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US President Donald Trump pumps his fist upon arrival at Miami International Airport on April 3, 2025. Trump is travelling to the Trump National Doral Golf Club before going to his Mar-a-Lago Resort. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN Staff James Meyers 10:16 AM – Friday, April 4, 2025
President Donald Trump stood by his “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariff package on Friday, telling investors that his “policies will not change,” after China attempted to retaliate with a 34% tariff on U.S. goods.
In a string of Truth Social posts, President Trump maintained that his tariff move will withstand the current falling stock markets — which have gone down ever since he made the decision to implement the new tariffs.
CHINA PLAYED IT WRONG, THEY PANICKED – THE ONE THING THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO DO!
Donald Trump Truth Social 04/04/25 09:25 AM
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 4, 2025
“CHINA PLAYED IT WRONG, THEY PANICKED – THE ONE THING THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO DO!” he wrote.
In an earlier post, the president also said: “THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!”
The newly incorporated tariffs established a 10% minimum base duty on foreign countries, and hit what he called “worst offender” countries at higher rates.
The 47th president slapped China with a 34% additional tariff in the Wednesday announcement, on top of a 20% tariff that was already in place.
Trump indicated on Thursday that he would be willing to negotiate with countries to bring the tariff rates down, but only if they “are giving us something that is good.”
“The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have. I’ve used them very well in the first administration,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Additionally, the Commander-in-Chief announced on Thursday that markets will come back stronger than ever following his tariff package, with the 10% tariff going into effect on Saturday and any higher tariff rates that kicked in on Wednesday.
He further stressed that Americans need to be patient during this time.
“I think it’s going very well. It was an operation, like what a patient gets operated on, and it’s a big thing,” Trump told reporters when leaving the White House.
“I said this would be exactly the way it is. We have $6 or $7 trillion coming into our country, and we’ve never seen anything like it. The markets are going to boom, the stock market is going to boom, the country is going to boom.”
The Trump administration applauded the latest jobs report on Friday — which came in higher than expected for the month of March.
GREAT JOB NUMBERS, FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED. IT’S ALREADY WORKING. HANG IN THERE, WE CAN’T LOSE!!!
Donald Trump Truth Social 04/04/25 08:57 AM
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 4, 2025
“GREAT JOB NUMBERS, FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED. IT’S ALREADY WORKING. HANG TOUGH, WE CAN’T LOSE!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Meanwhile, 72nd Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that “markets are crashing,” but that the U.S. economy is strong and will become much stronger once things settle.
“Markets are crashing because markets are based on the stock value of companies who today are embedded in modes of production that are bad for the United States. We have to reset the global order of trade,” Rubio said.
JUST IN: President Trump says the tariffs are to put the United States back in the driver's seat, says he is open to negotiations.
Trump says TikTok is close to a deal and says tariffs may force China to approve it.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks at the Public Mass Meeting of the 114th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 29, 2023. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)
Over the weekend, Boston’s sanctuary city designation was highlighted by Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu, as Donald Trump, the incoming president, intensifies his plans to deport large numbers of illegal immigrants shortly after he enters his second term.
“The last thing we want is for people who are part of our economy, part of our school system, part of our community and the fabric of our city, to feel that all of a sudden they have to retreat into the shadows,” Wu said during an interview on Sunday, speaking about illegal aliens living in Boston.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) says her city will "not [be] cooperating" with mass criminal illegal alien deportations — and even suggests there may be room to "reverse or override some parts" of federal immigration law pic.twitter.com/wC08rDkeFm
When the city passed the Trust Act, which forbids Boston police from questioning, detaining, or arresting someone for non-criminal immigration enforcement purposes, Wu was a city councilor. Nevertheless, when the act was first enacted in 2014 and when it was updated in 2019, she backed it.
“The ordinance does allow police to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement on criminal investigations, like human trafficking and drug trafficking,” according to WBUR, a local Boston outlet.
Boston’s sanctuary status, according to Wu, is crucial to ensuring that undocumented immigrants in the city feel at ease and are thriving.
“We want immigrants to know that it is safe for everyone, to be able to feel comfortable reaching out for emergency services, to report a crime, to ask for help, and generally to be part of our community,” she said.
Trump’s deportation plans have also been resisted by other Massachusetts politicians.
According to Democrat Governor Maura Healey, Massachusetts police will “absolutely not” help with immigration enforcement. Attorney General Andrea Campbell informed reporters that she and other Democratic attorneys general nationwide are ready to file litigation against the next administration. During her tenure as attorney general, Healey filed around 100 lawsuits against the Trump administration.
Wu added more context to her view on the situation.
“Elections have consequences, and the federal government is responsible for a certain set of actions, and a city, no individual city, can reverse or override some parts of that,” she claimed. “But what we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way, and that we are not cooperating with those efforts that threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and and having a large scale economic impact.”
Many illegal immigrants have been arrested by ICE in the Boston region in the last few years, being charged with crimes such as child sex offenses, and then released back into society.
This month, ICE declared that it had detained an illegal immigrant from Colombia who had been charged with luring a minor under the age of sixteen, distributing obscene pornographic material, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude. According to the agency, ICE’s detainer request against him was disregarded.
ICE officers in Boston also made five arrests in March, including four suspected child rapists and a member of MS-13, a group of potentially dangerous criminals the officers claim were released due to local sanctuary policies that rejected detainer requests.
But it is unlikely that the Trump administration will be deterred by those states’ and localities’ lack of cooperation. President-elect Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, had a message for those jurisdictions this month.
“If you don’t want to work with us, then get the hell out all the way. We’re going to do it. What that means is, rather than sending 100 people to Boston, we’re going to send 200 agents to Boston. We’re going to get the job done,” Homan said.
Meanwhile, conservative social media users highlighted the clear “double standard,” arguing that Democrat detractors of illegal immigration deportation are hypocritical.
“Democrats say we should hate Trump and shouldn’t have voted for him since he’s a ‘criminal,’ talking about his lawfare court cases, yet when it’s a foreigner breaking the law who’s a REAL criminal and doesn’t respect the system enough to come here legally, they want to support, feed, and house them?? Make it make sense,” posted one Truth Social user.
