By Ed Malik, A | ed@ddnewsonline.com | posted 13th April, 2025
If we are privilege to have saner news report based not on MSM obfuscated narratives and demonization of anything that closely resembles Donald Trump but on a balanced scale, one can safely agree that the tariff policy deployed by the 47th United States President globe-wide, is a classic agglomeration in an economic sense that “when America sneezes, the world catches cold”. Certainly.
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President Trump announced a catalogue of trade levies which he called and in real essence, “RECIPOCATORY TARIFFS”, which ostensibly was to balance the tariff scale between trading partners. That’s what it was. Not just a senseless gambit but an economic leveler of some sort, which is to tax goods from other countries in the same measure as they tax US goods entering their countries. What is street parlance is called “do-me, I-do-you”.
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What did Trump do? He just pulled a classic economic chess move: shake up the global order before breakfast and have the stock market soaring by lunch.
In a bold announcement Wednesday April 9, Trump hit the gas full throttle on his MAGA train of America First trade agenda with a double-barreled policy move that left global markets—and the Biden holdovers still loitering around D.C.—scrambling to catch up. First, he delivered a punishing blow to China by slapping a 125% tariff on their imports, basically telling Beijing, “you had your fun, now it’s over.” Then, in a move only Trump could pull off in the same breath, he extended a 90-day tariff pause for more than 75 other countries that, unlike China, haven’t tried to rob us blind.
Everybody knows that China’s been walking all over the world. In the U.S. for instance, it has for decades been manipulating currency, stealing tech, flooding markets with cheap junk, and buying off our politicians (hi, Hunter!). But now, they’ve got to eat a 125% tariff. And Trump didn’t just stop there—he dared them to come back to the table with something better than their usual garbage. This wasn’t a trade war; this was a strategic decapitation.
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On his Truth Social verified handle, Trump made it clear: “At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable.” Translation: we’re done playing nice or “our-mumu-don-do”
Human face – now here’s where it gets genius. While China gets hit with the economic equivalent of a sledgehammer, the rest of the world—75 countries—gets a breather. Why? Because they didn’t retaliate, they showed respect, and Trump knows how to reward that. He dropped their tariffs to 10% and hit the pause button for 90 days. That’s what leadership looks like—real leverage.
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Reaction? The markets reacted instantly. Dow Jones? Up 600 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq? Booming. Business leaders were stunned, but in a good way. Even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted, “He goaded China into a bad position.” Exactly. This was 4D chess, not checkers.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick chimed in, calling Trump’s Truth post “one of the most extraordinary” of his presidency. You know why? Because this wasn’t just economic policy—it was strategy. He’s isolating China, rewarding allies, boosting markets, and reminding the world who’s boss.
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With 2025 heating up, President Trump is proving, yet again, he knows how to play this game—and win.
NOTE: PotusToast Referenced.