June 15, 2025: Donald Trump presidency news

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President Donald Trump will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum while at the G7 in Canada, a White House official said.

Ukraine and Mexico are not members of the Group of 7 consortium of leading industrialized nations, but both countries’ leaders are expected to attend portions of the summit.

Ukrainian officials are hoping a positive interaction with Trump could advance Kyiv’s case as Russia has ramped up its airborne attacks in recent weeks.

Some context: The first international summit of Trump’s second term will make for an important window into the US leader’s willingness to engage his counterparts collectively, rather than in the confines of the Oval Office, where he has staged sometimes combative encounters with his visitors.

Donald Trump arrives to attend the G7 Leaders' Summit in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Kananaskis, at Calgary International Airport in Calgary on Sunday.

President Donald Trump landed in Calgary, Alberta, late Sunday ahead of the G7, his first international summit of his second administration.

Air Force One landed around 10:40 p.m. ET (8:40 p.m. local) after a flight from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

Trump will travel to his lodgings in the resort town of Kananaskis before beginning his summit engagements Monday.

Tomorrow, he is set to participate in a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, attend several sessions, take a G7 family photo and end his day with a “cultural event,” according to the White House.

President Donald Trump ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “to do all in their power” to achieve “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History” in a social media post Sunday.

“ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” the president posted on Truth Social as he traveled on Air Force One to Canada for the G7 summit.

The president also ordered ICE to “expand efforts” in “the Democrat Power Center” while claiming without evidence that his political opponents are using “Illegal Aliens” to “cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State.”

“We must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” Trump said.

Some context: The president’s post comes as CNN has reported that ICE has been racing to meet White House arrest quotas and amid protests against the administration’s deportation efforts.

Since Trump took office, ICE, which had previously been operating with a set of guidelines focused on public safety and national security threats, has had to pivot as the key agency at the core of the president’s campaign promise to carry out mass deportations.

While the administration has touted its immigration crackdown publicly, privately officials have come under fire for failing to meet White House arrest quotas, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.

As ICE races to fulfill Trump’s goal to increase deportations, the president appeared to acknowledge Thursday that his immigration policies are straining farmers and businesses.

“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump said on Truth Social. “We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”

CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez contributed to this post.

This post has been updated with additional information.

The Rose Garden at the White House is under construction Sunday in Washington, DC.

Construction on the White House Rose Garden is underway, and the historic garden’s green grass is now largely torn up to prepare for President Donald Trump’s plans to install a patio over the coming weeks.

Trump told Fox News in a March interview he planned to remodel the space, saying the grass “doesn’t work.” He plans to turn it into a patio-style seating area, much like the one where he holds court at Mar-a-Lago, his South Florida estate.

On Sunday, the grass gave way to a large patch of dirt. Multiple tractors were atop the formerly grassy area, along with PVC piping, hardwood, tarps and other construction equipment, with bike racks lining the space.

The garden’s iconic roses and other plants, however, remained intact and are not expected to be removed.

First lady Melania Trump came under fire for her 2020 renovation of the Rose Garden, which saw the installation of a new irrigation system, additional pavers for walkways and a more cohesive audiovisual apparatus.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the US has trade deals completed as he headed to the Canadian Rockies, where the world’s biggest economic leaders will meet for a Group of 7 summit.

“Look, we have our trade deals,” Trump told a group of reporters before leaving the White House. “All we have to do is send the letters: ‘This is what you are gonna have to pay.’ I think we’ll have a few new trade deals.”

It’s less than a month until July 9, which is Trump’s self-imposed deadline for when dozens of countries, including several present at the G7 meeting, could face higher tariffs unless they ink trade deals with the US to avert further escalation.

If no trade deal has been negotiated before that deadline, it’s unclear whether Trump would revert to imposing his so-called reciprocal rates — some of which were as high as 50% — or whether countries could face even higher rates. Trump also raised the possibility of extending the pause even further, though Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified last week that may be offered only for countries “who are negotiating in good faith.”

G7 summit: Leaders will also discuss international security at the summit, a senior US official said on a call with reporters previewing Trump’s agenda. The summit comes as conflict between Israel and Iran continues to spiral and as the war between Russia and Ukraine rages on.

President Donald Trump stops and talks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, on Sunday.

While President Donald Trump said Sunday that he wants to see a deal reached between Israel and Iran and that he believes “there’s a good chance” of that happening, he told reporters that “sometimes they have to fight it out.”

Asked how he plans to de-escalate the intensifying conflict between the two nations, Trump said, “I hope there’s going to be a deal. I think it’s time for deal and we’ll see what happens, but sometimes they have to fight it out.”

“I think there’s a good chance there will be a deal,” he added, while speaking outside the White House as he prepared to leave for the G7 summit in Canada.

Trump also said that “we get along really well” with Iran and that he thinks Israel and Iran “have great respect for each other.”

However, Trump declined to say whether he has asked Israel to pause airstrikes into Iran.

“I don’t want to say that,” he said.

The “fight it out” phrase is similar to how Trump has spoken about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including comparing the war over Moscow’s invasion to a fight between children.

“Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled, sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart,” Trump said earlier this month in the Oval Office.

California National Guard are positioned at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that if the National Guard was not in California, protesters “would rip Los Angeles apart.”

“If we didn’t have the National Guard on call and ready, they would rip Los Angeles apart,” the president said as he left the White House to head to Canada for the G7 summit.

Some context: Trump’s comments come after a week of protests in California over Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. A legal battle is unfolding over the president’s decision to deploy troops in an attempt to quell the protests and unrest in Los Angeles.

