Trump Hit by Brutal Fox News Graphic on Tariffs as More Bad Polls Land

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

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On Monday, while President Trump talked about his tariffs, Fox News showed him speaking even as a graphic in the corner displayed the markets sliding. That said it all: No matter how much boasting he does about the economy, the actual metrics are getting worse—and the public knows it. Trump is launching new tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and he just announced more tariffs on agricultural products, which could hurt farmers. Meanwhile, new polls from Marist and CNN show his approval under water, including on Trump’s priorities and on the economy. We talked to Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg about whether Democrats are effectively capitalizing on this moment—and whether the party should make a stronger case against Trump and Elon Musk’s wholesale assault on the system from within. 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.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:32.5	On Monday afternoon, while President Trump was talking about his new tariffs, Fox News showed him speaking even as a graphic in the corner of the screen showed the market sliding.
0:39.8	That perfectly captures something essential. No matter how much boasting Trump does about the economy, no matter how much
0:45.5	propaganda Fox spews about it, the actual metrics are getting worse for him and the public knows it.
0:52.5	Trump's new tariffs on Canada and Mexico are set to start Tuesday, and Trump just announced
0:57.8	a new round of tariffs on agricultural products, which could hurt farmers.
1:02.5	On top of all that, new polls from Marist and CNN show his approval underwater, including
1:08.3	on his priorities and on the economy.
1:11.2	Today we're talking about all this with Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg.
1:15.2	We're going to get into whether Democrats are really capitalizing on this moment to the
1:19.2	degree that they should. Simon, good to see you again.
1:22.6	Greg, it's great to see you. It's always good to be with the hardest working man in show
1:26.7	business.
1:34.4	This is true. By the time listeners hear this will know more, but on Monday, Trump said the tariffs are going forward, 25% across the board on imports from Mexico and Canada. Trump also
1:41.2	tweeted that starting April 2nd, tariffs will go into effect on agricultural imports.
1:46.9	Trump said this, addressed to the great farmers of the United States, have fun.
1:52.9	Simon, I'm going to predict this right now, saying have fun to farmers, which he intends as a positive as a rallying cry, will go down as a big blunder.
2:02.3	It'll be thrown back in his face. What do you think, Simon? Look, I mean, we are operating so outside of traditional
2:08.6	political physics, outside of how democracies operate. I mean, the idea that this guy just gets up
2:14.7	every day and proclaims and, you know, his, his, all of his executive orders
2:21.3	and he, today, we have tariffs tomorrow of something else. It's, it's just the madness of it is
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