#TariffsPause #TariffsPause Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know. They're getting a little bit … afraid," Trump told reporters at an unrelated event at the White House with race car drivers and team owners.His decision, announced on social media in the middle of the trading day, caused stock prices to soar.

Earlier, in a hastily arranged gaggle with reporters outside the White House, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted that the market chaos caused by Trump's hefty tariffs was not the reason for the policy shift.