{"id":150892,"date":"2025-05-25T03:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T03:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-dont-trade-threats-with-us-eu-warns-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T03:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T03:34:39","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-dont-trade-threats-with-us-eu-warns-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-dont-trade-threats-with-us-eu-warns-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: don\u2019t trade threats with us, EU warns – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short shrift for Trump\u2019s \u201850% tariff\u2019 outburst; thousands of Americans want to become British for good \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday 24 May at a glance
As he continued his on-again, off-again tariff war<\/a> with much of the world, Donald Trump went on social media to complain that the EU was \u201ctaking advantage of the United States on trade\u201d and not coming to the table about it. \u201cTherefore I am recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union<\/a>, starting on June 1, 2025.\u201d
The EU\u2019s trade commissioner had a call with the US trade representative Jamieson Greer and Trump\u2019s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said afterwards: \u201cThe EU\u2019s fully engaged, committed to securing a deal that works for both.\u201d
Here\u2019s what\u2019s been happening.
The EU\u2019s trade chief struck a defiant tone after Donald Trump threatened to place a 50% tariff on all goods from the bloc.
Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said: \u201cThe European Commission remains ready to work in good faith. EU-US trade is unmatched and must be guided by mutual respect, not threats. We stand ready to defend our interests.\u201d
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During the 12 months leading up to March, more than 6,000 US citizens have applied to either become British subjects or to live and work in the country indefinitely \u2013 the highest number since comparable records began in 2004, according to data released on Thursday by the UK<\/a>\u2019s Home Office.
American immigration lawyers say they are receiving an increasing number of inquiries. Some are pointing to the polarized political climate under Trump, whose administration is mounting an aggressive immigration-related crackdown.
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Federal prison officials visited Alcatraz last week after Trump<\/a>\u2019s announcement <\/a>of plans to rebuild and reopen the infamous island prison, which has been closed for more than 60 years.
David Smith, the superintendent of the Golden Gate national recreation area (GGNRA), told the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> that officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons were planning to return for further structural assessments. \u201cThey have been out here. They\u2019ll be coming out again to do assessments of the structure,\u201d Smith told the news outlet.
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Trump told graduating West Point military academy cadets on Saturday that they were entering the officer corps at a \u201cdefining moment in the army\u2019s history\u201d in a commencement address that included political attacks and a discourse on the folly of older men marrying \u201ctrophy wives\u201d.
The president said US soldiers had in the past been sent \u201con nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders that didn\u2019t have a clue about distant lands while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home \u2026 All of that\u2019s ended, strongly ended. They\u2019re not even allowed to think about it any more.\u201d
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration<\/a> night to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico, in spite of his fears of being harmed there, and who has since been returned to Guatemala.
The man, who is gay, had applied for asylum in the US last year after he was attacked twice in homophobic acts of violence in Guatemala. He was protected from being returned to his home country under a US immigration<\/a> judge\u2019s order at the time, but the Trump administration put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead.
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Republicans<\/a> in Congress are trying to pass Trump\u2019s \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d on tax and spending \u2013 but the biggest deductions will ultimately go to the wealthiest Americans<\/a>.
Donald Trump\u2019s old friend Thomas Barrack, now serving as the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, has praised Syria\u2019s interim president<\/a> for \u201ccounter-ISIS measures\u201d.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 24 May 2025.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Short shrift for Trump\u2019s \u201850% tariff\u2019 outburst; thousands of Americans want to become British for good \u2013 key US politics stories from Saturday 24 May at a glanceAs he continued his on-again, off-again tariff war with much of the world, Donald Trump went on social media to complain that the EU was \u201ctaking advantage of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}