Trump Today: President downplays trade rift with China as a ‘squabble’ as he mulls additional tariffs

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. and China were having a “little squabble” on trade

, talking up his own relationship with President Xi Jinping even as he said he was looking at more tariffs.Trump played down the trade rift between the U.S. and China, which has seen each side apply tariffs to the other’s goods, spooking equity markets. Stocks DJIA, +0.82% rose Tuesday, a day after Trump indicated it could take three to four weeks to determine success in talks.

In addition to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 SPX, +0.80% and Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.14% climbed Tuesday, a day after a sharp escalation in U.S.-China trade tensions triggered the worst day for major indexes since early January.IRAN TROOPS AND LOUISIANA VISIT “Hopefully, we’re not going to have to plan for that, and if we did that we’d send a hell of a lot more troops than that,” Trump said. Iran has denied it was responsible for an attack on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend and said the Trump administration and its Mideast allies were attempting to frame the country, The Wall Street Journal wrote. Oil futures LCON9, -0.27% CLM9, -0.60% shot higher on Tuesday.

 

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Now it’s a trade “squabble” because if it was a trade war we would have already won. You know, since those “are good and easy to win”

'little squabble' = glitch 2.0

A ‘little billion dollar’ squabble. trade tariffs

Nothing wrong with a little squabble—it shows that you care

Trump is forcing thousands of farmers to go bankrupt over a “little squabble.”

I loved what he used to say about Canada, Mexico and US when they were in the heat of negotiation. It was a “small family dispute” LOL 👌

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