Fox Anchor Suddenly Panics About Trump Economy as Brutal New Poll Hits
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. Something interesting has been happening on Fox News. |
| 0:45.2 | Its personalities are openly panicking about Donald Trump's economy. |
| 0:49.7 | They keep warning Trump that his tariffs are blowing up in his face. |
| 0:54.4 | On Tuesday, for instance, Fox host Maria Bardo lost patience with the Trump administration official |
| 1:00.5 | and walked through all the reasons why business leaders are unhappy with Trump's threats. |
| 1:06.3 | All this comes as a new NBC poll finds majority disapproval of Trump on the economy for the first time ever in NBC polling. |
| 1:14.9 | Yet by all indications, Trump isn't listening to any of this. |
| 1:18.9 | He's forging ahead with his plan for tariffs, and he rarely even bothers talking about the economy anymore. |
| 1:25.1 | So what's going to happen to Trump's alliance with Fox News if a recession |
| 1:29.2 | really looks likely to hit? We think it's a sign that Trump's project is more fragile than you might |
| 1:35.0 | think. Today we're talking about all this with Matt Gertz of Media Matters, who's been closely |
| 1:40.3 | tracking Fox coverage of Trump's economy. Good to have you on, Matt. Good to be back. |
| 1:46.3 | Let's start by listening to what Fox host Maria Bartaromo said about the tariffs. She was interviewing |
| 1:52.0 | Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who talked about how we need tariffs because imported goods |
| 1:57.4 | like foods aren't adequately tested. Then this happened. |
| 2:01.5 | These are the things that people are really worried about because they first thought it was |
| 2:06.2 | just about trade. Then they thought it was just about fentanyl. Then after that we talked about, |
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