April 22, 2025: Trump’s ‘chaos’ strategy vs. the global economy

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This morning, we’ll get a better look at the state of the world economy through the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Forecast. All signs point to a relatively grim prediction, due in no insignificant part to the tariffs President Donald Trump has leveled against nations around the world. White House bureau chief Dasha Burns joins Playbook managing editor and author Jack Blanchard to discuss. Plus, the latest on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s future.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:06.1	Hello, good morning, everyone.
0:07.6	This is Playbook's Daily Briefing,
0:09.2	and this is Playbook's managing editor and author Jack Blanchard.
0:12.3	It is Tuesday, April the 22nd.
0:14.6	I am here once again with Politico's White House Bureau, Chief Dasher Burns,
0:18.7	to talk about everything driving the day.
0:20.9	Hello, Desha.
0:21.4	We're recording a bit later than usual.
0:23.1	Were you out late last night?
0:25.2	You know, it's a White House correspondent's dinner week.
0:27.7	There's some stuff going on every night this week.
0:31.8	On the top of the newsletter this morning, driving the day, it's the economy, stupid.
0:36.7	IMF world economic forecast is dropping at
0:39.4	9 a.m. this morning and it is going to be bad news for the White House. We saw all through the
0:45.2	day Monday the stock market struggling again, the bond market doing all sorts of crazy things
0:51.1	again and Donald Trump doing his little best to drive that process
0:55.1	onward by tweeting erratically about the Fed chief Jerome Powell. So the economy is definitely
1:01.3	going to be the center of attention this morning and we'll be talking about that in a minute,
1:04.9	Dasha, but I also want to talk about the other big story that is dominating discourse in D.C.
1:10.0	this week, which is the future of Pete Heggis,
1:12.2	the defense secretary. He's being wheeled out on Fox and Friends this morning to make a case for
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