The English weekly ‘The Economist’ He has dedicated his last cover to the president of the United StatesDonald Trump, on the day after the announcement of the tariffs. Trump has imposed 20% tariffs on the European Union, 34% to China, 26% to Vietnam or 10% to the United Kingdom.
Trump described this day of ads such as ‘The Day of Liberation’ and the English newspaper has wanted to pay tribute, but in its own way. Pulling irony and attacking the US president They have called April 2 as “The Day of Ruina”. In addition, it can be read “how to limit global damage”
The Economist has announced the cover through a tweet in which he compares this day as in which Trump has committed “the deepest, harmful and unnecessary error of the modern era “.
On the cover, as a cartoon, Donald Trump can be seen with a saw in his hand cutting and separating the United States from the rest of the world, A clear reference to what the tycoon said During the announcement of tariffs: “Today is the day of our economic independence.”
Sánchez’s response and bag reactions
The point is that The Economist’s cover does not move much away from reality. The bags of the world and especially that of Wall Street They have dawned with serious falls and in red numbers after the tariffs were known: 20% to the products of the European Union, 34% to China, 25% to South Korea …
In Spain the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a package of aid of 14,100 million euros To mitigate the impact that tariffs on the Spanish economy will cause. They are additional measures to those present by the European Union and that are intended to protect companies and workers and look for other markets “under the prism” of strategic autonomy.
In addition, he has asked Trump to reconsider and accused him of lying, because “It is not true that the EU applies those tariffs to the US. They are not reciprocal tariffs, their reciprocity is just an excuse to collect and mitigate the deficit that causes a more than questionable fiscal policy. “Therefore, it has asked Trump to” reconsider “and feel” at the table “of an EU that has the” hand laid. “
