Trump, new tariff and U.S. Trade Policy
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A three-peat was not in the cards for President Donald Trump, whose back-to-back A+ weeks were overshadowed by new court losses, more market rattling tariffs, and MAGA outrage over his attorney general’s moves in the Jeffrey Epstein sex case.
President Donald Trump has been sending letters to countries outlining higher tariffs they’ll face if they don’t make trade deals with the U.S. by Aug. 1.
President Donald Trump started his week with the devastating news of deadly floods in central Texas while also negotiating a peace deal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports on a week that also saw a reciprocal tariffs deadline move to August and questions over who ordered a Ukraine weapons pause.
After President Donald Trump paused his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April, his trade adviser Peter Navarro promised that the administration would deliver “90 deals in 90 days.” But that deadline came and went Wednesday with the White House 88 trade deals short.
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President Donald Trump has managed to make his erratic trade policies even more baffling to countries desperate to negotiate an escape from his wrath.
The U.S. is going to provide more weapons to Ukraine after having recently paused a shipment to the country, Trump said. He added that he's "not happy" with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The president’s supporters portray him as a top dealmaker. But, at least for now, far more trading partners have gotten stiff tariffs than trade deals.
The American public knows Donald Trump is lying about tariffs. And as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains, they’ve figured it out without any help from the White House press corps who continue to accept his lies as answers.
President Trump plans to issue an executive order to extend the pause on his steep, so-called reciprocal tariffs to Aug. 1, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. The pause had been set to expire Wednesday.
The new tariff rates threatened in the letters Trump shared Wednesday are similar to those he announced on what the White House dubbed “Liberation Day” in early April.