Senin, 03 Juni 2019
President Trump and Prince Charles review guard of honor - CNN
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2019-06-03 12:20:12Z
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Trump shatters diplomatic etiquette on eve of UK visit - CNN
The US President described one of the newest royals, the Duchess of Sussex -- the former Meghan Markle -- as "nasty" when he was told the American had once described him as "misogynistic."
"I didn't know that she was nasty," Trump replied in an interview with "The Sun" newspaper. He then tweeted Sunday morning: "I never called Meghan Markle 'nasty.' "
Even before he landed, Trump and London Mayor Sadiq Khan renewed their long festering spat.
Khan wrote in a weekend column in "The Observer" newspaper that it was "un-British to roll out the red carpet" for Trump since his behavior "flies in the face of the ideals America was founded on -- equality, liberty and religious freedom."
As Air Force One was on its final approach to Britain, Trump hit back.
"@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly "nasty" to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me...." Trump tweeted.
And Trump waded into the Conservative Party's contest to find a new Prime Minister and Britain's paralyzing debate on leaving the European Union, in a way sure to outrage British critics.
Most presidents would go out of their way to avoid such sensitive topics at a moment of extreme political stress. In Trump's case they may deepen his already intense unpopularity in Britain ahead of his arrival for a three-day stay on Monday but enhance his global reputation as an unpredictable, disruptive influence.
Respecting diplomatic niceties has never been Trump's style, and his remarks underscored the intense challenge his visit poses to the "special relationship" between the US and Britain.
Trump's incendiary remarks were conveyed in a pair of bombshell interviews with the "Sun" tabloid and the "Sunday Times" -- papers owned by Rupert Murdoch, the proprietor of Fox News. They came as Britain prepares trademark pomp for Trump, who will be guest of honor at a state banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on Monday, designed to indulge his taste for adulation. First lady Melania Trump will accompany the president to the opulent ballroom.
The President has a habit of ignoring the political and diplomatic sensitivities of his hosts during trips abroad. In Japan just last week, for instance, where he was greeted with supreme flattery and royal ceremony, the President indicated he wasn't much bothered by North Korea's missile tests. His comments did not take into account the fact that such behavior is viewed with alarm and a grave security threat by the government in Tokyo.
Trump's comments ahead of his trip to Britain will also come as a new blow to beleaguered Theresa May, whose premiership has been destroyed by her failure to solve the political crisis provoked by Brexit.
May will trigger a Conservative Party leadership election Friday which will begin a search for her successor and likely produce a new prime minister by the end of the summer. Trump's Washington is clearly rooting for a more openly Euro-skeptic successor to May who could provide an ideological partner more closely aligned with the current White House.
UK has 'got to get it done'
In the Sunday Times interview, Trump suggested that May would have been better off had she adopted his barnstorming negotiating style in intricate exit talks with the EU.
He said May should refuse to pay the $49 billion divorce payment required by the EU if Brussels does not give into Britain's demands and said she should sue the European bloc.
"They've got to get it done," Trump told the paper. "They have got to get the deal closed."
Trump also posed a challenge for candidates battling to become Prime Minister, calling on them to embrace renegade Brexiteer Nigel Farage, whose new party's strong showing in EU elections is posing an existential threat to the Conservative Party.
"I like Nigel a lot. He has a lot to offer," Trump said. "He is a very smart person. They won't bring him in. Think how well they would do if they did. They just haven't figured that out yet."
Farage -- who Trump calls a friend -- is a populist, nationalist leader in the President's own image. Like Trump, he has been accused by critics of using the emotive issue of immigration to advance his own political profile and to create division.
Trump and his national security advisor, John Bolton, have been outspoken proponents of Brexit, given their disdain for international institutions like the EU and attempts to restore national sovereignty rather than multilateral cooperation as the building block of international relations.
The President promised to go all out for a trade deal between the US and the UK if Britain severs ties with the EU.
Trump also warmly praised Boris Johnson, the flamboyant former London mayor who is vying to become Prime Minister, in a remark that looked strongly like an endorsement and struck his critics as meddling in Britain's internal politics.
Johnson "would do a very good job -- he would be excellent," the paper quoted Trump as saying.
Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who wants to force a general election to oust the Conservatives, took exception to Trump's comments.
"President Trump's attempt to decide who'll be Britain's next PM is an entirely unacceptable interference in our democracy," Corbyn wrote on Twitter. "The next PM should be chosen not by the US president, nor by 100,000 unrepresentative Tory party members, but by the British people in a general election."
