‘If he’d stayed on the golf course, we’d be in a better place’: experts on Trump’s tariffs, one year on
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“Donald Trump declared 'liberation day' on 2 April 2025.”
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— At 79 years old, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, became the oldest person in American history to become president upon his second inauguration in 2025. In July 2024, fi…
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— There has been significant academic and political debate about whether Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, can be considered a fascist according to consensus definitions of…
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— The religious views of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, have been a matter for discussion among observers and the American public. Trump was raised in his Scottish-born …
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“The wholesale slashing of government jobs under Doge (the 'department of government efficiency') 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.”
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— The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an initiative by the second Trump administration in the United States. Its stated objective was to modernize information technology, maximize producti…
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— The network of the Department of Government Efficiency consists of affiliates and allies associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the second presidency of Donald Trump. DOGE m…
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— Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
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“Investors quickly understood that chaos was an essential tool in Trump’s armoury. Almost as soon as he was inaugurated, there was a steady decline in the value of the dollar against other currencies.”
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“Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that US companies, which were supposed to be the victors in Trump’s new tariff war, stopped hiring almost as soon as liberation day was announced.”
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“Significant revisions in February to data covering 2025 pushed payroll employment down by 403,000 jobs, resulting in the addition of 181,000 jobs last year.”
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— The February 2025 United States–Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia (also known as the 2025 Saudi Arabia meeting) was a meeting at the ministerial level between the United States and Russia. It was held on…
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— 2025 (MMXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 2…
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“Figures from the Conference Board, a US thinktank, show consumer confidence sliding after Trump took office.”
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“A poll by the University of Michigan showed consumer confidence at a near record low at the end of 2025.”
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“The ratio of manufacturing workers to total nonfarm employment fell to the lowest point since 1939, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking this data.”
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“The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that the US deficit in goods had expanded to an all-time high in 2025.”
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“China’s industrial profits increased by 15.2% in the year to February 2026.”
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