Trump in driver seat on tariffs says Lutnick; president to personally negotiate top 15 trade deals: Live updates

Katie Hawkinson reports from Washington, D.C.

Navarro added Trump will be “the boss” and “chief negotiator” of these supposed deals: “Nothing is done without him looking very carefully at it.”

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer similarly said that a team of 200 people are “working around the clock” to get deals “to a point where the president can close” them.

But economists say it’s not going to happen with the Senate having only confirmed one other senior Treasury Department official and the administration already being stretched thin.

In Donald Trump, America has a president who combines business with politics. So far, we’ve witnessed Trump and golf, Trump and social media, Trump and cyber, Trump and real estate, Trump and artefacts. This is an elected leader who shamelessly plugs the Trump family business interests while seeking to serve his country.

Now comes Trump and tariffs.

University of Michigan Economics Professor Justin Wolfers offers his take on the Trump administration’s tariffs policy as markets end a turbulent week.

James Austin Johnson returned to Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as the president in an Easter-themed sketch that began with Jesus, played by Mikey Day, casting the moneylenders out of the temple on his arrival in Jerusalem.

The Biblical tableau froze as SNL’s Trump appeared.

President Donald Trump appeared to ignore Cheryl Hines, the actor married to his Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, at tonight’s UFC fight.

In the past, Hines has said she supports her husband, not the president, but has since been seen socializing at Mar-a-Lago.

Famous for her role in Curb Your Enthusiasm, the internet delivered and someone added the famous theme music to the moment.

The New York Post later reported that the two were seen together, with the president holding her hand as he spoke with Hines and Kennedy.

The Trump administration stated on Saturday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident mistakenly deported to El Salvador, is “alive and secure” at a terrorism confinement center there.

Despite an earlier statement claiming he would bring Abrego Garcia back if instructed by the Supreme Court, Trump appeared to deflect, saying that those deported “are now in the sole custody of El Salvador … their future is up to President B and his Government.”

As the stock market turbulence prompts fears that the U.S. could soon be in a recession, an investment management firm executive believes we’re already there.

In just a week’s span, the market has endured historic drops — after the president unveiled his new “Liberation Day” tariffs — and historic gains — after Trump announced a 90-day pause. But with some levies still in effect and others set to return in a few months, the gains haven’t curbed fears of uncertainty over the future of the U.S. economy.

Kelly Rissman reports from New York.

An immigration court judge has determined that Donald Trump’s administration can deport a Columbia University student activist for his involvement in pro-Palestine demonstrations on campus.

The administration’s claims that Mahmoud Khalil poses “adverse foreign policy consequences” for the United States is “facially reasonable,” according to assistant chief immigration judge Jamee Comans.

The arrest of Khalil — who is currently detained in a Louisiana facility more than 1,300 miles from New York, where his U.S. citizen wife is imminently expected to give birth — has sparked international outrage and fears that the Trump administration is moving to crush political dissidents, starting with campus demonstrations against Israel’s devastating campaign in Gaza and U.S. support.