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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Fox Anchor Suddenly Panics About Trump Economy as Brutal New Poll Hits

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo has suddenly emerged as a leading voice sounding loud alarms about President Trump’s tariffs and the devastating impact they could have on the economy—even though she works for a MAGA propaganda network. On Tuesday, Bartiromo lost patience with a Trump official, and walked through all the reasons why business leaders are unhappy with Trump’s tariff threats. Other Fox personalities have followed suit. Meanwhile, a new NBC poll finds terrible numbers for Trump on the economy. Yet he’s forging ahead with his tariffs and rarely bothers talking about the economy anymore. We talked to Media Matters’ Matt Gertz, a close observer of Fox coverage, about the deeper reasons for Fox’s discontent—and why it’s all a sign that Trump’s project is more fragile than you might think.  Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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