Trump weighs in on Markle
In an interview with "The Sun" published on Saturday, the interviewer mentioned Markle's 2016 comments that his politics were misogynistic and divisive. Trump responded by saying he had not been aware Markle was "nasty."
In another interview with the "Sunday Times," he also seemed keen to smooth over controversy, saying, "I am sure she will go excellently. She will be very good."
Markle is expected to miss the state banquet at Buckingham Palace because she is on maternity leave, but Trump will have tea with her new father-in-law, Prince Charles, during his visit.
There was no immediate reaction from the British government to Trump's remarks. But officials have learned to expect such flagrant interventions in UK politics from the President.
When he was in London last year, the President detonated a huge controversy by criticizing May's Brexit policies in another "Sun" interview. The comments led him into a rare apology to May from Trump, who seemed unusually chagrined over the interview.
There is also a sense that the President is playing to type and the shock value of his remarks is perhaps not what it was during the early years of his administration.
Trump is not the first US President to weigh in on Brexit. President Barack Obama's comment before the 2016 referendum that Brexit Britain would go "to the back of the queue" regarding a trade deal with the US was criticized by opponents in the UK and the US. But it was an isolated incident that pales into comparison with Trump's frequent interventions into UK politics.
Trump's remarks will fuel what are expected to be intense protests in London during his three-day visit to the United Kingdom, which is laying on an intense security net in central London.
But Trump, who loves nothing more than to be the center of attention, could not capture the main headlines in Britain Sunday morning.
His latest eruptions took second place to coverage of Liverpool's win over Tottenham in an all-English final of Europe's Champions League soccer competition.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/02/politics/trump-protocol-uk-visit/index.html
2019-06-03 11:52:51Z
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The Queen welcomes President Trump to Buckingham Palace - CNN
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2019-06-03 11:54:55Z
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Tariffs on Mexican imports will ripple across the US economy - CNN
In the first three months of the year, Mexico has moved past Canada and China to become the United States' largest trading partner, in terms of the value of goods moving back and forth over the border, with about $50 billion a month in imports and exports so far this year.
The tariffs President Donald Trump has threatened against Mexico would be broad, covering basically everything coming north across the border. They aren't targeted, the way tariffs are typically levied. The impact on business, consumers and the economy could be similarly widespread.
"This is going to be felt by every sector and it's going to be felt by consumers. Not just by businesses. Not just the auto industry. It's going to be felt more widely and deeply than previous tariffs were felt," said Neil Bradley, chief policy officer for the US Chamber of Commerce.
Economists, stunned by the Trump administration's recent action against Mexico, were not prepared to make predictions about how much prices will increase for Americans, because they never considered such an action would take place. Blindsided businesses haven't had time to determine how to replace existing supply chains with other sources, adding stress to American companies.
But some industries could be particularly hard-hit by tariffs on Mexican goods.
The United States imported $59 billion of auto parts from Mexico last year and an additional $52 billion in completed cars. Deutsche Bank estimates that if the tariffs reach 25%, it will add an average of $1,300 to the price of US cars.
Demand for American-made cars could plunge 18% if the tariffs are enacted, according to that estimate. That would be the biggest drop in car sales since the auto industry teetered on ruin ten years ago during the Great Recession.
Electronics
A fifth of computer and electronic equipment imports come from Mexico, according to Goldman Sachs. That's about $44 billion a year in electronics. Mexican televisions, monitor displays and equipment came to more than $9 billion, or more than 35% of those imports.
The United States is also set to raise tariffs on imports from China, which is another huge source of electronics. Businesses in that sector probably won't be able to escape increased costs.
America's oil industry is booming, but Mexico has become an more important source of oil for the United States, because of the cutback in production by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations, as well as the virtual halt of oil coming in from Venezuela.
Mexico sent about $1 billion worth of oil a month north across the border so far this year. That accounted for about 10% of all US oil imports so far this year -- nearly as much as Saudi Arabia exported to the United States. Gas prices have been stubbornly high this year because of the OPEC and Venezuelan cutbacks, and tariffs on such a significant source of oil could boost prices even further.
Wires, cables and conductors
The United States imports $12 billion worth of Mexican wires, cables and conductors: about 50% of America's imports in the market. Although it's not the type of product that many consumers think about, American manufacturers use the components to make all types of goods.
