The president complains of a "tremendous" trade deficit with its neighbour, saying the US does not need Canadian energy, vehicles or lumber.

Mexico and Canada are putting aside their differences and forming a more united front as they try to head off US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on them as soon as next week. Since winning the election in November Trump has repeatedly threatened his country’s two largest trading partners with tariffs of 25 per cent on all exports to the US in retaliation for what he says are rising levels of illegal immigration and the trafficking of the opioid fentanyl into the country.

September and October, then-candidate Donald Trump waved away concerns about how he would manage Russia’s war in Ukraine, the largest ground conflict in Europe since World War II. In June, September and October,

John Bolton, a former national security adviser during President Donald Trump's first administration and now a vocal Trump critic, warned during a CNN appearance on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "knows how to play Trump,