The Issue: President Trump not backing down on global tariffs as markets churn and the world waits.

I really hope President Trump knows what he is doing (“Don Euro trashes offer,” April 8).

He is gambling with our futures.

He says we need these tariffs, and that there will be initial pain, which he, Vice President JD Vance and the rest of the billionaires will feel — but not as hard as the average guy will.

While I agree with some of Trump’s policies, the way he went about this one is reckless at best.

We are being taken advantage of by other countries, but that does not have to be addressed overnight.

He has four years to remove decades of bad policies.

Trump should remember that many voters are retired boomers (or those trying to retire).

Chris Plate

Waterloo

Tariffs will work; they always have.

The question is: Will people be able to see past a short-term loss in their 401(k)?

Or will they look at the future of their children instead, and see that Trump is preventing the eventual collapse of the US economy?

Gary Markman

Beacon Falls, Conn.

Although some of Trump’s tariffs may be proposed for negotiating purposes, that is certainly not going to be true of all of them.

I suspect the substantial tariff on auto imports will be permanent, even if the rate is adjusted a little.

Trump is a strong believer in the domestic production of cars.

Even if a foreign country cuts its tariff down to zero, he will not reduce the American tariff to zero.

In that sense, the tariff on foreign cars and components is not reciprocal.

Regardless, as much as possible, he should find a way to avoid putting any additional financial burden on low-income individuals and families with these tariffs.

Bruce Couchman

Ottawa, Canada

Trump’s focus is, and always has been, on ruining the lives of the lower classes.

He just wants to implement a short-term reorienting of our economy so that we can get back to doing what America does best: Taking advantage of the needy.

In time, these tariffs will liberate the rich and destroy the well-being of the most vulnerable among us — from minimum-wage workers to the homeless.

The president will surely hold a press conference soon to state that his plan to bring back wealth to the affluent and crush the welfare of those in desperate need is going very well.

Robert LaRosa

Whitestone

All the CEOs claiming we are headed for recession because of the tariffs are truly failing the American people.

These so-called leaders of financial institutions seem to only play down any success and highlight any failure of Trump’s presidency.

When we hit recession under former President Joe Biden, they changed the definition of it.

Now they are going to fall back on the original definition.

They are absolute hypocrites.

Philip Vallone

Ossining

Trump is telling both domestic investors and trading partners who have taken advantage of America for decades that he completely believes what he’s doing is right for our long-term interests.

And he will stand strong and resolute in the face of a brutal storm of unrelenting short-term criticism.

As Trump wrote in his brilliant autobiography, “The Art of the Deal,” “my experience is that if you’re fighting for something you believe in — even if it means alienating some people along the way — things usually work out for the best in the end.”

Luana Dunn

Medford

It’s shocking to me that neither Trump nor any of his advisers has figured out that tariffs and the buy-American-made plan will not work.

As a purchasing professional who over 20 years spent millions of dollars of companies’ money on items purchased from China, the reason was clear — its labor costs.

The Chinese minimum wage is as low as $4.73 a day.

What American worker would work for that?

So unless the US minimum wage goes down drastically and you can do away with all the requirements of strong unions, we don’t have a chance.

Carol Puttre-Czyz

Manhattan

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