Trump’s Great Defeat of November 14 – The President Who Suddenly Buckles

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, November 14, 2025, that eliminates tariffs on a wide range of products without replacement – beef, coffee, tropical fruits. Goods that have become symbols of a growing financial exhaustion in American supermarkets. The decision did not come from conviction but from pressure: millions of households have been complaining about prices that have been rising for months, and the recent elections in Virginia and New Jersey have shown how deep this dissatisfaction runs. Voters made no secret of what matters to them. Not ideology, not staging, but the price at the checkout.

After Trump had spent the past months trying to talk away rising costs, he now had to act. Framework agreements with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala are intended to reduce import duties on agricultural products from those countries – a step that conveys the impression that the president has understood that it becomes a political fear when families at the meat counter have to calculate whether they can afford a dinner. It is a quiet admission that his trade policy, which he sold as a patriotic test of strength against the world, has produced above all one thing in people’s daily lives: higher prices. Many farmers have now turned away from Trump.

In truth, this decision shows the collapse of a presidency that can no longer control its own economic narrative. Behind the scenes, allies have been warning for weeks that the balance is tipping. Voters have now sent the president an unmistakable signal. And Trump is responding not with insight but with a quick retreat. A shift in course that looks less like strategy and more like an attempt to limit political damage before it collapses entirely on top of him.

And this retreat becomes even clearer when one considers which products the president had to release. The tariffs were not adjusted or returned to a previous level – they were eliminated without replacement. Affected are, among others, beef, coffee, tropical fruits, tea, cocoa, spices and certain fertilizers. Added to this are additional reductions through new framework agreements with Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala and El Salvador, which are intended to make further agricultural imports cheaper. It is not a small change in course but a political confession of failure: an admission that his own trade policy drove prices in the country upward.

The tariffs are falling because reality can no longer be ignored. And because people in the country had to pay the price for a president who believed that economic laws could be overridden with political slogans. The step comes late. But it shows how thin the ice has become on which this administration stands, and it continues to melt. It is also a major defeat for Project2025, which suddenly realizes that its radical agenda is failing in the face of reality long before it can become reality. AfD sympathizers and voters should also take a moment of quiet reflection. With this signature, Trump himself confirms that his economic policy has failed – not the criticism of it.