President Donald Trump dug in deeper Monday over his sweeping worldwide tariffs, issuing a warning to China and sending stock markets on a roller coaster ride as he huddled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
Long a student of American politics, Netanyahu — whose country was hit with a 17 percent duty — was the first world leader to visit Trump in Washington since he implemented higher-than-anticipated import fees on around 90 countries last week. The visit came as Democratic lawmakers continued to warn about a global recession of Trump’s making as U.S. and global stock markets took more substantial losses Monday.
Asked Monday afternoon in the Oval Office if he might pause some or all of the duties to ease global economic fears, Trump replied: “We’re not looking at that.” But he also said he was willing to talk to other world leaders about what he dubbed “fair deals.”
