{"id":2766,"date":"2025-04-09T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:53:10","slug":"obama-speaks-out-with-blunt-8-word-message-following-trumps-controversial-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2766","title":{"rendered":"Obama speaks out with blunt 8-word message following Trump\u2019s controversial tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>rump announced a sweeping set of tariffs on April 2, 2025, dubbing the day \u201cLiberation Day.\u201dThe new policy imposes a universal 10% tariff on all imports, with significantly higher rates for 60 countries identified as \u201cworst offenders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notable among these are Japan at 24%, South Africa at 30%, Vietnam at 46%, and China facing a steep 34% tariff, raising its total effective rate to 54%. \u200b<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, Trump declared: \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApril 2, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America\u2019s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to \u2018Make America Wealthy Again\u2019.\u201d<strong>\u00a0Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rump announced a sweeping set of tariffs on April 2, 2025, dubbing the day \u201cLiberation Day.\u201dThe new policy imposes a universal 10% tariff on all imports, with significantly higher rates for 60 countries identified&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}