The own goals will continue to pile up at a rapid rate for this President and his administration. They can't even do a good job of pretending to have a strategy. Obviously just making it up every single minute of the day.
They are not a negotiation tactic! They are to move production back to the USA and raise revenue. They are here to stay. Wait...they ARE a negotiation tactic. 50 countries have already approached us to make a deal! However I cannot stress this enough these are not a negotiation tactic. These are here to stay! President Trump is a master deal maker! But wait...Vietnam has already called us! But they are in fact here to stay, but give us a call, we are here to listen.
April 3rd:
Top Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro denied that Trump’s new tariffs are being used as a tool to negotiate better trade terms with other countries.
April 4th:
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After multiple White House aides insisted that the new tariffs were not a negotiation, Trump said he would be open to negotiating with other countries about the duties.
Trump said he would be open to tariff talks with other counties if they offer something phenomenal, Reuters reported him saying on Air Force One.
Top trade aide Peter Navarro told CNBC less than an hour earlier that the sweeping tariffs are “not a negotiation.”
“This is not a negotiation,” Navarro said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/trum...trade-war.html
April 6th
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Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, told Meet the Press on NBC News that Trump had “created maximum leverage for himself, and more than 50 countries have approached the administration about lowering their non-tariff trade barriers, lowering their tariffs, stopping currency manipulation”.
The agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, echoed Bessent by flagging up possible talks. “We’ve got 50 countries that are burning the phone lines into the White House,” she told CNN’s State of the Union.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tration-reacts
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Howard Lutnick, the billionaire commerce secretary, struck an aggressive note on CBS News’s Face the Nation in which he portrayed the tariffs as here to stay. Asked whether there was a chance that tariffs would be postponed to allow countries to negotiate a deal with Washington, he replied: “There is no postponing – they are definitely going to stay in place for days and weeks, that is sort of obvious.”
“The president has made it crystal, crystal clear,” he said.
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But asked about the example of Vietnam and the potential lifting of tariffs, Trump’s senior counselor on trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro, said the administration wasn’t negotiating.
“This is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency based on a trade deficit that’s gotten out of control because of cheating. We’re always willing to listen, that’s what Donald Trump does best,” he said during an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-...et-volatility/