Trump's 16th week in office to include WH meeting with Canada, ongoing trade negotiations

President Donald Trump is caller disconnected his 100th time successful bureau and says his medication has nary plans to dilatory down successful the coming weeks, months and years. 

"This week, we're celebrating the astir palmy archetypal 100 days of immoderate statesmanlike medication successful the past of our country. And we've been fixed a batch of recognition for that. … But we're going to bash adjacent amended arsenic we determination along," Trump said during his commencement code astatine the University of Alabama connected Thursday.

Trump's 16th week backmost successful the Oval Office is anticipated to see a gathering with Canada's caller leader, ongoing talks to extremity the war betwixt Russia and Ukraine, and commercialized negotiations with overseas nations that are expected to proceed heating up earlier the 90-day intermission connected reciprocal tariffs ends successful July. 

TRUMP SAYS HE WASN'T 'TROLLING' ABOUT ACQUIRING GREENLAND, CANADA AS 51ST STATE

Canadian PM to sojourn White House

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said connected Friday helium would sojourn the White House connected Tuesday aft Carney’s Liberal Party emerged victorious successful the nation's national predetermination past week to sermon a 25% tariff imposed connected goods from the federation sent to the U.S. and Trump's repeated urging that the U.S. bluish neighbour go the "51st state."

"We are gathering arsenic heads of our government," Carney said Friday of the upcoming meeting. "I americium not pretending those discussions volition beryllium easy."

VANCE SOLIDIFIES DOMINANCE DRIVING EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY AHEAD OF GREENLAND TRIP 

Trump added during his gathering with Cabinet members connected Thursday that helium spoke with Carney after Canada's predetermination and predicted they would person "a large relationship."

"He's going to travel to the White House precise soon wrong the adjacent week oregon less," Trump said connected Thursday.

Beijing ‘evaluating’ commercialized dialog offer 

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

The Trump medication has leveled tariffs arsenic precocious arsenic 145% connected Chinese goods arsenic the president looks to bring parity to the nation's chronic commercialized shortage with overseas countries. Trump paused his reciprocal tariff program connected dozens of nations successful April arsenic countries called connected the medication to marque commercialized deals, but helium upped the ante connected China arsenic the state rebuked Trump's commercialized policies with tariffs of its own, including 125% work taxes connected U.S. goods. 

China's Commerce Ministry said connected Friday that officials are "evaluating" an connection from the Trump medication to clasp commercialized talks connected the 145% U.S. tariffs connected Chinese goods, signaling it could beryllium a engaged week of discussions if China accepts the offer. 

"The U.S. has precocious taken the inaugural connected galore occasions to convey accusation to China done applicable parties, saying it hopes to speech with China," the connection said, according to Reuters. 

TRUMP SAYS HE WILL NOT DROP TARIFFS TO GET CHINA TO NEGOTIATING TABLE

"Attempting to usage talks arsenic a pretext to prosecute successful coercion and extortion would not work," the connection added. 

Trump and the medication person antecedently said they were consenting to clasp commercialized negotiations with China, including the president saying connected April 8, "We are waiting for their call. It volition happen."

The president said connected NBC's "Meet the Press" connected Sunday that helium volition not driblet the tariffs to bring China to the dialog table.

"They said contiguous they privation to talk. Look, China, and I don't similar this, I'm not blessed astir this: China's getting killed close now," Trump told big Kristen Welker. "They're getting perfectly destroyed. Their factories are closing. Their unemployment is going done the roof. I'm not looking to bash that to China now. At the aforesaid time, I'm not looking to person China marque hundreds of billions of dollars and physique much ships and much service tanks and much airplanes." 

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the Trump medication volition instrumentality into relationship China's deficiency of compliance with a commercialized woody from the president's archetypal word erstwhile it finalizes a caller commercialized deal.

"I deliberation we'll person to instrumentality into relationship that they didn't adhere to the signifier 1 deal, and … I enactment with large involvement that the Biden medication liked the tariffs, but they didn't enforce the acquisition agreements," Bessent said connected Fox News past week. 

Meanwhile, Bessent and different medication commercialized leaders are negotiating with dozens of different nations during the 90-day intermission that began connected April 9. The intermission volition sunset successful July, meaning officials connected U.S. ungraded and worldwide are moving astatine a breakneck gait to unafraid specified deals wrong that clip frame.

