By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Phil Mattly, Kayla Tausche and Alayna Treene | CNN
The abrupt decision of President Donald Trump to reverse the course on his radical tariff plan to announce a three -month pause revealed his threshold for political pain: a week.
“They were getting Yippy,” Trump said, explaining the growing criticisms that rain at the White House during the last week. “They were getting a little ypy, a little scared.”
Even for a president famous for his Bobs and Weaves policy, Wednesday’s announcement was stopping his reciprocal rates so promoted for three months amounted to an impressive investment of a plan that had appeared only one day before to be completely behind and occurred as his own commercial representative was testifying in Capitol Hill to the benefits of the rates, apparently he caught him the unite of the pause.
The pressure days of other Republicans, business executives and also his close friends seemed to move Trump, who insisted last week: “My policies will never change.”
For Wednesday, however, it had evident that the campaign convince Trump to change the course would not give in. It had also become clear after a strong liquidation in the US government bond markets. UU. Usally a safe corner for investors, that the economic ramifications of the president’s strategy were potentially catastrophic and worse than their advisors predicted.
The growing alarm within the Treasury department on developments in the bond market was a central factor in Trump’s decision to stop the pause in its “reciprocal” tariff regime, according to the family of three people with the matter.
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, raised those Conerns directly to Trump on Wednesday at a meeting that preceded the announcement of pause, underlining Conerns shared by economic officials of the White House who had informed Trump on the day of the ear in the United States Taroff.
The calls to the best advisors of the White House of the key allies of the business community also focused more and more on the worrying developments in the bond market, since they made the case that Trump retired.
Trump had not made the decision to falsify the new dramatic tariff rates when he was publishing on social networks about the stock market on Wednesday morning, two of the people said.
But later he acknowledged that he had been watching bond market closely.
“The bond market is very complicated, I was seeing it,” Trump told journalists. “The bond market is currently beautiful. But I saw last night where people were a little dizzy.”
Sitting at the Oval office to take advantage of his ad, Trump joined two advisors who had become Duing’s faces of the Rate Plan: Besent’s secretary and the commerce Howard Lutnick.
“We did not have access to lawyers or, it was only written. We wrote it from our hearts, right? It was written from the heart, and I think it was also well written, but it was written from the heart,” Trump said later, describing a process driven by impulse that the mapping strategy.
Even when Trump calmed the markets, for now, at least, he also raised new questions by suggesting that he would verify some colleagues from the United States of tariffs, saying that he would make such decisions “instinctively.”
Wednesday’s Vemination
It was another whirlwind on Wednesday at the White House, with advisors fighting to maintain the rhythm of the president’s decisions. He tried to take a return of the victory after one of the most humiliating retreats of his presidency, anxious to take credit for stock market profits on Wednesday without mentioning the record environment, a loss of billion dollars during the last week.
“It is the greatest increase in stock market history. That is quite good,” Trump told journalists in the Oval office. “If you continue, you will return to where I was four weeks ago.”
If Trump was planning early Wednesday to multiply his new tariffs after market agitation days, hey does not reveal his intentions widely. Many White House officials learned of their decision at the same time that the world learned, through post on social, that the new tariffs were in pause.
Only his own trade official to the maximum seemed vaguely aware that the change was possible when Trump announced reversal in social networks.
“It seems that your boss has just taken your back from under you and stopped the tariffs,” said Democratic Representative Steven Horsford from Nevada, the United States representative, Jamieson Greer, Duration a audience that was underway in Capitol Hill when Trump made his announcement. Greer had sacrificed the indication of zero to that point that the main change was approaching.
Besent and other officials insisted on the decision to stop the new tariffs on all nations, except that China was not a retrodue; Instead, they framed the movement as part of Trump’s master plan to take nations to the negotiating table.
“He took a great courage, a great courage for him to follow the course until now,” said Besent, who flew to Palm Beach last weekend for a cheerful discussion with Trump at the end of the game of tariffs.
However, just when his advisors danced around him, the president recognized that growing criticism, fear of fear and growing losses in financial markets contributed to his abrupt decision on Wednesday to impose a three -month -old headquarters or tariffs.
“I thought people were going out a bit out of line,” Trump told journalists.
Alarm on the sale of bonds
The economic team of the Administration spent Wednesday morning attempts on the sale of Bondas that had intensive one day before and aggressively accelerated during the night, driving higher yields and, in effect, demonstrating the exact annualit and the full moment in the duration of the normal duration.
Historically, Treasurys join in times of stock market sale as investors rush assets to a global safehaven, the state of long data due to the safety and liquuidity provided by the US market.
When observing the reverse game, then accelerating after an unexpected demand for leaks in the auction of the first treasure department that will be carried out since Trump announced his tariff regime, he led to a growing alarm. The acute sale of Treasurys, along with the low demand for a sale of the new treasury debt of the United States, caused more conns that foreign countries abstained new US treasures. UU. And the sale had the debt. Because Bocous bond revenues pay the cost of government programs that fiscal income does not cover, concerns abounded that Trump’s broader agenda was in danger.
In a television interview on Wednesday, Besent ruled out movements as “uncomfortable, but normal.”
But for Besent, whose financial career was deeply intertwined with the bond market and has noticed to drive for the yields of 10 years in his cabinet post, the alarm transmitted by high treasure officials was understood and reflected in the subsequent conversation with P.
The president, who is a nearby monitor of his own coverage on television, had also seen some of his narrow demanding warnings about the perspectives of a recession as results of tariffs. I was seeing Fox Business Channel on Wednesday morning when the JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, said a recession was “a probable result” or a result of the commercial war intensely of Trump’s tariff policies.
“The markets are not always right, but sometimes they are right,” Dimon told Fox Business, “Maria Bartiromo.
Executives illuminate White House phones
Within the White House, telephone calls had quickly come from business executives, Republicans and other allies of the president who urged him to reconsider his tariffs, but received little indication of a pause in process.
Executives had been illuminating the telephone lines of the personnel chief, Susie Wiles, vice president JD Vance, and Treasury secretary, Scott Besent, to present the case to Trump directly while commercial hawks continue to promote the Trump Contiffin-Lall Susts Taret.
The sources said that the sources had been particularly effective to convince Trump that the defeat of the market was costing capital of capital that would need the need for future articles of the agenda, with legislators who receive increasingly angry constituent calls.
Besent, whose conversation with Trump into Florida over the weekend focused on concentrating on the general objective of tariffs, also seemed to assume more a role in public messages, often speaking about the doses of commercial countries for trade for trade.
“This was promoted by the president’s strategy. He and I had a long talk on Sunday, and this was his strategy all the time,” Besent said Wednesday.
Trump, however, acknowledged that he had been watching the markets closely, calling his “glum” performance in recent days.
A week after making a rate advertisement that overturned the world commercial system, the president stopped out of the White House in front of three colorful race cars and reflected on what led to his retirement. He tried to take credit for a problem in much of his own creation, saying that his credibility was not eroded by cervical whip.
“You have to have flexibility,” Trump said. “I think in financial markets, because they change, look how how much it changes today.”
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