{"id":70667,"date":"2026-04-02T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/if-hed-stayed-on-the-golf-course-wed-be-in-a-better-place-experts-on-trumps-tariffs-one-year-on\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:31:36","slug":"if-hed-stayed-on-the-golf-course-wed-be-in-a-better-place-experts-on-trumps-tariffs-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/if-hed-stayed-on-the-golf-course-wed-be-in-a-better-place-experts-on-trumps-tariffs-one-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If he\u2019d stayed on the golf course, we\u2019d be in a better place\u2019: experts on Trump\u2019s tariffs, one year on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, the president unleashed a tidal wave of tariffs on \u2018liberation day\u2019. Analysts say the policy has failed, even by the Trump administration\u2019s own terms<\/p>\n<p>Before Donald Trump declared \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/trump-new-tariffs-liberation-day\">liberation day<\/a>\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale slashing of government jobs under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/01\/elon-musk-doge-legacy-government\">Doge<\/a> (the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d) and the defunding of US aid agencies had shown White House watchers that the US president was in a hurry to upset institutions he considered profligate or useless.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-liberation-day-us-tariffs-trade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, the president unleashed a tidal wave of tariffs on \u2018liberation day\u2019. Analysts say the policy has failed, even by the Trump administration\u2019s own terms Before Donald Trump declared \u201cliberation day\u201d on 2 April 2025 and shocked the world by raising import tariffs on nearly every country the US did business with, he had &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018If he\u2019d stayed on the golf course, we\u2019d be in a better place\u2019: experts on Trump\u2019s tariffs, one year on\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/if-hed-stayed-on-the-golf-course-wed-be-in-a-better-place-experts-on-trumps-tariffs-one-year-on\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018If he\u2019d stayed on the golf course, we\u2019d be in a better place\u2019: experts on Trump\u2019s tariffs, one year on\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70667","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=70667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}