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Donald Trump’s allies, supporters and donors, led by Elon Musk, push to end tariff war
What’s most striking about President Trump’s tariff war is that he’s being pressured by some of his closest advisers and supporters to end the crusade that has upended the world economy.
It’s not just media conservatives like Ben Shapiro, Rich Lowry, Ben Domenech and the Wall Street Journal editorial page. It’s longtime wealthy donors like Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot, who denounced the tariffs and cited the 46 percent levy on Vietnam as an example of «bull****,» telling the Financial Times that «right now what everybody’s terrified of is a trade war.»
Another billionaire, hedge fund investor Bill Ackman said, «The consequences for our country and the millions of citizens who have supported the president…are going to be severely negative.» Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, said «whether or not the menu of tariffs causes a recession remains in question, but it will slow down growth.»
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The most famous defector is Elon Musk, who, according to the Washington Post, privately urged Trump not to go ahead with the sky-high tariffs. Now he’s gone public:
«Ideally, both Europe and the United States should move to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America.» Even the world’s richest man and chief budget cutter couldn’t convince the boss, and he is off the reservation.
Musk is also taking shots at the strongest tariff booster in the White House, Peter Navarro, calling him «truly a moron,» «dumber than a sack of bricks,» and, in a particularly juvenile jab, «Peter Navarrdo.»
In addition to sounding off against President Trump’s tariffs, Elon Musk has thrown a few rhetorical punches at the staunchly pro-tariff Peter Navarro. (AP)
The aforementioned Navarro, you’ll be happy to hear, went on Fox and guaranteed there will be no recession. So you can all resume regular breathing.
It doesn’t help Trump that after an early rebound rally yesterday ran out of gas, the Dow dropped another 320 points, after a dramatic decline that has decimated people’s stock holdings and 401-Ks. The Constitution, by the way, says Congress is in charge of tariffs.
Almost no one is safe, including Bibi Netanyahu, who came to the White House on Monday in a ring-kissing gesture, has imposed no levies on the U.S., but still got hit with a 17 percent tariff. Against Israel, our chief ally in the Middle East and the region’s only democracy?
And the escalation with China, our biggest adversary, was predictable. Trump had hit Beijing with a 54 percent tariff (including an earlier 20 percent levy). Beijing hit back, as promised, with a 34 percent tariff on U.S. goods, battling what it calls blackmail.
Wouldn’t we have done the exact same thing if the roles were reversed?
But Trump acted as though he was personally insulted, and is now vowing an additional 50 percent tariff on the Chinese. This is how trade wars spiral out of control. And China has cut off negotiations on the sale of TikTok to an American owner.
Media blunders also fueled the market’s volatility. On Monday, Bloomberg – that is, someone identified as Walter Bloomberg, not connected to any news outlet – posted this: «HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA.»
Media blunders – including one claiming Kevin Hassett, director of the White House economic council, said Trump was considering a 90-day tariff pause – only exacerbated market volatility. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
This goosed the stock market. Except that Kevin Hassett, director of the White House economic council, never said that.
But CNBC morning anchor Carl Quintanilla told viewers, «I think we can go with this headline. Apparently, Hassett’s been saying that Trump will consider a 90-day pause in tariffs for all countries except for China.»
Reuters then ran with this headline: «Wall Street reverses course after Hassett’s comments on tariff pause.»
What Hassett actually said, when asked on Fox if Trump would consider a 90-day tariff pause: «I think the president is gonna decide what the president is gonna decide.» Not exactly the same thing. But the market shot up.
The wire service later admitted the mistake: «Reuters has withdrawn the incorrect report and regrets its error.»
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A CNBC spokeswoman said later, «As we were chasing the news of the market moves in real-time, we aired unconfirmed information in a banner. Our reporters quickly made a correction on air.»
Meghan McCain posted a broader swipe against the media: «There are so many hypocritical talking heads on TV saying they don’t care about losing money or being in financial pain for a while. Most of you are married to finance bros, come from rich families or have huge media contracts. You have a cushion…
«One of my best friends buys her groceries for her family based on what coupons each store has. I assure you a possible recession or huge rise in prices everywhere will be a different experience for her family than you.»
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Is there an exit ramp? White House officials say 70 countries have been in touch, seeking a negotiated settlement. Some, of course, were doing that in the runup to «Liberation Day.» The president could reach many of the settlements, declare victory and credit his tariff war.
At the moment, he shows no inclination to do that, having pushed the tariff idea since the 1980s and repeatedly promising such an approach during last year’s campaign.
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I wrote a book on Wall Street and the media, talked to many top traders as well as business anchors and commentators. I understand the hair-trigger nature of the culture. Everyone expected that Donald Trump would impose hefty tariffs, just not at this stratospheric level.
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PHOTOS: GOP delegation provides inside look at controversial El Salvador prison housing U.S. deportees
After visiting the controversial Salvadoran mega-prison known as the Terrorist Confinement Center («CECOT»), freshman Congressman Riley Moore, R-W.Va., says he is «even more determined» to support the president’s efforts to secure the U.S. from criminal illegal aliens.
