‘If he’d stayed on the golf course, we’d be in a better place’: experts on Trump’s tariffs, one year on

‘If he’d stayed on the golf course, we’d be in a better place’: experts on Trump’s tariffs, one year on - short news


Last April, the president unleashed a tidal wave of tariffs on ‘liberation day’. Analysts say the policy has failed, even by the Trump administration’s own terms

Before Donald Trump declared “liberation day” on 2 April 2025 and shocked the world by raising import tariffs on nearly every country the US did business with, he had spent almost three months causing chaos in Washington.

The wholesale slashing of government jobs under Doge (the “department of government..


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source: The Guardian - 02.04.2026

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