Trump news live: Canada’s Trudeau blasts president over U.S. tariffs with markets sluggish as they take effect – UK Times

Here’s the Canadian PM just now promising 25 percent tariffs of his own and appealing to his U.S. counterpart directly to back down:

This is getting seriously embarrassing, isn’t it?

Holding up egg cartons, walking out in disgust and wearing symbolic colors are just a few of the ways House Democrats are reportedly considering expressing their dismay during the president’s speech this evening.

Industry expert Patrick De Haan of GasBuddy is warning that Trump’s 10 percent on Canadian energy imports could lead to price rises hitting some U.S. regions pretty quickly while others might not begin to feel the squeeze for one-to-three weeks.

Fuel prices will rise in varying amounts across different U.S. regions, De Haan forecasts, with the northeastern states expected to see the most significant increase at around 20 to 40 cents per gallon by the middle of March.

Refined products like gasoline, diesel, heating oil, propane, jet fuel and more will all be impacted, he says, because American refineries cannot simply switch from processing Canadian to American crude oil as there is specialized equipment, infrastructure, and pipeline configurations involved.

In the longer term, the president’s tariff will add costs throughout the entire American supply and refining system, he states, ultimately passing costs on to consumers in the shape of higher fuel prices.

None of which is likely to play well for Trump in the polls.

Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has been threatening to switch off the supply altogether, declaring: “They need to feel the pain.”

You can watch a livefeed of the Canadian PM’s remarks below.

Here’s Kelly Rissman with the very latest on the markets as the president’s tariffs on some of the United States’s largest trading partners take effect.

Here’s the latest from the president as his trade war gets off to a rollicking start:

The first lady was surprised and frustrated that Democratic lawmakers ignored a roundtable meeting on Capitol Hill on Monday discussing a bill making its way through Congress that would criminalize the sharing of intimate photos online without the subject’s consent.

The bill, called the “Take It Down Act,” would criminalize the sharing of intimate photos on the internet without the subject’s consent, which is colloquially known as “revenge porn.”

Victims of revenge porn have experienced having their nude or otherwise private photos shared widely online.

It’s unclear if the “Take It Down Act” would have stopped Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from sharing nudes of Hunter Biden in front of Congress without his consent.

Rather than calling out a member of Congress for engaging in the very actions she’s advocating to criminalize, the first lady instead expressed her disappointment that more Democrats didn’t attend the roundtable.

Here’s James Liddell on how Trump’s big speech is likely to play out.

Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio has said that the administration should do just about anything to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table to reach a deal on the Ukraine war.

But just over a decade ago, the same man spoke passionately about America’s moral imperative to defend Ukraine against aggression after the nation gave up its nuclear stockpile following the fall of the Soviet Union.

Here’s more from Mary Papenfuss.