Donald Trump

Donald Trump seemingly has only an elementary view of economics and appears to regard managing global trade as being similar to running a real estate business

Letter: Time to say goodbye to the greenback

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a visit to Jaguar Land Rover in Birmingham in April this year. The luxury car maker is axing up to 500 management jobs in the UK amid a slump in sales and trade tariff woes.

Jaguar Land Rover axing 500 UK management jobs

Tanaiste Simon Harris said he has had “constructive engagement” with representatives of the pharmaceutical sector as the Government attempts to deal with President Donald Trump’s changing US trade policy.

Tanaiste talks to pharma sector amid threat from Trump's tariffs

Toronto is unashamedly North American in look and feel with long avenues lined with gleaming skyscrapers that could easily pass for Manhattan

Travel: What to see and do in Toronto

The heaquarters of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Assembly Buildings in Belfast.

'Iranians in Belfast want regime change – but fear for families'

Morning View

Editorial: There was no easy option with regard to Iran

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine discusses the mission details of a strike on Iran during a news conference at the Pentagon

US and Israel gone to 'extraordinary lengths' to avoid casualties: TUV

This satellite picture by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground nuclear enrichment site at Fordo after a U.S. airstrike targeted the facility Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

DUP, UUP and TUV defend USA's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear programme

UUP MLA Steve Aiken says United States' participation in striking Iran was 'essential'

World is safer place this morning after US strikes on Iran: Dr Steve Aiken

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Calgary International Airport, Sunday, June 15, 2025, in Calgary, Canada, ahead of the G7 Summit. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

UK on alert to bring citizens back from Israel

Say what you like about him, Donald Trump takes spring cleaning very seriously (Picture: Jim Watson)

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Mr Trump – keep cleaning but don’t break precious things

A protestor taunting a line of National Guard in downtown Los Angeles on Monday. Writing in today's News Letter, Phelim McAleer says Donald Trump is taking decisive action to quell the LA riots due to his memories of the George Floyd riots back in 2020

Phelim McAleer: Why Trump is taking decisive action over the LA riots

Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke in October 1919 in the middle of his US presidency

Joe Biden's decline while US president has strong echoes of a predecessor

President Donald Trump and the entrepreneur Elon Musk late last year. They have now fallen out spectactularly (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ben Lowry: A Trump-Musk bust-up, brilliant men ill-suited to our challenges

Donald Trump said he could get a deal to end the fighting in Ukraine in one day, but more than four months since his second-term inauguration that goal looks as far away as ever

Letter: Trump looks as helpless as a Thanksgiving turkey

Tanaiste Simon Harris was in Stormont last week, loftily seeking opinions on how to jointly sort legacy with the UK: a nation that is suing Britain for a shelved conditional amnesty when it has pursued a flagrant de facto amnesty for IRA, wrote News Letter editor Ben Lowry

Letter: Nobody deserves a lecture from Trump
A letter from Walter Ellis:
Letters

Everywhere you look, it’s clear Donald Trump has redrawn the American electoral map, and the Democratic Party is in an enormous hole of its own making, writes Phelim McAleer

Phelim McAleer: Democrats face an electoral crisis

President Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Donald Trump threatens EU with 50% tariffs

His family and political allies ignored the reality that Joe Biden was too old to do another term as US president

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Explosive book exposes Biden's decline and cover up

John Hume refused to run an SDLP candidate against Bobby Sands in the 1981 Fermanagh-South Tyrone by-election, causing divisions within the party

Ruth Dudley Edwards: By hanging on, Hume ensured SF would replace SDLP

Letters to editor

Letter: Give NI Water the ability to borrow to undertake upgrades

Jobs saved by "historic" US trade deal while BA orders new Boeing jets

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025 (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

New American Pope makes first public appearance to jubilant scenes in Rome

Deliveroo has agreed a £2.9bn takeover.

Business in two minutes: Deliveroo takeover and northern start-up boom

Woman fueling car at gas station station.

Price of home heating oil and fuel in NI is at its lowest level since 2021

Heineken is creating around 1,000 jobs as it pumps £40 million into its UK pub estate.

600 UK pubs to get revamp in Heineken's £40m cash injection

US President Donald Trump has put a stop to the doctrine of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Tide is turning against West’s self-harming ideologies
I know there’s no shortage of things to be worried about at the moment, so let’s welcome a few reasons to be cheerful.
Ruth Dudley Edwards

Sinn Fein’s solo run on Irish signs at Grand Central Station is more mischief making. But pPositive unionism has focused upon the real problem with the nationalist language campaign: their lack of respect for democracy

Neil McCarthy: Unionists are wisely ducking efforts to make them seem anti-Irish

Manufacturing and Engineering are on the rise according to the latest NIJobs Job Report.

