Trump’s agenda struggles with political and economic reality

Donald Trump, announcing his broad new US import tariffs on Wednesday, promised that history textbooks would be recorded on April 2 as the “Liberation Day of America”.

However, after two -day turmoil on the stock market, it can also be remembered how the week of the second term of the president’s agenda faced head in economic and political reality.

US actions have been in the tail since Trump introduced his tariffs at the White House event on Wednesday, with signs that trading partners in America – Canada, European Union and China, first and foremost, do not retreat from the fight.

Meanwhile, other efforts of the president, on foreign policy and immigration and in the ballot box – have encountered noticeable failures in recent days.

The White House felt like a building that was going to the nearest storm on Thursday. Four large posters showing “mutual” tariffs in America in the long list of countries that were at the expressed exhibition in the press, but the administration officials that can be answered by media questions were small and far between them.

On Pennsylvania Avenue, workers unloaded the pallets of the metal fence that causes the White House site, preparing for the officials that on Saturday there would be a large demonstration against Trump in the neighboring monument. The first lady announced that the event from the White House garden, which was scheduled for this day, was delayed by security problems.

Even usually the unhappy president stopped only briefly to talk to the journalists’ conversion on the way to sit in the marine helicopter at the first match of Florida.

“I said it would be exactly what it is,” he said when asked about the shock in the stock market. Markets – and America in general – will soon be a boom, he said.

The president seems ready to wait for the storm created by his tariff plan. He seems to be sure that his economic vision of the rebuilt American production sector, protected from foreign competition, is a vision that he has been conducting closely for decades – will eventually be proven correctly.

However, a close meeting of the Trump agenda with cold and rigid reality was not limited to trade this week.

Its two major foreign policy priorities – ending with wars in Gaza and Ukraine – both look stupid in the form of dirty parts and conflicting agenda, which often interfere with the lasting peace.

Israel moved into gas again and grew into a bombing that creates reports of wide civilian victims. The cessation of the fire that Trump advertised the days before he took over, it seems to be in the catch.

Meanwhile, Russia continues to collect new conditions at the negotiations for a complete ceasefire with Ukraine, which indicates that the nation can buy time to allow its ground for more territory.

“When I think they are recruiting us, I will not be happy,” Trump said about Russia. But he added that President Vladimir Putin wants to “conclude a deal”.

According to Jake Sullivan, who was a national security advisor Jocal Joe Biden, the data testifies to the contrary, on the contrary.

In an interview with the BBC, he accused Trump of transferring most of his requirements to Russia, although he acknowledged that it was still early in the process and could still change.

“Thus, the current dynamics in these negotiations) do not actually create Russian readiness to achieve a fair and simply compromise, but b) actually stimulates the opinion in Moscow that if they just continue to endure, they are just going to continue to concede from the United States.

Even Trump’s deportation and immigration efforts that still provide high public support were at least partially thwarted by legal issues.

While its administration successfully completed several flights transferred allegedly members of the Taragua Venezuelan gang gang into a prison prison in Salvadoron, a judge of the case, challenging the Thursday, which was a “fair likelihood”.

Other court problems – the suspension of Trump on the processing of political asylum and relocation of refugees, his attempt to stop the citizenship of the right to birth and the recall of the temporary protected status of about 350,000 Venezuelans – currently undergoing through the US legal system.

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

This week, the biggest round of elections after Trump’s victory in November 2024 was also noted, when voters went to the elections to Wisconsin to choose a state judge and in two special elections in Florida at the place in the House of Representatives.

While the Republican candidates in Florida prevailed, their winner was about 15%, which is about half of what Trump posted in these Congress in November.

In Wisconsin, a key political state field, a candidate supported by the Democrat won. Democrats were able to preserve the liberal majority on the site, despite tens of millions of dollars spent by conservative groups, including technical billionaires Elon Musk, who personally agitated there.

Overall, the results suggest that Democrats work in hot challenges and can enter even in reliable conservative fields – partly campaigning against Moscow and its efforts to reduce federal programs and employees.

This may be a sign that the party will have a political wind on the back in the November State Election and the Intermediate Elections in Congress next year.

In the stock market and voting results can be several scattered signs of dissent in the national ranks.

Ted Cruz, Senator Ark Conservatives from Texas, said in his podcast on Friday that Trump’s tariffs “could harm the workplace and can harm America”, especially if other countries have avenged China.

“If we are in the scenario for 30 days from now on, 60 days, 90 days later, with massive American tariffs and massive tariffs for US goods in any other country on Earth, this is a terrible result,” he continued.

On Wednesday night, the US Senate Four Republicans joined the Democrats to support the cancellation of the extraordinary declaration that justifies the earlier tariffs of Trump Canada.

And on Thursday, the Senator -Republican Chuck Grasley from Iowa united with Democrat Maria Cantwell of Washington to support the measure that will require Congress directly to approve tariffs that remain for more than 60 days.

Republicans are by and large as the president. They seem to be unwilling or unable to abandon Trump from his current rate at tariffs and government cuts and seems to be afraid of political consequences of breaking with a person who feels like a party.

But if the current economic shock becomes long -term, and when the state program is transferred into material disruptions in popular services or If Trump stands in public opinion polls, continues to sagMembers of his own party can start looking at the signs for the first time in years.

And this will lead to the inflammatory cessation of some Trump’s most ambitious efforts.

Trump, who is no longer going on to stand before voters, may feel free from the immediate political consequences of his actions – but in reality, there is a way to assert himself.