The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, said that the personalized tariffs were arrested Wednesday afternoon because President Donald Trump wanted to be “personally involved” in the negotiations, since dozens of nations get in touch with the White House to reach agreements.
President Donald Trump continued to provide his reputation as pragmatic president, stopping some of the rates he had imposed a few days before, except in China, when investors showed signs of being “Yippy” and the economy of the United States began to stagger.
The pause occurs a week after the long -awaited announcement of Trump’s “Day of Liberation”, when he presented personalized reciprocal tariffs on approximately 90 nations and a 10% reference tariff in all nations. However, Trump did not stop China’s tariffs and, on the other hand, increased them to 125% due to Beijing’s “lack of respect” to the United States.
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, said that the personalized reciprocal rates were stopped for 90 days due to the high volume of more than 75 countries that contacted the White House to reach an agreement, and added that Trump wanted to be “personally involved” in the agreements “tailored” with the nations that seek to negotiate. Trump had said earlier this week that he would not stop tariffs, but was open to negotiations.
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Trump told the media that they were “Yippy” about the tariff plan and “tides” on the bond market, and added that it must be “flexible” as president.
“I thought people jumped a little out of place. They were driving. You know, we are getting a little Ypy, a little scared, unlike these champions, because we have a great job to do. No other president would have done what I did … I know the presidents, they would not have done so, and had to be done,” Trump told reporters Wednesday outside the White House.
President Donald Trump speaks at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 26. (Francis Chung/Politic/Bloomberg through Getty Images/Getty Images)
Trump added that it must be “flexible” when asked about his credibility when he announced a pause after publicly promised that there would be no pause for reciprocal tariffs.
“You have to have flexibility. I could say that there is a wall … Sometimes, you have to go around or under the wall. The financial markets change. Look how much they changed. I think the word would be ‘flexible.’ You have to be flexible,” Trump said.
Fox News Digital took a look at the previous times that Trump has been inclined to take a pragmatic and politically beneficial route, even if it was against a previous objective.
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During his first administration, a partial closure of the government that continued for 35 days came to an end in February 2019 when Trump signed a short -term expenditure bill that did not include funds for a border wall despite its demands that such funds are included in the legislation.
The Washington Horizon, DC, including the United States Capitol building, the monument to Washington, Lincoln Memorial and National Mall, on January 29, 2010. (Saul Loeb / AFP through Getty Images / Getty Images)
Trump published on social networks at that time to sign the short -term expenditure bill was “not a concession”, but signed to help the “millions of people who were seriously injured by the closure.” That same month, Congress approved a financing bill that included $ 1.4 billion for border security, While Trump declared a national emergency to release additional federal funds to finance a border wall.
Trump has been praised 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”, and added: “Ultimately, it is pragmatic in that way.”
Trump has also adopted a pragmatic position towards labor relations, including employment or campaign for high -level Republican politicians against those he criticized previously. Trump, for example, criticized Senator Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, during the 2016 presidential elections as a “total hypocritical” and “as a baby” before the couple became staunch allies, with Trump campaigning for Cruz in the following years.
Trump also nicknamed then Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., “Little Marco” during the 2016 confrontation for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party before the two became allies and Trump took advantage of Rubio to be his secretary of state in the current administration.
Besent warns of China about currency movements, says the bond market ‘disapproved’ is not a systemic problem
The activists attend a protest after the decision of the Supreme Court to revoke the abortion decision Roe v. Wade, in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2022. (Reuters / Joshua Roberts / Reuters Photos)
Trump has maintained a pro-life position on abortion in his second term, including the signing of an executive order to end the use of federal taxpayers to finance abortions. But he adopted a remarkably more measured approach for abortion during the 2024 electoral cycle after describing himself as “the most pro -life president” after his first administration.
During the 2024 elections, as they circulated, Trump would impose a national prohibition of abortion if it would be re -elected, Trump took a more silenced position in abortion, including telling the media that the prohibition of six weeks abortion of Florida “is too short.” He also promoted the abortion that remained to states and voters, not to the federal government. The republican party platform backed by Trump during the 2024 cycle only mentioned abortion once, which irritated some conservative supporters.
However, Trump’s 2024 position on abortion followed the Supreme Court in 2022 that revoked Roe v. Wade, who finally ended the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and raised a political football for the Democrats during the intermediate elections and the 2024.
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The representative Elise Stefanik, RN.y., speaks during an education in education and the hearing of the Labor Force Committee in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang / Bloomberg through Getty Images / Getty Images)
Last month, Trump took another pragmatic political avenue when he withdrew the nomination of the representative of the New York Republican Party, Elise Stefanik, for the United States ambassador to the UN, since republican concerns increased about the thin majority control of the party’s camera.
Stefanik is a Trump ally for a long time that the president has praised as a “first incredibly strong, hard and intelligent America, but left the nomination process to continue at home and maintain a stronger majority for the party.
“I have asked Elise, as one of my greatest allies, to remain in Congress to help me deliver historical tax cuts, excellent jobs, record economic growth, a safe border, domain of energy, peace through force and much more, so that we can make the United States great. However, with a very tight majority, I do not want to have an opportunity to have an opportunity for the seat of Elise. Trump published in Truth Social last month.
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Trump has also inclined to support the popular Video Tiktok application after criticizing the Chinese property platform during his first administration. The Tiktok base includes the younger voters who ever used or moved away from other social media applications such as Facebook or Instagram and became a useful tool for Trump’s campaign, since he brought together support among young people by joining the Gen Z podcasts and launching a Tiktok account.
Trump has inclined to support the popular Video Tiktok application after criticizing the Chinese property platform during its first administration. (Reuters/given RUVIC/File Photo/Reuters)
During his first administration, in 2020, Trump tried to prohibit the application of the US market on national security concerns. Fast progress until 2024, and the application was briefly disabled for US residents in January after the previous President Biden signed legislation By law that gave the parent company of Tiktok until January 19 to sell it or face a prohibition of the United States.
“If you get rid of Tiktok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck they will double their business,” Trump published in Truth Social last year as the debate on the application continued, referring to the technological billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.
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The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday after the announcement on the pause of the Trump’s rate is showing in real time the “art of the agreement”, referring to his 1987 book on commercial advice promoted by the real estate magnate as a main merchant.
“Many of you in the media clearly lost the ‘art of the agreement.’ He clearly did not see what President Trump is doing here,” Leavitt said. “You tried to say that the rest of the world would approach China, when, in fact, we have seen the opposite effect.
“The whole world calls the United States of America, not in China, because they need our markets, they need our consumers and need this president in the Oval office to talk to them. And that is exactly the reason why more than 75 countries have called, because the United States of America is the best place in the world to do business.”
