Trump’s ill-defined plan to take over the Gaza Strip and redevelop it into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ has been met with global outrage that threatens to further destabilize the region.

Donald Trump met Jordan's King Abdullah on Tuesday for what was likely to be a tense encounter following the U.S. president's Gaza redevelopment idea and threat to cut aid to the U.S.-allied Arab country if it refuses to resettle Palestinians.

U.S. President Donald Trump is doubling down on his demand that Jordan permanently take in Palestinians while the U.S. takes over Gaza. Tuesday’s White House meeting came amid a possible collapse of the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

President Donald Trump could announce his most sweeping tariffs yet Wednesday, unveiling reciprocal tariffs that Trump argues would level the playing field for the U.S. in global trade and would instantly become the hallmark economic policy of his nascent second term, though economists project they would increase inflation this year.

Donald Trump's trade advisers were finalizing plans on Wednesday for the reciprocal tariffs the U.S. president has vowed to impose on every country that charges duties on U.S. imports, ratcheting up fears of a widening global trade war.

President Trump is hiking tariffs on steel and aluminum, and pledging to impose more. The question is whether this leads to a widening conflict or not.