Shortly after President Donald Trump suddenly backed up in his “reciprocal” destabilizing, instituting a 90 -day pause for most of the affected nations, except China, journalists asked him what led him to change in the course.
“I thought people jumped a little out of line. They were getting YPy. You know, they were getting a little more, a little scared,” Trump said during a photography operation with racing champions outside the White House.
It is not clear what exactly, but said he had been watching the tremendously volatile markets, including a sale of a sale in the bond market where he said that “people were becoming a little dizzy.”
“In recent days it seemed quite sad,” he said, before resorting quickly to promote the increase in action immediately after his announcement of the 90 -day pause, something that first communicated in a publication on social networks that shook the markets and the world.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event with the racing champions of the Nascar Cup series, the NTT Indycar series and the Imsa Weathertech Sportscar championship, at the White House in Washington, on April 9, 2025.
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“You have to be flexible,” Trump explained, despite repeatedly insisting that his tariffs were here to stay. “You have to be able to show some flexibility. And I can do it.”
Later, at the Oval office, Trump said the pause was something he had been thinking about for a period of time that “joined this morning.”
“And we decided to squeeze the trigger, and we did it today, and we are happy with that,” Trump said.
It was a marked change of his brave at the beginning of the week. Trump had told the correspondent of the Chief of the White House of ABC News, Mary Bruce, on Monday that “he was not looking” a pause.
On Tuesday night, hours before elevated tariffs came into force, their challenging message for Republican legislators at a party dinner was: “I know what the hell I am doing.”
White House officials caused Trump’s abrupt investment as brave and even part of a general general negotiation strategy, despite the fact that the administration had been sending mixed messages about whether the negotiation was even on the table.
“He took a great courage, a great courage for him to follow the course so far and what we have ended here,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Besent.
President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order at the Oval Office of the White House, on April 9, 2025 in Washington.
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“President Trump created the maximum leverage of negotiation for himself, and the tariffs entered into force 15 hours ago, which we have dropped … They were announced a week ago, and we have only been overwhelmed, overwhelmed by the response of our allies, who want to come and negotiate in good faith,” said Bessent.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told the media: “The art of the agreement was clearly lost,” a not so subtle reference to Trump’s book of 1987.
“We finally have a president here at the White House who is playing the long game, which is doing the right thing for the US worker in our industries here at home,” Leavitt said.
While the markets increased after Trump’s pause announcement, uncertainty continues about what happens later.
Besent said Trump wants to be “personally involved” in negotiations with other nations, and that “he will take some time.” Trump said he wants to make “fair offers.”
White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt and Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, talk to journalists outside the west wing of the White House, on April 9, 2025, in Washington.
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The imminent big one is the factor of China such as the United States and Beijing, the two largest economies in the world, rates increase.
As part of the pause, the White House said that for countries they want to negotiate, the reference tariff level for all commercial partners will be reduced to 10%. However, for China, the TUMP rate increases to a huge 125% after Beijing issued retaliation taxes on US assets.
Trump said Wednesday that he was “honest” to have imposed the tariffs, arguing that no other president would have done it.
“Nothing is over, but we have a lot of spirit from other countries, including China,” Trump said. “China wants to make a deal. They just don’t know how to do it.”
The presentation of the “Liberation Day” of Trump of high rates of rates for dozens of commercial partners marked an achievement that Trump pursued for decades.
But in the days that followed, the markets collapsed and billions of dollars were lost in the retirement and savings accounts of the university. Republicans and business leaders began to openly express the growing anxiety of the president’s sweeping approach, some of which Trump said he had seen in cable news programs.
The Republicans of the Senate and the Chamber expressed relief after learning of Trump’s change of opinion.
“Many smiles,” Senator Mike Rounds said.
