Ireland on alert after Trump imposes tariffs but relieved over pharma exclusion

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Tariffs: US president Donald Trump gestures after signing tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times Our politics team's behind-the-scenes take on events of the day. Every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday when the Dáil sits You can say what you want about Donald Trump but he knows how to shake it up when he is shaking you down. His Liberation Day announcement was a piece of theatre, a spectacle. The Rose Garden had been turned into a giant Star Spangled Banner. He had dozens of steel workers, and auto workers, among the suits,...