{"id":66805,"date":"2026-02-19T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-defends-tariffs-in-pre-midterms-appearance-in-battleground-georgia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:57:54","slug":"trump-defends-tariffs-in-pre-midterms-appearance-in-battleground-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-defends-tariffs-in-pre-midterms-appearance-in-battleground-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump defends tariffs in pre-midterms appearance in battleground Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visit was ostensibly to promote economy, but US president focused on repeated, unverified claims of voter fraud<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> forcefully defended his tariffs on Thursday, claiming \u201ctariffs are my favorite word in the dictionary\u201d and promoting their use to empower American manufacturing at an event in north-west Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout tariffs, this country would be in so much trouble right now,\u201d Trump said during his remarks at Coosa Steel Corporation, a steel-processing and distribution firm in Rome, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/19\/trump-tariffs-georgia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit was ostensibly to promote economy, but US president focused on repeated, unverified claims of voter fraud Donald Trump forcefully defended his tariffs on Thursday, claiming \u201ctariffs are my favorite word in the dictionary\u201d and promoting their use to empower American manufacturing at an event in north-west Georgia. \u201cWithout tariffs, this country would be in &#8230; <a title=\"Trump defends tariffs in pre-midterms appearance in battleground Georgia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/trump-defends-tariffs-in-pre-midterms-appearance-in-battleground-georgia\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump defends tariffs in pre-midterms appearance in battleground Georgia\">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-66805","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\/66805","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=66805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}