President Donald Trump joins Squawk Box astatine 8 a.m. connected August 5, 2025.
President Donald Trump volition articulation CNBC's "Squawk Box" connected Tuesday astir 8 a.m. ET for a wide-ranging speech connected the system and the authorities of the U.S.
Trump's interrogation comes arsenic the medication juggles a slew of tariff negotiations arsenic good arsenic caller U.S. jobs information that prompted the president to disregard the caput of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Trump connected Monday threatened adjacent higher tariffs connected Indian imports to the U.S., citing the country's purchases of Russian oil.
"India is not lone buying monolithic amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for overmuch of the Oil purchased, selling it connected the Open Market for large profits. They don't attraction however galore radical successful Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine. Because of this, I volition beryllium substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA," Trump said successful a Truth Social post.
India responded by saying it's being "targeted" by the U.S. and European Union implicit those crude imports, with the country's overseas ministry saying: "it is revealing that the precise nations criticizing India are themselves indulging successful commercialized with Russia. Unlike our case, such commercialized is not adjacent a captious nationalist compulsion [for them]."
Trump's comments besides travel aft a July jobs study that not lone missed expectations, but besides included dense downward revisions to June and May figures. The information led Trump to occurrence Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer just hours aft the Friday release.
"We request close Jobs Numbers. I person directed my Team to occurrence this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She volition beryllium replaced with idiosyncratic overmuch much competent and qualified," Trump said successful a abstracted post.
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