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11:45 AM ET, April 8, 2025

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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Offers An Uneasy World No Reassurance In Word Salad Oval Office Remarks  —  WASHINGTON ― With a world economy on edge since he declared a trade war with the rest of the planet last week, President Donald Trump offered no reassuring words Monday and instead provided yet more evidence …
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump has no idea what he has unleashed  —  There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president's actions  —  We should trust in Donald Trump's instincts, says Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and ABC News
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Officials Point to Outreach on Tariffs in a Bid to Calm Markets  —  Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, will tell senators the U.S. is economy is in need of “drastic, overdue change.”  —  President Trump's top trade official defended the administration's aggressive tariff moves …
Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief  —  Brussels' zero-for-zero tariff offer not enough, U.S. president says, but indicates he's open to a deal if the bloc commits to closing the trade deficit in goods.  —  The European Union will have to commit to buying $350 billion …
Washington Post:
Musk made direct appeals to Trump to reverse sweeping new tariffs  —  The world's richest person, a key Trump adviser and political donor, was ultimately unsuccessful.  —  Just now  —  Over the weekend, as Elon Musk launched into a barrage of social media posts criticizing …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
In a World of Pete Hegseths, Be a Maya Angelou  —  We may be spiraling into an uncertain future of lawlessness, economic meltdown, and social instability, but at least we've got the galaxy-brain takes of our leaders to sustain us.  On the vice president's mind this morning:
Oren Cass / New York Times:
Stop Freaking Out.  Trump's Tariffs Can Still Work.  —  Last week's “Liberation Day” marked a kind of D-Day in the effort to reorder the international economic system.  That reordering is desperately needed to address the system's imbalances, which have led to deindustrialization …
Discussion: HotAir, Axios and Fortune
New Republic:
Transcript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
Discussion: Politico
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:   April 7, 2025  —  Major indexes on the stock market began down more than 3% today when …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's refusal to blink on tariffs raises the risks of an ugly endgame
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
Discussion: Washington Post and NOTUS
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Why Did Wall Street Get Trump So Wrong?
Discussion: Wausau
Steve Vladeck / One First:
140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.  —  In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case.  But these aren't normal times.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Rights and Wrongs of the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Alien Enemies Act Case
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family  — Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone.  — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated …
Eve Sampson / New York Times:
China Criticizes JD Vance for Calling Its People ‘Peasants’  —  A spokesman for China's foreign ministry denounced the vice president's comments as “ignorant and impolite.”  —  Beijing has denounced Vice President JD Vance's rhetoric as “ignorant” after he said the United States was borrowing money from …
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Associated Press:
China says it will ‘fight to the end’ after Trump threatens to impose still more tariffs
Reuters:
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say  —  Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency's communications …
Paul Krugman:
Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex  —  By now it's obvious to anyone willing to see — which many people still aren't — that Donald Trump is, in practice, waging war against American greatness.  And the attack is taking place on multiple fronts.  —  For the past few days everyone …
NBC News:
FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino  —  The former pro-Trump podcaster is the first deputy director to have a security detail.  Full-time protection could require up to 20 agents, former officials said.  —  The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Latin Times:
Influencer Who Bought Trump a Rolex Has Lost Over $10M Since Tariffs Hit the Market: 'It's So Bad'  —  “It's bad, I'm not gonna lie to you”  —  Just months after gifting President Donald Trump a gold Rolex and a custom MAGA-wrapped Tesla Cybertruck, controversial streamer Adin Ross …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at NATO.  She appeared on a ‘woke’ list  —  U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO's military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration, U.S. officials said Monday.
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Axios:
1 big thing: 🥵 Scoop: New donor plea  —  Republicans admit President Trump's tariffs are spiking their blood pressure.  Their Wall Street donors are feeling it too, with some giving top GOP lawmakers an earful this weekend.  —  Why it matters: Trump is making it clear he won't tolerate …
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Lutnick's Strategy Flummoxes Business Leaders and White House Aides  —  Some executives have come away from meetings with the commerce secretary confused and exasperated  —  WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has tried to sell President Trump's trade agenda to American companies for months.
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Musk calls Navarro “moron” as trade spat intensifies  —  Elon Musk escalated his war of words with Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, calling him “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” over comments about Musk's businesses.  —  Why it matters: The gloves are off …
Elijah Westbrook / CBS News:
MTA, feds reach agreement that could keep NYC congestion pricing tolls in place into the fall  —  The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement that could keep New York City congestion pricing in place into the fall.  —  Once the agreed-to timeline expires …
NPS.gov:
What is the Underground Railroad?  —  I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.  —  The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight …
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Tariffs Weaken American National Power  —  The Trump administration drops the D.I.M.E.  —  NATIONAL POWER IS A DIFFICULT THING to define.  But in teaching and studying strategy at all our military's war colleges, our senior military and government civilians use the acronym “DIME” …
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump.  It Has Yet to Pay Off.  —  With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president in an attempt to steer regulation and tariffs, to little avail.  —  The biggest technology companies …
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Major steel project in JD Vance's hometown on a list of Trump cuts to manufacturing industry  —  The centerpiece of President Donald Trump's America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing industry.  But his administration is planning to slash a key program that invests …
NBC News:
Trump administration weighs drone strikes on Mexican cartels  —  The administration has increased surveillance flights over Mexico as it tries to track the powerful cartels that dominate the fentanyl trade.  —  The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Lawyers Are Struggling to Defend Trump's Policies in Court  —  Inside the department's civil division, litigators are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses' instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs.  —  The Trump administration's aggressive efforts …
Reuters:
Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order  —  The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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