Trump confirms a ‘digital Fort Knox’ for government-owned cryptocurrency
A day after he signed an executive order announcing the government would establish a digital currency reserve, Trump has held a meeting he dubbed the “ first-ever White House Digital Assets Summit”.
“Last year I promised to make America the Bitcoin superpower of the world and the crypto capital of the planet, and we’re taking historic action to deliver on that promise,” Trump said.
He also explained that the US would acquire more cryptocurrency, which would be managed by the Treasury.
“This will be a virtual Fort Knox for digital gold to be housed within the United States Treasury. That’s a big thing,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump sits next to ‘crypto czar’ David Sacks at the White House Crypto Summit on March 7
US Senator Fetterman backs withholding funds from Columbia
John Fetterman, a staunchly pro-Israel Democrat, has welcomed the Trump administration’s decision to cancel $400m in funding to Columbia University over pro-Palestine student protests.
Fetterman claimed that Columbia, which deployed officers to forcibly disperse the demonstrations last year, let anti-Semitism “run amok to cater to lunatic fringe”.
In a social media post, the senator also asserted without evidence that some of the protesters were “paid provocateurs” and used an expletive to describe the activists.
“Now, Columbia pays for its failure and I support that,” he wrote.
Anti-Trump protesters rally in Prague
People attend an anti-Trump protest called ‘Europe, it’s your turn!’ in Prague, Czech Republic, March 7
Canada’s Conservative leader calls on Trump to end ‘economic chaos’
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has said Trump must stop “attacking American and Canadian workers with unjustified tariffs”.
“My message for President Trump is, stop harming your own economy,” Poilievre told reporters in French during a news conference in Toronto.
“The chaos of each month must stop for the well-being of workers on both sides of the border,” he said, pledging that Canada would defend itself and “respond each time President Trump attacks us”.
“We will defend our workers and our citizens, and we will become more sovereign and independent from the United States.”
Trump hits out at South Africa again
The US president has taken to his Truth Social account to launch another tirade against South Africa, calling the country “terrible … to long time Farmers”.
“They are confiscating their LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. A bad place to be right now, and we are stopping all Federal Funding,” Trump wrote.
“To go a step further, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship. This process will begin immediately!”
Trump last month signed an executive order claiming that an expropriation law passed last year in South Africa enables the government “to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation”.
He also offered to resettle Afrikaaner South Africans, a suggestion that has been rejected by Afrikaaner groups, including those that have lobbied the US and Trump specifically against the South African government.
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