UQAB Magazine Issue 15

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President Trump dismissed his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, by a twitter message on the 13th of March and announced CIA director Mike Pompeo as his replacement. Then, just hours after Tillerson was fired, Steve Goldstein, the State Department’s undersecretary of public affairs was also fired by the White House for publicly contradicting the White House’s account of Tillerson’s removal

Recently Donald Trump announced via his Twitter feed that the US would be implementing new punitive tariffs on steel imports (at 25%) and aluminum imports (10%) to the US. Although highly unusual for a President to announce such policies via social media, Trump likes to see himself as different, and a master negotiator.