Canada can avoid tariffs if it becomes a state of the US, president tells business leaders at the World Economic Forum.

Speaking virtually to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump also said he will press NATO members to increase their defence spending target to five per cent of GDP.

President Trump's 'America First' message takes shape, as the rest of the world begins to digest what it might mean for them and global trade.

I was among 700 people in the hall to hear Donald Trump address the World Economic Forum in Davos. I wondered whether his blunt style landed.

Donald Trump for the first time used an international venue on Thursday for his eye-popping suggestion that the U.S. gain an additional state: Canada. In his first global event since becoming U.S. president earlier this week, Trump spoke by video link to the Davos economic forum in Switzerland.

U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking by video to people gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, argued that other countries, including Canada, are taking advantage of the U.S. He also repeated claims that the U.S. doesn't need anything from Canada.

Trump's virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos was full of promises and threats.

President Donald Trump took a combative tone at times as he spoke remotely Thursday to an international audience of business leaders, politicians and other elites at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos,

President Donald Trump promised tax cuts for U.S.-based manufacturing and threatened tariffs on those who didn’t comply.