On Wednesday, President Donald Trump has officially fulfilled a campaign to launch a sweeping definition, a step for it Fear fears to Global trade war She pushed a major question about what has become the focus of his economic agenda: What is the end of the game?
In both size and scale, Trump’s final plan for global tariffs – a 10 % basic tariff in almost every country, with higher numbers over countries with a larger trade deficit – was more than expected. Global financial markets have left a decline, and Trump supporters may try to link the political needle not to criticize him while they also understand the economic danger that the tariff plan that it might penetrate before 2026 in the renewal elections in the middle of the period in which the Republican Party will try to defend the majority of its slim house and the elderly.
The Trump team has yet to have a clear message either to explain the strategy behind the definitions that its political allies or the thinking process could be frequently visited by the decision to go further than the supporters expected.
Moreover, multiple elements of the overwhelming measures made it seem as if the administration rushed during the operation – including its decision Customs duties on uninhabited islands and Initially recounting tariff numbers In the White House list published on Thursday, which was different from those on the graph that was held in the Al -Warda Park on Wednesday.
One day after the advertisement, Trump did not help provide any of this clarity, as he published hidden messages on the social truth that “lived the patient”, a clear indication of the American economy, and that the “process has ended”, although the customs tariff has not been imposed yet.
“The operation ended! The patient lived, healing,” to publish In the day when the dow Jones industrial average It lost more than 1600 points. “The diagnosis is that the patient will be much stronger, greater, better and more flexible than ever.”
“Make America great again !!!” , Add.
On Thursday afternoon, Trump doubled the measurement in defending his transfer to journalists who asked about the financial market tanks one day after his introductory announcement.
He said, “I think it’s going well.” “It was a process like when the patient is turned on.”
In various points, Trump frame the customs tariff plan as a generator of revenues for the country, saying last week that the definitions will collect “billions of dollars, and even trillion dollars, which come to our country.” At the same time, they discussed them in terms of “fairness”, the idea that it can be used as a tool for rebalancing the global economy, which, according to Trump, was afflicted by foreign countries that benefit from the United States.
Trump has long looked at a commercial deficit as a “subsidy” that the United States provides another country. Economists have rejected this idea almost uniformly, noting that many countries Either very small or very poor To buy enough American goods to compensate for their exports.
The huge size of the customs tariff proposal and the lack of a clear contact from the administration has left some of Trump supporters skeptical and not sure of what will happen after that.
“I have no idea,” said Trump’s supporter and donor 2024 when they were asked what they believed that Trump’s final goal was. “This is much larger than I think most of them will happen during the campaign. I think the best situation is that he gets some concessions from countries quickly and retreats. I don’t know.”
One of the senior assistants of the Republican Party of the Senate said that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller spoke at a lunch with Senate Presidents on Thursday to address fears. This person said that Miller has dealt with the difficult interrogation and provided strong points around the logical basis of national security behind the re -equipment of critical supply chains, given the Cofide crisis.
But this person said that the White House has not yet provided effective messages on other fronts related to the widespread definitions.
This person said: “They have obtained the widely comprehensive topic of what they are trying to say with the re -guidance of the economy.” “The difficult part of this is what you say to the small business that says these definitions will put me under. I have not yet heard a convincing talk about it.”
This person said, though, that the definitions that give Republicans in Congress are more urgent to pass tax cuts to alleviate some of the pressures of definitions, ready to conclude a deal “on commercial measures.
“Donald Trump looks at everything as negotiations, right?” This person said. “This is a kind of view of the world. So I think this is a negotiator, and there will be countries that come to the first table after the other and take an agreement to work with the first economy in the world.”
Since the announcement of Wednesday, Trump’s advisers have been sent to take tours of media interviews to explain this plan. Sometimes, the explanations not only disrupt the water.
White House journalist Caroline Levit CNN told Thursday morning that Wall Street should “trust President Trump” and that there is no level of negotiations by other countries that would reduce or eliminate the specified plan before the definitions come into effect.
