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00:00A Fox business host, Maria Bartiromo, normally a Trump loyalist, hardcore Trump brown noser
00:06had a meltdown tantrum over the chaotic tariff policy.
00:11It's fascinating to watch.
00:13Maria was interviewing Scott Besson, the U.S. Treasury secretary, and you will hear Maria
00:19Bartiromo get increasingly frustrated as she tries to pin down why is Donald Trump even
00:25proposing these tariffs?
00:27Please remember, at first it was about trade and unfair trade deals we were fighting against.
00:33Then it was about fentanyl, or as Trump calls it, fentanyl.
00:37Then it was currency manipulation.
00:39Now it's about food testing.
00:41The point is they don't even know why they're doing these tariffs.
00:44The justification keeps shifting because there is no real justification.
00:48This is another impulsive half-baked idea from Trump, and it exists only because he
00:52likes the idea of winning against foreign countries.
00:56Even if it screws American consumers.
00:59And here's Maria Bartiromo, and she's frustrated.
01:01And she's right to be frustrated.
01:03And they have substantial tariffs.
01:06And as important as a tariff or some of these non-tariff barriers where they have domestic
01:11content production, where they do testing on our, whether it's our food or products
01:20that bear no resemblance to safety or anything that we do to their products.
01:25Now, you might be saying, wait, this is now the reason for the tariffs.
01:29This seems different than everything we've been told.
01:32See, these are the things that people are really worried about because they first thought
01:38it was just about trade.
01:40Then they thought it was just about fentanyl.
01:42By the way, this is a critical thing.
01:44And I'll back it up.
01:45So we hear all of this.
01:46When Maria says they thought what she means is we were told thought it was just about
01:52trade.
01:53Then they thought it was just about fentanyl.
01:55Then after that, we talked about, well, maybe it's currency manipulation and maybe it's
01:59now you're talking about food testing.
02:02And when I bring up the issue of clarity, that's that's what I'm talking about.
02:05And that's what I'm hearing from corporate America, that we're not sure where this is
02:10going.
02:11But of course, we will get resolution on on August on April 2nd, rather.
02:15The reason that it's difficult for Maria to pin down what this is really about is that
02:22there was never a coherent purpose or explanation.
02:25These tariffs are attacks on Americans.
02:28They raise costs.
02:30They eliminate jobs.
02:31But instead of admitting that Trump's team simply comes up with new and novel explanations
02:36for why the tariffs make sense.
02:38And when even Fox hosts are struggling to keep up with the explanation, you know you're
02:42in trouble.
02:44And the second that Maria Bartiromo starts asking even mildly critical questions, Scott
02:50Besant just dismisses her.
02:52He doesn't even try to make a real argument.
02:54He responds with arrogance, arrogance when asked, can you guarantee there won't be a
02:59recession?
03:00Sure.
03:01The other day you were asked a question by another outlet.
03:05Can you guarantee that we're not going to have a recession?
03:08And you wanted to address that this morning?
03:10Yeah.
03:11Well, look, it was a silly it was a silly question.
03:14Can you guarantee there's not going to be a recession?
03:17I can't guarantee anything.
03:18I can't guarantee that the journalists who asked me the question that her news program
03:23is going to be on in a year.
03:25But what I can guarantee you is that there is no reason we need to have a recession.
03:29I think that there there's the economy in the first quarter is doing better than the
03:38media is reporting.
03:39I think we're seeing some careful language, very good underlying data from credit card
03:46companies, from banks.
03:47I think that the airlines, which reported some bad passenger numbers, a big amount of
03:53that is from federal employees who are not flying right now.
03:58So this is actually a pretty big moment because I have no expectations that Maria Bartiromo
04:04will become an actual critic of this administration.
04:06But it shows that Trump's people don't even feel the need to keep Fox hosts happy anymore.
04:14For years, Fox was their safe space, this kind of endless loop of softball questions
04:18and free propaganda.
04:20Not that these are particularly tough questions for Maria Bartiromo, but even the Fox hosts
04:24are realizing these economic plans are incoherent.
04:27We get a different explanation every day and they are getting steamrolled every moment
04:32that they push back.
04:33This is not only about tariffs, of course.
04:35This is about the Republican sort of business class finally realizing they have lost control
04:40of the monster they created because they spent years pretending Trump was this economic
04:44genius.
04:46Even though the trade policies never made sense, the deficits were the opposite of what
04:50he promised.
04:51The tax cuts did nothing for working people.
04:52They thought we can kind of ride the wave and cash in and keep our influence.
04:57But now Trump world doesn't need him anymore.
05:00He's got the cult.
05:01He's got the grifters.
05:03He's got the true believers.
05:04They don't have to justify anything anymore.
05:06Tariffs.
05:07I'll give you four different explanations.
05:08And who cares if you believe him?
05:10The reality is really simple.
05:12Tariffs are a tool that can be used intelligently, but as used by Trump, they are simply a blanket
05:18import tax on Americans.
05:20They raise costs, they kill jobs, they weaken the economy.
05:24They can't admit that.
05:25And so what Trump's people are doing, scrambling for a new explanation, or you might call it
05:29an excuse every single day because you can never admit fit, admit failure in Trump's
05:34world.
05:35It's not an option.
05:36Trump has never admitted failure on anything.
05:37He's never apologized for anything.
05:39And even Fox News is now struggling to keep up with the lies.
05:44Now on today's bonus show, Steve Bannon has admitted MAGA people are working on a third
05:50term for Trump.
05:52Is Bannon serious or is he just trying to agitate?
05:57There is also a plan in development to shut down the department of education.
06:02Will it succeed?
06:03And finally, we have a Republican congressman who says, no, no, no.
06:07I want to do town halls.
06:08I want to hear from people as long as those people are Republicans.
06:13I'll tell you about the fiasco after fiasco that's happening at the town halls.
06:18And remember that we are now just five days from the release of my book, The Echo Machine.
06:24Books have started to ship two emails.
06:26I got people already received books.
06:29You can get it on Barnes and Noble, Amazon or from any local bookstore and signed copies
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06:42Twelve hundred signed copies spoken for so far.
06:46We are close to the end.
06:47I don't know how many extras I will be signing, but there are a few left.
06:51I will see you on the bonus show.
08:05The David Pakman Show David Pakman Dotcom.