Trump Playing Chess As Interest Rates Drop on Tariff Announcement, Bringing Costs Down

Trump Playing Chess As Interest Rates Drop on Tariff Announcement, Bringing Costs Down


President Donald Trump shared a video on social media Friday indicating that he’s playing chess rather than checkers with his tariff policy, given one result has been that interest rates have dropped.

Trump reposted the video on Truth Social, which another user originally created for TikTok, showing that he’s not particularly upset about the stock market taking a major nosedive over the last two days since he announced his new tariff policy.

The president said that he would be charging countries essentially half what his administration calculates, on average, they are imposing on the United States.

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Further, there will be a 10 percent baseline across the board.

According to the video Trump reposted, he is “crashing the stock market by 20 percent this month, but

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