President Donald Trump says he will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports, as well as "reciprocal tarrifs" on countries who put any tariffs on the US
Trump has also defended Elon Musk, saying the billionaire is "terrific" and is "not gaining anything" from his work for the White House
Musk has been tasked with slashing government costs by leading the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which is not an official government department
Some of Doge's moves are the subject of lawsuits, most recently after an attempted takeover of secure systems at the Treasury Department
Meanwhile, BBC's US partner CBS News has conducted a poll on how Americans view Trump's administration. You can read more here
Later on Sunday, Trump will be the first US President to attend the Super Bowl, one of the most watched events of the year in America
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Any steel coming into the US will have a 25% tariff – Trump
Edited by Brandon Livesay in New York and Johanna Chisholm in London
Donald Trump had already secured headlines today by becoming the first sitting US president to attend the Super Bowl.
When his plane touched down in New Orleans ahead of the game, journalists travelling onboard Air Force One began reporting that the president would be announcing fresh tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports starting Monday.
He did not specify which countries would be targeted by the 25% tariffs, but Ontario's Doug Ford – who leads the Canadian province that is the beating heart of their steel industry – was quick to point out that it would be America's northern neighbours who would once again be feeling the levy pain.
Details are sparse, and Trump also said he plans to impose "reciprocal tariffs" on all countries shortly – and they could be coming into effect "almost immediately".
"Very simply, it's if they charge us, we charge them," Trump said.
We'll bring you updates on this developing story tomorrow, when the president said he would officially unveil them.
We're getting some reaction on the new trade tariffs that Trump just announced.
Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, which is the province where Canada's steel industry is concentrated and the country's most populous, is accusing the US president of "shifting goalposts" just days after the two countries narrowly avoided a trade war.
Ford says the next four years of Trump's presidency is "constant chaos, putting our economy at risk".
"I’m asking the people for a strong, stable, four-year mandate that outlasts the Trump administration to do whatever it takes, to always be ready to protect Ontario," he adds in a post on X, external.
More now on the news that Trump plans to announce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports on Monday.
Donald Trump told journalists travelling with him on Air Force One that these taxes will apply to "any steel" and aluminium coming into the US.
He also says that on "Tuesday or Wednesday" he'll be announcing "reciprocal tariffs" on countries that will take effect "almost immediately" after the announcement.
"Very simply, it's if they charge us, we charge them," he says about the tariffs, adding that "it'll be great for everybody, including other countries".
Trump says the reciprocal tariffs would apply to "every country" but that it won't have as big an impact on countries that already have "similar tariffs" to the US.
"The ones that are taking advantage of the United States, we're going to have reciprocal [tariffs]," he says.
As we've been reporting, Trump has just said in the last hour that he will be announcing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports tomorrow, without specifying which countries would be targeted.
It comes just days after Trump reached deals with Canada and Mexico to avoid 25% tariffs that he had threatened on all goods from the countries. Both countries agreed to beef-up border security to help halt the flow of fentanyl and clamp down on migration – both key criticisms of Trump's.
It also comes years after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on steel imports and 10% on aluminium imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
The US reached a deal a year later with Canada and Mexico to end those tariffs, but the EU import taxes were not resolved until the Biden administration.
While travelling on Air Force One, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that recognises 9 February as "Gulf of America Day", a statement from the White House says.
In the White House statement, Trump says he has done this because it is "fitting and appropriate" for the US to "come together and commemorate this momentous occasion and the renaming of the Gulf of America".
As a reminder, shortly after being sworn in as president last month, he renamed the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America".
Gaza also came up during the president's talk with reporters travelling on Air Force One.
Last week, he sparked a backlash when he said the US should "take over" Gaza and that Palestinians should settle elsewhere in the Middle East.
Today, he said he was committed to buying and owning Gaza and would possibly give sections of it to other states in the Middle East to rebuild.
Palestinians in Gaza would not want to go back after finding better places to live, he claimed.
He said he wanted to make it into a good site for future development and take care of the Palestinians.
He added that he would consider cases of allowing Palestinian refugees into the US.
Donald Trump has just told reporters travelling with him on Air Force One that he will announce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports on Monday.
He also said that there would be an announcement on Tuesday about reciprocal tariffs on countries, but he did not specify which ones would be targeted.
