Trump’s agenda is wrestling with political and economic reality

Donald Trump, in announcing a new, comprehensive tariff for US imports on Wednesday, promised that history books on April 2 “Tahrir Day” in America will record.

Two days after the disturbances in the stock market, this can also be remembered as a week that the president’s second agenda controls the economic and political reality.

American stocks have been in a tail since Trump revealed his definitions at the pink White House event that appeared on Wednesday, with signs that the trading partners in America – Canada, the European Union and China, in particular, are not retracted from the fighting.

Meanwhile, other presidential efforts have faced foreign policy and immigration, and in the ballot box – noticeable setbacks in recent days.

The White House felt on Thursday as a building that swings to a storm to come. The four large posters that explain the “mutual” definitions of America were on a long list of countries displayed in the press briefing room, but administration officials available to answer the Canon’s media questions are few and far apart.

On Pennsylvania Street, workers unloaded the platforms of the metal fence, which will achieve the lands of the White House in preparation for what officials expect to be a major demonstration to combat Trump in Washington nearby on Saturday. The first lady announced that a tour of the White House, which was scheduled for that day, was postponed due to security concerns.

Even the gentle president usually did not stop for a short period only to speak with the crushing of journalists on his way on a sea helicopter in the first stage of his flight to Florida.

“I said this would be exactly what it is,” I declared when asked about the stock market disturbances per day. He said that the markets – and America as a whole – will flourish soon.

The president appears to be ready to wait for the storm resulting from his identification plan. It seems confident that his economic vision of the American manufacturing sector rich in the protected function of foreign competition – a vision he has made closely for decades – will eventually prove its right.

However, the reality of Trump’s agenda with the cold, the difficult reality of trade this week.

Both of them are two best priorities in foreign policy – ending wars in Gaza and Ukraine – in a kind of chaotic details and conflicting business schedules that often hinder permanent peace.

Israel has once again moved to Gaza and a campaign of bombing, which generates reports, escalated widespread civilian losses. It appears that the ceasefire that Trump described in the days before his postponement is in a state of lamentation.

Meanwhile, Russia continues to establish new conditions for negotiations for a full ceasefire with Ukraine, which indicates that the nation may buy time to allow its wild forces to take more lands.

Trump said of Russia: “If I think they would take advantage of us, I will not be happy with that,” Trump said of Russia. But he added that he still believed that President Vladimir Putin wanted to “hold a deal.”

Evidence so far indicates the opposite, according to Jake Sullivan, who was the National Security Adviser of President Joe Biden.

In an interview with the BBC, Trump was accused of delivering most of her demands, although he admitted that he was still early in the process and things could change yet.

“So the current dynamic in these negotiations A) does not actually produce the Russian readiness to reach an equal and equal exhibition, but B) actually stimulate the view of Moscow that if they continue to withstand, they will continue to obtain concessions from the United States. This is what happened so far.”

Even Trump’s deportation and immigration enforcement efforts, which still have great general support, were at least partially due to legal challenges.

While his administration has successfully completed many flights that were quoted from the members of the Tren de Aragua venezuelan gang to Al -Salvaduri prison, the judge who heads a case challenging this deportation said on Thursday that there is a “fair possibility” whose court officials have violated to transfer trips around it.

Other Court Challenges – to Trump’s suspension of political asylum and resettlement of refugees, his attempt to end the newly born citizenship and abolish his temporary reserve status of about 350,000 Venezuelan – currently work through the American legal system.

At some point, the US Supreme Court is expected to weigh in many of these disputes.

This week also celebrated the largest election round since Trump’s victory in November 2024, where voters went to the Wisconsin polls to elect the state judge and in special elections in Florida seats in the House of Representatives.

While the Republican candidates prevailed in Florida, their winning margins were about 15 %, which is nearly half of Trump in the Congress in November.

In Wisconsin, the state of the main political battlefield, the democratic -backed candidate won. Democrats managed to maintain the liberal majority in court despite tens of millions of dollars spent by conservative groups, including artistic billionaire Elon Musk, who carried out a campaign there.

The results as a whole have taken that the Democrats are well fulfilled in the disputed races and may sort even in the conservative areas reliably – partially through campaigns against Musk and its efforts to cut programs and federal employees significantly.

This may be an indication that the party will have political winds on their backs in the state elections in November and Congress elections in the middle of the next year.

The turmoil in the stock market, and the results of these polls may be behind some scattered signs of the opposition within the Republican ranks.

Ted Cruz, a conservative Senate member of Texas, said in his pod on Friday that Trump’s tariff “could hurt jobs and America may harm America” ​​- especially if other countries are running out, as China has already done.

“If we are in a scenario after 30 days from now, 60 days from now, 90 days from now, with a huge American tariff, and the massive definitions of American goods in every other country on the face of the earth, this is a terrible result,” he said.

On Wednesday night in the US Senate, four Republicans joined Democrats to support the abolition of the emergency declaration that justifies the previous Trump tariff in Canada.

On Thursday, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined the Democrat Maria Canuel from Washington to support a procedure that requires Congress to agree directly on the definitions that actually remain more than 60 days.

The Republicans are largely committed to the president. They seem to be unwilling, or unable, to influence Trump from his current path on government definitions and wounds and they appear for fear of the political consequences of collapse with a man who is like a party -like fist.

But if the current economic shock becomes a long -term hardship, and if government cuts are translated into concrete disturbances in popular services or If Trump’s salaries persist in opinion polls in retreatThe party members may start looking forward to the signs of going out for the first time in years.

This would lead to an endless end to some of Trump’s most ambitious efforts.

Trump, who is no longer concerned about standing in front of the voters, may feel heat from the direct political consequences of his actions – but the reality has a way to confirm itself in the end.