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China responded to president Donald Trump's trade war threats with its own 34-percent retaliatory tariffs on all U.S. goods, and a CNN correspondent warned that farmers could be hit hard by the move.

The president announced so-called reciprocal tariffs on imports from about 90 countries Wednesday, which he dubbed "Liberation Day," and claimed the new taxes were necessary to erase trade deficits between the U.S. and its trading partners, and China responded with a corresponding duty to that imposed by Trump.

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday.

Ronin, a giant African pouched rat, has tracked down 109 landmines and 15 other potentially deadly war remnants since his deployment to northern Preah Vihear province in August 2021, the Belgian charity APOPO said in a statement.

Republican pollster Sarah Longwell thinks that President Donald Trump's carefully crafted image is faltering as his economic policies leave Americans desperate.

"Trump's carefully curated impression, you know, through his years on 'The Apprentice,' for voters is that he's a businessman. So, I hear it over and over and over again when people say, look, I don't like his personality or, you know, I don't always like the way he behaves this way or that. But he's a businessman, and I think he's going to lower prices. I think he's going to do good things for the economy. And so right now, what you're seeing is Donald Trump taking a knife to the mythology that keeps him above water with people."

President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay £626,000 in legal fees after a lawsuit he brought in England was thrown out of court, said The Guardian.

Trump sued Orbis Business Intelligence, a consulting firm founded by Christopher Steele, who penned an extensive memo that claimed Trump was conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. The dossier also alleged that as a result of those relationships in Russia, Trump was "compromised."

CNN's Dana Bash on Thursday mocked President Donald Trump for leveling tariffs against an island that are inhabited solely by penguins.

"No one is safe from President Trump's new tariffs, not even penguins," she said. "A remote island near Antarctica that is home to mainly penguins, no humans, is now subject to a 10 percent American tariff. This is not a joke. We are not kidding. These penguins, who do not trade goods or services with the United States as far as we know, are on the receiving end of a new tax."

The U.S. car company Stellantis has announced that it will stop producing vehicles at plants in Mexico and Canada as President Donald Trump's tariffs take effect.

Trump announced a 25% tax on automobiles, and according to one MSNBC host, Trump's tariffs are already hitting Americans.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle reminded viewers Thursday morning that, for all of his bragging, President Donald Trump was always a terrible businessman.

Speaking to "Morning Joe's" Jonathan Lemire, she proclaimed, "Donald Trump is not trusted in a business sense."

CNBC "Squawk Box" host Andrew Ross Sorkin fired back at Donald Trump in real time on MSNBC Thursday after the president crowed about the success of his "Liberation Day" on Truth Social.

Appearing on "Morning Joe" to discuss the president's decision to impose tariffs worldwide –– including two islands that contain no human inhabitants –– the normally unflappable Sorkin was explaining the economic chaos Trump set in motion on the U.S and world markets when he was alerted to the Trump social media post.

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With "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski reading Trump's post that stated in all-caps, "The operation is over! The patient lived, and is healing. The prognosis is that the patient will be far stronger, bigger, better, and more resilient than ever before. Make America great again!!!" she asked her guest, "How are the markets reacting?"

"The markets are not healing, no, no!" he exclaimed. "We are down–– we're down 3 percent on the Dow, if not more. And the big question, we've talked about this before is, you know, to bring back manufacturing to the U.S., for companies to actually have to make real decisions now about what to do."

"Some of them are going to bring back manufacturing to the U.S. and they may do it quickly, but there's going to be a lot more who are going to try to play politics and play chicken and say, 'You know what? I don't know whether in 3 or 4 years from now, these tariffs will still be the same and if they're not, it's going to take me 3 or 4 years for my factory that I'm going to build to be online anyway. So you know what? I'm going to take the chance that things are going to not go so well,' and therefore these will get changed or eliminated or shifted, or the politics in the United States will otherwise adjust."

He then advised, "And if that's the case, the next couple of years is going to be very complicated because it means that nobody's going to make any investment –– it's going to freeze that investment."

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