here.
Trump’s Greenland fantasy: another threat of military violence
US President Donald Trump has renewed his threat to incorporate Greenland with military violence if necessary. When asked about a question, the Republican said in an interview: “I don’t rule it out. I don’t say that I will do it, but I don’t rule out anything.” The United States “urgently” need Greenland for their own national security. Only a “very small group of people we will take care of on the island and we will appreciate them and all of this. But we need it (Greenland) for international security.”
In his own words, US President Donald Trump is not sure whether he is bound to the constitution. “I don’t know,” the President replied in an interview published on Sundays in excerpts with the broadcaster NBC when asked whether he had to adhere to the United States’ constitution. Read more about it here.
