Donald Trump

[O]il prices are plummeting.

Oil prices are down.

Interest rates are down

Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.

Sometimes you have to take medicine.

It would be nice to serve the nice, easy term, but we have an opportunity to change the fabric of our country.

They have to balance out their trade, number one. We have deficits with almost every country — not every country, but almost — and we’re going to change it.

Such a wide use of import taxes should be no surprise for a president who once described himself as 'Tariff Man.'

It was necessary to take medicine to fix what he sees as a trade imbalance.

We’re not looking at that.

If China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th.

There is no better time than now to get this Deal DONE! THE HOUSE MUST PASS THIS BUDGET RESOLUTION, AND QUICKLY — MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Eight million dollars to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho.

Trump and his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have talked about replacing the income tax with tariffs.

Trump claims that his tariffs will revitalize US manufacturing and again make us the world’s preeminent manufacturing power.

The administration’s slapdash tariffs plan is an unworkable wish-fulfillment fantasy.

Chronic trade deficits are no longer merely an economic problem. They're a national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life. It's a very great threat to our country.

We are finally putting America first.

Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years, but this is not going to happen anymore.

But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.

Tariffs, for the United States of America, are a very beautiful thing!

Markets still seem to be pricing assets with the assumption that we will continue to have a fairly soft landing.

The economy is facing considerable turbulence (including geopolitics), with the potential positives of tax reform and deregulation and the potential negatives of tariffs and ‘trade wars,’ ongoing sticky inflation, high fiscal deficits and…

The quicker this issue is resolved, the better because some of the negative effects increase cumulatively over time and would be hard to reverse.

Whether or not the menu of tariffs causes a recession remains in question, but it will slow down growth.