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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Callum Jones

The one thing Donald Trump isn’t saying about tariffs

a collage of a man with speech bubbles and dollars swirling behind him

Donald Trump’s words and actions rarely align perfectly. If you watch carefully, what he doesn’t say can be just as telling as what he does.

“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods,” he told the nation ahead of his re-election. The US president declared that 2 April would “forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn”, only to pause tariffs a week later.

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