President Donald Trump recently signed a new presidential executive order to once again postpone the tariffs that the United States wishes to impose on China.
According to CNBC, this decision postpones the application of US tariffs on Chinese products for a further 90 days.
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Trump ordered the extension of the pause on tariffs targeting China, just hours before the expiration of the one instituted in May 2025.
In April, Trump had set tariffs on Chinese products of up to 145%, before reducing them to 30% in May, a rate maintained after the truce was extended in August.
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This truce will end in mid-November… unless Trump decides to extend the deadline again.
This comes after he was publicly humiliated by Trump, his allies and some journalists during his first visit on February 28.
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One of the journalists who had publicly humiliated Zelensky during his first visit to the White House, Brian Glenn, reporter for the conservative media Real America’s Voice and companion of Marjorie Taylor Greene, this time highlighted the fact that the Ukrainian president wore a suit during his second presence in Washington.
Live from the Oval Office, Glenn addressed him directly, while Donald Trump reminded Zelensky that this was the same reporter who had previously chastised him for not wearing a suit.
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Zelensky replied that he remembered him very well, and wryly pointed out that Glenn seemed to be wearing exactly the same suit as when they met earlier!
CSIS has revealed the existence of a secret North Korean intercontinental missile base near Sinpung-dong, some thirty kilometers from the Chinese border.
North Korea's 'undeclared' missile base poses potential nuclear threat, report says: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-22/north-korea-secret-missile-base/105684760
This facility had never been officially declared by Pyongyang.
It is discreetly designed, with no visible launch pads or anti-aircraft defenses, making it difficult to target before a possible launch.
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According to estimates, the base could store between six and nine solid-propellant missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads and traveling on mobile vehicles.
Experts estimate that it is part of a network of 15 to 20 similar sites in North Korea, raising serious concerns about the scale of the country’s arsenal.
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Finally, analyses relayed by CNN indicate that this base places the continental United States directly within range of North Korean missiles.
The drone strike, which came in August just before Trump’s scheduled meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, damaged an infrastructure that supplies Hungary, Slovakia and other Central European countries with Russian oil.
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Following the incident, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent a note to the American president, expressing his concern and pointing out that this is the only pipeline carrying crude oil to Hungary and Slovakia.
A handwritten reply from Trump, recently revealed, shows his anger towards Ukraine and his personal support for Orbán, whom he calls a « great friend ».
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Even as the pipeline was reactivated on August 19, many observers point to the stark contrast between Trump’s virulent reaction to this Ukrainian strike and his much more measured attitude to the repeated Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities, which injures and kills civilians on a daily basis.
Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, recently announced in New Mexico that the border wall would be repainted entirely black, on the direct orders of President Donald Trump.
Trump’s wall at the southern U.S. border will be painted black in an attempt to make things worse for migrants crossing the border, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced.
According to her, the paint is intended to make the surface warmer and therefore harder for migrants to climb.
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Noem also pointed out that this would prevent rust and increase the structure’s durability.
The idea is not new, having already been proposed during Donald Trump’s first presidential term.
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However, several sources, including the Washington Post, point out that a paint test carried out in 2019 had begun to peel in less than 18 months, casting doubt on the effectiveness of the process.
In an interview with conservative host Mark Levin, Donald Trump heaped praise on Benjamin Netanyahu before calling himself a « war hero ».
“He’s a war hero, because we work together. He’s a war hero,” President Trump said of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for ordering his country’s forces to bombard Iran. “I guess I am too,” Trump added.
These remarks caused consternation among many observers.
Trump spared no praise for Netanyahu, calling him a « good man » and praising his role in bombing Iran’s nuclear sites.
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But his remarks about the Israeli president soon took a strange, even uncomfortable turn, according to an article in the New York Times.
Referring to the Israeli bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, Trump presented Netanyahu as « a war hero », stressing that these operations had been carried out jointly: « because we work together ».
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In the process, he went so far as to call himself a « war hero »!
« He’s a war hero […] I guess I am too, » concluded the American president.
Asked about accusations of a possible authoritarian drift on his part, Trump asserted that he was « not a dictator ».
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He added, however, that « a lot of people » might prefer to live under an authoritarian regime.
Trump noted that some people refer to him as a dictator, while others would, he said, show a certain fascination with this mode of governance: « A lot of people are saying: maybe we’d like a dictator.«
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In the end, the president stressed that, in his view, this simply doesn’t concern him:
« I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense, and I’m a smart person. »
According to the Washington Post and CNN, having already deployed troops to the streets of Washington D.C., Trump has been preparing for several weeks to carry out his threat to invade Chicago as early as September.
The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States. https://cnn.it/45yvNjJ
At Trump’s request, the Pentagon has prepared a military deployment plan for Chicago, calling for the mobilization of the National Guard as well as military troops in the city.
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Trump justifies this military intervention with the need, he says, to combat the crime, homelessness and illegal immigration plaguing Chicago, problems he claims are found in most major cities… run by Democrats.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are denouncing what they see as an « authoritarian attempt » by Trump and his administration, claiming that neither the city nor the state has requested such federal intervention.
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They point out that similar deployments have already taken place recently in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and insist that the decision is illegal and unfounded.
They point out that crime in Chicago is down, with fewer homicides and shootings, invalidating the idea of a crisis requiring such intervention.
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However, these figures do not seem to weaken the resolve of Trump, whose decision to send federal troops into Democratic cities is judged by many opponents not as a security measure, but as an authoritarian drift.
Especially as he is now threatening to apply the same strategy to Baltimore and New York…
