President Trump put a 90-day pause for tariffs on at least 75 countries that have opened negotiations with the White House. China is not one of them. For China, he raised to tariff to 125%, effective immediately and China responded with an 84% tariff on the U.S.
Additionally, he lowed the reciprocal tariffs to 10% for everyone who is not China.
The stock market rallied on this news. It makes it all the more clear that the tariffs were an opening offer to force countries to make a better deal. This seems to have been his plan all along.
In fact, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett said exactly that on Wednesday at the White House: “This was his strategy all along.”
Investor and early Facebook founder Chamath Palihapitiya predicts that tariffs are also a tactic to transfer wealth back to the middle class. He calls it an economic NATO but just for the U.S., not for a block of countries.
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It will be an important weekend for Iranian diplomacy as President Trump sends an envoy to speak with diplomats from Iran in Oman.
President Trump indicated that Israel could lead the U.S. into military action with Iran but then clarified that no one leads the U.S. into war because we do what we want.
“If it requires military, we’re going to have military,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Israel will obviously be very much involved in that — it’ll be the leader of that. But nobody leads us. We do what we want to do.”
Then why did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu send his demands for the talks via a video message? He says that he wants for Iran what happened to Libya.
The U.S. caused regime change in Libya by forcing the country to blow up their own nuclear facilities under U.S. supervision and then using NATO to assassinate former leader Muammar Gaddafi. Libya was prospering before the U.S. got involved. President Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton for leading this charge against Libya. Would he turn around and do it to Iran?
Netanyahu also said that another possibility is that Iran would “drag out the talks, and then there is the military option.” He’s hardly one to talk about dragging out peace talks, having demurred on ceasefire talks with Gaza for 18 months.
According to recent reports, Israel hit another civilian neighborhood in Gaza, killing at least 30 people including 8 children.
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The media is crazed about the measles outbreak in Texas after two children died but when you look into the case of the children’s deaths, the real fear is medical incompetence, not the measles. This story is terrifying but measles is the least of it.
The most recent death involved a young girl who had been hospitalized with a blood infection after suffering from tonsillitis complicated by chronic mononucleosis. When she was brought into the hospital, the father asked for inhaled budesonide by nebulizer but the staff treated her as if she was suffering from COVID and treated her with steroids instead. Like the first little girl, the staff missed things that could have been treated with antibiotics and the girls suffered and died. The first death involved a similar tale of missteps including the wrong antibiotic.
These are not scary stories about measles. They’re scary stories about doctors and hospitals and there is a productive way to learn from them but not with media scare tactics about measles vaccines. Did you know that medical error has been shown to be the THIRD leading cause of death in the U.S.!?
There have been measles outbreaks in Europe and Canada too but they don’t have the hysteria and push towards vaccination that has broken out in the U.S. Why do you think that is?
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Immigrants to the United States can say what they want about Christians, white people, black people, hispanics. But they cannot have ever said anything that the government considers “antisemitic” or they will have their visas denied.
The Department of Homeland Security admits that it will scan the social media of immigrant applicants and use it as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.
“This will immediately affect aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students and aliens affiliated with educational institutions linked to antisemitic activity,” the government says.
Again…why just this one group? Why can applicants have negative attitudes about all other groups but this one?
This may explain why elite universities say that they have had their students’ visas canceled by the government without explanation.
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Ukrainian President Zelensky admitted that Ukraine has been attacking inside Russian borders for the first time. This is something President Biden promised Ukraine would never do but they’ve been doing it all along.
Zelensky also claimed on X that Chinese citizens are “fighting as part of the Russian army.” He posted a video of a man he claims the Ukrainian army captured fighting for Russia.
A few months ago, he claimed that North Korean nationals were also fighting for Russia. Ukraine uses mercenary armies from over 50 countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K. and France so why would this matter?
Zelensky is clearly desperate to escalate the war with Russia and evade peace. Another peace enjoy is reportedly coming to the U.S. It would be wise to exclude the President of Ukraine from this envoy.
New Justice Department filings against Ryan Routh, the man who tried to shoot President Trump in Florida last year, show that he believed he was communicating with a Ukrainian officials prior to the assassination attempt, trying to get himself a “stinger or RPG” for the attack.
There is no proof that the person was actually from Ukraine but there is also no proof that they were not. Ukraine sells or loses at least half of the weapons that are sent from abroad.
While Zelensky stalls for peace, Russia reports that it will participate in the second round of peace talks with the U.S. on April 10 in Istanbul. Russia also says that it plans to deploy more “several hundred ground-based robots to the Russian military” so…not a moment too soon, eh?
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President Trump said that peace talks will begin with Iran this weekend in Oman. Iran reportedly says that they would like to see a “goodwill gesture” from the U.S. first. By this, they mean relief from sanctions.
The Obama administration put horrific sanctions on Iran for the entire 8 years they were in the White House without ever proving that Iran had a nuclear weapon. Read this demon’s justification of it in the book The Art of Sanctions if you want to know more about it.
The Trump administration has also not proved that Iran has a nuclear weapon but wants to come up with an alternative to the Iran nuclear deal, formerly known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The deal was put in place by the Obama administration and it involved Iran’s promise to curb nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief. President Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed those sanctions. President Biden was never able to negotiation a new one but…he didn’t really try.
