If one narrative has emerged from the 90-day pause in “Liberation Day” tariffs while the U.S. president negotiates with other heads of state, it’s this: Donald Trump blinked.
In fact, this view was so common that the headlines were pretty much the same. The Wall Street Journal: “Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect.” Vox: “Why Trump blinked.” The Atlantic: “Trump Blinked.”
The titles — as you might imagine by the roster of publications that printed them — got successively shorter as the pieces got less nuanced. For Thursday morning, I’m sure HuffPost will run a piece called “Trumpblinked” where the article text is simply, “Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah! Nyahnyahnyah! Trumpblinked!” (Whatever content creator bills for writing that one, do
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