President Donald Trump reacted for the first time on Thursday to the consequences of his tariff announcement, which included the markets of Cisotería leaders and foreign leaders who threatened reprisals.
Trump did not have public events in his schedule one day after his dramatic presentation of severe tariffs against practically all US commercial partners, but he did take a single question when he left the White House on Thursday afternoon for a trip to a golf event in Miami.
“Today’s markets are very down … how are you doing?” A journalist asked the president.
“I think it’s going very well,” Trump replied. “It was an operation. I like it when a patient is operated and it’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly as it is.”
Trump continued to project confidence and said that the nations that are affected are now trying to see if they can “make a deal.”
“The markets are going to increase, the shares are going to increase, the country is going to aojar and the rest of the world wants to see if there are a way that they can reach a deal.” Trump said. “They have taken advantage of us for many, many years. For many years we have been on the wrong side of the ball. And I will tell you what, I think it will be incredible.”
President Donald Trump talks to journalists before starting the White House Southn in Washington, DC, on April 3, 2025.
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Later, speaking with journalists on Air Force One, Trump said again that he is willing to make a deal despite the fact that the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt and others, others at first seem to say that the rates would not change
“Tariffs give us great power to negotiate,” Trump said. “I have always used it very well in the first administration, as you saw, but now we are taking it to a completely new level, because it is a worldwide situation, and it is very exciting to see.”
When asked if he was open to deal with these countries that called him, he replied: “Well, it depends. If someone said we will give you something that is so phenomenal, as long as they are giving us something, that is good.”
On early Thursday, Trump administration officials were deployed to deal with the consequences of morning news programs.
“The president made clear yesterday, this is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency,” Leavitt said in CNN.
He is always willing to lift the phone to answer calls, but yesterday he presented the case of why we are doing this and these countries around the world have had 70 years to do the right thing for the American people, and have chosen not to do it, ”Leavitt added.
“I don’t think there is any possibility that President Trump supports his tariffs,” said Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on the network.
World leaders are weighing their response to Trump’s historical encumbrances, some of which come into force on April 5 and others on April 9.
China, which will be affected with a huge rate rate of 54%, urged the US to “immediately cancel its unilateral rates measures and properly resolve differences with its commercial partners through the same dialogue.”
Vice President JD Vance arrives to attend the comments of President Donald Trump about reciprocal rates at an event in the White House Garden in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025.
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At the national level, the shares immersed themselves in the first operations on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Avenge collapsed from 3.75%, the nasdaq heavy technological decreased 5.75% and the S& P 500 fell 4.4%.
Vice President JD Vance, before market sale, acknowledged that Trump’s new mass rates will mean a “great change” for Americans. Trump, before Wednesday’s announcement, had admitted that there could be some short -term pain.
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Leavitt also defended politics when Trump “fulfilled his promise to implement reciprocal tariffs” during an appearance in CNN.
“For anyone on Wall Street this morning, I would say that confidence in President Trump. This is a president who is doubling in his proven economic formula of his first mandate,” he said.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, talks to journalists outside the west of the White House in Washington, on March 27, 2025.
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Neither Vance nor Leavitt directly addressed the increase in the costs that economists say that US consumers are sure to face or how they would help Americans.
“What would ask people to appreciate here is that we are not going to fix things overnight,” said Vance. “We are fighting as quickly as we can to fix what we had left, but it will not happen immediately.”
When asked about the negative commercial reaction, Lutnick told CNN: “They are not counting the factories” who said it would be built in the United States as a result.
“Let Donald Trump direct the global economy. He knows what he is doing,” said Lutnick.
Trump said Wednesday that the works will “roar.”
But he asked Air Force One on Thursday how long it would take to the American manufacture where he would like to see it, Trump said: “Well, let’s say it is a two -year process. You know, they start a plant and they are large plants.”
He continued. “We are also giving them the approval of also, in many cases, building the electrical installation with it. Therefore, it has electricity generation and the plant, and they are large plants. Now, good news is a lot of money for them, and they can build them quickly, but they are still very large plants. I would always say that it has been a two -year medium and a medium.
