The news illustration is one of the most beautiful arts of journalism. The cover of the printed edition of the business supplement of The New York Times This Thursday contributed another test with a drawing, signed by Álvaro Domínguez, in which the line of one of those descending economic graphics mutates in the Picuda firm that Donald Trump stamps in his decrees. The ingenious idea accompanies an analysis of the effects of the aggressive and political volatile of the first 100 days of the US president in the markets, which, among such “uncertainty”, have seen 6.5 billion dollars vain at this time. in times of the recession inherited by Gerald Ford and the oil crisis.
The analysis of Times It is shared by experts from both sides of the political spectrum, but not Trump, who received the news that the confidence of consumers walks in decline and that the US economy contracted in the first quarter of 2025 for the first time in three years 0.3% in annualized quarterly rate – with two of its favorite strategies: deny the greatest and get to the defensive. “This is the Biden Stock Exchange, not Trump’s. I did not take possession until January 20,” he wrote in Truth, his social network.
The idea was repeated hours later in the fourth meeting held by his cabinet since his inauguration, which, again, was open to the press, so that this time the reporters could see how all their members, one after another, presumed about what was achieved in the first 100 days and praised, often flirting with the blush, Trump’s leadership. He took the opportunity to go a little further in his discharge of economic responsibilities. “And you could even say that the next quarter too, because these things are not fixed overnight or time.”
The US president, who had asked for “patience!” (In capital letters) in Truth, he pronounced after a while one of those phrases capable of dominating the news cycle for a few hours at the Washington addicted to information until the next chute arrives. He referred to the commercial war with China, and how this will be felt in the pockets of the citizens, also those who voted for him that he would be able to reduce the cost of life. “Maybe children have to settle for two dolls instead of having 30, and perhaps those two dolls cost a couple more than normal. But we are not talking about something that forces us to make a special effort, since [los chinos] They have ships full of things, many of which we do not need.
The statement also served for another illustrative display: The New York Post, Tabloid near the president, composed his cover of Thursday with the head barbies“, A photo of the famous doll and the following warning: the president” admits that tariffs will make certain prices more priced and cause shortage. ”
The Nobel Prize in Economics Paul Krugman used that cover in his substitution account to recognize that Trump’s conversion into a child consumer critic and “defender of the spiritual and high side of life” did not see her coming.
“It is true that, most of the time, in the economy of what many believe. Also, that those effects in the first months of their administration are not usually noticed,” writes Krugman. “But Trump’s policies have been so extreme that the economy is already visibly worsening. In particular, high tariff expectations began to distort business decisions even before they came into force.” The newly published GDP figures show it, according to the economist.
It was included a forum at the White House about “invest in the United States.” In a 40 -minute speech he applied something similar to the laws of quantum mechanics of the Schrödinger cat to his performance in his second mandate in the White House: all the good achieved in these 100 days is thanks to him; Everything bad, Biden’s fault. He did not say that, in fact, he inherited an economy that analysts on both sides of the ideological spectrum coincide, again, to define as “robust.”
He preferred to focus on celebrating companies, some of whose CEOs were present, who have announced investments in up to two billion dollars in the United States. He also forgot to mention that some of these decisions are partly due to the Chips Law, which obtained support in the Capitol of both parties in its objective of reducing Asia’s dependence on semiconductors.
The US president concentrated on Thursday morning, while the media took for granted the first crisis of his government, with the departure of the National Security Minister, Mike Waltz, in transmitting that message and renewing their thanks to those companies. He did it with a series of posts that gathered logos such as those of Nvidia, Apple or Johnson & Johnson with the amount of money invested by those firms.
And while Greg Ahearn, executive director of the Toys Association, which represents 850 manufacturers, declared The New York Times That Trump’s tariffs has frozen a supply chain that “puts Christmas at risk” – “if we do not start producing, the probability of toy short that the tariffs would make them lose between, and to return to the dolls with a new argumentative pirouette.
Miller said Americans will prefer to buy US dolls even if they are more expensive, because “they have better quality.” Also, that “with tax cuts, regulatory changes, the decrease in the price of energy and everything else with what Trump intends to illuminate this era of American prosperity”, in the end “it will be cheaper than ever producing in the United States.” It was, in short, another tribute to the most famous cat of quantum mechanics.
