Source: Cailianshe

On Wednesday, local time, Trump in the United States held his first cabinet meeting for his new term. The entire "Trump team" appeared in front of the media at the same time, accepting various inquiries for nearly an hour. Musk, the world's richest man and leader of the "Efficiency Ministry", attended the meeting.

At the same time, due to Trump's capricious and changing conditions, this is also an important opportunity for the outside world to figure out what they are going to do.

The following are some of the meetings we summarized, covering a series of hot topics such as Ukraine’s armistice, tariff measures, and “golden visas”.

At the beginning of Wednesday's meeting, Trump announced that Ukrainian President Zelensky would visit the White House on Friday to sign a "major agreement" on Ukrainian natural resources and post-war reconstruction.

He said: "We have reached an agreement that we will get our money back and we will get more money in the future, which I think is appropriate."

It is worth mentioning that in his speech, Trump quoted data from unknown places, claiming that the United States gave Ukraine $350 billion, three times that of Europe. But according to the Keel World Economics Institute, the total amount of funding in the United States is $119 billion, while Europe reaches $138 billion.

Even if he wanted Ukraine's mines and money, Trump made it clear that he would not give Ukraine security "out of very limited scope", and at the same time, Ukrainians "can forget" to join NATO.

Trump said: "We will let Europe do it (providing security guarantees) because Europe is their neighbor. We will really cooperate with Ukraine in rare earths. We need rare earths very much, and they have good rare earths."

It should be noted that there is currently no sufficient evidence to support the statement that "Ukraine has a lot of good rare earths."

Although he was not a member of the cabinet, Musk, the world's richest man, attended the meeting as a member of the "Efficiency Ministry" and sat in the corner of the conference room with the assistants of cabinet officials.

But Trump deliberately called Musk to "stand up and say a few words."

Musk wore the iconic "technical support" T-shirt and told the officials that he was just a "technical support staff".One of the tasks of the Department of Efficiency is to repair the disrepaired computer systems in the United States and solve huge deficits and debt problems.

The world's richest man mentioned that because of this job, he received "many death threats."

Then Trump followed the reporter's question and asked all the officials attending the spot: "Any of you dissatisfied with Musk?"

The US president looked around for a week and said: "If anyone is dissatisfied, we will throw this person out."

The US ministers sitting around the conference table understood and laughed to varying degrees and began to applause.

Trump continued: "They respect Musk and what he is doing, some people have a slightly different opinion, but I tell you that most people are not only happy, but even excited."

Musk also explained the matter of asking U.S. federal employees to write a work summary, emphasizing that it is a "pulse test" to test whether those people are alive and have the ability to read emails and reply.

Trump also gave further explanations on the "golden visas" proposed on Tuesday. He said yesterday that he would adjust investment immigration and that the United States would issue "gold cards" to those willing to pay $5 million, that is, permanent residence.

The focus of Wednesday's speech was on settlement - Trump seemed to be preparing to repay U.S. debt by "selling visas".

Communication Secretary Lutnik said that selling 200,000 "golden visas" alone is equivalent to $1 trillion in revenue. Trump added that if 10 million copies can be sold, it means $50 trillion, which not only can repay all the U.S. debt, but also can have a surplus of $15 trillion.

Trump also said that people who apply for these visas will not force them to create jobs, and there is a high probability that the quota system will not be implemented for applicants according to their original nationality.

Trump also continued to wield the "tariff stick" on Wednesday. Regarding the "25% tariff increase in Ink" that will be postponed 30 days at the beginning of the month, Trump initially said that it would be implemented on April 2. This appears to confirm that the two countries will receive an additional 30-day extension next week.

But Lutnik quickly interrupted and said that the two countries must go to TrumpGeneral proves progress made in border control, and the US president will then decide whether to give an extension. A larger tariff shift will occur on April 2.

Trump also mentioned that the tariff rate for the EU will be "overall" 25%, involving cars and everything else, and the specific details will be announced in the short term.