Trump:

China wants badly to make a deal, but they don’t know how to get it started.

We are waiting for a call from China — it will happen.

Turkish ANKA III UCAV achieved a new milestone by successfully launching the Süper Şimşek from its wing station.

Süper Şimşek is a 700 km-range, 0.9 Mach air-launched system with a 35 kg warhead.

It serves as both a target drone and cruise missile, capable of EW, decoy, strike, and recon missions.

Elon Musk calls Trump’s Trade Advisor Navarro “moron”.

“Trump’s tariffs are worse than the 2008 crisis — even worse than Covid.”

Renowned economist Timothy Ash slams Trump’s chaotic economic policy and warns of global fallout:

“It’s amateurish… like a mafia mob leader running the world economy.”

“Every economist agrees: protectionism makes everyone poorer.”

“The US is less a mediator now, more of a bully.”

“Europe should bring Türkiye into its defense architecture — it’s time.”

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Elon Musk:

Those who financed the attacks against Tesla will go to prison.

🇨🇳 The offshore Chinese yuan fell to its weakest level on record.

🇺🇸 U.S. stocks are soaring.

Elon Musk now calls Navarro “retard”.

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Economist Timothy Ash doesn’t mince words:

“The US is coming across as a global bully.”

“If I were European, I’d be looking to new alliances. I’d be looking actually to get closer to China.”

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Italian PM Meloni will head to the US to directly negotiate the tariff relief with Trump.

Source: Bloomberg

US Trade Representative:

President Trump does not intend to make any exceptions on tariffs and aims to eliminate the trade deficit.

Netanyahu:

If there is no agreement with Iran, we will go for the military option. I discussed this at length with Trump

Netanyahu:

The dismantling of Iranian nuclear facilities must be carried out under American supervision and implementation.

Netanyahu:

Türkiye wants to establish military bases in Syria, and this poses a danger to Israel.

We oppose it and are acting against it. I told President Trump, who is my friend and also a friend of Erdogan, ‘If we need your help, we’ll talk to you about it.’

Macron:

President Trump must reverse his decision.

TSMC could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside a Huawei AI processor.

Source: Reuters

Trump's fortune has already been reduced by about $500 million due to the "reciprocal" import tariffs he imposed, Forbes writes.

When Trump announced his plan to impose massive tariffs, Forbes estimated his fortune at $4.7 billion. Less than a week later, it had fallen to $4.2 billion.

UN Secretary-General Guterres:

Gaza has become a killing field, with civilians trapped in an endless cycle of death.

More than a month has passed without a single drop of aid reaching Gaza.

No food, fuel, medicine, or commercial supplies.

Second round of Russia-US consultations will take place on April 10 in Istanbul, Reuters reports.

REMINDER: A new 50% tariff will be added by Trump unless China drops its 34% retaliatory tariffs by April 9, tomorrow.

Combined with existing duties, U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods could hit 104%.

Beijing vowed to “fight to the end,” calling the move “blackmail”.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will travel to the United States on April 17 for tariff talks with Trump.

BREAKING: White House says the 104% additional tariffs went into effect because China has not removed its retaliation.

The 104% tariff will be collected starting tomorrow, April 9th.

Source: Fox Business Reporter Jacqui Heinrich