đŸ”” Trump’s Steel Shocker

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Citizen Frank
May 31, 2025

Good evening. It’s Friday, May 30.

President Donald Trump on Friday told Pennsylvania steelworkers he’s doubling the tariff on steel imports to 50% to protect their industry, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos and other goods.

In a post later on his Truth Social platform, he added that aluminum tariffs would also be doubled to 50%. He said both tariff hikes would go into effect Wednesday.

Trump spoke at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant in suburban Pittsburgh, where he also discussed a details-to-come deal under which Japan’s Nippon Steel will invest in the iconic American steelmaker.

 
 

President Donald Trump said on May 30 that China has “totally violated” its agreement with the United States after the two nations put a pause on escalating tariffs earlier this month.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said the 145 percent tariffs he had placed on China imports made it “virtually impossible” for China to trade with the United States. He said he opted to offer China a deal for their sake, referencing reports of civil unrest among Chinese citizens.

“Two weeks ago China was in grave economic danger!” he wrote. “Many factories closed and there was, to put it mildly, ‘civil unrest.’ I saw what was happening and didn’t like it, for them, not for us. I made a FAST DEAL with China in order to save them from what I thought was going to be a very bad situation, and I didn’t want to see that happen.”

PBS filed a federal lawsuit Friday asking a court to block the May 1 executive order by the Trump White House to cut off funding to public media, calling the move a violation of the 1st Amendment.

The suit from the service that airs “Sesame Street,” Ken Burns documentaries and the “PBS NewsHour” for free to millions of American homes, said that Congress has repeatedly protected PBS from political interference by filtering its funds through the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, which is not a federal agency.

“The [executive order] makes no attempt to hide the fact that it is cutting off the flow of funds to PBS because of the content of PBS programming and out of a desire to alter the content of speech.”

The family of Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel recently revealed a heartbreaking diagnosis just months after the teen brain cancer survivor captured America’s hearts when he was sworn in as an honorary member of the Secret Service by President Trump.

DJ, who was given five months to live after being diagnosed with incurable brain and spine cancer in 2018, has “three new tumors,” his father, Theodis Daniel, told Fox 7 Austin last week.

“It’s rough, there isn’t a class that can teach you how to deal with it. You’re hearing that your child has a nasty disease,” the heartbroken dad said.

Elon Musk said on Friday that while he is taking a step back from his role in the White House, the Department of Government Efficiency, which he helped spearhead, will continue to “grow stronger.”

Musk appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office for a press conference on the end of Musk’s time as a “special government employee.” During the press conference, Trump praised Musk for his work with the DOGE team, and Musk said he would remain an adviser to the president.

“This is not the end of DOGE, but really the beginning,” Musk said. “My time as a special government employee necessarily had to end. It was a limited-time thing 
 but the DOGE team will only grow stronger over time. The DOGE influence will only grow stronger.”

President Trump shockingly said Friday that he would be open to pardoning Sean “Diddy” Combs — currently on trial in Manhattan for alleged sex trafficking and other crimes.

“Nobody’s asked. But I know people are thinking about it. I know they’re thinking about it. I think some people have been very close to asking,” Trump, 78, said during an Oval Office press conference with Elon Musk.

Combs, 55, was arrested in September and has been held without bail on federal charges.

Inflation barely budged in April as tariffs President Donald Trump implemented in the early part of the month had yet to show up in consumer prices, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve’s key inflation measure, increased just 0.1% for the month, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.1%, the lowest of 205. The monthly reading was in line with the Dow Jones consensus forecast while the annual level was 0.1 percentage point lower.

Excluding food and energy, the core reading that tends to get even greater focus from Fed policymakers showed readings of 0.1% and 2.5%, against respective estimates of 0.1% and 2.6%. Central bank officials believe core is a better indicator of longer-term trends.

World Boxing just took a huge step forward in making sure trans-identifying females do not compete in women’s events.

On Friday, World Boxing announced mandatory sex testing for all boxers participating in events under its purview. It was announced that some circumstances of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics – primarily those involving Algerian fighter Imane Khelif and Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting – inspired this change.

In its press release, World Boxing indicated that Khelif will not be able to fight in the female category at the Eindhoven Box Cup, which takes place in the Netherlands from June 5th to June 10th. Originally, Khelif was planning on defending his title from last year, but now that won’t be possible.

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