Trump said the secretary of the Army, Mark Esper, will be named as the new acting defense secretary. Shanahan had been due to go before the Senate to be confirmed in the Pentagon top job but the alleged domestic violence incidents emerged as the FBI was conducting background checks ahead of a Senate confirmation hearing.
Trump on Monday also blamed the European Union, South Korea and the US' two NAFTA partners, Mexico and Canada, for what he called unfair trade deals, saying "we essentially have bad deals with everyone".
Trump is delivering his third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
Trump's refusal to sign the bill into law also derived from the inclusion of a provision that requires Confederate military bases to be renamed within three years.
Trump was often willing to talk up the "special relationship "between Washington and London, and was a supporter of a no-deal Brexit and the possibility of a free-trade deal with the US, the world's largest economy.
Trump for his part is pressuring Mexico for a deal to keep asylum-seeking migrants on its side of the border while their claims are processed, a possible source of tension between the two leaders.
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Trump's Twitter post appeared not only at odds with the Treasury Department, but with his own national security adviser, John Bolton, a hardliner who DPRK blamed for the breakdown of a second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi last month.
Trump said on Twitter on Sunday about giving ZTE "a way to get back into business, fast", adding he has instructed the US Department of Commerce "to get it done."
Trump said on Tuesday he's optimistic about the prospects of inking a trade deal with India, but offering no details.
Trump has alluded?to the possibility that?Amazon could face antitrust issues?under his presidency. In?an appearance on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News in May he said: “He’s worried about me — I think he said that to somebody, it was in some article — where he thinks I would go after him for antitrust, because he’s got a huge antitrust problem, because he’s controlling so much. Amazon is controlling so much of what they’re doing.”