🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump says no exemption for iPhones and other Chinese-made electronics — suggests new tariff coming

President Trump settled the debate over the tariffs on iPhones and other Chinese-made devices — saying that there is no “exemption” and that new duties are coming.

“NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook,'” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday. “There was no Tariff ‘exception’ announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket.’”

“We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations.”

https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/us-news/iphones-and-other-chinese-made-electronics-will-likely-be-subject-to-more-trump-tariffs-commerce-secretary-lutnik-says/

🇸🇴📡 Musk Announces Starlink License For Somalia

Elon Musk announced on Sunday that his Starlink satellite internet service had been granted a license in Somalia.

"Today is another historic day for Somalia's communications and technology sectors, today we have issued here and provided Starlink, one of the major satellite telecommunications and internet services company the license to operate in Somalia," a post on state media outlet SONNA said.

It added that the license had been issued after two years of discussions.

https://www.barrons.com/news/musk-announces-starlink-license-for-somalia-80e75b6c

🇩🇪 Germany has admitted 8.4 million people -- equivalent to a 10% of its pre-existing population -- in just 15 years. In American terms, this would be like four New Yorks. This turbocharged large-scale demographic change is unsustainable and is not, in fact, being sustained.

🔗 Andrew Hammel

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Since *Wednesday*:

We have had:

- Universal “reciprocal tariffs”
- A removal back down to 10%
- 50% Chinese tariffs
- 90% Chinese tariffs
- 104% Chinese tariffs
- 125% Chinese tariffs
- 145% Chinese tariffs
- Electronics exempted
- Electronics now potentially back on.

🔗 Spencer Hakimian

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Argentine bonds on Wall Street are skyrocketing by +17.9%. This is due to the end of the exchange rate controls and the agreement with the IMF.

🇺🇸 A United States miliary build up is currently occurring in the Middle East as tensions with Iran rise.

Moving additional cargo, munitions, air defense systems and equipment, USAF activity in the region has soared. Here's a look at what flew and where.

🔗 Faytuks Network

🇺🇸🤝🇸🇻 — US President Donald Trump welcomes Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to the White House

🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — El Salvador President Bukele says immigrant from Maryland won't be returned to the U.S.

🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — Bukele and Trump discuss about the successful Anti-crime crackdowns by the Salvadoran Government

President Bukele:

“Sometimes they say that we imprisoned thousands, I like to say that we actually liberated millions.”

President Trump:

"Who gave him that line, do you think I can use that?"

🔗 Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom)

🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — US President sends greetings to Salvadoran people

Trump:

"I want to just say hello to the people of El Salvador and say they have one hell of a President."

Nayib Bukele:

"We actually turned the 'murder capital of the world' -- into the safest country in the western hemisphere... We liberated millions."


🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸❌🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸 — US President Donald Trump on Ukraine war:

Biden could have stopped it. Zelensky could have stopped it. Putin should have never started it. Everybody is to blame.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — When asked about the ongoing US-Iranian negotiations, US President Donald Trump said:

Donald Trump:

"These are radicalized people, and they cannot have a nuclear weapon."

REPORTER:

"Does that include a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities?"

TRUMP:

"Of course, it does."

🔗 GeoInsider (@InsiderGeo)

🇨🇳🤝🇻🇳❗️ — Communist China State Media reports that Chinese and Vietnamese regimes will jointly act to "counter US hegemonism" in a detente between the two Market Socialist Regimes following the Trump's Tariffs

On X/Twitter, it said:

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged China and Vietnam to jointly oppose hegemonism, unilateralism and protectionism.

Xi made the remarks during his meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Xinhua

https://fxtwitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1911799662287458509

🇨🇳🤝🇻🇳 — The Socialist Republix of Vietnam and the People's Republic of China signed 45 agreements during Xi Jinping's visit to the Southeast Asian country, says VTV

The 2 sides agreed to strengthen economic and infrastructural cooperation.

Major agreements on railway connect Vietnam to the China-led Southeast Asian highspeed rail system, together with Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇳 — US President Donald Trump's Trade advisor, Peter Navarro:

Socialist Vietnam is essentially a colony of Communist China.

Vietnam, don't dump shrimp into our markets and put the good people of Louisiana out of work.

🇺🇸⚠️❗️ — 5.1-magnitude earthquake hits near San Diego, California, says USGS

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦❗️ — Ukrainian media reports a new Russian missile strike against Sumy, Northern Ukraine!

🇺🇸🇸🇻❗️🇻🇪🇻🇪 —Donald Trump alongside Nayib Bukele on Venezuela:

“They don’t have a dime, we cut off their oil… they know what they have to do.”