Despite a bloodbath on Thursday following the tariff announcements on several U.S. trading partners, President Donald Trump dismissed the concerns while talking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for his Miami visit.
What Happened: President Trump compared the decline in the stock market to a patient’s operation and said, “I think it’s going very well, it was an operation… It’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly the way it is. We have $6-$7 trillion coming into our country, and we have never seen anything like it.”
“The market is going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, and the rest of the world wants to see if there is any way they could make a deal,” he added.