The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

In retaliation, Trump threatened a "massive increase" on tariffs on Chinese products coming into the US, even though he said the move would be "potentially painful." Tariffs on Chinese imports into the US currently stand at 30%, down from the high point of 145% earlier this year.

President Trump's tariff and trade policy is set to influence Social Security's "raise" for the upcoming year.

DEARBORN, Michigan, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Lifelong Democrat Samra'a Luqman became a vocal backer of Donald Trump in 2024, helping to rally support for him among the pivotal Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan, in the hope that he could end the Gaza war.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado called him and said she accepted the prize in his honor, after the White House said earlier in the day that the Nobel Committee had chosen "politics over peace.