President Trump is giving South Korea and Japan reason to team up with China.

The lead starts right now.

A Rose Garden rollout planned as Trump gets ready to push his tariffs and nations around the world prepare to push back

unlikely allies South Korea and Japan to democracies planning to respond with communist China.

Will there be any 11th hour tariff reprieves?

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Welcome to lead. I'm Jake Torpedo Bat Tapper. Today, President Donald Trump is continuing to

push the boundaries of traditional behavior by a president or an administration, the president

getting ready to announce tariffs on, at least as he puts, basically every country on earth,

every country that has import duties on U.S. goods, that starts in two days, Wednesday. Then on

Thursday, in addition to the existing tariffs on aluminum and steel, President Trump will impose

a whopping 25 percent tariff on all foreign-made cars and auto parts.

This tariff tsunami is threatening, according to economists, to flood our own economy.

U.S. stocks are on track for their worst quarter in years, though we should note the Dow did close up today.

And economists are warning of more inflation and a growing risk of recession.

What might that mean for you?

Well, in a new CBS, you gov poll, 72% of the American people believe this is, this tariff

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