US President Donald Trump WASHINGTON ― President US Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on the aggressive global tariffs he announced a week ago left critics shaking their heads after the turmoil rattled financial markets and increased the likelihood of an economic recession.“This is chaos. This is government by chaos,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat, New York) said at a press conference on Wednesday. “He keeps changing things from day to day. His advisors are fighting among themselves. You cannot run a country with such chaos.”“This chaos seems just a game for Donald Trump, but it is very real for people’s lives, people’s retirement, their income,” he added. “Trump seems to be playing a game of red light, green light. One day this, one day that. I’ve never seen such a chaotic administration action.”Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) offered a more sarcastic response to Trump backing down, summing up the convoluted and contradictory arguments his allies pushed in defense of the tariffs, in some cases minutes before they were reversed:OUR PLAN IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND IS JUST A NEGOTIATING TACTIC BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE PERMANENT AND WE WILL BE THE WORLD LEADER I