Fox Business anchor Charles Payne fumed that the mainstream media was focusing too much attention on the economic “pain” that President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs could inflict on average Americans, calling the coverage “mind boggling” and that “we need to rethink all of this.”
With global markets spiraling after the president unleashed across-the-board 10 percent tariffs on all imports, along with so-called “reciprocal” tariffs that appear to be based on “made-up” numbers, the administration and its MAGA media loyalists spent Thursday morning furiously defending Trump’s trade policy — which economists and business leaders fear will spark a global recession.
