April 6th, 2025. After President Donald Trump's tariff announcements on April 2nd wiped $5 trillion from the stock market,

the Republican Party is scrambling. Farmers who were a part of Trump's base are struck and

shocked by the tariffs, the president of the South Dakota Farmers Union told Lauren Scott of CBC News,

saying they will have a devastating effect. Rob Copeland, Lauren Hirsch, and Maureen Farrell of the New York

Times report that Wall Street

leaders who backed Trump are now criticizing him publicly, with one calling for someone to stop him.

The size of yesterday's peaceful protests around the country, less than a hundred days into Trump's

term when he should be enjoying a honeymoon demonstrated growing fury at the administration's actions.

Yesterday, in the midst of the economic crisis and as millions of protesters gathered across the country,

the White House announced that the president won his second round matchup of the senior club championship today in Jupiter, Florida, and advances to the championship round tomorrow.

This afternoon, President Donald J. Trump posted a video of himself hitting a golf ball off a tea, perhaps as a demonstration that he is unconcerned

about the chaos in the markets. When Trump administration officials, Treasury Secretary Scott

Besant, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett,

appeared on this morning Sunday shows their attempts to reassure Americans

and deflect concerns also sounded out of touch. Besant, a billionaire, told Kristen Welker of

NBC's Meet the Press that the administration is creating a new, more secure economic system

and that Americans who have put away for years

in their savings accounts, I think don't look at the day-to-day fluctuations of what's happening.

He went on to suggest that the losses were likely not that significant and would turn out

fine in the long term. Lutnik insisted that the tariffs are about national security and bringing back

manufacturing, although the administration has frozen the Inflation Reduction Act funding for the

manufacturing President Joe Biden brought back to the U.S., overwhelmingly in Republican-dominated

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