The Tariff Trap: A Rough Weekend, and now Orange Monday

Trump timed his tariffs perfectly — five minutes before the bell. The market crashed. His insiders didn’t.

On April 2nd, Donald Trump pulled the trigger.

For weeks, he’d been teasing “Liberation Day.” A sweeping reset of America’s trade policy. The promise of tariffs to punish foreign countries, bring jobs home, and liberate the American worker.

But what actually happened was this: the market crashed, global economies seized up, and the wealth of everyday Amer…