Over the weekend, life in Palm Beach looked much as it routinely has since President Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence.
Photographer: Saul Martinez/BloombergPalm Beach's Wealthy Party On, Unruffled by the Tariff Shockwave
The president’s neighbors in the wealthy South Florida enclave are wary of his markets-jolting trade moves
Floridians are accustomed to waiting for fast-moving thunderstorms to pass. President Donald Trump’s supporters in Palm Beach are trying to decide whether the tempest over his tariffs is simply another squall.
Backers of the president on the wealthy South Florida island said it’s too soon to tell whether the “Liberation Day” tariffs, which were far more aggressive than many investors had been expecting, will turn out to be an audacious rebalancing of global economics — or just plain reckless.