National & Minnesota Report
New reports about Donald J Trump (R) opened with terms like whiplash and rollercoaster when describing the decisions made at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over the course of the last two days. In the matter of tariffs, Trump signed an Executive Order pausing the increased costs applied to imports from Canada and Mexico until April 2nd, while maintaining these actions on China. The temporary about-face appears to have been a reaction to the stock market where the Dow fell nearly 650 points, the S&P 500 fell 2% and the NASDAQ Composite plunged down 2.6%. In addition to dire calls from the Automobile industry both in the manufacturing sector of Detroit and the Automobile dealers across the nation. Especially, since most decisions in this industry are made 5-7 years in advance.
The Chaotic Irrationality in international trade, especially with our trading partners, delivered by Trump provides a great deal of uncertainty and no ability to predict the future. This coupled with his partial retraction of the universal power of Elon Musk and DOGE to continue to use a meat cleaver or better yet a chainsaw to dismantle the federal government civil service system, by saying the US Senate confirmed Cabinet Secretaries have the responsibility to make the final decisions in their respective Departments.
Right now, to many the Trump Administration appears rudderless and off course. The feeling of heartlessness and the mean spirited actions seem overly harsh. But, Republican members of Congress still remain as lapdogs and none have publicly come forward to criticize Trump. The best assessment is if the Republican Party is so obsessed with Transgender issues, then they should see themselves in the mirror as merely emasculated persons and ban themselves from any sports what-so-ever.