Trump 2nd term updates: Trump excludes low-value shipments from looming tariffs

During a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, President Donald Trump was asked about his deadline for Canada and Mexico tariffs scheduled for next week, to which he said they will be "going forward, on time, on schedule."

"We're on time with the tariffs and it seems like that's moving along very rapidly," he said, emphasizing his belief that America has been mistreated and taken advantage of by "many" countries.

Earlier this month after negotiating with leaders, Trump postponed the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada to go into effect on March 4.

President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office he believed the war in Ukraine could end "soon." Monday marks three years since Russia's invasion began.

"How soon?" a reporter pressed him.

"I think we could end it within weeks. If we're smart," Trump said. "If we're not smart, it'll keep going and we'll keep losing."

President Trump wrote in a social media post on Monday he's having "serious discussions" with Russia not only on ending its invasion of Ukraine but also on "major economic development transactions" -- though he didn't provide details.

Trump was asked to elaborate on what those transactions would look like as he met with France's Emmanuel Macron in the Oval Office.

"We're trying to do some economic development deals. They have a lot of things that we want, and we'll see. I mean, I don't know if that will come to fruition, but we'd love to be able to do that if we could," Trump said.

"You know, they have massive, rare earth ... they have very valuable things that we could use, and we have things that they could use, and it would be very good if we could do that. I think it would be a very good thing for world peace," Trump said.

Amid confusion regarding Elon Musk's request for federal employees to list five accomplishments they achieved last week, the president has stepped in to defend the OPM email, calling it "great" and arguing that "a lot of people aren't answering because they don't even exist."

When asked about a "disconnect" in communications between Musk and federal agency heads instructing employees not to respond, Trump argued that this was because some employees are working on confidential material.

"And they don't mean that in any way combative with Elon. They're just saying there are some people that you don't want to really have them tell you what they're working on," Trump argued.

"But other than that, I think everyone thought it was a pretty ingenious idea," Trump added.