{"id":4109,"date":"2025-04-10T19:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T19:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T19:38:48","slug":"opinion-trumps-tariff-reversal-confusion-and-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Trump\u2019s Tariff Reversal: Confusion and Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"


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To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Re \u201cTrump Pauses Many Tariffs for 90 Days, but Not on China<\/a>\u201d (front page, April 10):<\/p>\n

I wonder what President Trump has learned, if anything, from his tariff escapade. An ordinary person would be abashed, ashamed and relieved that he was able to escape \u2014 at least temporarily \u2014 so quickly from the mess he had caused. It is of course highly unlikely that Mr. Trump feels anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

What he is likely to have learned from this self-inflicted disaster is that whenever he wants, he can push a button and make the entire world jump up and down and go crazy. And that he can push it again and make everything fine, or even crazier. Talk about having the world on a string.<\/p>\n

I believe he regards the whole tariff catastrophe as a win for himself, just another victory in his quest to make Donald Trump great again.<\/p>\n

Tim Shaw
Cambridge, Mass.<\/p>\n

To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that President Trump has had a chance to see the potential for positive effects from the reversal of his misguided policies, one can only hope that he follows through by rehiring hastily fired federal employees; restoring canceled U.S.A.I.D. contracts; unfreezing funding for science, medicine and the humanities; abandoning the assault on racial justice and the environment; and bringing back immigrants who have been deported without due process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n