Category: U.S. Events

March 28, 2025

Sumi and Sada Tamura under the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C. – March 28, 1925
via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

On March 28, 2025, there were a lot of national and international issues that affected today. Here are the three which were of most interest to me.

March 28, 2025 Stock Market Take a Hit

Dow Jones closed down 715.80 points or 1.69% to 41,583.90.

S&P 500 down 1.9% to 5,580.94. This marks the fifth time in the last six weeks.

Nasdaq Composite down 2.7% to 17,322.99.

Canada Feels the Relationship with the United States Has Changed

President Trump reported on a phone call with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, this being their first call. Trump said the call was “extremely productive.”

Carney said “Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty both in private and public, but added the relationship has changed.”

“It is clear that the United States is no longer a reliable partner. It is probable now that by negotiating we will able to restore an element of trust but we cannot go back,” Carney said.

More in this article:

https://apnews.com/article/canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-trump-3dce332dc2c4b1cb9d034f70ef2920ff?fbclid=IwY2xjawJWMMBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfnlJfUl67NBjsxsfCx9mVsa9UErmz2ipnuDNv1tNL7qF0EPhulMDb_4Nw_aem_U2WMfFpfsb5HL2MWHocEdg

Finally on March 28, 2025:

Vance Changes Greenland Plans

Things did not go well for Mrs. Vance and the Vice-President in their Greenland visit.

Headline for this article: U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-officials-went-door-door-180606208.html

Greenland itself is rich with rare earth minerals, which are essential components in the production of cellphones, batteries, and other consumer technologies. – from the above mentioned article.

I wonder if that has anything to do with Trump’s and Vance’s sudden interest in Greenland?

March 28, 2025 Summary

All in all, this was a very active day for news. Watching these items were all related to the economy of which I have a special interest. But there was also more fall out from the Signal incident where Atlantic magazine Editor Jeffrey Goldberg was added onto what should have been a closed and private chat. I doubt we have heard the end of that one.

The President on President’s Day

From Instagram – the first dogs’ account – Champ and Major

The past few days I’ve been wanting to write a blog post every day but I don’t know something just kind of got in the way. So maybe it’s better that I just left to go try to start with something today.

What’s been the problem the past few days? Well it was obviously the trial held for former President Trump that was in the Senate. There were so many questions that this trial brought about that it was mindblowing. One has to wonder what ethics were involved with the people who were sitting as the jurors, that is, the senators. How did they see this? Did they really vote because they believed that this the charge was not Constitutional? Did they really believe that it was unconstitutional and if it was unconstitutional could it not have gone up to the supreme court for a final decision.

I guess the one good thing about this trial ending on Saturday is that it has ended. Does our country really have to keep going over the terrible offense of January 6 when the capital was stormed? Baby boomers were notorious for protest. I can remember when they used to take over the offices of college presidents. We were considered a very radical generation. But we didn’t go this far. We didn’t go into the capital and actually try to take over the government. There were some who wanted to overthrow the government and claimed they would do it. But nothing came close to what we saw back on January 6. I am happy that this is over. Please do look forward.