Are Trump’s negotiable rates or here to stay? Amid confusion, he says they can both.

In the midst of mixed messages from the High officials of the White House, President Donald Trump was asked directly if his radical tariffs are negotiable or here to stay.

“Both can be true,” Trump replied. “There may be permanent rates and there can also be negotiations because there are things that we need beyond tariffs.”

During days, Trump in Down, administration officials have offered contradictory statements about whether countries can do something to save themselves from rates, which include a 10% universal rate implemented during the weekend and what they said they were “reciprocal” more specific rates to enter into force on Wednesday.

Only on Monday, Treasury Secret He wrote an editorial that the new policies “are not a negotiation.”

Besent published on social networks that after a “very constructive telephone discussion” with Japanese officials, Trump instructed him and the United States commercial representative, Jamieson Greer, to “open negotiations to implement the president’s vision for the new golden era of global trade.”

Navarro wrote in the Financial Times that Trump would not go back to his “reciprocal” tariffs about the nations that the administration considered the worst criminals in commercial relations.

“It’s about justice, and no one can argue with that. This is not a negotiation,” Navarro wrote. “For the US, it is a national emergency triggered by commercial deficits caused by a manipulated system. President Trump is always willing to listen. But for those world leaders who, after decades of trap, suddenly offer the lowest tariffs, I know this: that is only the beginning.”

When Trump announced the radical tariffs in the Rosas of the White Roses, he justified them as an answer to a “national emergency” caused by commercial deficits and unfair practices with global partners.

Since then, markets at home and abroad collapsed. Foreign leaders retreated, with some, such as China, taking retaliation actions against the United States. Economists increased their chances of a recession this year.

The officials were pressed to justify the action in the news programs on Sunday morning, where again the confusing messaging was evident. Trump spent the weekend to golf while continuing the consequences of his tariff policy.

The Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, in the CBS news program “Face the Nation”, said the tariffs were going to “remain in place for days and weeks” and that “this is politics.”

Meanwhile, the director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, in “This Week” of ABC News, boasted that 50 countries had communicated with the White House to negotiate tariffs.

Trump said Monday that they are open to “fair offers” with foreign leaders who put “United States first”, but that tariffs would remain in place meanwhile.

“We are going to obtain fair offers and good offers with all countries. And if we do not, we will have nothing to do with them. They will not be allowed to participate in the United States,” he said.

The chief correspondent of the White House of Abc News, Mary Bruce, asked Trump on Monday if he would be open to a pause in tariffs to allow negotiation.

“Well, we are not looking at that,” Trump replied. “We have many, many countries that come to negotiate agreements with us, and they will be fair agreements. And in certain cases, they will pay substantial tariffs.”

A rumor of a possible pause of the 90 -day rate that circulated on Monday made the shares briefly increase to the green territory before returning to red when the White House denied the report.

Trump said in the Oval office that he does not mind going through it, “apparently a wink to the criticism and volatility of the market because he believes it is worth at the end of the day.

“So, it has to be very interesting,” he said. “It is the only possibility that our country has to restore the table because no other president would be willing to do what I am doing or even through it. Now, I don’t mind going through it because I see a beautiful photo at the end.”

Michelle Stoddart of ABC News contributed to this report.