As the stock market is immersed on tariffs, Trump welcomes green in their golf course

West Palm Beach, Florida (AP) – Two days after sending the economy wobbly by announcing generalized tariffs, President Donald Trump insisted that his commercial policies will never change since he remained installed in a bubble of wealth and power in Florida.

He woke up Friday morning in Mar-A-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, and went to his golf course near a few miles away after writing on social networks that “this is a good time to enrich himself.”

Several supporters stopped on the sidewalk like Trump, with their red hat “Make America Great Again” and the white pole shirt, slid down a street bordered by palm trees. They greeted him and he greet again, part of a ritual that takes place every weekend in the city.

The Republican President was not expected to appear publicly, although he is scheduled to attend a dinner in the candlelight for Maga Inc., an allied political organization, Friday night. He spent Thursday in Miami in one of his different golf courses, where he attended a tournament financed by Saudi. He landed in Marine One and was collected in a golf cart conducted by his son Eric.

Trump has often proven to be waterproof to the type of scandals or glasses that would damage another politician, but his decision to spend the weekend in his golden properties could prove the patience of the Americans at a time when their retirement savings evaporate along with the stock market. Tariffs are expected to increase prices in thousands of dollars per year and slow down economic growth, and there are fears about a possible recession.

The Democrats called Trump for being in a “multimillionaire bubble,” as Senator Chuck Schumer said, while Millions saw his investments sink.

“While the American people are trying to put food on the table, I see that Donald Trump is playing golf,” said Senator Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat of New Mexico. “The president should be listening to people throughout the country. Maybe he should enter a grocery store, walk a little, talk to people.”

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The president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said Friday that tariffs were “significantly greater than expected” and that they are “very likely” to cause more inflation, at least in the short term, but possibly also in the long term.

However, Trump has described his policies as a painful but necessary step to encourage companies to relocate their operations to the United States. The Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, told Tucker Carlson in an interview published on Friday that “I think we have to prove this, and I have a high trust relationship that will work.”

The president spent Friday morning defending himself in Truth Social, his social media platform, and promised to maintain the course.

“For the many investors entering the United States and invest massive amounts of money, my policies will never change,” he wrote.

Although experts have criticized rates hard, it has found some support in Tiktok. He shared a video that said “Trump is crashing the stock market” and “is doing it on purpose” as part of a “secret game he is playing, and could enrich you.”

The video presented an alleged appointment of the legendary investor Warren Buffett by praising Trump, but Buffett’s company issued a statement by saying that it was manufactured. The video also said that Trump’s goal is to push the Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates, something that the president explicitly requested later in the morning.

“This would be a perfect moment” for Powell to reduce interest rates, he wrote. “Cut interest rates, Jerome, and stop playing politics!”

With foreign leaders fighting in response to Trump’s announcement this week, the president lashed out and sought to reduce the agreements.

He said he spoke with Lam Vietnamese leader and said that Vietnam wants to eliminate its tariffs on US assets if you can make a deal with the United States.

He also criticized China for announcing their own tariffs on US imports.

“China played it badly, they panicked, the only thing they can’t afford to do!” He wrote.

Republicans suggested that Trump’s policies would be the beginning of a couple with foreign countries.

“The president is a merchant if nothing else, and will continue to deal with country by country with each of them,” said Senator John Barraso de Wyoming. He added that the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, had told Senate Republicans this week that tariffs would be a “high -level brand with the ultimate goal of reducing them” unless other countries retaliate.

Meanwhile, Trump also celebrated a new report showing that the United States added 228,000 jobs in March, exceeding expectations. Although the numbers were a snapshot of the economy before the announcement of the rate, Trump said the claim, saying that they already show that their movements are working.

“Hard hard,” he wrote. “We can’t lose!”

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Megeriano and Groves reported from Washington.