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The S&P 500 closed up approximately 2.4% near 6,496, while the Nasdaq Composite gained roughly 3.3% to around 21,475, indicating a strong market response to geopolitical news.

The president sounded as though his tongue was made of pig iron. And it was completely unclear whether he was escalating the war, declaring victory in the war, or building a new ballroom atop a peak in the Alborz Mountains.

Donald Trump barely shrugged when asked about the deal Prime Minister Mark Carney forged with China this week. The U.S. president said such a deal simply made sense. Well, that's OK, that's what you should be doing. I mean, it's a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that, right? said Trump at the White House on Thursday.

In a statement shared on Truth Social on Saturday morning, Trump said Carney is sorely mistaken if he thinks Canada can become a Drop Off Port' for China to send goods and products into the United States. If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A, Trump wrote in the post, which referred to Carney as governor instead of prime minister. Carney's office did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment on Trump's remarks.

President Trump hates the United States' trade deficit. Indeed, he is so concerned about the "economic and national security risks" the deficit creates that he imposed a tariff regime that raised geopolitical tensions across the globe.The only problem is that his tariffs don't appear to be rebalancing the huge volume of goods and services the U.S. imports, versus its declining exports.

US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a 25% tariff on any country that does business with Iran "effectively immediately." Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that "any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America," while giving few other details.

[The Trump administration] may have entered the office thinking that they could use their economic leverage to push China in certain policy directions," said Amanda Hsiao, a China studies director at the Eurasia Group consultancy.

A year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, a global survey suggests much of the world believes his nation-first, Make America Great Again approach is instead helping to make China great again. The 21-country survey for the influential European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) thinktank also found that under Trump, the US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies particularly in Europe feel ever more distant.