Tariffs Trigger Turmoil & Anti-Trump Protests Erupt | 4.7.25
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What caused Wall Street's recent turmoil?
Wall Street remains shaken as President Trump seeks to reset trade terms around the world.
A lot of our trading partners, including some of our allies, have not been good partners. If tariffs are so bad, why do they have them?
As the White House defends the tariffs, how are world leaders responding?
I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, April 7th, and this is Morning Wire. While Trump urges Americans to hang tough amid the economic turmoil, economists debate the president's high-risk gamble.
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Markets have tumbled as President Trump's historic tariffs bring an unprecedented reset to global trade.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with the latest on how the White House and world leaders are responding to this seismic shakeup. Hey, Cabot. So let's start with the markets, which have been getting a lot of attention here for good reason. What's the latest from Wall Street?
Well, it's more bad news on that front. In the 48 hours following Trump's Rose Garden announcement, more than $6 trillion was wiped off the stock market. The Dow Jones saw its worst 48-hour period since COVID lockdowns in 2020, plunging more than 3,900 points, while the S&P 500 fell another 6% Friday. when 486 of its 500 stocks lost value. Zooming out, the S&P is down 17% since February. The Dow is down 14%. JP Morgan now says there is a 60% chance of a global recession by year's end due to what they call, quote, disruptive U.S. policies. But for his part, President Trump took a rosier outlook, saying Friday, quote, this is a great time to get rich. Yeah, how has the president and his administration responded to all this turmoil?
So it's worth noting they've been saying all along that there would be some disruptions from the start. Remember, President Trump said prices would temporarily go up after Liberation Day. He compared the tariffs to a surgical procedure that took some recovery time. In a Truth Social post over the weekend, he said, quote, this is an economic revolution and we will win. Hang tough. It won't be easy, but the end result will be historic. Now, more broadly, the White House argues the stock market is not indicative of overall economic health and that the vast majority of Americans care more about high-paying jobs and affordable goods than a booming stock portfolio. Here's Treasury Secretary Scott Besson on Tucker Carlson making the case that middle and lower class Americans benefit far less from the market.
The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities, 88% of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12 of the stock market the bottom 50 has debt they have credit card bills they rent their homes they have auto loans and we've got to give them some relief
How are global leaders responding to U.S. tariffs?
Now, look, it's impossible to deny that is a very different message from Trump world than we heard during his first term, when the president routinely lauded the record stock market growth we saw from 2016 to 2020. The fact that he's willing to risk a market disruption, a serious one, shows how much he's prioritizing their efforts to revolutionize the economy, in his view, from the bottom up. It's a risk, but one the White House is confident will pay off. Besant went on to say President Trump inherited an economy that might have had the appearance of health, but was rotting from the inside out.
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