Bondi says Trump will 'probably' leave after second term

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the heart of the European drama after Trump's tariff announcement, on travel to NATO headquarters in Brussels for a ministerial meeting of the alliance.

Under usual circumstances, there would be no shortage of contentious topics to discuss: support for Ukraine, defense budgeting and Russia. But now, Rubio is on the frontlines for any private complaints about President Donald Trump's tariffs and other ongoing fights with European leaders, like Trump's desire to acquire Greenland.

So far, Rubio has been avoiding addressing these topics head on even though he met with the foreign minister of Denmark, which counts Greenland among its territories. He ignored shouted questions about Greenland ahead of the meeting.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

Former Vice President Mike Pence rebuked Trump over his tariff plan in a post on X.

"The Trump Tariff Tax is the largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history. These Tariffs are nearly 10x the size of those imposed during the Trump-Pence Administration and will cost American families over $3,500 per year," Pence said on Wednesday night without citing any specific source.

Pence has often held off from criticizing Trump by name since he left office. However, his organization, Advancing American Freedom, had already been criticizing tariffs from the new administration.

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim and Rick Klein

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned trade partners not to retaliate against the tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

"I think the mindset is, let's just see where we are, and then we'll see how President Trump feels about all this," Bessent told CNN.

"Everybody sit back, take a deep breath," Bessent said when asked about potential retaliation from abroad. "Let's see where this goes. Because if you retaliate, that's how we get escalation."

"Doing anything rash would be unwise," Bessent added.

Calls from industry -- rather than political -- leaders are more likely to win Trump's ear, Bessent said. "It's going to be the calls from the industry saying, 'Okay, how can we get these off?' And he's going to say, 'You can get it off -- bring your factory to the U.S.,'" he said.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh and Hannah Demissie

Arriving back at the Capitol from the president's tariff event in the Rose Garden, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters that people "shouldn't doubt" Trump's plan and shrugged off concerns consumers will face higher prices.

When asked by ABC News' Jay O'Brien if the president was to blame for higher prices, Johnson responded that the public shouldn't doubt the president's vision.

Despite predicting a "rocky" beginning to the tariffs on Tuesday, Johnson called the president's reciprocal tariffs "common sense" and said he believes people will get on board.

"I think most American people understand it's not fair what's been done to the United States, and you needed a president strong enough to call that out and to do a reset," he said.