The crown prince of Saudi Arabia made the comments during a meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump, the first since the journalist’s death

Milestone coincides with Mark Carney’s election victory in Canada as he warns ‘America wants our land’ Good morning and welcome to our blog covering US politics as Donald Trump prepares to mark the first 100 days of his second presidency and as his northern neighbour Mark Carney celebrates his election win in Canada with a warning that “Trump is trying to break us”. My colleague David Smith offers this critique of the chaotic last 100 days: In three months Trump has shoved the world’s oldest continuous democracy towards authoritarianism at a pace that tyrants overseas would envy. He has used executive power to take aim at Congress, the law, the media, culture and public health. Still aggrieved by his 2020 election defeat and 2024 criminal conviction, his regime of retribution has targeted perceived enemies and proved that no grudge is too small. “America wants our land, our resources, our water. These are not idle threats. Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never happen.” Nearly 100 days in office and Donald Trump continued to steadily address his campaign promises to crack down on immigration and focus on law and order. The president issued three new executive orders on Monday, which included taking aims at so-called “sanctuary cities” and shoring up legal protections for police accused of misconduct. Prosecutors filed charges against Mario Bustamante Leiva for allegedly stealing Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s purse. Trump created a “Fema review council” to “fix a terribly broken system” of delivering aid to Americans struck by disasters, naming defense secretary Pete Hegseth and Noem to the council. House Republicans proposed paying tens of billions of dollars for Trump’s border wall construction. Trump threatened to veto the bipartisan Senate resolution focused on “liberation day” tariffs. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are seeking unaccompanied immigrant children, sparking fears of a “backdoor family separation”. As Canadians headed to the polls, Trump issued a statement threatening Canada’s independent sovereignty, describing the border between the two nations as an “artificially drawn line from many years ago”. Congressman Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the oversight committee, announced he will not run for re-election after being diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer. Continue reading...

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