President Trump signed seven executive orders, including ones targeting artificial intelligence (AI) use in the classroom as well as college accreditation processes, on Wednesday.
“AI is where it seems to be at,” Trump said during the signing in the Oval Office alongside Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump slammed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky over his opposition to a reported component of a peace deal with Russia.
Under the deal, according to an Axios report, Ukraine would be required to recognize Crimea as Russian, which Zelensky called unconstitutional.
“Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea,” Zelensky said at a press conference on Tuesday. “There’s nothing to talk about here. This is against our constitution.”
Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday and railed against the Ukrainian leader, calling his view “very harmful.”
“The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the ‘killing field,’ and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with ‘no cards to play’ should now, finally, GET IT DONE,” Trump wrote.
Although the stock market rallied early Wednesday morning after Trump teased a cut to the 145 percent tariffs on China, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later signaled that there will be no reduction in tariffs before a deal is reached with Beijing.
“Let me be clear, there will be no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China,” Leavitt said on Fox News.
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