This comes as the Trump administration’s scheme of sending the «worst of the worst» migrant gang members to CECOT has caused national controversy, with some outraged Democrats accusing President Donald Trump of «kidnapping» people for deportation.
Moore said that while at CECOT he came face to face with some of the country’s «most brutal criminals, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and terrorists,» and «extremely violent criminals recently deported from the U.S.»
After his visit to El Salvador, he said: «I leave now even more determined to support President Trump’s efforts to secure our homeland.»
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Rep. Riley Moore visits the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador which houses some 14,000 gang members and criminals, including several hundred deported gang members from the U.S. On left, an MS-13 gang member with the letters «MS» tattooed on his chest. (Office of Rep. Riley Moore)
Moore told Fox News Digital he visited the prison with a congressional delegation led by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo. The delegation toured the prison this week and spoke with several inmates.
«These are dangerous individuals,» he said. «We had several of them tell us, and they were not afraid to share it, [that] they are killers and committed homicides.»
«It’s not something that it seems that they regret one way or the other, from what I could glean from it,» he explained.
While touring the prison, Moore said he spoke with two deportees from the U.S., both of whom were originally from El Salvador and had been deported from Virginia and California. He said one had been in the U.S. for 20 years and was a high-ranking member of the brutal gang MS-13. According to Moore, both deportees «were not afraid to admit» that they had killed people.
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Moore told Fox News Digital he visited the prison with a congressional delegation led by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith. The delegation toured the prison this week and spoke with several inmates.
He said there is a lot of misinformation about the prison, leading the American public to believe that it is a kind of «death camp» for deportees.
«That is not true,» he said, pointing out that of approximately 14,000 inmates in CECOT, only a few hundred were deported from the United States.
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«They are in austere conditions in that prison, there’s no doubt about that,» he explained, adding, «to be clear, they don’t have the death penalty in El Salvador.»
That being said, Moore said the impact of CECOT and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang crime has been «miraculous» for the people of El Salvador.
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While touring the prison, Moore said he spoke with two deportees from the U.S., both of whom were originally from El Salvador and had been deported from Virginia and California. He said that one who had been in the U.S. for 20 years was a high-ranking member of the brutal gang MS-13. According to Moore, both deportees «were not afraid to admit» that they had killed people.
He said he spoke with ordinary people on the streets of El Salvador’s capital city, San Salvador, who told him that «they were living in a terror state, being terrorized by these gangs and controlling their lives and taking their lives many times.»
Now, he said, «they have their lives back.»
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That is why Moore’s resolve to support the Trump administration’s crackdown on gang terrorism is stronger than ever.
«It is very tragic that all of these young people have just thrown their lives away because they decided to basically not only destroy themselves, to destroy their own country and community and people’s lives… It’s hard to really wrap your mind around,» he said. «[But] the fundamental building block of any nation state is security. If you don’t have security, you can’t have economic opportunities, civil society, justice, any of those things. The bedrock of it is security. That has to be provided.»
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Pinin Brambilla, la mujer que dedicó más de 20 años a restaurar La Última Cena y enmendó el “gran error” de Leonardo Da Vinci
Pinin Brambilla, una de las restauradoras más destacadas de su tiempo, comenzó en 1977 una de las tareas más complejas y fascinantes de la historia del arte: restaurar La última cena de Leonardo da Vinci. El mural, una de las obras más emblemáticas del Renacimiento, había sufrido más de 400 años de deterioro, intervenciones incorrectas y condiciones ambientales adversas.
Brambilla, quien falleció en 2020, dedicó más de 20 años a devolver a esta pintura su esplendor original. Su meticuloso trabajo no sólo corrigió los errores de restauradores previos, sino que también reparó lo que muchos consideran el “gran error” de Da Vinci: la técnica experimental que utilizó en la pintura.
A través de su restauración, restauró la humanidad y el carácter de los apóstoles que el maestro florentino había inmortalizado.
Cuando Brambilla comenzó a trabajar en La última cena, la pintura se encontraba en un estado lamentable. Como ella misma recordó, al ver la obra por primera vez no podía reconocerla: “No podías ver la pintura original, estaba completamente cubierta por yeso y más pintura. Tenía cinco o seis capas encima”, comentó hace años a la BBC. Lo que Da Vinci había creado en 1498 estaba casi irreconocible, y su genuina belleza se encontraba oculta bajo varias capas de materiales. La razón de este daño se encontraba en la misma técnica que el pintor utilizó, la cual, aunque innovadora, resultó ser un gran error a largo plazo.
A diferencia de lo que era común en la época, Da Vinci rechazó la tradicional técnica de pintura al fresco, en la que los pigmentos se aplican sobre yeso húmedo. Optó por una técnica experimental que consistía en aplicar óleo o témpera sobre yeso seco. Este método, que le permitió dedicar más tiempo a los detalles, resultó ser perjudicial. El óleo no se adhirió de manera permanente al muro, lo que generó que la pintura comenzara a deteriorarse apenas dos décadas después de su finalización.
