'I hate to predict things': Trump doesn't rule out US recession amid trade tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : It takes a little time, but I think it should be great for us," Trump said.
40% : In 2018 Trump posted on Twitter, now X, that "trade wars are good, and easy to win", a view that is not widely shared by financial and economic experts.
19% : Donald Trump on Sunday refused to rule out the possibility that the US economy will head into recession this year and that inflation will rise, as his chaotic trade tariffs policy cause uncertainty and market turbulence.
10% : Fox News Sunday Morning Futures anchor Maria Bartiromo introduced the topic of recession by telling Trump "look, I know you inherited a mess", even though most experts agree that predecessor Joe Biden, a Democrat, left the Republican president a stable economy where inflation, although painfully high for a long time, was continuing to come down and international trading conditions for the US were steady.
4% : " Lutnick added: "Anybody who bets against Donald Trump, it's like the same people who thought Donald Trump wasn't going to win a year ago ...

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