As the economic and political pressure became unbearable, the US president changed course \u2013 but has the damage been done?<\/p>\n
He vowed: \u201cMy policies will never change.\u201d He insisted: \u201cSometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.\u201d He boasted<\/a>: \u201cI know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d And at 9.33am on Wednesday, he entreated<\/a>: \u201cBE COOL. Everything is going to work out well.\u201d<\/p>\n But less than four hours later, Donald Trump blinked. As the economic and political pressure became unbearable, the US president announced on social media<\/a> that he would pause for 90 days higher trade tariffs for most countries, excluding China.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the economic and political pressure became unbearable, the US president changed course \u2013 but has the damage been done? He vowed: \u201cMy policies will never change.\u201d He insisted: \u201cSometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.\u201d He boasted: \u201cI know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d And at 9.33am on Wednesday, he entreated: \u201cBE COOL. Everything … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}