El escritor Walter Isaacson mencionó en su libro Leonardo da Vinci, que la pintura comenzó a desintegrarse poco después de la muerte del artista, algo que se exacerbó por factores como el agua que filtraba por la pared y el humo proveniente de la cocina del monasterio. Además, la pintura sufrió daños durante la Revolución Francesa y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Frente a semejante desafío, Brambilla comenzó su intervención en 1977. Lo que le esperó fue una restauración minuciosa y compleja que duró más de dos décadas. El proceso no solo implicó la eliminación de las capas de pintura añadidas por otros restauradores a lo largo de los siglos, sino también una exploración profunda para comprender las capas originales de Da Vinci.
Brambilla y su equipo realizaron pequeñas perforaciones en la pared para insertar cámaras diminutas que pudieran establecer cuántas capas de pintura se habían superpuesto a la obra original. Con instrumentos quirúrgicos y lupas, fueron retirándolas cuidadosamente del boceto original.
“Trabajamos con pequeños fragmentos a la vez, con mucha dificultad, porque la pintura original era muy frágil, mientras que las capas superiores eran muy robustas”, explicó Brambilla.
El proceso no estuvo exento de interrupciones. El equipo de Brambilla tuvo que enfrentarse a dificultades técnicas y burocráticas, y en ocasiones la restauradora pasaba semanas sin poder trabajar en la obra debido a visitas de dignatarios. La tarea también tuvo un costo personal: Brambilla dedicaba tantos años a la restauración que esto afectó su vida familiar. A menudo se veía obligada a pasar largas jornadas lejos de su marido e hijo, y en ocasiones, incluso trabajaba los fines de semana.
Finalmente, en 1999, Brambilla completó la restauración. El resultado fue una obra notablemente más cercana a lo que Da Vinci había concebido. Al retirar las capas de pintura, la restauradora reveló detalles minuciosos que habían sido ocultos durante siglos. Las expresiones faciales de los apóstoles, por ejemplo, recuperaron su humanidad, y la sensación emocional que Da Vinci había querido transmitir en la escena de La última cena se hizo más evidente.
“Ahora las caras de los apóstoles parecen participar genuinamente del drama del momento”, comentó Brambilla, satisfecha con el trabajo realizado.
Sin embargo, la restauración no fue un proceso exento de críticas. Algunos expertos en arte sostuvieron que la restauración había removido demasiado de la pintura original, mientras que otros defendieron la intervención, argumentando que la obra recuperó la profundidad emocional que Da Vinci había querido plasmar. A pesar de las controversias, Brambilla se mostró satisfecha con su trabajo, pues consideraba que la pintura había sido devuelta a su esencia original.
Pinin Brambilla siempre se sintió emocionalmente vinculada a la obra. “Por cada obra que restauro, una parte se queda conmigo”, confesó. La restauradora nunca dejó de sentir una conexión profunda con las piezas que restauraba, y La última cena no fue la excepción. Al finalizar la restauración, sintió una mezcla de satisfacción y tristeza al tener que “abandonar” la obra que tanto la había marcado.
La restauración de La última cena es una de las más grandes contribuciones al mundo del arte en el siglo XX. Pinin Brambilla no solo devolvió a esta obra su esplendor original, sino que también corrigió los errores que podrían haber permanecido en la pintura durante siglos. Su dedicación, paciencia y conocimiento técnico transformaron una obra deteriorada en un testamento de la maestría de Leonardo da Vinci.
La última cena, restaurada con tanto amor y dedicación, continúa siendo una de las pinturas más admiradas del mundo, no solo por su mensaje visual, sino también por la historia detrás de su restauración.
Pope Francis spent Holy Thursday visiting those serving time in a Rome prison.
Despite recovering from a bout of pneumonia, Francis met with dozens of inmates at Regina Coeli prison as he kept an Easter season appointment among the less fortunate.
Francis offered words of encouragement and gifted inmates with a Rosary and pocket-sized Gospel, according to Vatican News.
«I have always liked coming to prison on Holy Thursday to do the washing of the feet like Jesus,» the pontiff said. «This year, I cannot do it, but I want to be close to you. I pray for you and your families.»
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Pope Francis talks to journalists as he leaves at the end of his visit to the Regina Coeli penitentiary in Rome on Holy Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Andrew Medichini)
Francis’ visit lasted about half an hour.
«Every time I enter a place like this, I ask myself: Why them and not me?» Francis said to journalists outside the prison.
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Pope Francis visited a Rome prison on April 17, 2025. (Andrew Medichini)
The fact that the 88-year-old pope kept the appointment, while under doctors’ orders to take it easy and avoid crowds, was a clear sign of the importance he places on prison ministry and the need for priests to serve those who are most on the margins. That is all the more true during the 2025 Holy Year, which both opened and will close with special papal events for prison inmates.
Francis is expected to make at least some other Easter-time appearances over the coming days, even as cardinals will preside in his place during Holy Week’s busy events.
Security detail escorts Pope Francis as he visits a Rome prison on Holy Thursday. (Andrew Medichini)
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On Sunday, Francis wished a «Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Holy Week» to the faithful gathered in Saint Peter’s Square following the conclusion of a mass presided over by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri on his behalf. It was his first public appearance since being discharged from a hospital, where he was not receiving oxygen via a small hose under his nose.
Fox News Courtney Walsh and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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