Trump says US will terminate trade talks with Canada over technology tax
Trump has accused Canada of a “direct and blatant attack” on the US after being informed that the country plans to tax US technology companies. Trump says the US will be “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” as a result.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
“We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country.
They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period.”
Key events
Trump says he would consider bombing Iran again and drops sanctions relief plan
Trump border czar once again calls for prosecution of anyone who impedes immigration enforcement, including lawmakers
Trump says US will terminate trade talks with Canada over technology tax
Trump officials to terminate temporary protected status for 500,000 Haitians in US
Summary of the day so far:
Trump says 9 July trade deal date is not fixed date
Trump thinks something will happen to ‘settle’ Russia’s war in Ukraine
Trump say US to get a lot of mineral rights from Congo
Trump to look at protected status for Salvadorians
Trump says it ‘would be great’ if Powell lowers rate
Trump reiterates that Iran wants to meet following strikes
Trump says he plans to send a letter soon telling countries their tariff rate
Supreme court likely to rule on birthright citizenship in October, says Bondi
Trump says he will ‘promptly file’ to press on with policies including effort to end birthright citizenship
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In Trump’s surprise announcement that he was terminating trade talks with Canada he accused Ottawa of “copying the European Union” with an “egregious” digital services tax on US tech firms.
We’ve yet to hear Canadian PM Mark Carney’s reaction to Trump’s outburst, which imperils a trading relationship that, according to the office of the US trade representative, totalled about $762bn last year.
The tax, which will take effect on 30 June and be applied retroactively from 2022, will impact both domestic and international companies, meaning American giants Amazon, Google, Meta, Airbnb and Uber will have to start payments from Monday.
Last week Ottawa refused to delay the tax in the face of mounting pressure and opposition from the Trump administration during trade negotiations.
Trump says he would consider bombing Iran again and drops sanctions relief plan
At the press conference earlier, Donald Trump sharply criticized Iran’s supreme leader, AliKhamenei, dropped plans to lift sanctions on Iran and said he would consider bombing Iran again if Tehran is enriching uranium to worrisome levels.
Trump reacted sternly to Khamenei’s first remarks after a 12-day conflict with Israel that ended when the US launched strikes last weekend against Iranian nuclear sites.
Khamenei said Iran “slapped America in the face” by launching a – largely symbolic and forewarned – attack against a major US base in Qatar following last weekend’s US bombing raid. He also said Iran would never surrender.
Trump said he had spared Khamenei’s life. US officials told Reuters on 15 June that Trump had vetoed an Israeli plan to kill the supreme leader. In a Truth Social post, he said:
His Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH.
Trump also said that in recent days he had been working on the possible removal of sanctions on Iran to give it a chance for a speedy recovery. He told reporters today he has now abandoned that effort.
I get hit with a statement of anger, hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief, and more.
Trump said he did not rule out attacking Iran again. When asked about the possibility of new bombing of Iranian nuclear sites if deemed necessary at some point, he replied:
Sure, without question, absolutely.
Trump border czar once again calls for prosecution of anyone who impedes immigration enforcement, including lawmakers
Ankita Rao
Trump’s border czar Tom Homan spoke at the end of the morning session at the Faith & Freedom Conference in Washington DC to applause and a standing ovation as he called for the prosecution of anyone who impeded his immigration enforcement, including lawmakers.
Homan opened up by describing immigration enforcement as a moral duty – meant to stop the deaths, sexual assault and drug trafficking at the border. “In my 40 years I’ve seen a lot of terrible things,” he said. “Secure the border, save lives.”
In a wide ranging, off the cuff speech, Homan touted his deportation figures and the lack of crossings at the border while defending ICE raids against non-criminals. “They’re in the country illegally so they’re on the table too,” he said. He attributed some of those arrests to sanctuary cities, where he said the lack of ability to arrest undocumented people in jail led to the increase of collateral arrests when Ice searched for them on the streets.
Homan poked at protests, calling the LA protests misguided and misinformed and applauding Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard. He also called the protestors in his lake house town “morons” – those protests were followed by Ice releasing a family.
