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Trump Tariff Update: We need more time as Trump places NSC staff on administrative leave
President of the Europeans Union Commission Ursula von der Leven demands more time for the EU to reach agreement on tariff.
On Sunday, Von der Leven, in a post on X, reveals she spoke with the United States President Donald Trump about giving the European Union more time to reach a good deal.
As the post reads: “it was a ‘good call. The EU would need until July 9 “to reach a good deal.”
Trump Tariff Update: We Need More Time − EU Commission
“Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively,” Von der Leyen said.
“To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9.”
A few days ago, precisely on Friday, the U.S. President had noted that negotiations with the EU were “going nowhere” and added that he would be “recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025” in a post on his Truth social media platform.
Trump disclosed that the European body had been “very difficult to deal with.”
Resigned West Point Professor: Effects of Trump’s executive Orders
As President Trump pioneered his purge of diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in his statement to West Points’ graduating cadets on Saturday, one of the senior West Point Professors, who resigned regarding the protest of a change of administration to the academy, said he opposed Trump’s policy to put on his signature, adorning: “Make America Great Again” hat.
“Making cadets salute him in the hat – that crosses a line for me,” Graham Parsons said.
“He seems really to struggle separating the office of the presidency from himself, and that sort of captured it in a microcosm.”
Within a few days into his second term in office, President Trump signed an executive order which brought an end to DEI programmes in the armed forces.
Trump Tariff Update: We Need More Time − EU Commission
Parsons published a thesis in May, stating that West Point had begun “eliminating courses, modifying syllabuses and censoring arguments to comport with the ideological taste of the Trump administration.”
“These orders are to indoctrinate, not educate. They’re telling us what to think,” said Graham Parsons, who happened to be a professor of philosophy at West Point on military ethics. Parsons had reportedly spent 13 years on the faculty before his resignation.
“It just became professionally untenable – no longer able to pursue the questions that I find important, that my discipline fins important.
“And it’s not just me, it’s the entirety of the academy,” Parsons told me. “It felt like a real professional betrayal.”
Parsons pointed that the administration is saying to professional scholar what “areas of inquiry are legitimate and illegitimate”, describing it as “a very dangerous removal of the boundary between politics and education.”
“My research agenda was effectively banned. The message to cadets was this is not ok, and sometimes you have to put your career aside to do the right thing.”
Trump Tariff Update: We Need More Time − EU Commission
On Saturday, the United States President Donald Trump addressed the graduating class of West Point, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap and assuring them that his foreign policy will look to importance efforts to “make peace and to seek partnership, even with countries where our differences may be profound.”
President Trump said to the graduating students that it was a crucial moment in the Army’s history, adding that political leaders from both parties have illegally used the military for unimportant missions over the past two decades, and described himself as a “peacemaker.”
Trump called the cadets “winners,” and again touted his “Golden Age” agenda and slammed his predecessors for having “dragged our military into missions.”
“It was never meant to be,” Trump said. “It wasn’t meant to be. People would say, why are we doing this? Why are we wasting our time, money and souls.
Trump Tariff Update: We Need More Time − EU Commission
“In some cases, they sent our warriors on nation building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders that didn’t have a clue in distant lands, while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home. All of that’s ended.”
“As president, I am laser focused on our core national interests, my preference will always be to make peace and to seek partnership, even with countries where our differences may be profound,” Trump continued.
Trump criticised the commercial world as “boring” and noted the qualities of “honour” and “sacrifice,” telling the graduating cadets their choice to serve in the military was “better” than going after high-paying jobs on Wall Streets or in Silicon Valley.
“Instead of sports teams and spreadsheets and software, you chose a life of service, very important service,” Trump said.
Over Half Of NSC Affected By Trump Administration’s Restructuring
On Friday afternoon, The Trump administration has succeeded in placing over half of the personnel at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave, as reported by a close source.
This is believed to be part of a restructuring under interim national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Among those affected are career officers and political hires by the administration.
The restructuring is aimed at transferring the office to the State and Defence department. Most significantly, the communications staff of National Security Council are no longer in existence.
Trump Tariff Update: We Need More Time − EU Commission
