Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’

The document outlines four “layers of controls and audits” for AI companies. The first involves implementing internal safety monitoring during training – something that already exists at major labs and has failed to prevent testing failures thus far. The second calls for empowering an internal team to make sure the first layer of monitoring is operating correctly, while the third agrees to give an external auditor the ability to independently assess safety controls. Finally, the agreement calls for companies to designate an independent board to review reports about those safety controls… 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/29/trump-ai-deal-tech-ceos-superintelligence 

US and Denmark reach security deal after Trump’s threats to take over Greenland

The agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determination…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/united-states-denmark-greenland-security

  

Trump’s Friends Are Already Signing Deals to Take Venezuela’s Oil – Mother Jones

Chevron is first in line. ExxonMobil—and a company led by a Trump adviser—look to be next.

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trump-venezuela-chevron-exxonmobil-continental-oil-deal/

 

Trump says U.S. has entered deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of its oil reserves | PBS News

Trump has argued that Venezuela stole U.S. oil when former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's moved decades ago to nationalize hundreds of foreign-owned assets, including those owned by American oil companies…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-u-s-has-entered-deal-with-venezuela-to-control-65-billion-barrels-of-its-oil-reserves

 

‘Completely hollow’: critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund

Democrats say agreement – which clears way for Blanche’s confirmation – makes promises president can easily reverse…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/todd-blanche-donald-trump-deal

5 things to know about the TikTok deal - POLITICO

The deal is intended to insulate the social media company from influence by China, avoiding a ban that Congress had mandated in 2024...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/5-things-to-know-about-the-tiktok-deal-00743316 

 

Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland. But the damage has been done. - POLITICO

"The takeaway for Europe is that standing up to him can work. There is relief, of course, that he's taking military force off the table, but there is also an awareness that he could reverse himself," said a European official who attended Trump's speech and, like others interviewed for this report, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. "Trump's promises and statements are unreliable but his scorn for Europe is consistent. We will have to continue to show resolve and more independence because we can no longer cling to this illusion that America is still what we thought it was."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/trump-greenland-military-deal-00739427 

 

This Shutdown Deal Could Fall Apart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvRHulHtbg8

 

Trump brags of ‘massive’ oil deal in Pakistan – but drilling has not found any

Announcement of deal baffles experts and former ministers, who say there is no sign of any untapped reserves…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/27/pakistan-us-oil-deal-analysis-trump

 

U.S. Steel-Nippon deal includes "golden share" giving Trump power to approve big corporate changes - CBS News

The president has the authority to name one of the corporate board's independent three directors and can veto the other two choices, the Associated Press reported, citing a person familiar with the terms of the agreement who insisted on anonymity to discuss them. The details of the board structure were first reported by The New York Times...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-steel-golden-share-trump-approval-relocation-jobs-nippon/ 

 

Trump announces 50% steel tariffs and hails ‘blockbuster’ deal with Japan | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

President tells Pennsylvania rally tariffs will aid workers but questions raised over nature of Nippon Steel investment…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/30/trump-tariffs-steel-japan 

 

A new document undercuts Trump admin’s denials about Tesla deal : NPR

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller...

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump 

 

Kushner’s Saudi deal must be scrutinized to protect U.S. democracy - The Washington Post - Opinion

…The prospect of a dictator using his deep pockets to wield influence at the highest levels of the U.S. political system should be cause for deep concern and targeted action. Not all attacks on American democracy will take the shape of violent insurrections — the corruption of the Saudi-Kushner deal is an attack on democracy, too...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/14/saudi-arabia-kushner-deal-protect-us-democracy/

Trump’s “Deal” With the Taliban Set the Stage for Afghanistan’s Collapse – Mother Jones

… Taliban leaders were emboldened by Trump administration moves. According to the Washington Post, a series of negotiated surrenders began across Afghanistan in early 2020, shortly after Trump announced the US would be leaving: "The deals…were often described by Afghan officials as cease-fires, but Taliban leaders were in fact offering money in exchange for government forces to hand over their weapons, according to an Afghan officer and a U.S. official. Over the next year and a half, the meetings advanced to the district level and then rapidly on to provincial capitals, culminating in a breathtaking series of negotiated surrenders by government forces, according to interviews with more than a dozen Afghan officers, police, special operations troops and other soldiers."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/trump-deal-with-taliban-afghanistan-collapse/

Trump Isn’t Telling Us Everything About His Deal With the Taliban - NYTimes

The administration is keeping two written annexes a secret from the American public. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/opinion/afghanistan-taliban-peace-deal.html

Why U.S. and China are still ‘very far away’ from ending trade war | PBS NewsHour

On Friday, the Trump administration and China announced the first phase of a deal to de-escalate the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. But the agreement, positioned by the White House as a major victory, has prompted many questions, as well as bipartisan criticism. Nick Schifrin reports and talks to Mary Lovely of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-u-s-and-china-are-still-very-far-away-from-ending-trade-war

Breakingviews - Trump and Xi go back to square minus-one - Reuters

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are going back to square minus-one. Under a so-called Phase One deal announced on Friday, the U.S. president will gradually roll back some tariffs while his Chinese counterpart pledged to buy more U.S. crops. It’s limited stability, but companies, their investors and their workers are worse off than when they started.....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-breakingviews/breakingviews-trump-and-xi-go-back-to-square-minus-one-idUSKBN1YH1ZB

Fareed Zakaria: Trump's foreign policy is in shambles

President Donald Trump claimed he was a great dealmaker, but after the collapse of deals with Iran, North Korea and the Taliban, has that claim been proven otherwise? CNN's Fareed Zakaria has the details.....
https://youtu.be/dzg-TT0jnrE

Trump’s better deal with Iran looks a lot like Obama’s - POLITICO

Trump has repeatedly urged Iran to negotiate, saying that Tehran's nuclear ambitions are his chief concern, talking points that experts say echo the 2015 deal.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/17/trump-iran-deal-obama-1417801

Mexico releases the full text of Trump’s immigration “deal” - Vox

It is less a deal and more an agreement to discuss a future agreement...
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/15/18680129/us-mexico-immigration-deal-release-trump-tariff