Ben Shapiro Laughs Out Loud at Team Trump’s Tariff Victory Lap: ‘I Present to You Donald J. Trump’
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro laughed out loud at the idea that the tariff rollback announced by Donald Trump on Wednesday was always part of the plan on his Daily Wire show Thursday.
After mocking the Trump administration officials arguing that the pause was “part of the 4-D, Hungry, Hungry Hippos, Upside Down, Underwater Chess Plan,” Shapiro presented “the other theory, the theory that I have retailed, which is that the president changed his mind because the circumstances changed, that he put in place a tariff regime that was unsustainable for the global economy, and the markets reacted as they do when they take in new information.”
“And then he saw the markets react and he didn’t like it. And as Exhibit A in the explanation for his activity, that market activity, bond sell-offs, market sell-offs, criticism changed the president’s opinion, I present to you, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, saying exactly that yesterday!” continued an incredulous Shapiro through laughs before playing a clip of Trump explaining that he reached his decision because he thought ” people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.”
Shapiro continued:
Okay, and then the president went on to say the bond markets were getting queasy. So in other words, the people who are getting yippy and queasy shaped what exactly was happening with his opinion on that. And if everybody else had stayed strong, then presumably he would have gone forward with the plan. So if you’re happy that he reversed the plan, which apparently Trump fans are today, as they should be, then what caused it?
And this is a question because it does relate to who is trustworthy in the public space when you’re talking about these issues. The people who would be just as happy if he left the tariffs on, or the people who are happy that he took the tariffs off and always thought he should take the tariffs off except for on China. And again, President Trump just says the quiet part out loud, he just, he says it. Again, the people who are positing that this was all part of the magical Ocean’s 11 plan, all those people keep getting undercut by the fact that the president of the United States is telling them openly that that’s not what happened. Here was the president yesterday. He said the stock market is doing great. But wait, I thought five seconds ago that Wall Street and Main Street were in complete opposition We should pay no attention to the stock markets, they were just filled with a bunch of dullards and queasy yippsters.
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