Donald Trump is under pressure from sections of his MAGA-supporting base after a Justice Department memo released on Monday said there was no 'client list' related to the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

US copper prices soared to a record on Tuesday after Donald Trump said Washington would impose 50 per cent tariffs on the industrial metal in the latest escalation of the president’s trade war. “Today we’re doing copper,” Trump said before a cabinet meeting, adding he believed the tariffs would be 50 per cent.

President Donald Trump said pharmaceutical imports would face a "very high rate, like 200%" and he would impose the tariff at a later date.