"If they charge us, we charge them," Trump said.
During the last clip of Trump's interview aired by Fox News, the president takes aim at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a department he has tried to dismantle and rehome within other agencies.
As a part of those plans, he tried to put thousands of overseas USAID workers on leave and force their returns home, a move a judge put on hold on Friday.
"We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars of money that's going to places where it shouldn't be going," Trump alleged of USAID, without providing evidence. "It's crazy. It's a big scam."
Trump added there was "some good money" that he wanted to allow his Secretary of State Marco Rubio to allocate.
Trump added that the people who elected him wanted him to root out fraud.
"I've had a great help with Elon Musk, who's been terrific," he said.
The rest of the Fox News interview with the president will air tomorrow.
President Donald Trump was also asked in his interview with Fox News what the main difference is between his first term as president of the United States – which ended in January 2021 – and his current term as the 47th president.
"With the 45th, I had tremendous opposition but I didn't know people and I didn't have the kind of support that I needed," he said.
He added that he put some "really great" people in office but some, he said without specifying who he was talking about, wouldn't have put in office had he had the benefit of hindsight.
"I would have, you know, known better if it were a couple of years later, if I had a little more experience in DC, I was a New York person, not a DC person, and I had a lot of opposition," he told Bret Baier.
During his Fox News interview, Trump was asked about his previous comments that he wants to make Canada a 51st state and join the US.
"I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200bn a year with Canada, and I'm not going to let that happen," he says.
A senior official later clarified to CNN the $200bn (£161bn) was comprised of US defence spending that Canada benefits from, and the rest is from the trade US-Canada trade deficit.
"If they're a 51st state, I don't mind doing it," Trump adds.
Protesters against the Trump administration's recent policy announcements gathered yesterday outside the offices of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Donald Trump was sworn-in as president less than three weeks ago, but he's managed to squeeze a lot in during that short time period.
The Trump administration has moved fast on many different fronts, aiming to slash government spending and close whole departments – but also remaking foreign policy with threats of tariffs and introducing controversial proposals like relocating Palestinians from Gaza.
Over the last few days Elon Musk and a small band of cost cutting subordinates have taken aim at the US Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency set up to rein in banks after the economic crisis which began in 2007.
One CFPB employee, who does not want to be named for fear of reprisals, tells the BBC that employees from the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) have been walking the bureau’s hallways, questioning employees and refusing to identify themselves.
Over the past week the Trump administration also announced a taskforce to tackle “anti-Christian bias”, ordered a bombing raid in Somalia, told schools that they would be denied federal funding if they allow transgender athletes to compete on women's and girl's sports teams and started sending migrants to Guantanmo Bay in Cuba.
We’ve been keeping track of developments and you can read more about the latest in our explainer: 17 things Trump and his team did this week.
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Trump boards Air Force One on his way to Super Bowl
US President Donald Trump has just boarded Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida.
He's on his way to New Orleans to watch the Super Bowl.
When he gets to Caesars Superdome, the White House says he will meet with family members of the victims of the attack in New Orleans, as well as emergency responders.
Speaking to members of his cabinet on Sunday after a recent visit to the US, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Donald Trump and the "historic" visit he had with the President.
He said the two had talks that could lead to "tremendous achievements that can ensure Israel's security for generations".
"I am not exaggerating. There are opportunities here for possibilities that I think we never dreamed of, or at least until a few months ago they did not seem possible – but they are possible," he told his cabinet.
The prime minister said the two leaders discussed shared goals of getting rid of Hamas, returning all hostages and "ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel".
"President Trump came with a completely different vision, much better for the State of Israel," he said. "He is very determined to carry it out. It also opens up many possibilities for us."
During Netanyahu's visit, Trump said Gaza "will be turned over" to the US after the fighting ends.
When President Trump sits down with Fox News anchor Bret Baier in about 30 minutes. he’ll be reviving a tradition that began more than two decades ago.
In 2004, then-president George Bush chatted with sports announcer Jim Nantz prior to the big game.
The questions were not exactly difficult. Bush was asked whether Super Bowl Sunday was becoming something like a national holiday, and whether he was cheering for the New England Patriots. On the latter, Bush deftly deflected and said he only picked a side when a team from Texas is playing in the big game.
