Today’s notice: A Ric Grenell phone call. More on Laura Loomer’s day at the White House. One Republican’s “moral obligation” to a detainee. But first: Everyone is trying to figure out what the heck is going to happen with Trump’s tariffs.
The Day Two Scramble
People are really running around trying to figure out what these tariffs all mean, including, apparently, the White House. As the markets cratered, Donald Trump, en route to Miami, said “every country is calling,” showing an openness to making deals on tariff rates. “Well, it depends,” Trump told reporters. “As long as they are giving us something that is good.”
That’s not the message the White House wanted out there. As The Washington Post first reported, internal talking points specifically said the tariffs weren’t a starting point for negotiations. Like we said, there’s been a lot of scrambling.