– People jump a little beyond the line. They were a bit scared, people were afraid – said Trump during a meeting with rally drivers in front of the White House, when asked about the reasons for the sudden suspension of high duties imposed on almost 60 countries of the world, including the EU.
Trump replied that he was watching financial markets, which in recent days were “gloomy”, and people observing the rapidly growing profitability of American bonds on Tuesday “began to feel nauseous.”
“No president would do what I would be afraid.” China was the most difficult, but it had to be done – he said.
Donald Trump explains his decision
Trump's comment seemed to contradict the words spoken an hour earlier by the Minister of Finance Scott Bessent and the spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt, who claimed that “this was the plan from the beginning” and that Trump's decision shows his “art of killing the market” (“Art of the Deal”, the title of his book).
Trump rejected the suggestions that sudden changes are undermined by his credibility, claiming that “flexibility” is necessary.
– That's not the point. It's about flexibility. I could say: here is the wall and I will go through it. I will go through her no matter what. (…) Sometimes you have to be able to go against the wall, around the wall. These guests know it better than anyone else, said Trump, pointing to the rally players.
The US president expressed the certainty that he would be able to reach “fair” commercial agreements with all countries – including China, on which he imposed 125 percent on Wednesday. duties.
As he said, China is a “proud nation”, and their leader XI Jinping is a “proud man” and wants to conclude an agreement from the USA, but he does not know how to go to it. “
However, he still claimed that the imposition of duties was necessary, otherwise “we would not have a country”.
