{"id":10643,"date":"2025-04-14T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=10643"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:58:02","slug":"trump-goes-with-his-gut-and-the-world-goes-along-for-the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=10643","title":{"rendered":"Trump goes with his gut and the world goes along for the ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20250414140348.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20250414140348.jpg 638w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20250414140348-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 After President Donald Trump reversed course on his tariffs and announced he would pursue trade negotiations, he had a simple explanation for how he would make decisions in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cInstinctively, more than anything else,\u201d he told reporters this past week. \u201cYou almost can\u2019t take a pencil to paper, it\u2019s really more of an instinct than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the latest example of how Trump loves to keep everyone on edge for his next move. Trump has not only expansively flexed the powers of the presidency by declaring emergencies and shredding political norms, he has eschewed traditional deliberative procedures for making decisions. The result is that more of life around the country and the world is subject to the president\u2019s desires, moods and grievances than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a democratic leader who seems to have the authority to act as whimsically as a 19th century European autocrat,\u201d said Tim Naftali, a historian and senior research scholar at Columbia University. \u201cHe sneezes and everyone catches a cold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House rejects criticism that Trump is overstepping his authority or improperly consolidating power. Administration officials frequently emphasize that the Republican president won a clear election victory and is now pursuing the agenda that he campaigned on. In this view, resisting his will, such as when courts block his executive orders, is the real threat to democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrust in President Trump,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday while answering questions about economic policy. \u201cHe knows what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presidency has been accumulating power for years, long before Trump ran for office, and it is not unusual for administrations to veer in various directions based on political and policy priorities. But Trump\u2019s new term has been different in the early months, and he seems to recognize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe second term is just more powerful,\u201d Trump marveled recently. \u201cWhen I say \u2018do it,\u2019 they do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although international trade offers the most extensive example of Trump\u2019s inclination to act unilaterally since he returned to office in January the same approach has been evident elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He installed himself as chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to overhaul programming at Washington\u2019s premier cultural institution. He issued an order to purge \u201cimproper ideology\u201d from the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s network of museums. He punished law firms associated with his opponents. He directed the Justice Department to investigate former officials who crossed him during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Trump decided to remove regulations on household water efficiency \u2014 he wants more water flowing in showers \u2014 his executive order said the normal public comment period \u201cis unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat the president ends up having is what he wants, which is everyone\u2019s attention all of the time,\u201d Naftali said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s ambitions stretch beyond the United States, such as his goal of annexing Greenland. Vice President JD Vance visited the island last month to talk about its strategic location in the Arctic, where Russia and China want to expand their influence, but also its importance to Trump himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t just ignore the president\u2019s desires,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has spent decades trying to turn his impulses into reality, whether it\u2019s skyscrapers in Manhattan or casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He once sued a journalist for allegedly underestimating his net worth. During a deposition, Trump said \u201cit goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lawyer for the journalist appeared puzzled. \u201cYou said your net worth goes up and down based upon your own feelings?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said yes. \u201cI would say it\u2019s my general attitude at the time that the question may be asked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He took a similar approach into the White House for his first term. While talking about the economy with The Washington Post, Trump said \u201cmy gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else\u2019s brain can ever tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leon Panetta, who was White House chief of staff under Democratic President Bill Clinton and later served in national security roles for Democratic President Barack Obama, said there normally is a more deliberative process for critical issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you throw all of that out of the window and operate based on gut instincts, what you\u2019re doing is making every decision a huge gamble,\u201d Panetta said. \u201cBecause you just haven\u2019t done the homework to really understand all of the implications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you roll dice,\u201d he added, \u201csometimes it\u2019s going to come up snake eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Trump does not have a clear process for making decisions, Panetta said \u201cthat means everybody has to kowtow to him because that\u2019s the only way you\u2019re going to have any impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has seemed to enjoy that aspect of the ongoing controversy over tariffs. During a Republican dinner this past week, he said foreign leaders were \u201ckissing my ass\u201d to talk him out of his trade agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The saga began on April 2 when Trump declared that trade deficits \u2014 when the U.S. buys more products from some countries than it sells \u2014 represented a national emergency, enabling him to enact tariffs without congressional approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stock market collapsed and then the bond market began to slide. On Wednesday, Trump backed off his plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although high taxes have been left in place on imports from China, many of the other targeted tariffs have been paused for 90 days to allow time for negotiations with individual countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAmericans should trust in that process,\u201d said Leavitt, the press secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the conservative Cato Institute, expressed concern that the course of international trade was becoming dependent on the \u201cwhims of a single dude in the Oval Office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lincicome said the White House timeline to reach trade deals was \u201cnot credible\u201d given the complexity of the issues. A more likely scenario, he said, is that the resulting agreements will be nothing more than \u201csuperficial nothingburgers\u201d and Trump will \u201ddeclare a great victory and all this stuff settles down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter Navarro, Trump\u2019s trade adviser, said in an interview with Fox Business Network that there\u2019s \u201ca whole portion of our White House working day and night\u201d on negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to run 90 deals in 90 days,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 After President Donald Trump reversed course on his tariffs and announced he would pursue trade negotiations, he had a simple explanation for how he would make decisions in the coming weeks. \u201cInstinctively, more than anything else,\u201d he told reporters this past week. \u201cYou almost can\u2019t take a pencil to paper, it\u2019s really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1906,1907,1724],"class_list":["post-10643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-he","tag-his","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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