So this week we saw President Trump wandering around on the roof of the White House.

What was he doing up there?

He told reporters that he was taking a walk and looking around.

I mean, as we know, he's planning this enormous ballroom there, so he didn't say this, but maybe he was just sort of checking out the landscape. I'm just trying to imagine how that conversation went. Like, who did he turn to him? It's like, I could really use a walk. Can we go to the roof? I mean, if Trump is good at one thing, it's producing himself, and it was effective. Yeah, he finds a way to get

himself in the conversation, whether it's about Sidney, Sweeney, or Taylor Swift, or himself

wandering around the roof of the White House. From the newsroom of the Washington Post,

this is Post Report's weekly politics roundtable. I'm Colby Eichowitz. It's Friday,

August 8th. I'm joined this week by White House reporter Emily Davies. Hey, Emily. Hey, thanks for having me.

And we're also here with the Post Senior National Political Correspondent Naftali Ben David.

Hey, Naftali. Hey, Naftali. Hey, how are you doing?

So today we're going to be talking about how President Donald Trump's recent economic moves

are playing politically. That includes his sweeping tariffs, which hit dozens of countries yesterday,

and his decision to fire a federal economist. Later in the show, we're also going to get into his

threats to take over D.C. And recent moves by the

Department of Justice to investigate Trump's political enemies. So let's begin with tariffs.

We've talked about the economics of tariffs during last week's roundtable and on post reports

yesterday. But Neftali, I'd love to delve into the politics of it. Voters made it clear in

2024. They do not like paying higher prices for

things. It was a big reason why many people voted for Trump. Most experts agree that slapping

tariffs on nations that we get goods from are going to mean higher prices for consumers.

So how is all this going to play out with voters? I mean, I think it's a real risk for him. I think it's a real zone of political danger. We haven't seen prices shoot up yet, but economists do say that's coming. And if they're right, and if it does, I think that could create a lot of problems. I mean, I think we shouldn't forget that in the last election, a lot of people told pollsters afterwards that they voted for Trump, despite not liking a lot of things about him, just because they thought at least he could get

control of prices and the economy. And so if that turns out not to be true, I think that's going

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