Sometimes you've to take medicine to fix things: Trump on tariffs as global markets crash
US President Donald Trump has defended his sweeping reciprocal tariffs by comparing the falling global markets with "medicine". "I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something," he said. While US futures opened sharply lower a day earlier, Asian market indexes plunged on Monday, with Japan's Nikkei index falling over 6%.