Thirty-eight people were arrested during demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s administration in downtown Los Angeles yesterday, according to an update from the Los Angeles Police Department.

“There were 35 arrests for curfew, one for Failure to Disperse, one for Resisting, Obstructing, or Delaying a Police Officer, and one for Resisting Arrest,” the LAPD said in a news release today.

Three officers were injured, police added.

Earlier today, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said five people were arrested and 30 others were given citations during the “No Kings” protest.

“There were injuries on both sides,” Bass told CNN’s Dana Bash. “Officers were injured, and so were people that were there.”

About 30,000 people were demonstrating in downtown Los Angeles as well as 15 different locations in the city. The protests were “overwhelmingly peaceful,” Bass added.

Saturday’s demonstration coincided with anti-ICE rallies that have taken place in LA almost daily since early June.

Police have made 561 arrests related to protest activity since June 7, the LAPD said. A dozen officers were injured during these incidents, police noted.

Thousands gathered this weekend to attend “No Kings” protests across the country, denouncing what organizers describe as President Donald Trump’s authoritarian policies.

Here’s a snapshot of the scenes nationwide:

Demonstrators take part in a "No Kings" protest in Chicago on Saturday.

A crowd gathered at Ocean Beach in San Francisco spells out "No King!" when viewed from above.

Constance Felton comforts Daisy Moran during a protest in Atlanta.

Protesters in downtown Los Angeles carry a banner representing the Preamble to the US Constitution.

Bubbles float past US Marines stationed outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles.

See more photos here.

CNN spoke to several people among the huge crowds of demonstrators attending more than 2,000 “No Kings” rallies across the country yesterday.

Here’s why they are protesting, in their own words:

Sen. Alex Padilla speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday.

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla said there are “some serious questions” for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after he was forcefully removed from a news conference she held last week in Los Angeles.

Asked by CNN if he agrees with some Democrats, including fellow California Sen. Adam Schiff, that Noem should resign, Padilla answered, “that’s maybe not my focus right now, but I do think there’s some serious questions.”

Padilla’s removal from the news conference at the Los Angeles FBI headquarters Thursday came with a backdrop of tense protests against ICE raids in the city.

Padilla said he was in the federal building for an unrelated meeting and asked a National Guardsman and FBI agent to escort him to the news conference in hopes of getting answers to his questions about the Trump administration’s “justification for the militarization, the escalation of what was happening in Los Angeles.”

Padilla said there was room for agreement on immigration enforcement, but that the Trump administration was going beyond the norm.

LA County Sheriff's deputies arrest a protester in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said five people were arrested and 30 others were given citations during protests in the area Saturday.

The mayor said about 30,000 people were demonstrating in downtown Los Angeles as well as 15 different locations in the city during protests that were “overwhelmingly peaceful.”

The mayor also talked about the importance of immigrant labor to the community of Los Angeles and how it contributes to a state that has the world’s fourth-largest economy.

President Donald Trump stands during the celebration of the Army's 250th birthday on the National Mall on June 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.

President Donald Trump praised the US Army as the “greatest, fiercest and bravest fighting force” at the conclusion of a display of military might in the nation’s capital yesterday as the Army celebrated its 250th birthday.

The military parade coincided with the president’s 79th birthday and took place as crowds across the country attended “No Kings” protests, denouncing what organizers described as Trump’s authoritarian policies.

The president was welcomed to his parade stand with pomp and circumstance. He arrived to a 21-gun salute — and as the cannons fired, members of the crowd began singing “Happy Birthday to You.”

Here are key moments from the event:

President Donald Trump, flanked by first lady Melania Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, watches the Army 250th Anniversary Parade from the Ellipse in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2025.

People pause to look at a US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter parked on display on the National Mall during the Army 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, DC on June 14, 2025.

Days before immigration raids sparked sometimes violent protests and the deployment of US troops in Los Angeles, Nancy Raquel Chirinos Medina said, her husband received a “strange” text.

The message from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement directed the father of two with one on the way to come to a federal building downtown with his family.

“It really surprised us, especially because it said the whole family had to be there … It was strange,” recalled Chirinos Medina, an asylum seeker from Honduras along with her husband. They routinely checked in with ICE, she said, but their next appointment wasn’t until September.

Chirinos Medina, who’s nine weeks pregnant, as well as her husband, their 8-year-old son, and their US-born toddler, wound up among the nearly 20 immigrant families detained by ICE for hours at that Los Angeles federal building the first Wednesday in June, she said. There were few answers about what was happening and, that night, her husband was arrested and later transferred to an ICE detention center to face deportation.

The events that unfolded that Wednesday, and the days that followed, illustrate the human toll of more aggressive methods the Trump administration have taken to detain migrants in the United States.

Read more on how the crackdown is impacting families here.

Demonstrators participate in "No Kings" protest in Cincinnati, Ohio on Saturday.

We left off our coverage of the protests unfolding across the US bringing you the latest on the more than 2,000 “No Kings” rallies that took place across the country yesterday.

Here’s what to know heading into Sunday:

Yesterday’s demonstrations drew large crowds to the streets to protest what organizers call President Donald Trump’s “authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of our democracy.”

The nationwide rallies, many pre-planned and authorized, were described by law enforcement as largely peaceful, apart from a few incidents.

These demonstrations came after a week of protests against ICE raids in communities with large immigrant populations, with Los Angeles serving as a flashpoint for the nation. They also coincided with Trump’s military parade in Washington, DC.