Look what happened. Is this crazy? We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the

history. Make America great a good idea. How can you be against them?

President Trump is reshaping America's role in the world. And this week, Trump appears to be waging war.

It's all about trade wars, Trump's war on the U.S. government bureaucracy and the real war between Russia and Ukraine.

Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey, and I'm here with senior politics correspondent Rhonda Colvin, columnist and editorial writer James Homan.

And this week we're talking Trump versus the world.

Okay, guys, by the end of today's show, we'll try to figure out what role President Trump really wants America to play.

Let's start with trade.

Okay, the trade war is already underway. Or is it, James,

because just as we got ready to tape, there was breaking news about Trump pulling back on some of these

tariffs he had not just threatened, but implemented. So much of the last several days has been defined by confusion and chaos.

The markets ping ponging.

They're down big again today.

And after another big drop, Trump announced that Mexico will be granted a month-long reprieve

from tariffs on goods that fall under the existing free trade agreement that Trump renegotiated during his first term, the so-called USMCA, US-Mexico, Canada.

What is not clear at this hour is whether that also applies to Canada.

So there's some confusion.

This happened because Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, who thus far as held off and saying what she'd retaliate against, she announced that she was going to have a big rally on the National Square in Mexico City on Sunday to announce all the things that she was going to retaliate.

And it seems like that was what sort of prompted Trump to, to diffuse this, but only for a month.

So for how long?

What does this really mean?

There's, it's very hard to keep track.

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