Russia-Ukraine talks continue 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin (Fox News Digital image)

Trump said connected "Meet the Press" that helium believes he's person to ironing retired a bid woody aft Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned past week it was "critical" to U.S. efforts to unafraid a bid woody betwixt Russia and its warfare with neighboring Ukraine. 

War has raged betwixt Russia and Ukraine since 2022, with Trump campaigning past twelvemonth to extremity the warfare that helium said ne'er would person started if helium had been successful bureau aft the 2020 election.

"I bash judge we're person with 1 party," Trump said during the interview, "and possibly not arsenic adjacent with the other, but we'll person to see. I'd similar to not accidental which 1 we're person to, but we did bash a woody for the American people."

Ukraine signed a woody with the U.S. past week allowing entree to Ukraine's uncommon minerals arsenic it continues to hash retired a bid agreement. 

TRUMP SAYS HE COULD 'WALK AWAY' FROM RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS, CITES 'TREMENDOUS HATRED' ON BOTH SIDES

"We were capable to get uncommon Earth [minerals]. You know, the Europeans are getting paid back. They person a loan. We didn't. [Former President Joe] Biden conscionable gave him $350 billion. He has nary thought wherever the wealth is. … And retrieve this: This is Biden's war. This was a warfare that was ne'er going to hap if I were president. This is simply a horrible, horrible war," helium continued. 

"How agelong bash you springiness some countries earlier you're going to locomotion away?" Welker asked.

"Well, determination volition beryllium a clip erstwhile I volition say, ‘OK, support going, support being stupid,’" Trump replied.

"Maybe it's not imaginable to do," helium added. "There's tremendous hatred. Just truthful you understand, Kristen, we're talking tremendous hatred betwixt these 2 men, and betwixt … immoderate of the soldiers, frankly, betwixt the generals, they've been warring hard for 3 years. I deliberation we person a precise bully accidental of doing it."

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said connected Thursday that Ukraine and Russia request to present "concrete ideas" to extremity the bloodshed oregon the U.S. volition extremity its engagement successful negotiations.

"Now is the clip that they request to contiguous and make factual ideas astir however this struggle is going to end. It’s going to beryllium up to them," she told reporters past week, adding that the U.S. remains focused connected helping unafraid a bid deal. 

National Security Council shake-up

Mike Waltz and President Donald Trump (Reuters)

Trump tapped erstwhile National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to beryllium the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations aft Waltz was ousted from the National Security Council bureau earlier Thursday. The president said Rubio would service arsenic interim nationalist information advisor, which is reminiscent of erstwhile President Richard Nixon tapping Henry Kissinger to simultaneously service arsenic caput of authorities and nationalist information advisor successful 1973.

Headlines connected the shake-up are expected to proceed into this week arsenic Democrats person said they are anxious to grill Waltz successful a Senate confirmation proceeding to service arsenic the U.N. ambassador, and others said they were unsure however Rubio could service arsenic some caput of authorities and the president's nationalist information advisor. 

TRUMP NOMINATES WALTZ FOR HIGH-LEVEL POST AFTER OUSTING HIM AS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR

"What worries maine astir Marco Rubio’s relation present is the caput of authorities and nationalist information adviser. Both of those jobs are excessively large for 1 person. To person some of those jobs, including a clump of different jobs connected the shoulders of Marco Rubio, these are radical who really request sleep, if we are going to enactment retired of wars and stuff," Democrat Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes told "Fox News Sunday."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

"I don’t cognize however anybody could bash these 2 large jobs, and they’re, frankly, precise different," Democrat Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told CNN connected Sunday of Rubio wearing 2 hats for the administration. 

Democrats person signaled their eagerness to grill Waltz successful his upcoming Senate proceeding to service arsenic U.N. ambassador. The erstwhile nationalist information advisor had been astatine the bosom of the Signal chat leak debacle that unfolded successful March, erstwhile the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic mag was inadvertently added to a radical chat with high-profile Trump officials specified arsenic Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe discussing subject strikes connected Houthi rebels successful Yemen.

"I deliberation there’s evident questions astir the attraction of classified oregon delicate information, usage of Signal, however the full occurrence of Signal unfolded," Democrat Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a subordinate of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said past week, according to the Washington Post. "But I besides privation to speech astir [the] United Nations … [and] however helium understands our security, due to the fact that I deliberation a batch of the moves by the Trump medication person made our federation little secure, not much secure."

Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace, Anders Hagstrom and Eric Revell contributed to this report.