The the low-cost supply from Mexico makes the American goods they go into competitive.
Food products
Eating healthy is going to get more expensive with a 25% tariff on the $15 billion worth of vegetables imported from Mexico. About 35% of all vegetable imports to the United States come from Mexico.
Add in beverages, meats and cereal and Mexican food imports top $24 billion, or about 26% of all imported food to the Untied States, according to Goldman Sachs' figures.
A 25% tariff on avocados would raises costs in the United States by $575 million each year, said Johan Gott, principal at consulting firm AT Kearney. Tomatoes would cost $300 million more. Cucumbers prices would rise by $116 million, and asparagus would cost Americans $107 million each year.
If the tariff remains at 25%, the cost to the beer industry will be $984 million per year, according to the Beer Institute, a trade association for the brewing industry.
Air conditioners, refrigerators, furnaces and ovens
Mexico exported $8.4 billion worth of appliances to the United States last year, which amounted to 44% of American imports in that sector, according to Goldman Sachs.
Dishwashers, laundry machines and other household appliances added another $1.1 billion worth of imports from Mexico.
A potentially bigger threat
The tariffs won't apply to the goods that American farmers and manufacturers send to Mexico. But Mexico could quickly levy their own tariffs on US goods.
"What we've seen in the last year, when one country raises tariffs, retaliation is not far behind," said John Murphy, senior vice president, international affairs, for the US Chamber of Commerce, one of the groups opposing the tariffs.
"Tariffs are sand in the gears of the economy," he said. "They reduce our competitiveness."
-- CNN Business' Nathaniel Meyersohn contributed to this report
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/business/mexican-imports-us-economy/index.html
2019-06-03 11:49:56Z
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President Trump calls Sadiq Khan 'stone cold loser' - BBC News - Go News
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2019-06-03 11:31:24Z
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Donald Trump's state visit to the UK: live updates - CNN
Crowds are beginning to gather outside Buckingham Palace ahead of US President Donald Trump's arrival to meet the Queen.
For two American families, Trump's UK trip came as a surprise. "We were on holiday and just read he was coming, and thought, 'this is going to be interesting!'” Andrea Lofgran, from Arizona, told CNN.
“When we came around the corner and saw the American flag and the Union Jacks together coming down the Mall it sent chills up and down. It was really special," added Lofgran, who is visiting London with her daughter Lauren, nine, and their neighbors Dave and Julia Weed.
“It’s pretty impressive if you think of the Queen and how many presidents she has met. That’s what blows me away," she said.
The Queen has met every US president during her reign, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson. Her first presidential meeting was with Harry Truman in 1951, a year before she ascended to the throne.
"I'm excited to see Marine One and the helicopters," added Lauren.
Joseph Afrane, 55, from London, is used to setting up camp outside Buckingham Palace. The royal fan was in place bright and early. -- wearing a specially-made suit -- as he has been several times for big royal occasions.
"If Her Majesty is holding a very important national event, I will come down as early as half past seven,” he told CNN.
Afrane said he was “very, very excited" about the US President's state visit.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-uk-visit-2019-gbr-intl/index.html
2019-06-03 10:35:00Z
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Donald Trump's state visit to the UK: live updates - CNN
Crowds are beginning to gather outside Buckingham Palace ahead of US President Donald Trump's arrival to meet the Queen.
For two American families, Trump's UK trip came as a surprise. "We were on holiday and just read he was coming, and thought, 'this is going to be interesting!'” Andrea Lofgran, from Arizona, told CNN.
“When we came around the corner and saw the American flag and the Union Jacks together coming down the Mall it sent chills up and down. It was really special," added Lofgran, who is visiting London with her daughter Lauren, nine, and their neighbors Dave and Julia Weed.
“It’s pretty impressive if you think of the Queen and how many presidents she has met. That’s what blows me away," she said.
The Queen has met every US president during her reign, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson. Her first presidential meeting was with Harry Truman in 1951, a year before she ascended to the throne.
"I'm excited to see Marine One and the helicopters," added Lauren.
Joseph Afrane, 55, from London, is used to setting up camp outside Buckingham Palace. The royal fan was in place bright and early. -- wearing a specially-made suit -- as he has been several times for big royal occasions.
"If Her Majesty is holding a very important national event, I will come down as early as half past seven,” he told CNN.
Afrane said he was “very, very excited" about the US President's state visit.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-uk-visit-2019-gbr-intl/index.html
2019-06-03 10:27:00Z
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