Trump declares shock tariff U-turn came ‘from his heart’ as markets surge

Trump says shock tariff U-turn came 'from his heart' as US stocks surgeReuters

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00:00For the past few days, we've heard from this administration, no pause.

00:03Was this idea of doing a pause, did that just come about this morning?

00:07Can you tell us exactly what came into consideration for you and your advisors?

00:11For a period of time, I would say this morning, over the last few days, I've been thinking about it.

00:15I've been dealing with Scott, with Howard, with some other people that are very professional.

00:21And I think it probably came together early this morning, fairly early this morning.

00:27I just wrote it up. I didn't, we didn't have the use of, we didn't have access to lawyers.

00:33We just wrote it up, we wrote it up from our hearts, right?

00:37It was written from the heart. And I think it was well written, too.

00:41But it was written from the heart. It was written as something that I think was very positive for the world and for us.

00:49And we don't want to hurt countries that don't need to be hurt.

00:52And they all want to negotiate. The only problem is, you know, you can only do so many at one time.

00:56It's like, it's, we want to do it right. We want to get it right.

01:02We want to take care of them, but we have to take care of our countries.