The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, said that personalized prices had been interrupted on Wednesday afternoon due to President Donald Trump wishing to be “personally involved” in negotiations while dozens of nations contact the White House to conclude agreements.
President Donald Trump continued to sunbathe his reputation as a pragmatic president on Wednesday, taking a price break which he had imposed a few days earlier – except against China – when investors showed signs of being “Yippy” and the American economy began to switch.
The break comes a week after the highly anticipated announcement of Trump’s “Liberation Day”, when he unveiled personalized and reciprocal prices out of approximately 90 nations and a reference rate of 10% on all nations. Trump, however, did not suspend the prices of China and rather increased them to 125% due to the “disrespect” of Beijing towards America.
The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, said that personalized reciprocal prices had been interrupted for 90 days due to the high volume of more than 75 countries by contacting the White House to conclude an agreement, adding that Trump wanted to be “personally involved” in conclusion agreements “tailor -made” with nations seeking to negotiate. Trump had declared earlier this week that he would not suspend the prices but that he was open to negotiations.
Trump says that he increases the prices of China more, in break in reciprocal prices for others
Trump told the media that the media was “Yippy” on the price plan and “zero” on the bond market, adding that it must be “flexible” as president.
“I thought people were jumping a bit from the line. They became Yippy. You know, they owe a little Yippy, a little afraid, unlike these champions, because we have a great job to do. No other president would have done what I did.” I know the presidents outside the White House.
President Donald Trump speaks in the oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 26. (Francis Chung / Politico / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Trump added that he must be “flexible” when he was asked for his credibility by announcing a break after having judged publicly that there would be no break at the reciprocal rates.
“You must have flexibility. I could say that there is a wall. … Sometimes you have to go around or under the wall. You have to be flexible,” said Trump.
Fox News Digital put back the previous times, Trump looked at to take a pragmatic and politically beneficial avenue, even if it went against a previous objective.
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During its first administration, a partial closure of the government which continued for 35 days ended in February 2019 when Trump signed a short -term spending bill which did not include financing a border wall despite its requests that these funds be included in the legislation.
The Washington, DC horizon line, including the US Capitol Building, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and National Mall, January 29, 2010. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Trump posted on social networks at the time that the signing of the short -term spending bill was “in no case a concession”, but that he signed it instead to help “millions of people who were seriously injured by closure”. This same month, the congress adopted a financing invoice which included $ 1.4 billion for Border security, While Trump has declared a national emergency to release additional federal funds to finance a border wall.
Trump was congratulated as “pragmatic” by republican allies, foreign leaders and even former President Barack Obama in 2016, who said he did not believe that Trump was “ideological”, adding “, in the end, he is pragmatic in this way”.
Trump also adopted a pragmatic position towards labor relations, in particular by employing or campaigning for politicians of the high -level GOP against which he had previously stolen. Trump, for example, criticized Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in the 2016 presidential election as a total hypocritical “and” like a baby “before the couple became agitated allies, with Trump who campaigned for Cruz in the following years.
Trump also nicknamed then-Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., “Little Marco” during the 2016 force test for the presidential appointment of the GOP before the two became allies and Trump hit Rubio to be his Secretary of State in the current administration.
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Activists attend a demonstration after the Supreme Court’s decision to overthrow the Landmark Roe v. Wade of abortion, in Washington, DC, July 9, 2022. (Photos Reuters / Joshua Roberts / Reuters)
Trump maintained a pro-life position on abortion during his second term, including the signing of a decree to end the use of dollars of federal taxpayers to finance the abortions. But he adopted a more measured approach to abortion during the 2024 electoral cycle after describing himself as “the most pro-life president” after his first administration.
During the 2024 elections, when the assertions were circulating that Trump imposed a national abortion ban if it was re -elected, Trump took a more silent position on abortion, in particular by telling the media that the six -week abortion ban from Florida “is too short.” He also promoted abortion left to states and voters, not to the federal government. The platform of the republican party supported by Trump during the 2024 cycle only mentioned abortion once, which agitated certain conservative supporters.
The position of Trump in 2024 on abortion, however, followed the Supreme Court in 2022, reversing Roe c. Wade, which has indeed ended the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and political football for Democrats in the middle of the outside and in the 2024 elections.
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Representative Elise Stefanik, RN.Y., speaks during an education in the House and the hearing of the working committee in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Last month, Trump took another pragmatic political avenue when he withdrew the appointment of New York GOP representative, Elise Stefanik, the American ambassador to the United Nations as republican concerns mounted concerning the thin majority control of the Party of the Chamber.
Stefanik is a long -standing ally of Trump whom the president praised as an “first incredibly strong, hard and intelligent American fighter”, but she came out of the appointment process to continue the room and maintain a stronger majority for the party.
“I asked Elise, like one of my greatest allies, to stay at the Congress to help me carry out historic tax discounts, to good jobs, to recommend economic growth, to a safe border, to the domination of energy, to peace by force and much more, so that we can make America again. D’Elise.
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Trump also looked to support the popular Tiktok video application after stiff in the platform belonging to Chinese during his first administration. The base of Tiktok includes younger voters who have never used or distant from other social media applications such as Facebook or Instagram and have become a useful tool for the Trump campaign when he joined the support of young people by joining General Z’s podcasts and launching a Tiktok account.
Trump looked at the popular Tiktok video application after stiff in the platform belonging to Chinese during his first administration. (Reuters / Dado Ruvic / Photo / Reuters file)
During his first administration, in 2020, Trump tried to prohibit the application of the American market in relation to national security problems. Quick advance until 2024, and the application was briefly disabled for American residents in January after the former President Biden signed legislation In the law which gave to the parent company of Tiktok until January 19 to sell it or face an American ban.
“If you get rid of Tiktok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” said Trump on Truth Social last year when the application on the application continued, referring to the Mark Zuckerberg technological billionaire.
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The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday after the pricing break that Trump shows in real time “the art of the agreement”, referring to his 1987 book on the commercial advice that promoted the real estate magnate as a leading factor.
“Many of you in the media have clearly missed” the art of agreement “. You clearly haven’t seen what President Trump does here,” said Leavitt. “You have tried to say that the rest of the world would be close to China, when in fact, we saw the opposite effect.
“The whole world calls the United States of America, not China because it needs our markets, they need our consumers and need this president of the Oval office to talk to them. And that’s exactly why more than 75 countries have called, because the United States of America is the best place in the world to do business.”
