US President Donald Trump does not want Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to resign after their clash at the White House, stated US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in an interview with CNN.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was in the Oval Office for last week's disastrous meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, sought to set the record straight about the motivations of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

White House officials were expecting a positive meeting and said they had little reason to anticipate animosity before things deteriorated.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday that orders an investigation into U.S. imports of wood products, an industry that the president sees as “essential to the national security,

In his third new tariff probe in a week, Trump signed a memo ordering Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to initiate a national security investigation into U.S. lumber imports under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Saturday to launch an investigation into the impact of lumber imports on America's national security, a move that could lead to a new tariff imposition.