Trump says he's not planning to extend a pause on global tariffs beyond July 9

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says helium is not readying to widen a 90-day intermission connected tariffs connected astir nations beyond July 9, erstwhile the negotiating play helium acceptable would expire, and his medication volition notify countries that the commercialized penalties volition instrumentality effect unless determination are deals with the United States.

Letters volition commencement going retired “pretty soon" earlier the approaching deadline, helium said.

“We’ll look astatine however a state treats america — are they good, are they not truthful bully — immoderate countries we don’t care, we’ll conscionable nonstop a precocious fig out,” Trump told Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures" during a wide-ranging interrogation taped Friday and broadcast Sunday.

Those letters, helium said, would say, “Congratulations, we’re allowing you to store successful the United States of America, you’re going to wage a 25% tariff, oregon a 35% oregon a 50% oregon 10%.”

Trump had played down the deadline astatine a White House quality league Friday by noting however hard it would beryllium to enactment retired abstracted deals with each nation. The medication had set a extremity of reaching 90 commercialized deals successful 90 days.

Negotiations continue, but “there's 200 countries, you can't speech to each of them,” helium said successful the interview.

Trump besides discussed a imaginable TikTok deal, relations with China, the strikes connected Iran and his immigration crackdown.

Here are the cardinal takeaways:

Few details connected imaginable TikTok deal

A radical of affluent investors volition marque an connection to bargain TikTok, Trump said, hinting astatine a woody that could safeguard the aboriginal of the fashionable societal media platform, which is owned by China’s ByteDance.

“We person a purchaser for TikTok, by the way. I deliberation I’ll need, probably, China approval, and I deliberation President Xi (Jinping) volition astir apt bash it,” Trump said.

Trump did not connection immoderate details astir the investors, calling them “a radical of precise affluent people.”

“I'll archer you successful astir 2 weeks,” helium said erstwhile asked for specifics.

It's a clip framework Trump often cites, astir precocious astir a decision connected whether the U.S. military would get straight progressive successful the warfare betwixt Israel and Iran. The U.S. struck Iranian atomic sites conscionable days later.

Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive bid to support TikTok moving successful the U.S. for 90 much days to springiness his medication much clip to broker a woody to bring the societal media level nether American ownership.

It is the 3rd clip Trump extended the deadline. The archetypal 1 was done an enforcement bid connected Jan. 20, his archetypal time successful office, aft the level went acheronian concisely erstwhile a nationalist prohibition — approved by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court — took effect.

Trump insists US ‘obliterated’ Iran's atomic facilities

U.S. strikes connected Iran “obliterated” its atomic facilities, Trump insisted, and helium said whoever leaked a preliminary quality assessment suggesting Tehran's atomic programme had been acceptable backmost lone a fewer months should beryllium prosecuted.

Trump said Iran was “weeks away” from achieving a atomic limb earlier helium ordered the strikes.

“It was obliterated similar nobody’s ever seen before,” Trump said. “And that meant the extremity to their atomic ambitions, astatine slightest for a play of time.”

Iran’s ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sunday connected X that Trump "exaggerated to screen up and conceal the truth." Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, told CBS' “Face the Nation” that his country's atomic programme is peaceful and that uranium “enrichment is our right, and an inalienable close and we privation to instrumentality this right” nether the Treaty connected the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. “I deliberation that enrichment volition not — ne'er stop.”

Rafael Grossi, the caput of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said connected CBS that “it is wide that determination has been terrible damage, but it’s not full damage."

Grossi besides said the U.N. atomic watchdog has faced unit to study that Iran had a atomic limb oregon was adjacent to one, but “we simply didn’t due to the fact that this was not what we were seeing.”

Of the leak of the quality assessment, Trump said anyone recovered to beryllium liable should beryllium prosecuted. Journalists who received it should beryllium asked who their root was, helium said: “You person to bash that and I fishy we’ll beryllium doing things similar that.”

His property caput said Thursday that the medication is investigating the matter.

A ‘temporary pass’ for migration raids connected farms and hotels?

As helium played up his migration crackdown, Trump offered a more nuanced view erstwhile it comes to workplace and edifice workers.

“I’m the strongest migration feline that there’s ever been, but I’m besides the strongest husbandman feline that there’s ever been,” the Republican president said.

He noted that helium wants to deport criminals, but it’s a occupation erstwhile farmers lose their laborers and it destroys their businesses.

Trump said his medication is moving connected “some benignant of a impermanent pass” that could springiness farmers and edifice owners power implicit migration raids astatine their facilities.

Earlier this month, Trump had called for a intermission connected immigration raids disrupting the farming, edifice and edifice industries, but a apical Homeland Security authoritative followed up with a seemingly contradictory statement. Tricia McLaughlin said determination would beryllium “no harmless spaces for industries who harbor convulsive criminals oregon purposely effort to undermine” migration enforcement efforts.

Status of China commercialized talks

Trump praised a recent commercialized deal with Beijing implicit uncommon world exports from China and said establishing a fairer narration volition necessitate important tariffs.

“I deliberation getting on good with China is simply a precise bully thing,” Trump said. “China’s going to beryllium paying a batch of tariffs, but we person a large (trade) deficit, they recognize that."

Trump said helium would beryllium unfastened to removing sanctions connected Iranian lipid shipments to China if Iran tin amusement “they tin beryllium peaceful and if they tin amusement america they're not going to bash immoderate much harm.”

But the president besides indicated the U.S. isn’t acrophobic to retaliate against Beijing. When Fox News Channel big Maria Bartiromo noted that China has tried to hack U.S. systems and bargain intelligence property, Trump replied, “You don’t deliberation we bash that to them?”

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