Despite the plunge in U.S. stock markets, Trump insists that the stock market will "prosper" due to his comprehensive tariffs, the first public comments he has since announced tariff policies and triggered market turmoil. “I think everything is going well,” Trump told reporters before heading to Florida. "The market will flourish" and "the country will flourish", Trump said. He added that the United States will "have $6 to $7 trillion into our country." He went on to claim that U.S. trading partners “have been taking advantage of us for years.”