Key Takeaways During a White House press conference Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he would not lower tariffs on China in order to get them to the negotiating table.Officials from the two nations are set to meet this week in Switzerland in the first step on trade negotiations.

The meeting came as the United States’ neighbor to the north deals with Trump’s tariffs and threats to annex the country.

Trump’s tariffs have drawn a mixed reaction in a Rust Belt manufacturing hub as layoffs hit a Mack Trucks plant.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs rollout is frustrating U.S. companies’ planning for the rest of the year, preventing some corporate giants from telling investors what to expect and scrambling the broader outlook for stocks.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell pinpointed the exact moment Mark Carney “humiliated” Donald Trump at the Oval Office—and said the president was “too stupid” to notice. The new Canadian prime minister met with Trump on Tuesday and inflicted what O’Donnell referred to as a “steady stream of humiliation” on a president who “is clearly off his game.