Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Association, told SiriusXM’s Megginkelly on Monday that he believes there is a more strategic way for President Donald Trump to talk to voters about tariffs.
On April 2, Trump released a list of roughly 60 countries where the US will impose mutual tariffs. The stock market plunged for two days before closing Friday. In “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Hanson advised the president to take a “tragic tone” and to tell voters that his decision was a decision against the “national good.”
“I just suggest they have a tragic tone. They should say, “Beautiful tariffs,” “We’re going to have them pay,” or “Europe is ripping us apart, ripping us off our repertoire.” “Offshoring, outsourcing that destroyed industrial bases in this country. I don’t like cutting federal workers, but who’s ever worried about $37 trillion in debt?”
“‘Who cares about $3 billion a day? I was left to do this in a way that no one else handled it.
The debate over Trump’s declared “liberation day” began after the tariffs were announced, with political experts and lawmakers debating the meaning of the president’s decision. At a baseline of 10% for an estimated 60 countries, some people like China face higher tariffs due to their own tariffs on the US (Related: “Time to Make Patients Better”: JD Vance says a “big transition” comes to American economic policy)
clock:
Hanson detailed how Trump could “let him go back to the whole” if he simplified his argument to just say “to others as they do to us.”
“He has to stop talking all about repertoire tariffs. It’s true, “Well, they’ll make you pay for everything they’ve done in the past” or “They’ll manipulate the currency.” “But for now, he has to talk about reciprocity.”
“People in America should stop talking all about ‘we’ll have 10% for everyone’ except that they want to have zero tariffs with their partners and that our tariffs are their tariffs.’ Hanson said we are going to tariffs on Australia despite them having a trade deficit with us. “He’s a scam that the country uses to say that your products aren’t clean enough, or that they may be sick, and for now, Americans say, “I want to do it to us” and they back him at the end of the earth,” he can bring him back to the end of the earth. ”
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tupper on Sunday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told the host that 50 countries “have come to the table” since the tariffs were implemented. Furthermore, Rollins said the country is “happily desperate” to negotiate with the administration before emphasizing that the United States is the “global economic engine.”
All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation is an independent, nonpartisan newswire service that is free to use for legitimate news publishers that can provide large audiences. All republished articles must include logos, reporter signatures and DCNF affiliation. For questions regarding our guidelines or partnerships with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