Homan spent a good amount of his speech denouncing Biden’s policies and calling for the prosecution of anyone, including lawmakers who attempted to intervene with Ice enforcement. He said Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security under JoeBiden, should “go to jail”.
You can hate Ice, you can hate me, I don’t give a shit. You can not agree with our priorities, but you better not cross that line.
At the end Homan turned to his personal relationship with Trump, saying he respected the president as much as he does his own father.
Lawyers for Kilmar Ábrego García have asked the judge to keep him in jail over deportation concerns. Prosecutors have agreed with a request by Ábrego García’s lawyers to delay his Tennessee jail release.
Ábrego García’s lawyers asked a judge for the delay Friday because of “contradictory statements” by the Trump administration over whether he’ll be deported upon release. A judge in Nashville has been preparing to release Ábrego García to await trial on human smuggling charges. The judge has been holding off over concerns immigration officials would try to deport him.
The justice department says it intends to try Ábrego García on the smuggling charges. A justice department attorney said earlier there were plans to deport him but didn’t say when. The Maryland construction worker previously was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
US representative Nydia Velázquez from New York called the supreme court ruling that individual district court judges lack the power to issue nationwide injunctions “an attack on the very foundation of our nation”. She wrote on X:
“The Supreme Court just opened the door for Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship. As Justice Sotomayor warned in her dissent, ‘No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.’ This ruling is an attack on the very foundation of our nation.”
Representative Mark Takano of California expressed similar alarm. He wrote on X:
“Today’s troubling ruling by the Supreme Court means that Trump’s un-Constitutional executive order denying many Americans their birthright citizenship will go into effect for anyone without the means to file a lawsuit to protect themselves.”
Trump says US will terminate trade talks with Canada over technology tax
Trump has accused Canada of a “direct and blatant attack” on the US after being informed that the country plans to tax US technology companies. Trump says the US will be “terminating all discussions on trade with Canada” as a result.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
“We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country.
They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period.”
Environmental groups have filed a federal lawsuit to block the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades.
The lawsuit, filed Friday on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and the Friends of the Everglades organization, seeks to halt the project until it undergoes a stringent environmental review as required by federal law. The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court says there is also supposed to be an opportunity for public comment.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis said Friday on Fox and Friends that the detention center is set to begin processing people who entered the US illegally as soon as next week.
Trump officials to terminate temporary protected status for 500,000 Haitians in US
The Trump administration is moving to terminate Temporary Protected Status for half a million Haitians, claiming that Haiti is a “safe” country to return to, despite the reality that large portions of the country have been overcome by gangs and civil governance has collapsed.
The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that conditions in Haiti have improved, and Haitians no longer meet the conditions for Temporary Protected Status, which grants deportation protections and work permits to people from countries experiencing turmoil.
“This decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that Temporary Protective Status is actually temporary,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home.”
Summary of the day so far:
The supreme court, in a 6-3 ruling, appears to have delivered Trump a major victory by ruling that individual district court judges lack the power to issue nationwide injunctions, which Trump has complained have blocked federal government policies nationwide including his executive order purporting to end the right to automatic birthright citizenship.
Speaking from the bench, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the supreme court’s majority decision “a travesty for the rule of law”, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a scathing dissent.
Trump called the supreme court’s decision “a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law in striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions interfering with the normal functions of the executive branch”.
Trump said his administration “can now promptly file to proceed” with policies that had been enjoined nationwide. One of these cases would be ending birthright citizenship, he says, “which now comes to the fore”.
In a press briefing US attorney general Pam Bondi was asked whether the administration is going to try to implement Trump’s order banning birthright citizenship in states where there isn’t a legal challenge. Bondi said the birthright citizenship question will “most likely” be decided by the supreme court in October but that Friday’s ruling still “indirectly impacts every case in this country”, adding that the administration is “thrilled” about this.
Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly plans to run as an independent candidate in New York City’s mayoral race, days after finding himself bested in the Democratic primary by progressive insurgent candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The Trump administration is planning to deport Kilmar Ábrego García for a second time, but reportedly does not plan to send him back to El Salvador, where he was wrongly deported in March.
