Trump refuses to rule out recession and new Canadian PM Mark Carney vows to win trade war: Live updates

The president is “comfortable” with a democratic ally ceasing to exist if defending it becomes too expensive, he implies.

In the same interview in which he conceded there could be a recession after all, the president reiterated his claim that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has not been sufficiently “grateful” for American aid and alleged that he “took money out of this country… like candy from a baby” (his description of the Biden administration’s policy of military and political support for Ukraine’s military).

Trump also rejected that idea he was supportive of Vladimir Putin, insisting: “Nobody has been tougher on Russia than Donald Trump.”

This was probably the new PM’s key line of the night.

The former Bank of England governor won the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as Canada’s new prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party on Sunday and wasted no time in vowing to take on Trump, urging his country to unite in a defiant acceptance speech.

Carney, who will be sworn in as Trudeau’s successor in the coming days, was elected last night in the middle of a tense moment for his country as tensions escalate with its closest neighbour over tariffs.

After seeing off a challenge from ex-finance minister Chrystia Freeland by securing 85.9 per cent of the votes cast by 150,000 Liberal Party members, Carney hit out at Trump for “attacking Canadian families” and wanting to “destroy the Canadian way of life”.

Here’s a full report from Alexander Butler.

The remarks came after Trump dragged the U.S. and its neighbors through a dizzying week of tariff announcements and U-turns, which saw him imposing 25 percent tariffs against Canadian and Mexican imports before delaying them by one month a day later and moving to double the 10 percent duties it had already levied on China, inviting inevitable reprisals and panicking the markets.

The Trump administration’s top diplomat joined DOGE chief Elon Musk in picking a fight with Poland’s foreign minister on Sunday as the three squabbled over Musk’s Starlink system and its use in Ukraine.

Sunday’s three-way exchange was just the latest example of American foreign relations turning into a blame game as Marco Rubio, the secretary of State, reiterated the White House’s position that Europe was insufficient with its praise and gratitude after three years of US support for Ukraine’s defense.

John Bowden reports from Washington, D.C.

“Our country is on the verge of a comeback, the likes of which the world has never witnessed, and perhaps will never witness again.”

From The Independent’s editorial team:

As Russia regains ground in Kursk, it’s up to Keir Starmer and other European leaders to act — fast.

Plainclothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a recently graduated leader of the Palestine solidarity protests at Columbia University on Saturday, according to his lawyer and student organizers, sparking fears of a long-feared federal crackdown on campus activists.

Mahmoud Khalil, who is Palestinian, had just entered the lobby of his university-owned apartment building near the New York campus when agents approached him and his eight-months-pregnant wife, asking for his identification and saying he was under arrest because the State Department had revoked his student visa.

Josh Marcus has the details.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Justice Department sent a letter to egg companies instructing them to preserve documents about their pricing conversations with customers and competitors, in addition to communications with Expana, formerly Urner Barry, an American business publisher that tracks an egg index.

The department suggested that federal investigators want to review company communications about egg production and bird flu.

Michelle Del Rey has the story.