Fox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | I'm your host, Greg Sargent. By now you've heard that President Trump supposedly paused his tariffs. |
| 0:46.1 | In reality, we still have a 10% tariff on most global imports. |
| 0:50.7 | The tariffs with China are through the roof, and the trade war with China has gotten worse, |
| 0:55.4 | causing markets to plunge once again. Fox News has been struggling to spin Trump's so-called |
| 1:01.5 | pause as some form of brilliant 11-dimensional chess. But then a Fox business correspondent told the |
| 1:07.9 | truth. Trump got spooked by the bond markets. This shattered Fox's own spin. |
| 1:14.0 | Meanwhile, at Trump's cabinet meeting Thursday, his top advisors offered extraordinarily |
| 1:18.6 | unctious flattery of him. Put this all together and we're seeing a level of sycophancy toward |
| 1:24.0 | the president that's unlike anything we've seen before. So today we've invited on the |
| 1:29.0 | perfect guest to talk about what this all means, historian Nicole Hemmer, who's written books on |
| 1:34.2 | the right-wing media and on the Republican Party. Thanks so much for coming back on, Nicole. |
| 1:39.1 | Thanks so much for having me, Greg. So let's start with this bizarre Fox episode. As Matt Gertz of Media Matters chronicled, |
| 1:46.6 | Fox personalities have gushed with praise for the tariff pause. Sean Hannity called it the art of the |
| 1:52.7 | deal and a huge win for the president. Jesse Waters said Trump created maximum leverage for |
| 1:58.7 | himself. Laura Ingram called it Trump's 3D chess move. |
| 2:02.9 | 3D seems kind of low, actually. |
| 2:05.5 | But then Fox senior correspondent Charlie Gasparino said, wait a minute, the bond market |
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