Folks?
Don’t ya EVER LEARN?
This IS HOW the guy works….
And?
He’s NOT running for ANYTHING anymore, eh?
Top White House and administration officials have been promising businesses, consumers and fellow Republicans more “certainty” on trade in the coming days, eager to calm skittish markets and avoid the stock market plunge that accompanied the White House’s initial tariff roll-outs.
But they have one problem: Donald J. Trump.
Just days out from Trump’s April 2 announcement of global tariffs, which he has hailed as “Liberation Day,” even those closest to the president — from Vice President JD Vance to his chief of staff Susie Wiles and his own Cabinet officials — have privately indicated that they’re unsure exactly what the boss will do, according to three people who have spoken with them.
While some details of the administration’s plan for what Trump has dubbed “reciprocal tariffs” on global trading partners are starting to trickle out, the president has at times upended them or floated contradictory policies that are keeping everyone — even his inner circle — guessing.
“No one knows what the fuck is going on,” said one White House ally close to Trump’s inner circle, granted anonymity to speak freely. “What are they going to tariff? Who are they gonna tariff and at what rates? Like, the very basic questions haven’t been answered yet.”
Indeed, while the White House is projecting confidence publicly, multiple administration officials, as well as top allies on the outside, are privately concerned that next week’s roll-out could be as rocky as when he imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on March 4, worsening a rout on stocks that began in mid-February. Though the S&P 500 has since regained some ground, all of its previous gains since Election Day have been erased.
Part of that is because Trump continues to threaten to plow ahead with an expansive tariff rollout, siding with the trade protectionists in his administration despite warnings from other advisers of the negative economic impacts. Inflation rose at a higher-than-expected rate last month, the Commerce Department disclosed on Friday, even before the potential onslaught of higher prices from the sweeping tariffs.
But it’s also because the president continues to throw curveballs at businesses — and even his own team…..
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“This is Trump, not anyone else,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), when asked who is driving the tariff decisions. “We don’t have the ability to do anything other than complain, which I did,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week. Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who chairs the Senate committee that oversees trade policy issues, told reporters this week he hasn’t yet engaged with Trump on tariffs…
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As for political blowback, this person continued: “No. 1, the president is not running for reelection — so where this may have been a political concern in his first term, it’s not a political concern now. … And No. 2, we’re probably gonna lose the House in the midterms.”…
Note….
I did NOT mention Donald’s hard effort to crash the American Economy….
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