Trump newest updates: President marks one yr of second presidency with weak financial system and poor ballot numbers | EUROtoday

Despite a worldwide backlash, the president continues to embrace an aggressive overseas coverage agenda.

Maira Butt experiences on the nations Trump has focused in his first 12 months again in workplace – and the place might be subsequent.

The president’s marketing campaign to arrest and deport 1000’s of immigrants during the last 12 months has turned cities run by his political enemies into battle zones, Alex Woodward experiences.

The president attended the College Football Playoff nationwide championship recreation in Miami Monday evening within the firm of his eldest daughter Ivanka and {golfing} granddaughter Kai.

The crowd on the Hard Rock Stadium roared as Trump waved throughout “The Star-Spangled Banner” earlier than the Miami Hurricanes, the No. 10 seed, and Indiana Hoosiers, the No. 1 seed, kicked off the championship recreation.

Indiana ended up beating Miami 27 to 21, successful its first nationwide title in an undefeated season.

The president spent the eve of his one-year anniversary again on the White House up late on social media.

His two most up-to-date messages had been assaults on the U.Okay., one among his nation’s longest standing abroad allies, and on his Democratic enemies in Minnesota, claiming with out proof that Sunday’s demonstration at a St Paul church was carried out by “professional” agitators:

“Shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER. There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness. These are International Powers who only recognize STRENGTH, which is why the United States of America, under my leadership, is now, after only one year, respected like never before. The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired. Denmark and its European Allies have to DO THE RIGHT THING.”

“Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing. They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country. The first to go should be Walz, and Fake Sleazebag, Ilhan Omar, who is supposedly worth over $30 Million Dollars, even though she’s never had anything but a Government job. Investigate these Corrupt Politicians, and do it now!”

Before that he revealed what seemed to be private textual content messages despatched to him by Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte and French President Emmanual Macron, which is able to absolutely make them suppose twice about informal diplomatic messaging in future, and a meme of himself planting a U.S. flag in Greenland’s soil.

Here’s extra from James C Reynolds.

President Donald Trump observes the primary anniversary of his return to the White House Tuesday however does so in a extremely fraught second, dealing with issues on a number of fronts.

A yr on from his swearing-in on the Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025, half of voters now say Trump has made the financial system worse, in comparison with simply 35 % who see an enchancment below his stewardship, in accordance with the newest Wall Street Journal ballot of American residents. Meanwhile, his approval score continues to languish.

The president can be engaged in a heated feud along with his European allies over his menace to impose steeper tariffs except they assist his willpower to amass Greenland, which he insists should develop into a U.S. territory within the pursuits of nationwide safety.

Tensions additionally proceed to rage in Minneapolis over the surge of federal immigration brokers into Minnesota in assist of Trump’s crackdown on undocumented migrants, which have boiled over into mass protests following the deadly capturing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother-of-three, earlier this month.

The president will set out for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later right this moment the place his remarks Wednesday can be carefully watched.

Here’s Brendan Rascius to try the final 12 months, which Norman Ornstein, a scholar on the American Enterprise Institute, instructed The Independent has amounted to “a sprint toward an autocracy.”

Good morning and welcome to The Independent’s stay protection of Donald Trump’s presidency one yr on from his return to workplace to succeed Joe Biden and serve a belated second time period.