Yikes! Republicans Blow Up on Live TV over Trump Crash
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Why are MAGA Republicans criticized on TV?
The MAGA Republicans who went on the weekend shows were just a total utter disaster, blowing up on live TV and saying the most ridiculous, dangerous, and outrageous things. For example, you had Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's top trade advisors. He was asked, what's your message to the American people about these tariffs? Because people are getting hurt. By the way, this was on Fox. And Navarro said, my message is that tariffs are a tax cut, that tariffs are great, that tariffs will make you rich, all lies. But here's Navarro. How do you know he's lying? He's opening up his mouth. Play this clip.
You heard Lucas's reporting there where the president says he doesn't care if the prices go up on US cars. So what's the message to the US consumer?
The message is that tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security, tariffs are great for America, tariffs will make America great again.
Folks, I've said it before and let me say it again, a tariff is a literal tax on on the consumer, it is passed by the importer onto the consumer. And it is what is causing all of this destruction in our economy right now, which was very easy to predict it was going to happen because in the past it was the cause of Great Depressions. And Donald Trump is now bringing the United States not just into a Great Recession, but a Great Depression. So then CNN and other corporate news, they try to bring on the Republicans who pretend to be not MAGA, you know, the Republicans who pretend to be the normies, but they're actually MAGA through and through. For example, MAGA Republican Senator James Lankford, he's asked about these tariffs and he knows the destruction the tariffs are causing to the economy and that it's a wrecking ball. So the way he tries to describe it is he's like, you know, when you're remodeling your kitchen or you're remodeling your living room, It's kind of like that.
It's going to feel messy at first and perhaps uninhabitable, but we'll get through this just like your kitchen being remodeled. Play this clip.
I feel like in some ways in the economy, this is kind of like a kitchen remodel or a bathroom model. There's a bit of a mess at the beginning, but everybody has a long-term look of where we're headed. It's going to be noisy for a little while, but we all know where we're headed trying to reduce the prices for Americans and increase jobs.
Well, on that note, in your book that I mentioned, you write that Americans voted for Donald Trump because they, quote, decided the nation needed a turnaround election. In this past week, inflation ticked back up. Stocks went down again. Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the economy, worried about a recession. It's harder to find a job. Is Trump failing to deliver on the kind of turnaround Americans were hoping for that you write about?
We are less than three months into the administration at this point. So I think we've got a ways to go to be able to determine anything related to that. This is the first.
Hey, James Lakeford, I don't think a lot of Americans can relate to even that reference of kitchens being remodeled. Because most Americans, James, can't afford a home right now because of Donald Trump's destructive economic policies. Donald Trump did promise that he was going to make things more affordable on day one, that he was going to drive down prices. Housing would be more affordable. There would be so many jobs, we wouldn't know what to do about it. He said there would be no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. But instead of doing all of these things, he's fighting for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires, destroying Medicaid, taking away $880 billion from taxes.
Medicaid destroying the Department of Education, destroying Veterans Affairs, engaging in a hostile takeover of the federal government, and continuing to fantasize out loud about conquering Canada, Greenland, Panama, and other locations. Now, Howard Lutnick, you know, Mr. Sham. Wow. It's a shammy. It's a sham. Wow. Donald Trump's commerce secretary who literally would not avoid being on.
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