{"id":39486,"date":"2025-03-09T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39486"},"modified":"2025-03-10T02:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T07:46:56","slug":"trump-administration-briefing-president-downplays-market-volatility-us-placed-on-civic-decline-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39486","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration briefing: President downplays market volatility; US placed on civic decline watchlist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">US president ducks question on whether he thinks the US will face a recession; watchdog fears US seeing a rapid decline in civic freedoms \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday at a glance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump has refused to rule out the possibility the US economy will head into recession this year and that inflation will rise, as his chaotic trade tariffs policy caused uncertainty and market turbulence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The US president predicted that his economic goals would take time and a period of transition to bear fruit. But when asked in an interview with the Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures \u201care you expecting a recession this year?\u201d he demurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI hate to predict things like that. There is a period of transition, because what we\u2019re doing is very big. We\u2019re bringing wealth back to America. That\u2019s a big thing. And there are always periods of, it takes a little time. It takes a little time, but I think it should be great for us,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/10\/trump-administration-briefing-president-downplays-market-volatility-us-placed-on-civic-decline-watchlist\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president ducks question on whether he thinks the US will face a recession; watchdog fears US seeing a rapid decline in civic freedoms \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday at a glance Donald Trump has refused to rule out the possibility the US economy will head into recession this year and that inflation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[9572,32629,1230,32630],"class_list":["post-39486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livehood","tag-citizen","tag-recessions","tag-trump","tag-watchlist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39488,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions\/39488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}