With the stock market experiencing dramatic losses this month amid recession fears due to uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt bragged about the “golden age” that the president is bringing to the American economy.
While Leavitt claimed the president’s tariff policies were bringing about newfound optimism and dismissed the plunging market as a mere “snapshot in time,” the live ticker on Fox News — which was carrying the press briefing live — showed the Dow Jones index plummeting in real time.
