Trump had recently called Iran a "rogue" state, which has aroused fierce response from the Iranian government. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday at the UN General Assembly that Trump's recent anti-Iran speech was "ignorant and spiteful."
Tubbat is devoted to planting trees in the desert in his hometown in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [Photo by Yuan Hui/China Daily]
Trump was apparently delighted by the briefing.
Trump and his trade advisor Robert Lighthizer, former deputy US Trade Representative in the Ronald Reagan administration, might wish to re-live the trade battles against Western Europe and Japan in the 1970s and 1980s.
Trump recognized Warsaw's decision to purchase 32 F-35 fighter jets. A US F-35 fighter conducted a flyover of the White House right before the joint news conference began.
Trump has asserted that barriers would stop drugs from Mexico from entering the US. In fact, government figures show that 90 percent of drugs intercepted from Mexico are caught at ports of entry, not remote areas where barriers would be constructed.
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Tripp became forever linked with the sex scandal that nearly brought down Clinton's presidency by way of her whistleblower role in exposing the extramarital affair he had with Tripp's acquaintance, Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern.
Trump and his conservative allies have insisted that the wall is essential to addressing illegal immigration and drug trafficking, while Democrats have slapped the proposal as an "inefficient, unnecessary and costly" solution to strengthening border security.
Trump defended his use of the term on Wednesday, saying "it's not racist at all", he told reporters. "It comes from China, that is why."
Trump said on Wednesday that he had already made a decision on the fate of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but declined to give detail.