Murdoch Paper Tears Into Trump’s ‘Self-Defeating’ Obsession

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The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has ripped into President Donald Trump’s https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-latest-big-tax-increase-3f063a31?mod=hp_opin_pos_1" rel="">“self-defeating” obsession with tariffs, which the president has clung to despite their economic and political harm.

Trump has spent the past year and a half attempting to impose crushing duties on products from dozens of U.S. trade partners, including his April 2025 emergency https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-trade-war-pain-just-gets-worse-and-worse/" rel="" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-trade-war-pain-just-gets-worse-and-worse/">“Liberation Day” tariffs, various rounds of universal tariffs, and additional sector-specific duties.

After the Supreme Court https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-humiliates-trump-with-brutal-tariffs-verdict/" rel="">struck down his emergency tariffs in February, he announced new tariffs based on various statutory authorities, some of which have https://www.thedailybeast.com/rupert-murdochs-wall-street-journal-savages-trump-after-his-embarrassing-defeat/" rel="">also been rejected by the courts.

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