It’s President Trump’s 12th week in office…
On Monday, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House as the national seeks relief from Trump’s tariffs.
Before the much-anticipated meeting with Netanyahu, Trump took to Truth Social and called for patience on tariffs : “The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!”
Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter told Fox News Digital, “This meeting comes at a critical moment on many key issues: the efforts to return our hostages being held by Hamas, the instability in Syria and the threats posed by Iranian proxies.”
“The recent implementation of tariff policy will also be discussed. Just as Prime Minister Netanyahu was the first world leader to visit President Trump in his second term in the White House, he is now once again the first leader to meet with the president with regard to deepening economic ties and putting trade relations in order,” he added.
Netanyahu last met with Trump in Washington on Feb. 4.
Posting on Truth Social via X on Monday, the president proclaimed in part, “Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place.”
In Wednesday’s “Liberation Day” announcement, a 17% tariff on goods imported from Israel – a 10% baseline on all countries that took effect on April 5 and an additional 7% – was scheduled for April 9.
“The fear is that these tariffs will hurt exports of diamonds as well as high-tech or defense systems like drones. If our income were to be reduced as a result, this would be a problem,” Alex Coman, a value-creation expert at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, told Fox News Digital.
“These tariffs came as a surprise. Prior to this decision, there were very few imposed, many products did not have them and Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich eliminated those that existed,” adding, “As such, I am very optimistic that these tariffs will be reduced.”