She said: “Yesterday, the president explained that this is not negotiations, as this is a state of national emergency.”
The White House conversation points confirmed by NBC News confirmed that the definitions were not a negotiating tool.
However, the message related to “non -negotiation” was contradictory by Trump’s economic advisors – who insist that the step is part of a trick of negotiations to restore what they call “fair trade” – as well as his family and even Trump himself.
“The definitions give us a great power to negotiate,” Trump told reporters on Thursday in the first air force.
Ibn Trump Eric Posted on Thursday morning on x: “I do not want to be the last country to try to negotiate a commercial deal with Realdonaldtrum. The first to win – will win – another will lose. I saw this movie all my life …”
The Minister of Commerce, Howard Lootnick, told Fox News Sean Hanity on Wednesday night that the definitions would demand negotiations by foreign trade partners.
He said: “I must imagine that many of these countries will not like the definitions that enter into force tonight in the middle of the night, and that they will want to negotiate.” “Do you think I am wrong?”
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg News on Wednesday that he was not part of the customs tariff talks within the administration and was not sure whether negotiations with foreign countries would happen before the basic customs duties enter Saturday.
“I am not part of the negotiations, so we will see,” he said. “I’m sure there will be a lot of calls. I am not sure of negotiations.”
Although the advertisement has widely achieved a promise in the Trump campaign to prepare the customs tariff, it also appears to be contrary to another major message that he used in the campaign’s path: it will reduce prices.
“When I win, I will reduce prices immediately, starting from the first day,” Trump said in August.
This topic has turned in recent weeks, as a tariff is likely to be shown on the cost of most consumer goods. The administration now says that its economic policy that focuses on customs tariffs will lead to some “short -term pain” for consumers, but all of this is part of a greater plan to enter what Trump called “”The golden age of America”
This is the message that the most powerful Congress allies have echoed in Trump, even those who are interested in economic and political decline.
“Sometimes at work, you should have short -term pain to achieve long -term gains, and we don’t think this will be long in the short term, if it is at all,” said Senator Marcin Molin, RCOk.
Senator John Kennedy, R-La, admitted to reporters that the Trump administration might have to “re-calibrate” if the original tariff plans are negative to the local economy.
He said: “If they make things better, they must want more. If it makes things worse, they must want to repeat the calibration.” “If it ends with the definitions that harm America, I think you will see President Trump restore calibration.”
For Republican members of Congress, it has become a precise budget law. They are trying not to criticize Trump, taking into account the medium models of 2026 and took into account the recent voting that found that the customs tariff plan is increasingly popular.
A CBS/Yougov poll This week was issued that 55 % of the respondents Feel Trump focuses a lot on the definitions, while 64 % believes that it does not focus enough on lowering prices. A Fox News poll Last month, she found similar feelings, with 53 % of registered voters saying that the definitions “hurt the economy”.
Even before the announcement of Wednesday, the voters questioned Trump’s economic agenda. Last month, NBC news scan was found Trump underwater the economy for the first time in any of his presidential departments.
Meanwhile, Democrats criticized Trump and his white home where officials say the Americans only need to trust Trump’s instincts in trade while somewhat taking the market.
“It is free for me that the stock market has decreased, and economists appear to be alert that we will be drowned primarily in the recession, 900 Stelantis workers have been demobilized in Indiana, and from here in Michigan, and the White House Trump is called the bitterness to name this” Liberation Day “, It announced an offer to obtain a seat in the Senate in the United States Wednesday.
Despite the polling numbers, most Republicans maintain the belief in the Trump business schedule. Among them are the Senator Jim Al -Adl, RW.VA, who said he understood concerns but trusts in Trump to protect West Virginia.
“You have to grow,” said justice. “This is what I think our president is trying to do. I mean, we do nothing. We have to grow.”
“Let her play,” added. “Let’s see what is happening, especially in the next seven days. You will see a lot of activity in the next seven days, and a lot of different things.”
