Americans are feeling very anxious over Trump's boneheaded tariffs

President Donald Trump's foolish and chaotic economic policy is paralyzing the economy and causing consumer sentiment to plummet—ratcheting up the odds that the United States descends into a full-blown recession, experts said Friday.

The warnings came as the University of Michigan said that consumer sentiment dramatically fell in March, dropping 12% from February as consumers of all political stripes said they expect the economy to get worse in the coming year, according to data released by the University of Michigan.