Report shows strong NI jobs market despite global economic uncertainty

Lidl is to open 40 new UK stores.

Lidl to open 40 UK stores - but economic storm brews for UK economy

Morning View

Editorial: A Trump quality is he retreats from error, as he should do on Russia

(1st ROW - L TO R) French President's wife Brigitte Macron, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Finland's President Alexander Stubb, US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump, Estonia's President Alar Karis, Spain's King Felipe VI and his wife Spain's Queen Letizia observe the coffin of late Pope Francis during the funeral ceremony at St Peter's Square in The Vatican on April 26, 2025. (Photo by ISABELLA BONOTTO/AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Francis: How the funeral of Pope Francis unfolded

Ulster Unionist peer Lord Empey.

Lord Empey hits out at NIO minister's border poll comments

People line up to pay their respects to Pope Francis lying in state, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope's funeral will be a 'masterpiece' in stage managing 'big egos'

Mourners in a queue to enter St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, to view Pope Francis's open coffin as preparations are being made for the funeral of the 88-year-old's Pontiff on Saturday following his death on Easter Monday. Picture date: Friday April 25, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story DEATH Pope. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

Quarter of a million people viewed Pope’s body over three days, says Vatican

Britain's relationship with the EU is "arguably even more important" than trading links with the US, the chancellor said ahead of a meeting with her American counterpart.

Reeves suggests EU relationship is higher priority than US

Conservative President Trump with leftist Pope Francis at Vatican, 2017 Pic Evan Vucci/AFP, Getty

Phelim McAleer: The pope was on the left but many American Catholics back Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Russia-Ukraine peace deal ‘very close’, says Trump as he lashes out at Zelensky

Rory McIlroy enjoying his recent Masters celebrations. The Northern Ireland sporting great will prove the star attraction this summer when Royal Portrush hosts the Open Championship. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

Royal Portrush ready for ‘McIlroy mania’ at summer Open

US Vice President JD Vance has paid tribute to the pope following his death: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Catholic convert JD Vance reacts to death of pope within one day of meeting

The main US and European stock markets suffered historic falls followed by record rises after Trump suspended many tariffs for 90 days

Letter: Trade war is more than just an economic crisis

Ulster University economist and former UUP MLA Dr Esmond Birnie

Republic outperforms NI in some areas - but economy now 'very vulnerable'

Trump’s ‘liberation day’ could create serious economic problems here. The US is our biggest foreign market for goods, if we exclude the Republic of Ireland. And, thanks to the Irish Sea border, we remain effectively in the EU for trade so the goods we buy from America will be subject to Brussels’ duties, rather than Westminster’s

Owen Polley: Windsor Framework has left NI in a uniquely vulnerable position

Stormont Finance Minister Caoimhe Archibald

Working group to assess impact of trade tariffs on Northern Ireland businesses

The US and EU flags together - there is currently a trade dispute between then two over tariffs, with Northern Ireland partially under UK rules and partially under EU ones (photo by SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

Fears if Republic tries to take advantage of NI tariff rate

DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley put to Ms Archibald that businesses need clarity, and said he did not believe they were getting clarity from the department

Northern Ireland’s position ‘complex’ amid incoming US tariffs

TUV MP Jim Allister speaking in the House of Commons during a debate on the Protocol and trade tariffs, 08-04-25

Unionists demand government assert itself over Northern Ireland tariff situation

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn

Benn: NI gains from Windsor Framework will face consequences of US tariffs

Sir Reg Empey has been a long-term critic of those unionist parties which advocated Brexit. Picture Mark Marlow/pacemaker press

'The people who are railing the most against the Protocol led us into it'

(Photos: Getty Images)

Rising tariffs and a falling pound: how it could affect holiday prices

Morning View

Editorial: Trump's tariffs cause global turbulence including uncertainty in NI

(Photos: Getty Images/CNBC)

UK pensions at risk as Trump tariffs spark fears of 'Black Monday 2'

Keir Starmer is trying to work with Donald Trump to counter US tariffs.

Business News: Jaguar Land Rover pauses US exports amid Trump tariffs

Dr Livia Tossici-Bolt delivers a statement outside Poole Magistrates' Court on Friday, where she was found guilty of two charges of breaching an abortion clinic protest buffer zone in Bournemouth. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Welcome for US seeking more pro-life campaigners to support in UK

Esmond Birnie

'It is very likely NI must follow EU lead on retaliation against Trump tariffs'

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