The Daily Blast: Fox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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After President Trump’s supposed tariff “pause,” we still have a 10 percent tariff on most global imports, the trade war with China is intensifying, and markets have plunged again. Fox News figures are aggressively spinning the “pause” as sheer brilliance, propping up Trump’s own posture that he’s got everything running according to plan. Then a Fox correspondent told the truth: Trump got spooked by the bond markets. This shattered Trump’s illusion of command. Meanwhile, his cabinet members are slathering him with desperate flattery, even as Trump voters in focus groups are getting antsy and MAGA personalities are balking. We talked to historian Nicole Hemmer, the author of books on the right wing media and on conservative politics. She explains the deeper reasons for the right’s extraordinary turn toward Trump sycophancy—and why the tensions inside MAGA will worsen. 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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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:30.5	By now you've heard that President Trump supposedly paused his tariffs.
0:35.2	In reality, we still have a 10% tariff on most global imports.
0:39.1	The tariffs with China are through the roof, and the trade war with China has gotten worse, causing markets to plunge once again. Fox News has been struggling to spin
0:45.4	Trump's so-called pause as some form of brilliant 11-dimensional chess. But then a Fox business
0:51.6	correspondent told the truth. Trump got spooked by the bond markets.
0:56.4	This shattered Fox's own spin. Meanwhile, at Trump's cabinet meeting Thursday, his top advisors
1:02.2	offered extraordinarily unctuous flattery of him. Put this all together and we're seeing a level
1:07.8	of sycophancy toward the president that's unlike anything we've seen before.
1:12.3	So today we've invited on the perfect guest to talk about what this all means,
1:16.6	historian Nicole Hemmer, who's written books on the right-wing media and on the Republican Party.
1:22.0	Thanks so much for coming back on, Nicole.
1:24.0	Thanks so much for having me, Greg.
1:25.9	So let's start with this bizarre Fox episode. As Matt Gertz
1:29.6	of Media Matters chronicled, Fox personalities have gushed with praise for the tariff pause.
1:35.7	Sean Hannity called it the art of the deal and a huge win for the president. Jesse Waters said,
1:41.6	Trump created maximum leverage for himself.
1:44.8	Laura Ingram called it Trump's 3D chess move.
1:47.9	3D seems kind of low, actually.
1:50.5	But then Fox senior correspondent Charlie Gasparino said,
1:54.9	wait a minute, the bond market forced Trump's hand.
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