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Trump’s self-inflicted tariff crisis sparks confusion, chaos and questions of competence

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    • 88:88
      The president is not going to back off.”
      CNN
      But earlier, on “The Situation Room” on CNN, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, vowed ... And on Fox News, Trump’s top trade adviser Peter Navarro insisted
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      JD Vance
      We’re feeling good.” ... Look, I frankly thought in some ways it could be worse in the markets because this is a big transition.”
      CNN
      As chaos whipped across the planet and American seniors dreaded looking into depleted market-linked retirement savings accounts, Vice President JD Vance said ... He told Newsmax
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      The challenge these tariffs are going to present is that they are almost certainly going to raise the cost of living for Americans at least in the short-term,
      CNN
      Republican pollster and strategist Kristen Soltis Anderson told CNN’s Kasie Hunt
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      Foreign nations who have to sell here are going to lower their prices and then the next thing they’re going to do is continue to manipulate their currency, so our currency is going to get stronger,
      CNN
      Navarro told CNN’s Phil Mattingly
    • 88:88
      Pamela Brown (actress)
      What you’re going to see is factories going to be built here,
      CNN
      Lutnick told CNN’s Pamela Brown
    • 88:88
      Lawrence Summers
      Usually, when you have a terrible stock market experience, it’s because a bank fails or there’s a pandemic or there’s a hurricane or some other country does something,
      CNN
      former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers told CNN’s Hunt
    • 88:88
      Karoline Leavitt
      To anyone on Wall Street this morning, I would say trust in President Trump,
      CNN
      White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on CNN Thursday, trying, and failing, to calm the coming stock market mayhem
    • 88:88
      Tariffs give us great power to negotiate,
      CNN
      he told reporters on Air Force One as he left the growing crisis behind for one of his Florida resorts to host a tournament for the millionaire players on the Saudi-backed LIV rebel golf tour
    • 88:88
      I think it’s going very well,
      CNN
      Trump told reporters Thursday, in the aftermath of his “Liberation Day” announcement the day before
    • 88:88
      It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on and it’s a big thing,
      CNN
      Trump said
    • 88:88
      What Donald Trump is asking is for everybody to endure a little bit of short-term pain in exchange for some long-term benefit — in his view a healthy reordering of the global economy,
      CNN
      she said
    • 88:88
      The country that created, and has gained mightily from, the global trade system is now trying to destroy it,
      The Washington Post
      Zanny Minton Beddoes, the editor in chief of the Economist, wrote in an email
    • 88:88
      If you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then, very simply, you will have to pay a tariff — differing amounts, but a tariff — which will direct hundreds of billions of dollars and even trillions of dollars into our Treasury to strengthen our economy and pay down debt,
      The Washington Post
      he told the gathering at the World Economic Forum
    • 88:88
      Mark Carney
      The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was yesterday,
      The Washington Post
      Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a Thursday speech