Trump, Liberation Day and tariffs
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The Wall Street Journal |
All U.S. imports face a baseline 10% tariff, effective Saturday.
The Washington Post |
Wednesday was “Liberation Day,” the start of a multifront trade war President Donald Trump is waging against nearly all of our trading partners.
USA Today |
Some economists predict lower-income households will feel the biggest blow.
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Chinese state media took to social media to post short movies and songs generated with AI in reaction to Trump's tariffs.
CGTN isn’t the only state media outlet to use AI to slam Trump’s trade policy. New China TV, the English-language social-media-focused brand of China’s official state news service Xinhua, also published on April 3 a three-minute, 18-second sci-fi short called “T.A.R.I.F.F.”
Trump wrote in all-caps on his Truth Social platform: “THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
Today’s Forbes Daily newsletter covers Wall Street souring on Trump, the biggest billionaire tariff losers, DOGE cuts worsen March layoffs and more.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the heart of the European drama after Trump's tariff announcement, on travel to NATO headquarters in Brussels for a ministerial meeting of the alliance.
By Jeff Mason and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -He called it "Liberation Day," but President Donald Trump's Wednesday unveiling of reciprocal tariffs could cause political headwinds for his party and economic pain for his constituents if his promises to recast the economy do not work out.
President Trump finally announced his long-awaited “Liberation Day” tariff plan: a new 10% minimum tax on all goods entering the United States from overseas plus much-larger-than-expected “reciprocal” levies on imports from major trading partners such as China (34%),
Donald Trump's tariffs - how will the international film and TV industry be hit by the President's "liberation day" re streaming, advertising etc?