That set a pattern, with presidents being afforded the opportunity to talk to the country in the midst of the biggest televised event of the year. The Super Bowl rotates among the four main US broadcasters – CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox. And over the years, news journalists from those networks replaced the sports announcers, and the questions got a little bit tougher.
In recent years the tradition has been broken a few times. Trump refused to talk to NBC in 2018. Joe Biden declined to talk to Fox two years ago and turned down CBS last year – which further fuelled rumours about his age and mental decline.
This year there’s plenty to talk about, and political pundits will watch closely to see how much Baier pushes Trump – even if most Americans are more interested in the actual game.
A fourth flight carrying migrant detainees arrived in Guantanamo Bay yesterday, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.
There are now more than 50 Venezuelan migrants with alleged criminal records or ties to gangs, US officials told the outlet.
Earlier, as we reported, Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration's use of the US military base in Cuba to hold migrants.
Pressed on whether such plans were legal, she told CNN: "We are standing up the operations, believing we have all legal right and authority to do so."
China's tit-for-tat import taxes on some American goods are set to come into effect on Monday.
It's the latest development in the trade war between the two nations. Beijing announced the plan earlier this week minutes after new US levies of 10% on all Chinese products came into effect.
From 10 February, China will charge a 15% border tax on imports of US coal and liquefied natural gas products. There is also a 10% tariff on American crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars.
Beyond China, President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he was planning "reciprocal tariffs" on other nations, but did not say which countries could be targeted.
However, he told the BBC last week that tariffs on goods from the European Union could happen "pretty soon".
Donald Trump will make history by becoming the first sitting US president to attend the Super Bowl.
Though previous presidents, such as Ronald Reagan, have performed the pre-match coin toss from the White House, no sitting president has ever attended the event.
With Trump’s appearance at the big game, the Secret Service has confirmed that security measures have been ramped up at the mega sporting event, which typically attracts tens of thousands of people every year.
Since starting in 1967, the Super Bowl has carved itself out as one of the biggest events in the American sporting calendar. Given the influence of the event on American culture, it is no surprise that politicians have become increasingly visible in its staging.
George Bush became the first former president to appear in-person for the pre-match coin toss before Super Bowl 51 in Houston in 2017.
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan performed the coin toss via satellite from the White House.
Former President George W Bush started a Super Bowl tradition in 2004 by granting a pre-game interview to the official broadcaster.
Barack Obama continued the tradition, but Joe Biden declined to give an interview two years in a row before leaving office in 2025. As we've been reporting, Donald Trump will be reviving that tradition later today, when his interview with Fox News is broadcast before the game.
Donald Trump attended the New York Jets football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in October 2024 while he was still campaigning to be president
If you're just joining us, we've been reporting on the key lines from US politicians so far today – here's a look at what they've been saying:
In a little bit, Donald Trump will be jetting off to New Orleans, where he'll be catching the Super Bowl and become the first sitting US president to attend the major sporting event. We'll also be bringing you lines from his pre-game interview with Fox News – that airs in full at 15:00 local time. Stick with us.
We can bring you more now from that new poll, external by the BBC's US partner CBS News and YouGov in the UK, which suggests that President Donald Trump's approval rating is at 53%.
The majority of participants in that poll describe Trump as "tough", "energetic", "focused" and "effective".
The poll tracks participants' views on issues like immigration, the war in Gaza, domestic affairs, and the economy.
You can see more results from the it in our earlier post.
CBS News says the survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,175 US adults interviewed between 5-7 February. Per CBS, the sample was weighted to be representative of adults nationwide according to gender, age, race, and education, according to the US Census.
Senator Andy Kim has indicated that he would be prepared to join fellow Democrats in shutting down the government to oppose President Trump, "if we have to".
He made the comments when asked about a potential government shutdown during an interview on NBC News this morning.
Claiming the Trump administration is "trying to dismantle the government", Kim says he "cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we're seeing when it comes to this administration's actions".
"If we have to take steps to be able to hold them accountable, use the leverage that we have to force it," Kim says of a possible shutdown.
Kim says he would "be the last person" to want to get to the stage of shutting down the government.
But he also says: "We are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis".
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