Yesterday, after the stocks and bond markets showed considerable "volatility"
(newspeak for wiggling around with no sense of direction), the Trump
administration announced that the new reciprocal tariffs on countries other than China were
to be suspended for 90 days for negotiations, with the 10% base tariff remaining.
Stocks responded with an immediate jump of roughly 3000 points on the Dow and
similar jumps on the other indices. Was this part of a grand strategery on part
of the Trump team, or the result of them caving to economic pressures? I don't
know, and neither do the people who will tell you one way or the other. It does
put a lot of pressure on China, because they need to sell to their biggest
market, and we don't sell that much to China. Stacy McCain notes
Dow Jones Gains Nearly 3,000 Points After Trump Deports Gay Makeup Artist, just to show the disconnect between cause and effect. The Peacock
crows
Dow surges 2,900 points, S&P 500 posts biggest gain since 2008 on Trump
tariff reversal: Live updates and
Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries, hits China harder
with 125%. At NYPo,
Trump announces 90-day tariff pause for most countries, raises China rate to
125% — as he blasts ‘yippy’ critics, boasts stock rebound ‘gotta be a
record. Driscoll at Insty,
DEVELOPING: "
Trump pauses tariff hikes for 90 days against most countries, raises China
rate to 125%. UPDATE:
Dow surges 2,900 points, S&P 500 posts biggest gain since 2008 on Trump
tariff reversal: Live updates." Ace, Trump Builds the China Tariff Wall Ten Feet Higher While
Announcing a "Pause" on Tariffs for Other Countries; Markets Soar, "
Trump announced he would "pause" higher reciprocal tariffs on many countries
while sticking firm to a 10% "universal tariff" on all foreign goods. James Madison informs me that the higher tariffs are only paused for
countries that didn't retaliate" and
S&P Posts Its Biggest One-Day Gain In History as Markets Rally, Plus: Is
China "In a Box"? Sundance at CTH has
President Trump Raises Chinese Tariff Rate to 125%, Triggers 90-Day Pause and
Baseline 10% For all Other Nations, hosts
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Providing Clarity and Details Surrounding
90-Day Pause, Baseline 10% Tariffs and Chinese Tariffs at 125% and
Kevin O’Leary Wants President Trump to Increase Tariffs on China to 400%. At Althouse,
"The fallout from the trade disruption will hurt the United States, which
relies on China for all sorts of manufactured goods, but will do more damage
to China..." Leslie Eastman at LI reports
China Responds to US tariffs with Export Controls on Critical Rare Earth
Minerals, "Between Trump’s recent executive order on mining and all our own mineral
deposits, we are posed for the American Gold Rush of the New Millennium….this
time on the critical minerals China is trying to hoard." Leah Barkoukis at
TownHall thinks
Bessent Had the Perfect Response to China Raising Tariffs on US Goods. The Hollywood Reporter reports
China Mulling Ban on Hollywood Film Releases in Response to Trump Tariffs
(Report). VodkaPundit says
Trump Is the Bull in China's Shop.
Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "The Americans who have the least are willing to say, maybe I don't need that
extra piece of crap from China if it means my children will have a future.
Meanwhile, people who will never not be rich are unwilling to sacrifice a single
penny for the future of this country."
BowTiedMara
@BowTiedMara, "
URGENT Panama breaks with China and aligns itself with the US: Mulino
abandons the Silk Road, resumes military exercises with Washington, and joins
forces with Hegseth to secure the Canal, curb migration, and contain the
communist advance in the region." At Insty,
Cynical Publius9, 2025
@CynicalPublius, "Anyone who believes that Trump's 90-day tariff suspension was a knee jerk
reaction to the drop in the capital markets must necessarily also believe that
Trump was totally surprised by that drop and did not fully anticipate it. If you
believe Trump did not know how the capital"
Steve
@SteveSellsMD, "Bingo. He, Bessent, Lutnick and Navarro clearly modeled out the various
scenarios."
Ultimately tariffs are a high stakes carrot or stick
negotiation, a style Foggy Bottom and the rest of the globalists have zero
concept of-- but the business world thrives on. Liz Stauffer at LI worries
The Media is Calling the Shots in the Tariff War, "The media is sensationalizing the escalation in hostilities between China
and the U.S. while ignoring the 70 countries that have already lined up to
negotiate with us." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair,
Chris Matthews: Isn't It Good, Canadian Wood?
Cutie Pavlich at TownHall,
There's an Update on Tariff Negotiations. From Da Fetched,
House Democrat Breaks Ranks to Support Trump’s Tariff Plan. John Kass asks
Wall Street Panicans and Democrat Fearmongers: What Do We Owe America’s
Children?
Diogenes Middle Finger discusses
Traversing Narrow Channels.
Matt Margolis at PJM is amused White House Uses Reporters' Pronouns, Just Not the Way They Intended. Fox,
Trump press secretary doesn't engage with reporters using pronouns in
emails, says they deny reality. "'As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in
their bios,' Leavitt told a New York Times reporter." Ace, White House Stops Responding to "Journalists" With Pronouns In Their Email
Signature Lines. "This is a solid heuristic for weeding out the nonsense.
Nonsense pronouns means nonsense questions and nonsense hit pieces." I like
it! It's a way to discriminate against liberals without saying you're
discriminating against liberals.
zerohedge @zerohedge, "*TRUMP SIGNS ACTION DIRECTING AGENCIES TO SUNSET OLD REGULATIONS." UPI whines HHS, EPA launch review of fluoride in drinking water. Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@POTUS
signs an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and
Make America's Showers Great Again." Rick Moran at PJM says
Finally! DoD Courts Service Members Wrongfully Discharged for Not Getting
the COVID Jab.
Sundance reports Fannie Mae Fires Over 100 Federal Agency Employees for Facilitating Housing Loan Fraud. Sarah Anderson at PJM hears Rubio Expose the Leftist Agenda and Corruption of USAID Programs "So the far left decided these are things that we think are good and it also became cultural imperialism. We began to use foreign aid not as a way to make America stronger, safer, more prosperous, but as a way to impose – impose – the domestic political agenda of the left onto foreign countries. And it became a vehicle for that," and Rubio: 'We're Not Doing Idiotic Things Anymore' At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Democrats Deploy Disability Dodge. "Dozens of administrative law judges grant disability payments to almost everyone who appears before them, overriding Social Security staff who determined the people were not entitled to payments, a Daily Wire analysis found." Matt Vespa, Wait, We Outsourced the 'Crown Jewel' of Global Warming Research to
Crackpot Climate Consultants?
At Town Hall, Cutie Pavlich thinks
Bondi's Reaction to Recent Supreme Court Victory Is Going to Trigger the Left Even More and 'Becca Down reports the
House Votes on Taking Action Against Rogue Judges. Jen O'Connell at RedState,
On a Party-Line Vote, the House Passes the 'No Rogue Rulings Act' to Curb Activist Judges Ace observes
Federal Judges Block Deportations... Again, "The Supreme Court decision stated that Trump could deport aliens under the Alien Enemies Act... but all people being held by the government have the right to file habeas corpus petitions questioning the basis for their detention. So now would-be deportees are filing habeas writs, and judges are staying their deportation until the hearing."
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