US President Donald Trump may be many things, but he wants the world to know that he is not a ‘chicken’ when it comes to fiscal policy, despite what seems to be a tendency to return to the light of resistance from economic partners and enemies – a behavioral information that financial analysts have devised ‘Taco’ trade.
The president’s tendency to threaten and then impose a shameful input tax on US trading partners, only to withdraw when retribution was met, the way was cleared for the acronym Made by the Robert Armstrong of the Financial Times.
It stands for “Trump Always Chickens” and is felled what Trump says is a legitimate form of negotiation. Under circumstances created by his irregular maneuvers, his markets tend to sell when a new tariff threat arises and then recovers after the president withdrew.
Asked for the unfavorable sentence during a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the president seemed offended and rejected the idea that he made a habit of withdrawing from deals.
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“Do you call those chickens?” Said Trump. “It is called negotiations.”
The author of The art of the deal Added that he sets a “ridiculously high number and I’m going down a bit, you know, a little”, his position doubles that it is an effective negotiating strategy.
“Six months ago this country was killed stone, we had a dead country, we had a country that people didn’t think would survive, and you ask such an annoying question,” he added.
Trump defended his decision to increase rates about China to 145 percent, but to reduce them for 90 days to 30 percent during the negotiations. Last week he threatened to impose 50 percent Levies on goods from the European Union last week – but quickly delayed the start date until July 9 for negotiations, while the 10 percent continues.
Trump claims that the EU would not negotiate if his threat of high rates was not.
Similar debacles were unraveled about electronics and the universal rates that Trump announced on 2 April, which were partly based on individual trade shortages with other countries.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new rates in the Rozentuin in the White House on 2 April 2025 in Washington.
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His sowing antics caused chaos on global stock markets, forced to withstand drastically fluctuating circumstances.
Trump claims that his global economic policy has created US $ 14 trillion on new investments in the US, a figure that seems to have been blown up and is not sufficiently supported by official data.
“We have now invested $ 14 trillion … When Biden didn’t have a practical way, Biden,” said the president. “This country died, you know, we have the hottest country of all over the world, I went to Saudi Arabia, the king told me,” concluded the president.
From Wednesday afternoon, the S&P 500 stock index has risen somewhat this year. But it fell no less than 15 percent year after year, a reflection of volatility that has created Trump’s changing policy.
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