Trump reiterated that Tehran wants to meet following US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend, but gave no further details.
Trump says 9 July trade deal date is not fixed date
Trump says his 9 July trade deadline was not a fixed date, adding that it could be sooner or later than that date, when wider US tariffs are set to be re-imposed if deals are not reached.
We can do whatever we want. We could extend it. We could make it shorter. I’d like to make it shorter. I’d like to just send letters out to everybody: Congratulations, you’re paying 25%.
Earlier, treasury secretary Scott Bessent said trade deals could be done by Labor Day.
Trump thinks something will happen to ‘settle’ Russia’s war in Ukraine
Trump says he thinks something will happen in Russia’s war in Ukraine that would get it “settled”, citing his recent call with Russian president Vladimir Putin but offers no other details.
We’re working on that one. President Putin called up and he said, I’d love to help you with Iran. I said, do me a favor: I’ll handle Iran. Help me with Russia. We got to get that one settled. And I think something’s going to happen there.
Trump say US to get a lot of mineral rights from Congo
Trump says the US will get a lot of mineral rights from Congo under an agreement between that country and Rwanda that he will promote during an Oval Office meeting and signing later in the day.
Ankita Rao
I’m at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington DC – a large conservative gathering featuring high-profile Republican speakers.
On the back of the supreme court rulings this morning, governor Glenn Youngkin, of the swing state Virginia, is currently extolling the ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor that says parents should be able to opt out of school activities centered around LGBTQ+ issues.
“It is right to side with the parents,” said the governor, whose state is about to see a tense election later this year. Youngkin also applauded Trump’s immigration policies, saying his state detained at least 2,000 “criminals”. He also weighed in on the Iran strikes, and supported the intervention, saying “peace through strength”.
“I am here today with a strong warning,” he said. “If we don’t stay focused it can all change … elections have consequences.”
“Just look at what happened in New York,” he added later, referencing Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary. “They nominated a mayoral candidate who would make Bernie Sanders blush. You know what his big idea is: government-run grocery stores. Imagine this: the charm of the Department of Motor Vehicles combined with the efficiency of Venezuela’s [Nicolás] Maduro.”
“The other side has nominated a self-described democratic socialist,” he continued. “That is where they will go.”
Trump says he believes Spain will come through on a Nato commitment for member nations to spending 5% on their common defense.
Spain has been reluctant to commit to that level of funding, which was agreed upon at the Nato summit in The Hague earlier this week.
Trump to look at protected status for Salvadorians
Trump says his administration would examine ending temporary protected status (TPS) for individuals from El Salvador, but gives no other details.
Asked why he has not canceled TPS for El Salvador, which his administration is paying to detain migrants deported from the US, Trump says: “We’ll take a look. We’ve had a great relationship with El Salvador. They have a fantastic leader … We’ll talk about El Salvador.”
Trump says it ‘would be great’ if Powell lowers rate
Trump says it “would be great” if Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell lowered interest rates.
The only problem we have is we have a Fed guy that doesn’t understand what’s happening. And it would be great if it lower the rate, because we’d be able to borrow a lot cheaper.
Trump reiterates that Iran wants to meet following strikes
Trump reiterates that Tehran wants to meet following US strikes on three Iranian nuclear last weekend, but gives no further details.
He repeats his claim that Iran’s nuclear sites were “obliterated”, saying “we finished them off”, and repeats his attacks on “fake news” coverage of an early DIA intelligence assessment that found the damage was much less extensive than that and and has likely only set back Tehran’s nuclear program by months.
He also says that he would want the International Atomic Energy Agency or another trusted entity to have full rights to conduct inspections in Iran.
Trump says he plans to send a letter soon telling countries their tariff rate
Trump says he plans to send out a letter over the next week and a half telling countries what US tariff rate they will have to pay.
He also says that he’s working on trade deals with several countries, including India.
Trump says he has “great respect” for conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett – who has taken a lot of heat recently from Maga types – and says her decision was “brilliantly written”.
