BREAKING: Fox News viewers are stunned as host Maria Bartiromo pummels Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary on air over the disastrous MAGA tariffs that are sinking the U.S. economy.
Even the pro-Trump TV hacks are starting to lose their patience...
"Uh and [foreign nations] have substantial tariffs and as important as the tariffs are some of these non-tariff barriers where they have domestic content production, uh, where they do testing on our — whether it's our food or products — that bear no resemblance to safety or anything that we do to their products," rambled Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The suggestion that Trump's ill-conceived tariffs are designed to stop foreign countries from conducting testing on U.S. exports is a new one from this administration. Clearly, they can't make up their mind about what the tariffs are supposed to accomplish.
"See, these are the things that people are really worried about," replied Bartiromo. "Because they first thought it was just about trade. Then they thought it was just about fentanyl."
"Then after that we talked about, 'well, maybe it's currency manipulation' and maybe it's..." she continued. "Now you're talking about food testing. And when I bring up the issue of clarity, that's what I'm talking about and that's what I'm hearing from corporate America, that we're not sure where this is going."
"But of course we will get resolution on April 2nd," she added.
April 2nd is when Trump's reciprocal tariffs are supposed to take effect.
The simple truth is that there is no clear objective behind these tariffs. Trump knows that they play well with his xenophobic base and he thinks they make him look strong. Even though they're clearly destroying the economy, he's too stubborn to back down.
Given his long history of bankruptcies, it's not surprising that Trump is running the United States straight into the ground. We tried to warn his supporters. Now, we're all paying the price.