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US President Donald Trump has made a fresh bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that he had settled eight wars and "done stuff that nobody else has ever done". Trump made the remarks at the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, ahead of the announcement of the coveted award on Friday by the Norwegian Peace Committee. "I've done stuff that nobody else has ever done. I'm not bragging, I'm just telling you the facts. No president has probably ever settled any wars. I settled eight wars," Trump told reporters here. The US President said it would be a great discredit to the Nobel Committee not to honour him. "They have a reputation for maybe not giving it to people like me. But, whether I get it or not, I have done far more. And I think it would be a great discredit to them. And I'm not saying that out of scorn, I'm saying that when you settle eight wars, and nobody's never," Trump said. The US President said his peacemaking efforts were continuing and indicated that he was on course
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements glorifying himself that sparked a major backlash, and instead tap his super PAC to cover costs going forward. In a post on his social media site, Trump defended the ads, which cost at least USD 1.5 million in federal funds and have drawn intense criticism. Trump said they were "positive promotion for our Great USA." "This is a rather standard thing to do," the president wrote, while blaming intense criticism for using taxpayer funds on the ads on the "Radical Left." But the president added that he'd "decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc." That is Trump's political war chest, which had amassed more than USD 400 million by the end of July. Trump has begun to tap it to boost Republican candidates around the country ahead of midterm elections. Trump provided no details on reimbursing taxpayers for ads that alrea
Serious differences persist between the US and China despite the recent summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington, which was marked by rare bonhomie, a close Trump aide said. Both sides still have issues that predated Xi's visit last week and would continue working on them, Republican Senator Steve Daines, a close Trump aide and key interlocutor between Washington and Beijing, told the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. "So that's again why it's really important to keep the dialogue going between two countries because both sides admit we've got some serious differences. But the answer is not to retreat. The answer is to stay engaged," Daines said. Daines, who played a key backchannel role ahead of Xi's visit, was responding to US Ambassador to China David Perdue's accusation that Beijing was "weaponising" its dominant position in critical minerals. In an interview with Fox News Sunday on September 27, Perdue made these ...
A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region. The news marks a major win for landowners, businesses and environmentalists in the region who have united to oppose the planned infrastructure projects, which are part of a USD 46 billion effort by the Trump administration to line the southern border with a mix of 30-foot-tall steel walls, vehicle barriers, roads and surveillance technology. Judge Kathleen Cardone said in her ruling that the plaintiffs were "likely to succeed on the merits of at least one of the claims in suit, that there is a likelihood that they will suffer serious, irreparable harm without an injunction, and that the balance of the equities and the public interest weigh in their favour." Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Opponents of the bor