Trump’s program fights political and economic reality

Donald Trump, announcing his extensive new tariffs for US imports on Wednesday, has promised that history textbooks will record April 2 as America’s Day of Liberation.

However, after two days of shakes on the stock exchange, this can also be remembered as the week in which the president’s program is held in the second term in economic and political reality.

The American actions have been in line since Trump revealed his rates at the Rose Garden event in the White House on Wednesday afternoon, with signs that US trading partners – Canada, the European Union and China, most of all – they do not step back from a battle.

Meanwhile, other presidential efforts on foreign policy and immigration and urn – have been faced with remarkable failures in recent days.

The White House on Thursday felt a bit like a construction that fights for the next storm. The four large posters showing US “reciprocal” tariffs in a long list of countries were prominent in the press room, but administration employees available for media answers were small and far between them.

At Pennsylvania Avenue, workers unloaded metal fences pallets that would call the White House sites in preparation for what employees plan to be a large demonstration of Anti-Trump at a nearby Washington monument on Saturday. The first lady announced that the event of the White House garden, which was scheduled for that day, was postponed because of security concerns.

Even normally, the coden president stopped only briefly to talk to the breakdown of reporters on the way to get on the sea helicopter in the first match of his trip to Florida.

“I said this would be the case,” he said when he asked him about the stock market. Markets – and America as a whole – they would soon develop, he said.

It seems that the president is ready to wait for the storm created by his tariff plan. It seems confident that his economic vision of a recovered, high -employed American production sector, protected from foreign competition – a vision that has been closely for decades – will ultimately be proven.

However, Trump’s close meeting with a cold, firm reality, however, was not limited to trading this week.

His two most important foreign policy priorities – the termination of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine – both seem to be sunk in the type of scattered details and controversial programs that often interfere with lasting peace.

Israel moved to Gaza again and escalated a bombing campaign that generates reports of widespread civil casualties. The termination of the fire that Trump is advertised in the days before he took office seems to be in tatters.

In the meantime, Russia continues to accumulate new conditions for negotiations for the complete termination of fire with Ukraine, which is an indication that the nation can buy time to allow its main forces to take more territory.

“If I think they pat us, I will not enjoy it,” Trump told Russia. But he added that he still believes that President Vladimir Putin wants to “make a deal”.

So far, the evidence shows the opposite, according to Jake Sullivan, who was President Joe Biden’s national security adviser.

In an interview with the BBC, he accused Trump of submitting most of his demands to Russia, although he admitted that it was still early in the process and things could still change.

“So the present dynamics in these negotiations a) does not actually create Russian willingness to reach a fair and simple compromise, but b) in fact stimulates the opinion in Moscow that if they simply continue to behave, they will simply continue to receive discounts from the United States. And so far this has happened.”

Even the efforts to deport and implement Trump immigration, which still have great public support, were at least partially derailled with legal challenges.

While his administration has successfully completed several flights transferring suspected members of the Tren’s Ganga Ganga, in the Salvadoran’s high security prison, the judge chaired by these deportations said that there was a “fair probability” on Thursday, he had violated his court order.

Other challenges of the court – to stop Trump from political asylum processing and resettle refugees, his attempt to terminate the citizenship of birth and his annulment of a temporary protected status for about 350,000 Venezuelans – are currently making their way through the US legal system.

At one point, the US Supreme Court is expected to evaluate many of these disputes.

This week also marks the largest round of the election after the Trump victory of 2024, as the voters headed for the ballot boxes to choose a state judge and in two special elections in Florida for places in the House of Representatives.

While Republican candidates in Florida prevailed, their winning margins were about 15%, which is about half of what Trump published in these areas of Congress in November.

In Wisconsin, a key political fighting state, the candidate supported by Democrats. The Democrats managed to preserve the liberal majority of the court, despite tens of millions of dollars spent by conservative groups, including technological billionaire Elon Musk, who personally campaigns there.

Taken as a whole, the results suggest that Democrats do well in hot -contested competitions and can enter even reliably conservative areas – partly through a campaign against Musk and his efforts to massive federal programs and staff.

This may be an indication that the party will have the political wind on its back in the state elections this November and the average elections in the congress next year.

The stock market and these ballot results can stand behind several scattered signs of disagreement in republican ranks.

Ted Cruz, a senator of the Texas Archaens, said in his podcast on Friday that Trump’s tariffs “can” harm jobs and can harm America ” – especially if other countries avenge China already.

“If we are in a 30 -day script now, after 60 days, after 90 days, with massive US tariffs and massive tariffs for American goods in any other country on Earth, this is a terrible result,” he continued.

On Wednesday night, four Republicans joined the Democrats in the US Senate to support the cancellation of the Emergency Declaration, which justifies the worse tariffs for Canada of Trump.

And on Thursday, Republican Senator Chuck Grasli of Iowa joined the Democrat Maria Cantuel of Washington to support a measure that requires Congress to directly approve the tariffs that remain in force longer than 60 days.

In general, Republicans stick to the president. They seem undesirable or unable to swing Trump from his current tariff and redundancies course, and they seem a fear of the political consequences of breaking down with a person who has a grip similar to the party’s mend.

But if the current economic shock becomes long -term grief and if the government program decreases, become tangible interruptions in the popular services or If Trump is in public opinion studies continues to sowThe members of his own party may begin to look at the signs of going out for the first time in years.

And this would lead to an unceremonious end of some of Trump’s most ambitious efforts.

Trump, no longer worried about standing in front of the voters, may feel free from the immediate political consequences of his actions – but reality has a way of defending himself.