What if the Trump administration replaces the sanctions with tariffs? Would we all be happy then?
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A new Cleveland Clinic study found that the 2024-2025 flu vaccine did not prevent influenza. Quite the contrary, actually, those who took it were MORE LIKELY to get infected.
Here is the study. Read it for yourself.
It was published by doctors from the Cleveland Clinic but it has not yet been peer reviewed given the data was collected through March 26.
The employees of the Cleveland Clinic were required to get the flu shot so 82% of them did. They followed up with 53,000 employees and found that the vaccinated and unvaccinated were getting infected with the flu at an even pace but “over the course of the study the cumulative incidence of influenza increased more rapidly among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. In an analysis adjusted for age, sex, clinical nursing job, and employment location, the risk of influenza was significantly higher for the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated state.”
They say that the vaccine effectiveness may have waned or may not have included the most prevalent strain of flu. But that is a problem every year. Vaccine makers come up with the formulation in the spring and make their best guess as to which strains to include that they think will be prevalent in the coming months. They can never accurately predict.
A few weeks ago, the FDA approved the 2025-2026 flu vaccine and it contains strains of flu that are dominant in the world now.
It is worth noting that the annual flu vaccine does not go through clinical trials. It also is not tested as to whether or not it stops infection in humans. It is only tested to see if recipients produce antibodies.
From this study alone, it is clear we need more research about why we mandate the flu vaccine if it is this ineffective and may in fact make people MORE likely to get the flu.
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The stock market fell into the red on Tuesday after regaining losses on Monday. The consensus is that no one knows what will happen once the Trump administration’s tariffs go into place and Wall Street doesn’t like uncertainty.
President Trump said that he is willing to put a 104% tax on China and China basically said: Bring it.
“China is not a seeker of trouble. But make no mistake: when challenged, we will never back down. Intimidation and threats never work with China,” read a statement by the Lin Jian, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson.
The President also announced that he will put tariffs on pharmaceuticals. At an event on Tuesday, he said this: “We’re going to tariff our pharmaceuticals and once we do that they’re going to come rushing back into our country because we’re the big market… So we’re going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals and when they hear that, they will leave China, they will leave other places because they have to – most of their product is sold here and they’re going to be opening up their plants all over our country.”
Guess who that would hurt badly? Europe. Many pharmaceuticals sold in the U.S. are made in Europe, India and China. CEOs from Big Pharma in Europe issued this panicked statement to European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen saying that Europe must change the way it does business to compete with the U.S. or risk losing billions of Euros of investment.
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Whitney joined Katie Halper to discuss the latest Unlimited Hangout investigation into Sean “Diddy” Combs. Part 1 of Whitney’s segment starts at around the 2:01:17 mark.
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Monday was not Black Monday with a major stock market fall out, as predicted by CNBC’s Jim Cramer and about every other corporate media outlet. Instead, markets ended up for the day.
The market was up at the end up Monday so Cramer explained it…this way. I don’t even know what he’s saying really. I think he’s saying it’s not that big of a deal actually and we’re not heading for such a bad time. On second thought, don’t sell everything, he’s saying.
Maybe the tariff plan is not so bad. European Commissioner Ursula Von Der Leyen now says that Europe will offer the U.S. a zero-for-zero tariff deal and there are reports that more than 70 countries have called the White House to negotiate their own trade deals. Considering there were 100 tariffs announced, that’s a 70% success rate in just a few days so…could it work?
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By the looks of it, President Trump declined to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the American citizen that was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers just days ago in the West Bank. Or the 15 medics that were murdered by the Israeli Defense Force. Or the civilians that were killed in Gaza in the last week.
Instead, he gave him a tour of the White House where large framed photos of the two leaders are mounted and reiterated that the U.S. is “a friend of Israel … It’s an honor to be so.”
And while it would seem that there is a bestie relationship here, the meeting was not a home run success for Netanyahu.
The President and Prime Minister held a “bilateral meeting” but did not take press questions in a podium format. That was reportedly canceled.
Netanyahu says that they would “eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it’s the right thing to do and we’re going to also eliminate trade barriers.”
When the President was asked if he would lift tariffs on Israel as a result, he said he doesn’t actually think he needs to since the U.S. gives Israel $4 billion per year.
President Trump also says that “direct talks with Iran” are planned for this upcoming Saturday in order to avoid a war. He says that a war with Iran is “not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with.”
The Israeli people want to avoid a war. Does Netanyahu know that?
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thanked President Trump for “the first TRILLION dollar
@DeptofDefense budget.”
The President mentioned this in his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Secretary Hegseth added this postscript: “we intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely — on lethality and readiness.”
One area that DOGE has been silent on is bloated military contracts, which we know are a reality. A 2023 CBS News investigation uncovered that the Pentagon was billed $71 for a pin that previously cost less than a nickel, and $80 for a drainpipe segment valued at $1.41. Does the defense budget expansion mean that these inflated prices have not been addressed?
China has a military that is approximately twice the size of the U.S. military with approximately one third the budget. Why do you think that is?
The Pentagon has failed every audit since 2018. Perhaps we should see some public accountability before championing a bigger budget.
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