Trump says US to emerge 'stronger' as markets tumble over tariffs

US President Donald Trump announces import tariffs connected countries astir the world. Photo: Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP
Source: AFP

President Donald Trump acknowledged the daze brought by his tariffs onslaught Thursday, but said the US system would look "far stronger," adjacent arsenic satellite markets tumbled.

"THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE," Trump posted connected his Truth Social level little than an hr earlier Wall Street opened for trading.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt besides tried to reassure US markets, telling CNN: "To anyone connected Wall Street this morning, I would say, 'Trust successful President Trump.' This is simply a president who is doubling down connected his proven economical formula."

She said the tariffs -- which see 10 percent crossed the committee levies connected imports and acold steeper barriers connected dozens of circumstantial countries, including the apical US trading partners -- meant "the United States is nary longer going to beryllium cheated by overseas nations."

Leavitt appeared to regularisation retired the anticipation of Trump pulling backmost immoderate of the tariffs earlier they are implemented implicit the coming weekend.

"The president made it wide yesterday this is not a negotiation," she said.

"He's ever consenting to prime up the telephone to reply calls, but helium laid retired the lawsuit yesterday for wherefore we are doing it," she said.

"These countries astir the satellite person had 70 years to bash the close happening by the American radical and they person chosen not to. They person ripped disconnected American workers. They person taken our jobs overseas. The president is putting an extremity to that yesterday."

Source: AFP