ICYMI: Weekend Roundup April 7, 2025

Trump Tariffs Continue to Decimate World Economy

Trump Wants Everyone to Shut Up About His Terrible Tariffs

Tariff Troubles Didn't Stop Trump From Golfing

Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who had the AUDACITY to ask about how he felt about his tariff policy causing economic turmoil across the world.

Bloomberg reporter Annmarie Hordern asked if there was “pain in the market at some point you’re unwilling to tolerate?”

“I think your question is so stupid,” Trump said like a petulant child.

“I mean, I think it’s… I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something and we have such a horrible, we have been treated so badly, by other countries because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen,” he added, perpetuating his "America is always getting bullied" lie. Hordern later tried to steer the conversation back toward tariffs but was told by Trump, “You ask too many questions.”

When asked about Europe and Asia's response to the ridiculous tariffs, he said they were “dying to make a deal.” “What’s going to happen to the markets, I can’t tell you. But our country is much stronger." Trump said this, despite his tariffs causing over $2 trillion being wiped off the American market since they were announced last week, sparking fears of a global trade war.

Also, the S&P dropped 10.5 percent on Thursday and Friday following the announcement, and is expected to drop a further 5 percent when markets open Monday.

Trump Allies Are Turning on Him Over Tariffs

Jon Glasgow, frontman of the Sunday Report, played a clip of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent taking issue with the suggestion that many Americans will have to delay their retirement because their savings have taken a hit. “I think they don’t look at the day-to-day [market] fluctuations,” Bessent said. Glasgow disagreed, saying, “I looked at my 401(k) and gasped.” Ironically, Newsmax rang the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday morning—the same day markets plummeted in response to Trump’s trade war announcement.

Elon Musk attacks Trump’s trade adviser over the economic chaos caused by the unnecessary “Liberation Day” tariffs. Musk seemed to suggest that Navarro was the one responsible for all three major U.S. stock indexes hitting their biggest one-day drops since the 2020 outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

All hope isn't lost though - Couch enthusiast JD Vance has said he’s “feeling good” about the post ‘Liberation Day’ market chaos because he thought “it could be worse.”

Trump Tariffs Are Sparking Global Panic

Netizens are comparing the current turmoil in the market to Black Monday, the situation in September 2008, when analysts carefully watched futures to try to predict the fall-out from the devastating the subprime mortgage crisis. But in that case, the president was trying to stop the crash, not single-handedly cause it.

Trump, however, continued to be the emperor wearing no clothes.

“Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place."

Trump’s import tariffs, which are paid by American companies, range from 10 percent to a staggering 49 percent depending on the product’s country of origin.

That same day, China said it would respond in kind with 34 percent tariffs on American products set to take effect this Wednesday, fueling fears for a global recession.

Hundreds of Thousands of Protestors Gather Across the Country in Hands Off Rally Protesting Donald Trump and Elon Musk

Violent MAGAt Threatens Peaceful Protestors With Assault Rifle

A Trump supporter rushed a crowd of peaceful protestors, wielding an AR-style rifle during the peaceful, anti-Trump “Hands Off” rally in Indiana on Saturday.

An angry, red-faced man, in a grey MAGA hoodie and white hat, tumbled out of his big boy truck, and grabbed his big boy gun, to confront another man in a crowd chanting, “Protect the Constitution!” As spectators filmed the standoff, others attempted to pull the men apart. The two men continued to scream in each other’s faces until the Trump supporter suffered a headbutt to the nose, which wouldn't have happened if he had just stayed in his car.

The man became enraged after he was blocked from turning at an intersection by a crowd of protestors being mean to his daddy Trump. It was at that moment that he jumped out of his car and went to confront the protestors. Despite leaving his vehicle and charging a crowd with a GUN, the man was released after police determined he acted in self-defense.