Welcome to One Minute News. Today we ask: Is Donald Trump a secret minimalist? For someone whose brand is all gold sconces and extra flagpoles, the president is sounding like an austerity advocate. In a recent Truth Social post he vowed “to impose a hundred-per-cent tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands,” calling foreign-made Hollywood films “a National Security threat” and “messaging and propaganda.” He’s hinted at consumer cutbacks too: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dolls,” he said, and even apple juice imports from China will get pricier. Writer Kyle Chayka sees a new materialism here—more Cybertrucks, less French wine. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argues, “Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream,” while others call it “short-term pain for long-term gain.” Is this forced austerity Trump’s take on minimalism? That’s your one-minute update.
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