West Palm Beach, Florida – Two days after sending the global economy staggering by Announcing rates About foreign imports, president Donald Trump He insisted that their commercial policies will never change since it remained installed in a bubble of wealth and power in Florida.
He woke up Friday morning in Mar-A-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, and went to his golf course near a few miles away after writing on social networks that “this is a good time to enrich himself.”
Several followers stopped on the other side of the street while Trump, with his red campaign hat and white polo shirt, slid down a street full of palm trees. They greeted him and he greet again part of a ritual That takes place every weekend in the city.
It was not expected that the Republican president appeared publicly, although he is scheduled to attend a dinner in the candlelight to You are Inc.An allied political organization, Friday night. He also spent Thursday in Miami in one of his different golf courses, where he attended A Tournament funded by Saudi. He landed in Marine One and was collected in a golf cart conducted by his son, Eric.
Trump has often proven to be waterproof to the type of scandals or gaffes that would damage another politic together with the stock market. Tariffs are expected to increase prices in thousands of dollars per year and grant economic growth, and there are fears about A possible recession.
The president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said Friday that the tariffs were “significantly greater than expected” and are “Very likely” To cause more inflation, at least in the short term, but possibly also in the long term.
However, Trump has described his policies as a painful but necessary step to encourage companies to relocate their operations to the United States, and spent the morning defending itself in Truth Social, its social media platform, promising that it is sticking with its policies.
Although experts have strongly criticized Trump’s tariffs, he has found support on Tiktok. He shared a video that said “Trump is crashing the stock market” and “is doing it on purpose” as part of the “secret game he is playing, and could make you rich.”
The goal, the video said is to push the Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates, something Trump explicitly requested later in the morning.
“This would be a perfect moment” for Powell to reduce interest rates, he wrote. “Cut interest rates, Jerome, and stop playing politics!”
With foreign leaders fighting in response to Trump’s announcement this week, the president lashed out and sought to reduce the agreements.
He said he spoke with Lam Vietnamese leader and said that Vietnam wants to eliminate its tariffs on US assets if you can make a deal with the United States.
He also criticized China for announcing their own tariffs on US imports.
“China played it badly, they panicked, the only thing they can’t afford to do!” He wrote.
Trump also celebrated a new report showing that the United States added 228,000 jobs in Marchovercoming expectations. Although the numbers were a snapshot of the economy before the announcement of the rate, Trump said the claim, saying that they already show that their movements are working. “Hard hard,” he wrote. “We can’t lose!”
___ Megeriano informed from Washington.
