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President Donald Trump has reached the “peak of not giving a fuck,” one White House official told The Washington Post for a lengthy report on what went on behind the scenes leading up to the president’s massive tariff announcement this week.
On Wednesday — or “Liberation Day,” as Trump calls it — the president announced massive tariffs on imports from a number of countries. He’s maintained that the massive shift in economic strategy will result in better trade deals and a boost in manufacturing for the United States.
The stock market has meanwhile taken major hits since Trump’s announcement as the tariffs have led to uncertainty among companies and investors.
“He’s at the peak of just not giving a fuck anymore,” a White House official familiar with Trump’s thinking told The Post. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a fuck. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. He’s going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail.”
The Post story — by Natalie Allison, Jeff Stein, Cat Zakrzewski, and Michael Birnbaum — cites other White House officials and paints an administration that is very different from the one Trump oversaw in his first term. Despite strategizing on tariff policy up to just three hours before the president’s official announcement in the Rose Garden, there was reportedly very little disagreement with Trump making the final decisions himself.
“In the first term everyone thought they were president,” a senior White House official said.
Those internal disagreements are apparently a thing of the past now with Trump’s cabinet fully behind his trade war. Officials reportedly offered a variety of options on tariffs for each country and the president went through himself and pick and chose what he preferred.
The final meeting on tariffs included officials like Vice President JD Vance and senior trade advisor Peter Navarro.
“In their recruiting process, they made sure it would only be people who were totally Trumpers, because in the first administration there was a lot of trouble with people quitting, writing bad books, things like that,” Wilbur Ross, commerce secretary in Trump’s first administration, said. “The people now have been confirmed as true Trumpers.”
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Trump Says He’s Signing Executive Order to ‘SAVE TIKTOK,’ Giving Chinese-Owned Company 75 More Days to ‘Close the Deal’
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President Donald Trump issued yet another reprieve to TikTok on Friday, posting on his Truth Social account that he was issuing an executive order to “SAVE TIKTOK.”
Trump has infamously reversed his position on the social media app, owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. In 2020, he signed an executive order that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if ByteDance didn’t sell its interest. TikTok executives were spotted at Trump’s inauguration events smoozing people in the president’s inner circle, and he signed an executive order in January extending the deadline at that time.
The latest version of the grace period was set to end on April 5 — until Trump’s announcement Friday.
Trump wrote :
My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress. The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days. We hope to continue working in Good Faith with China, who I understand are not very happy about our Reciprocal Tariffs (Necessary for Fair and Balanced Trade between China and the U.S.A.!). This proves that Tariffs are the most powerful Economic tool, and very important to our National Security! We do not want TikTok to “go dark.” We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
This is a breaking news story and may be updated.
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Ben Shapiro Hammers Trump’s Tariffs, Warns They Are Likely Unconstitutional And Based On Backward Logic
Conservative talking head and founder of the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, hammered President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on his show this week, noting that they are both “probably unconstitutional” and based on backward logic regarding trade deficits.
“Yesterday, President Trump declared that it was, in fact, Liberation Day, his giant tariff policy that he just dropped on the market unilaterally, probably unconstitutionally. Trump’s reciprocal tariffs imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans be the largest tax increase since the Revenue Act of 1968, one of the biggest tax increases on American consumers in the history of America,” Shapiro said in a clip for Thursday’s show, adding:
Again, it’s going to cost American consumers, it will cost American producers who use inputs from other countries. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted immediately more than a thousand points. The S&P 500 plummeted more than 3%, the NASDAQ plummeting almost four and a half percent.
There are real world implications for this sort of stuff. Trade wars are in fact not good and not easy to win, particularly if you don’t actually have a plan. It is predicated on a bad idea of how international trade works. A fundamental misunderstanding of trade deficits. Trade deficits are an accounting procedure. Trade deficits have pretty much nothing to do with the health of an economy. I can name you a period in American history where there was a fairly large surplus in America’s balance of trade. The entire Great Depression.
During the episode, Shapiro elaborated on his issue with trade deficits driving Trump’s tariff policies.
“So the idea that every trade deficit someone is getting screwed is a zero-sum view of how economies work and it’s not true. As Thomas Sowell points out, the eminent economist, quote, ‘If the goods and services available to the American people are greater as a result of international trade, then Americans are wealthier, not poorer, regardless of whether there is a deficit or a surplus in the international balance of trade,’” he argued, adding:
In fact, I can name you a period in American history where there was a fairly large surplus in America’s balance of trade, the entire Great Depression.
Now, there were times in American history that were great where we also had a surplus. There were times in American history that sucked where we had a deficit, and times in American history that were great where we had a deficit. As it turns out, trade deficits have pretty much nothing to do with the health of an economy.
Notably, Trump also slapped tariffs on countries that the U.S. has a trade surplus with – like the U.K. and Australia.
Watch the clip above, full episode here .
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Russell Brand Denies Rape and Sexual Assault Charges From 4 Accusers, Rips British Government
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British-born comic and actor Russell Brand has opened up about rape and sexual assault charges filed against him Friday, denying the allegations while also tearing into the British government for “weaponizing” the law.
In a social media video titled “My response,” Brand appears from what looks like a tropical location while wearing a sun hat, showing appreciation to his fans and supporters.
“Hello! Firstly, thank you for these incredible and overwhelming messages of support,” he said in the clip, posted several hours after The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star was slapped with two counts of rape, two of sexual assault, and one of indecent assault by Metropolitan Police.
He then blasted the British government.
“We’re very fortunate in a way to live in a time when there is so little trust in the British government. We’re very fortunate, I suppose, that this is happening at a time when we know that the law has become a kind of weapon to be used against people, institutions and sometimes entire nations that will not accept and tolerate levels of corruption around precedent.”
“How do you feel about your legal system right now? How do you feel about some of the high-profile cases that are not being pursued and prosecuted? How do you feel that the Southport murders were handled? How do you feel about the government of Keir Starmer ?”
He then did a heel-turn back to the charges against him, explaining his sordid past while strongly denying the allegations brought by four unnamed accusers that reportedly date back over 20 years.
“I’ve always told you guys, that when I was young and single before I had my wife and family… I was a fool, man. I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord. I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an imbecile. But what I never was was a rapist. I’ve never engaged in nonconsensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes.”
He concluded by saying: “I now have the opportunity to defend these charges in court. And I’m incredibly grateful for that. In the meantime, you lot, stay free. And we will be continuing to discuss this matter. Praise the Lord.”
Brand, 50, was a comedy staple in the UK before exploding on the US scene as Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008. He later reprised the role in 2010’s Get Him to the Greek.
The author and podcaster, who has been open about his past struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, was briefly married to American pop star Katy Perry from 2010 to 2012.
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Trump extends deadline to keep TikTok running in US
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