https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44815558 Donald Trump has said the UK will "probably not" get a trade deal with the US, if the prime minister's [soft] Brexit plan goes ahead.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45930206 President Trump to pull US from Russia missile treaty https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...mp-pulling-out-nuke-treaty-russia/1712994002/ Trump says U.S. will pull out of nuke treaty with Russia that limited number of missiles
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pence-miss-veterans-day-observance-at-arlington-cemetery Trump, Pence miss Veterans Day observance at Arlington Cemetery President Trump is spending Monday at the White House and had no plans to visit Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia as America observes the Veterans Day holiday. The White House announced a so-called travel lid at 10 a.m. ET, meaning that the president is not expected to hold any public events or leave the executive mansion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...heck-shutdown-poised-become-longest-u-n957651 Federal workers miss first paycheck as shutdown poised to become longest in U.S. history The last government shutdown to have lasted this long was in 1996, when President Bill Clinton and the GOP-controlled Congress were at loggerheads.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. From NATO, Aides Say Amid New Concerns Over Russia Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set. Now, the president’s repeatedly stated desire to withdraw from NATO is raising new worries among national security officials amid growing concern about Mr. Trump’s efforts to keep his meetings with Mr. Putin secret from even his own aides, and an F.B.I. investigation into the administration’s Russia ties. A move to withdraw from the alliance, in place since 1949, “would be one of the most damaging things that any president could do to U.S. interests,” said Michèle A. Flournoy, an under secretary of defense under President Barack Obama. “It would destroy 70-plus years of painstaking work across multiple administrations, Republican and Democratic, to create perhaps the most powerful and advantageous alliance in history,” Ms. Flournoy said in an interview. “And it would be the wildest success that Vladimir Putin could dream of.” Retired Adm. James G. Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, said an American withdrawal from the alliance would be “a geopolitical mistake of epic proportion.” “Even discussing the idea of leaving NATO — let alone actually doing so — would be the gift of the century for Putin,” Admiral Stavridis said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/world/europe/boris-johnson-theresa-may.html In Contest to Succeed Theresa May, Stars Are Aligning for Boris Johnson LONDON — Only one person, the joke doing the rounds in Parliament goes, can stop the disheveled, blond-haired, crowd-pleasing former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, from becoming the country’s next prime minister. That is Mr. Johnson himself. One of Britain’s most recognizable, and now most divisive politicians, Mr. Johnson has a history of verbal gaffes, a poor record as a minister and many enemies in Parliament, not to mention among the voters who reject Brexit, which he helped persuade Britons to embrace in a 2016 referendum. But his charisma, flair for publicity and record of winning two elections as mayor of London make him the runaway favorite in a crowded field to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, according to bookmakers. A victory for Mr. Johnson would have significant repercussions and could increase the prospects of Britain hurtling out of the European Union without an agreement at the end of October, despite the potentially dire economic consequences.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ok-trumps-july-event-an-opportunity-troll-us/ Russian state-run media took Trump’s July 4 event as an opportunity to ‘troll’ the U.S. For Russians, who are accustomed to annual nationwide displays of military might, Trump’s event on Thursday isn’t impressive, according to Michael Kofman, an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.