Getty ImagesDonald Trump, In Announcing His Sweeping New Tariffs on US Imports on Wednesday, Promised That The History Books Would Liberation Aprember’s “Liberation Day”.
After Two Days of Stock Market Turmoil, Howwever, This May Also Be Remembered As The Week The President’s Second-Term Agenda ran Headfirst Into Economic – and Political – Reality.
US Stocks Have a Thai Trump Unveiled His Tariffs at Wednesday Afternoon’s White House Rose Garden Partners – Canada, The European Union and China – Are Not Backing Away from A Fight.
Meanwhile, Presidential Efforts, on Foreign Policy and Immigration, and At The Ballot Box – Have Faced Notable Setbacks in Recent Days.
A bit of Thursday Felt on The White House Like a Battening Down for a coming Storm. The Four Big Posters Showing America’s “Reciprocal” Tariffs On a Long List Of Strings On The Press Briefing Room, But Administration Officials Available to Respond to the Media Questions Were Few and Far Between.
Out on Pennsylvania Avenue, Metal Fencing Workers, What Will The White House Grounds for Preparation What Officials Anticipate to Be A Large Anti-Trump Demonstration at The Nearby Washington Monument. The First Lady Announced That A White House Garden Tour Event That Had Been Scheduled That Day Was Postponed Because of Security Concerns.
Even The Normally Loquacious President Only Briefly To Talk With Crush Of His Way to Board The Marine One Helicopter On The First Leg Of His Journey to Florida.
“I Said This Would Be Exactly The Way It Is,” He Declared When Asked About The Day’s Stock Market Turmoil. The Markets – And America as a Whole – Would Soon Boom, He Said.
The President, It Seems, Is Willing To Wait Out The Tempest Created by His Tariff Plan. He Appears Confident That His Economic Vision, Job-Rich American Manufacturing Sector Protected From Foreign Competition – A Vision He Start Closely Decades – Will Ultimately Be Proven Right.
The Trump Agenda’s Close Encounter With Cold, Hard Reality Wasnited to Trade This Week, Howwever.
His Two Top Foreign Policy Priority – Ending The Wars in Gaza and Ukraine – Both Appear Mired in the Kind Messy Details and Conflicting Agendas That Often Obstruct Lasting Peace.
Israel has been moved in Gaza and escalated a bombing campnect that is generating Reports of the Widespread Civilian casualties. The Ceasefire That Trump Touted In The Days Hey Took Office Appears to Be Tatters.
Russia, Meanwhile, Continues to Pile to New Conditions To Negotiations With A Full Ceasefire, What is an Indication That The Nation May Be Buying Time To Take It Forces To Take More Territory.
“IF I THINK THEY’RE TAPING US ALONG, I Will Be Not Happy About It,” Trump Said of Russia. But he added that he stud believes President Vladimir Putin Wants to “Make a Deal”.
Evidence So Far Indicates The Contrary, According to Jake Sullivan, Who Was President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser.
In the Interview with the BBC, He Accused Trump Of Handing Russia Most Demands, Though He Acknowled It Still Early in The Process And Things Could Yet Change.
“So the Current Dynamic Negotiations a Russian Wiltering to Reach a Fair and Just Compromise is actually in Moscow That IF Holding Out, They Just Go Going Concessions From The United States States. And So Far That Is What has Happened. “
Even Trump’s Deportation and Immigration Enforcement Efforts, What Still Have High Public Support, Have Be At Least Partially Derailed Legal Challenges.
While His Administration has been successfully compected to transferring the Several Train Venezuelan Gang Members to High-Security Prison, The Judge Prescription times Challenging Those Those Those Those Those Those Those Had? Officials Had Violated His Court Order to Turn The Flights Around.
Other Court Challenges – Political Asylum Processing and Refugee Resettlement, His Attempt to End Citizer and His Revocation About 350,000 Venezuelans – Are Currently Working Their Way Through The Us Legal System.
At Some Point, The US Supreme Court is expected to the Weigh Disputes On Many.
This Week Also Marked The Biggest Round’s News 2024 Victory, AS Votors Headed to the polls in Wisconsin to the State Judge and In Two Florida Seats in the House of Representatives.
While The Republican Candidates in Florida Prevailed, Their Winning Margins Were About 15%, What is About Half of What Trump Posted in Those Congressional Districts in November.
In Wisconsin, a Key Political Battleground State, The Democratic-Backed Candidate Won. Democrats Were To Maintain The Liberal Liberal Majority On The Course Dollars Of Millions Spent Conservative Groups, Including By Tech Billionaire Elon Musk, Who Campaigned There In Person.
Taken the Whole Results That Democrats Are Doing Well in Hotly Contested Races and May Be Reliably Conservative Areas – Part by Campaigning Against Musg and His Efforts to Massively Cut Federal Programmes and Staff.
That could be indication that the party will have the political wind at Their Backs in State Elections This November and The Midterm Congressesal Elections Next Year.
The Stock Market Tumult, and Those Ballot-Box Results, May Be Behudtered Few Signs Of Dissent Within Republican Ranks.
Ted Cruz, An Arch-Conservative Senator From Texas, Said on the Podcast on Friday’s Tariffs “Could Hurt and Could Hurt America” - Particularly IF Other Nations Retaliate, As China Has Staid Done.
“If We’re in Scenario 30 Days From NOW, 90 Days, 90 Days From Now, With Massive American Tariffs, And Massive Tariffs In Every Country On Earth, That Is A terrible Outcome,” He Continued.
On Wednesday night in the US Senate, Four Republicans Joined Democrats to Support the Emergency Declaration That Justifies Trump’s Earlier Canada Tariffs.
And on Thursday, Republican Senator Chuck Gassley with Democrat Maria Cantwell Of Washington To Back Would Require Congress to Directly Approve Tariffs That Stay in Effect Longer than 60 Days.
Republicans by and Large Have Been Sticking With The President. They Seem Unwilling, or Unable to Sway From Trump Current Course on Tariffs And Appear Cuts and Appear Fearthal Consequences of Breaking With The Man Who has a Vise-like Grip on The Party.
But IF The Current Economic Shock Reccomens a long-term hardship, and IF Government Program Cuts Translate Into Tangible Disruptions in Popular Services IF Trump’s Standing in Opinion Polls Continues To SagMembers of His Own Party May Begin Eyeing The Exit Signs For The First Time In Years.
And That Would Bring An Unceremonious End To Trump’s Most Ambitious Efforts.
Trump, No Longer Worried Standing Standing Before Voters, May Feel Liberated From The Immediate Political Consequences of His Actions – But Reality Has a Way of Asserting Its End.
