Nations that have not yet been offered a trade proposal or tariff notification by the Trump administration are soon to be, the White House announced. By midnight, nations without current trade negotiations will hear formally from the US, either via executive orders or formal letters, spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.
“The trade team has been burning the midnight oil to reach out to as many countries as possible,” Leavitt said, noting no country will be left in the dark regarding where they are on trade with Washington.
This news follows Trump’s recent efforts at economic pressure internationally. Under a newly announced agreement with the European Union, Leavitt stated that the EU has committed to buying $750 billion worth of US energy products and investing another $60 billion in American businesses by 2028.
She declared the deal “unprecedented” and said it enhances American energy superiority, decreases reliance of the EU on “adversarial sources,” and assists in reducing the US-EU trade deficit.
But the White House is not only boasting about trade it’s also trumpeting President Trump’s status as a world peacemaker.
Leavitt attributed Trump with negotiating a spontaneous ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia, which were reportedly fighting a fatal war. She asserted that the president called the two nations’ leaders directly and threatened them with no further trade talks unless they ceased the fighting.
“Nearby immediately after, peace was negotiated,” Leavitt said, citing the ceasefire saving thousands of lives and paving the way for resumed negotiations.
The government asserts that this is only the latest of a string of diplomatic successes. Leavitt enumerated some of the areas in which Trump supposedly brought an end to conflicts Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia.
President Trump has negotiated, on average, one peace agreement or ceasefire every month,” she said. “It’s long overdue that he receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
While the White House’s swaggering assertions have caught the world’s attention, critics will be sure to scrutinize both the substance of these deals and the long-term stability they suggest. Nevertheless, as election season intensifies, Trump seems to be doubling down on a story that aligns hard-nosed trade strategies with attention-grabbing diplomacy.
