What - did we all forget so quickly. ??? And except for Billionaires getting richer - The mango Mussolini caved --- Caved to Mexico ,, and Canada , and to a Bond market that was ready to slide off into a FULL BLOWN Depression... and even as US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was testifying on Capitol hill when Trump made his announcement. Greer had offered zero indication to that point the major shift was coming. He had no Idea.....
The one thing that the GOP and Dumpo himself will never do is tell us what the long term plans is - what is spose to happen..... because they just watch and see what happens - and then claim that is exactly what they had planned - although they have no friggin clue what they are doing.....
WTF happened to Liberation Day ??? Bringing Manufacturing Back to the United States ??
“The president wants to increase manufacturing jobs here in the United States of America,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt added on Tuesday. “He wants them to come back home.”
"This is not a negotiation," a senior administration official told reporters. "This is a national emergency."
Thursday: "I don't think there's any chance that President Trump's going to back off his tariffs," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Sunday, Bessent and Lutnick stuck to the script."The tariffs are coming," the commerce secretary told CBS's "Face the Nation. "He announced it and he wasn't kidding."
Bessent struck a similar note on NBC's Meet the Press, when asked if the president was open to negotiation: "No. No, no, no. I think that we are going to have to see the path forward. Because, you know, after 20, 30, 40, 50 years of bad behavior, you can't just wipe the slate clean."
but by Monday Morning,... the President posted on Truth Social.: "Negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately."
A few hours later, on X, Bessent announced trade negotiations with Japan.
Meanwhile, that day, the Financial Times, published an opinion piece by Navarro: "This is not a negotiation," he wrote. "For the US, it is a national emergency triggered by trade deficits caused by a rigged system."
Tuesday: Musk called Navarro "truly a moron," over comments that the trade adviser had made about the Tesla CEO's business.
Bessent told CNBC that since the "reciprocal tariffs" were announced, the White House had heard from 70 countries who wanted to come negotiate.
"It's all President Trump's decision, and he had a view after 'Liberation Day' that we should go into quiet mode and let our partners think about the shock and awe that he presented," he said.
THEN ...........Wednesday, though no deals had yet been announced with other countries, Trump paused reciprocal tariffs.
They claim that they would not negotiate - and then told us that 75 countries called to do just that - but true to plan = like every other thing that coming in two weeks.. - Can't / Won't say what countries....
He left in place a 10% across-the board tax — and increased China tariffs to 125%.
"The world is ready to work with President Trump to fix global trade, and China has chosen the opposite direction," Lutnick said on X. so aride from China, we are back at Status Quo...
And if you had any doubt what this was all about... while YOUR retirement = YOUR 401k -
lost much of its value - FAT NIXON boasted - in the oval office no less - “He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million!
That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to financial investor
Charles Schwab and Roger Penske, a Nascar team owner, respectively.
Schwab’s estimated net worth is $12.6 billion, while Penske’s is $5.6 billion.
Bloomberg reported that Wednesday was the “best day ever” for billionaires, as the world’s wealthiest people raked in a heaping $304 billion as the markets shot back up.
The Post Script to this will be who in Congress bought on the Downside of the stock fall - and then sold - or held - when the Tariffs were lifted - that ladies and gentlemen is insider trading - and prior to this administration - that is Against the LAW