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Donald John Trump, born June 14, 1946, became the 45th President of the United States in 2017, after he defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the general election of 2016. He was preceded by Barack Obama, who was in office for two terms between January 20, 2009 and January 20, 2017. He was succeeded by Joe Biden, who became 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.
Latest US protectionist moves targeting Chinese steel and aluminium imports, together with other measures, risk another damaging round of trade war.
- The ex-publisher of National Enquirer, Pecker testified to his 2016 involvement in paying US$150,000 for the rights to Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story of her alleged affair with Trump
- The US tabloid also ‘caught and killed’ stories to protect Harvey Weinstein and Arnold Schwarzenegger – but found itself in hot water in 2019 after going up against billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos
Most analysts believe Trump would maintain the alliance to counter Beijing, but some said major shifts including a potential troop pull-out were possible
Though barred from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his hush money case, the ex-US president is free to criticise Judge Merchan.
The move is a rare open act of defiance of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has publicly backed Johnson.
Struggling US-China ties, a human rights shock and a student in big trouble: these are the highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents from April 2024.
Four out of five people who responded to the poll say their opinion of mainland China is unfavourable, about the same as last year.
The US Justice Department is proposing to reclassify the drug, a move that would shake up cannabis policy nationwide.
Donald Trump has made illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border a centrepiece of his campaign against US President Joe Biden, a Democrat who is running for a second four-year term.
Trump was held in contempt of court, a stinging rebuke for the former US president, who had insisted he was exercising his free speech rights.
Rugged ranch fate, or cruel judgment? South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a potential Donald Trump 2024 running mate, has shocked Americans by revealing she once shot her family dog.
The meeting marked a thaw in relations between the former rivals after a brutal Republican primary contest marked by insults and bruised ego.
Libs of TikTok, aka Chaya Raichik, has mastered the art of being a hater on the internet, wrote the kids’ book No More Secrets: The Candy Cavern and is on an Oklahoma library media advisory committee
His comments at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner come as protesters outside slam his pro-Israel stance in the Gaza war.
Meet Allen Weisselberg – retired CFO of the Trump Organisation and the former president’s most trusted accountant who’s heading to prison for the second time aged 76
The US president’s team had previously been non-committal about his willingness to take part in the election tradition against his White House challenger.
The comments come a day after witness David Pecker testified that Trump never mentioned worrying what his wife thought about his alleged affairs.
The National Enquirer’s David Pecker says Trump’s lawyer pressed him to pay Stormy Daniels, but the publisher did not want to be involved with a porn star.
No surprise that Cheung and Trump are both fans of combat sport and WWE, and have been seen together at UFC fights in Vegas … now Cheung is part of Trump’s 2024 presidential election campaign team
Such a delay would be significant because of the broad expectation that, should the ex-US president reclaim the White House, he would order the case dropped.
The felony indictments, which allege a conspiracy to award Arizona’s slate of electors to Donald Trump, are the latest effort by a state to hold accountable those who backed Trump’s false claim that he won the 2020 presidential vote.
Biden signed the bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new US aid to Ukraine, notching a rare bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks re-election.
Donald Trump calls Taro Aso ‘a highly respected man in Japan and beyond’ as he meets with him at Trump Tower in New York.
Legislation, packaged with major foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, now heads to President Joe Biden, who has vowed to sign it into law.
David Pecker testified that the National Enquirer paid for stories of Trump’s sexual misbehaviour but never published them, a practice known as ‘catch and kill’.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump sought to blame President Joe Biden for legislation that would force the sale of social media platform TikTok, even though he attempted to ban the company himself when in office.
New York prosecutors portrayed US$130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as a criminal effort to deceive voters when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behaviour.
He was found to be romantically involved with district lawyer Fani Willis, and later had to step aside for the prosecution of Trump to continue
Meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi expected to cover unfair trade practices and industrial overcapacity in ‘productive and constructive’ trip.
