Trump tariffs live: Trump aides ‘caught by surprise’ after president reveals he’s settled on ‘Liberation Day’ plans

Elon Musk said that he was “stressed” about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election at an 11th-hour tele-town hall on Monday.

“There’s a good chance it decides whether Republicans or Democrats control the House of Representatives,” Musk explained.

He later issued a dire warning: Democrats could take control of the presidency, and claim a supermajority House, Senate, and Supreme Court.

“This would be catastrophic and it would destroy the agenda for reform. It would make it almost impossible for the reforms that are underway to take place,” Musk continued. “I’m really asking from the bottom of my heart here, please go out and vote.”

“To be honest, I’m pretty stressed about it,” he added.

On Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin will cast their ballots in the highly contentious and consequential election – and the most expensive judicial battle in U.S. history with more than $90 million in funding being poured into the race.

Musk has donated an estimated $20 million into Schimel’s campaign coffers. The election is being regarded as one of the first major tests of the second Trump term.

A government official has warned that ABC’s broadcast license could be at risk as Disney faces an investigation into its alleged efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in hiring as the Trump administration continues its attempt to curb the practices.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr told Fox News that these practices at Disney, ABC’s parent company, could amount to discrimination.

“If the evidence does in fact play out and shows that they were engaged in race- and gender-based discrimination, that’s a very serious issue at the FCC, that could fundamentally go to their character qualifications to even hold a license,” Carr said in an interview on Monday.

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Speaking from the Oval Office, the president told the press that he had “settled” his tariff plans, giving very little information away.

Trump’s advisers, however, believed that the president had not yet committed to a set strategy, sources told the Wall Street Journal. According to the sources, Trump’s aides were caught off guard after being under the impression that conversations remained fluid.

As Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” looms, Gold prices hit a record high at $3,148.8 per ounce on Tuesday morning.

Mounting uncertainty and fears of stagflation are, in part, behind the precious metal’s rally, causing traders to bolt toward a stable asset.

Concerns over a U.S. recession are also boosting the demand for gold, with Goldman Sachs estimating a 35 percent chance of it happening within the next 12 months.

Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff plans remain largely unknown despite the president stating that he’s “settled” on his strategy.

Trump has repeatedly promised to roll out reciprocal dollar-for-dollar tariffs on nations that levy duties on U.S. goods for Wednesday on what he calls “Liberation Day.”

On Monday evening, the president told reporters in the White House that “I’ve settled, yeah,” providing little further detail after being pressed on his sweeping tariff agenda, amid growing fears that he may foment a global trade war.

“Relatively speaking, we’re going to be very kind,” he added.

A Cornell PhD student who was threatened with an immigration arrest during an ongoing constitutional lawsuit against the Trump administration announced on Monday he was fleeing the country.

“Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs,” Momodou Taal wrote on X. “I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted.”

“I feel like a stranger in my country,” his attorney Eric Lee added in a separate statement on X. “What is America if people like Momodou are not welcome here?”

Taal, a citizen of the UK and The Gambia, is one of three academics who sued the Trump administration earlier this month, alleging a pair of January executive orders have the effect of unconstitutionally threatening to deport non-citizens who protest the administration and its allies like Israel.

Donald Trump has again suggested that “there’s a way” for him to run for a constitutionally-barred third term as president.

“People are asking for me to run,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday evening. “I don’t know, I haven’t looked into it. They do say there’s a way you can do it. But I don’t know about that.”

During an interview with NBC News Sunday, Trump told Kristen Welker that “there are methods” to enable him to stay in office for an unconstitutional third term and stated that he was “not joking” about considering another four years in the White House.

While heading back to Washington, DC, on board Air Force One on Sunday evening, the president stated that it would actually be “sort of a fourth term” claiming that the 2020 election – which he lost to Joe Biden – was “rigged.”

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has said she intends to seek a 20-year prison sentence against a Colorado man accused of firebombing a Tesla dealership.

Cooper Jo Frederick, 24, was arrested in Fort Collins earlier this month on suspicion of throwing an incendiary device between two vehicles outside a dealership in nearby Loveland on March 7.

Vice President JD Vance has attempted to defend the decision to deport Kilmar Armando Abrego, a Salvadoran Migrant with protected status in the U.S., after Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted to an administration error.

“You’ve gotta get scared that people who are not criminals are getting, like, lassoed up and deported and sent to El Salvador prisons,” Rogan said during an episode that aired over the weekend.

The podcaster called that possibility “horrific” and admitted sending non-criminals out of the country as part of the Trump administration’s attempts to crack down on the Tren de Aragua gang was “bad for the cause.”

During the conversation, alongside fellow podcaster Konstantin Kisin, Rogan appeared to reference the case of Andry Jose Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who sought asylum in the U.S. after facing persecution for his sexuality and political views in Venezuela.

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