{"id":38743,"date":"2025-04-14T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/first-thing-deep-confusion-as-trump-signals-new-tariffs-on-smartphones-and-computers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:07:13","slug":"first-thing-deep-confusion-as-trump-signals-new-tariffs-on-smartphones-and-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/first-thing-deep-confusion-as-trump-signals-new-tariffs-on-smartphones-and-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Deep confusion as Trump signals new tariffs on smartphones and computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says he will lay out new levies on Monday and relief on electronics will be short-lived. Plus, the rise of end times fascism and how to defeat it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/14\/trump-news-at-a-glance-deep-confusion-as-trump-signals-new-tariffs-on-smartphones-and-computers\">plunged deeper into chaos<\/a> after a cabinet official floated a plan for new levies on semiconductors \u2013 a crucial component in electronic goods \u2013 just days after the Trump administration exempted computers and smartphones from tariffs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is the <\/strong><strong>continuing tariff whiplash being received? <\/strong>The billionaire investor Ray Dalio said he was worried the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/13\/ray-dalio-trump-tariffs-recession\">would experience \u201csomething worse than a recession\u201d<\/a> as a result of Trump\u2019s trade policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has the Ukrainian president,<\/strong> <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said?<\/strong> He issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/14\/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-to-trump-come-and-see-putins-war-for-yourself\">dramatic plea to Trump<\/a> telling him: \u201cBefore any kind of decisions, any kind of forms of negotiations, come to see people, civilians, warriors, hospitals, churches, children destroyed or dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/14\/first-thing-deep-confusion-trump-signals-new-tariffs-smartphones-computers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says he will lay out new levies on Monday and relief on electronics will be short-lived. Plus, the rise of end times fascism and how to defeat it Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump\u2019s tariff war has plunged deeper into chaos after a cabinet official &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Deep confusion as Trump signals new tariffs on smartphones and computers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/first-thing-deep-confusion-as-trump-signals-new-tariffs-on-smartphones-and-computers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Deep confusion as Trump signals new tariffs on smartphones and computers\">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-38743","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\/38743","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=38743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}