President Donald Trump on Saturday told followers on his Truth Social platform to “hang tough” in a post reaffirming his administration’s stance on its sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs which shook markets this week.

After months of delays, President Donald Trump's contentious tariff barrage is now in effect. It imposes a wide variety of new import duties that are the steepest seen in nearly a century and that affect all of the country's trade partners.

"The best estimate of the loss from tariff policy is now closer to $30 trillion."Summers added that the tariffs were the most expensive and "masochistic" the US had imposed in decades.Mohamed El-Erian"The price action in global financial markets in the immediate aftermath of the US tariff announcement points to major worries about global economic growth,

Mega-cap tech stocks led the rout, with Apple posting its worst two-day drop since March 2020. Financial stocks also suffered steep losses.

The US dollar has been falling as President Donald Trump rolls out his tariffs, and it plunged after he unveiled much steeper-than-expected duties on "Liberation Day." That goes against what markets had anticipated before he launched his trade war.

The White House had finalized a TikTok divestment deal earlier this week before President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout flipped the Chinese government’s position on the issue, the Washington Examiner has learned.

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CGTN isn’t the only state media outlet to use AI to slam Trump’s trade policy. New China TV, the English-language social-media-focused brand of China’s official state news service Xinhua, also published on April 3 a three-minute, 18-second sci-fi short called “T.A.R.I.F.F.”