Posted on 04/06/2025 5:18:38 PM PDT by janetjanet998
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he won’t back down on his sweeping tariffs on imports from most of the world unless countries even out their trade with the U.S., digging in on his plans to implement the taxes that have sent financial markets reeling, raised fears of a recession and upended the global trading system.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he didn’t want global markets to fall, but also that he wasn’t concerned about the massive sell-off either, adding, “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.”
He got an insult in too as he was talking about the medicine :)
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Trump calls a reporters question stupid” for asking if he would reverse course on tariffs because of the market collapsing
https://rumble.com/v6rr5pd-trump-calls-a-reporter-stupid-for-asking-if-he-would-reverse-course-on-tari.html
I’m very down tonight. I don’t know what to think about this anymore. I’m worn out
Japan’s Nikkei index plunges 5 percent - AFP
Stay the course, President Trump, stay the course. Nations are lining up to bargain those tariffs down due to those nations outrageouse tariffs on the US’ goods & services.
Why are you down?
Medicine and surgery, both healing measures, make people reel.
People know this. They know medicine is small doses of poison.
It’s probably why people are not rattled by the Trump healing measures in spite of the AP and all TDS news outlets trying to rile them up
Trump’s approval numbers are climbing over this. 12% among young people, 17% among blacks. In spite of the DJIA
We are looking at a 1974-style Congressional wipeout next year if this continues. At that point, this will impact Trump politically.
Trump knows what he’s doing. This will work out just fine.
Because I’m seeing a lot of conservative saying this is going to fail
If that’s the case I guess it’s over. Then they’ll vote for a Kamala type Democrat in 2028 and then it’s really over
No doubt.
Congressional republicans know this too.
Expect a reaction.
Depends who you are. Many businesses and their employees will get slaughtered. Most of them voted for Trump too.
The good news will take a whole lot of pain. Just go down to the shipyard on April 11th and watch the containers get stored at $1000/day until the 20% tariffs is paid.
You nervous nellies make chicken little look sane.
Nothing good.
Nothing for an investor to do to ride it, but this is bad.
I’m sorry - and I don’t care if people hate me saying it.
But this is like Eisenhower taking office and saying “I know he just died, but maybe we should let Stalin develop a 5 year plan for the free market economy”.
Maybe the global capitalists *are* stealing the fruits of the proletariat!
Maybe we *should* have a centrally planned economy!
Maybe we *should* let the collectivists create a 5-year plan and follow it.
Madness.
Ugh
No. We are the truth tellers. Truth to power.
The Dow jones being down for a period of time is meaningless in this case
I watch post op patients and their numbers days after surgery. They come in after smoking, drinking, eating too much for 60 years they get desserts literally cut out of them. Anemia sets in. High white blood cell count at. Wacky electrolytes some go on dialysis, then they settle into better health their numbers come back to normal. This economy and the corrupt government needs an amputation. It will set things reeling
Expect it
Trump isn’t a doctor. He’s a builder. The metaphor is knocking down the failing parts of a building to get to the solid foundation- which our country has. Trump sees it and will get to it. It will take a lot of what looks like falling and crashing. But it is the bad stuff falling away not the healthy foundation itself
Yep
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