White House takes HEAT as Trump tariffs spark recession fears I Full Presser

Watch live coverage as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing after the U.S. stock market fell again Tuesday, leaving investors worried that President Trump’s tariffs could slow down the economy and potentially lead to a recession.

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LIVE: White House holds press briefing as stocks plummet over Trump tariff concerns

42 Comments

  1. A number of particularly harsh but compulsory lessons for the American people are being laid out in front of them. First is how to open their eyes to reality. Second is how to acknowledge that there is a problem that has far reaching consequences that reach well-beyond their country's borders. Third is realising that they themselves made that problem by electing the kind of people who are ridiculously unfit for the positions they now hold. The fourth is how best to address that problem. There are more and more hard lessons to come as the days and months roll along and the difficulty will rise continuously to disaster levels making it that much more urgent for them to learn as quickly as possible. History tells us that there have been so many kingdoms, empires, and countries that have been risen to greatness once upon a time, declined, and faded to obscurity, irrelevance, or outright inexistence. Not one of them learned their lessons. Let's hope that this time, America, is truly an exception that its citizens believe it to be.

  2. I am Chinese, “Tariff are not tax hike, tariff are tax cut….test my economy knowledge” lol do we have different economy, or she has no idea about how tariff works, or just this host is plain stupid?

  3. I Hit $32,590 today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last week. i started with 5k in last week 2025… now i just hit $32,590

  4. President Biden improves employment and increases the economy for all, reducing student loan, increasing green support, liberating women , etc. Now Trump comes along a dismantles it all and increases unemployment to levels never seen before. How 1/3rd of the population are able to control the lives of 2/3rd of the population is NOT democracy.

  5. Press Barbie is wrong, about so much. Tariffs are taxes on the consumers. It's "Trump's Recession," Biden has nothing to do with this dumpster fire. Poor Karoline, she has sold her soul to Satan. And Karma is a b=tch.

  6. TrumpSki: You knew, or certainly should have known I am a LIAR. So chill. No more egg price questions! There will be a TrumpCession, for a SHORT while, a little pain, but it will last no longer than 4 years I'm sure! 😅

  7. This is outrageous. She lies constantly. It’s shocking to see such blatant misinformation and lack of class. Why relentlessly trash the previous administration instead of highlighting your own actions? This isn’t what American values are about.

  8. Eager? Or threatened? KaroLyin' Leavitt is remarkably stupid.

    WOW! 10,000 jobs added in February, and only 25,000 jobs lost. That's only a loss of 15,000 jobs!

    Almost as good as Biden's consistent 150,000 – 200,000 monthly jobs created, month after month with no job losses.

    Republicans are trying so hard to look stupid in an effort to make Trump look less stupid.

  9. 77% or whatever support finding fraud agreed! I bet they wont support committing fraud, i.e. if they know the difference between 7 bn and 7 mn.

  10. The WH briefings are about as truthful and democratic as the Fox News broadcasts! 😂
    Trying to bedazzle their citizens with numbers, figures and percentages which are all bold face lies! 😠 Praying for our US neighbours 😢✌️🙏🫶😠🍁

  11. Where does she get this from? "Tariffs are a tax hike for foreign countries, that have been ripping us off. Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people." This has been refuted so many times and she still says it's a tax savings for the American people, well maybe she is talking about SHEEP-PLE?

  12. Karoline Leavitt says on live press conference that tariff is a tax on foreign countries which is bluntly a lie. The true reason why Trump insists on applying tariffs on all imported goods is to collect revenue to compensate for the tax cuts that he would give to his billionaire friends. That’s plain simple economics.

  13. Is anyone in America stupid enough to believe any of this nonsense? She's worse than that lad that worked for Saddam Hussein