CNN Anchor Mocks Fox News Over Coverage ‘As Stocks Tumble From Trump Tariffs’

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CNN anchor Sara Sidner mocked Fox News over coverage of the stock market cratering after President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement by highlighting split screens of Fox and CNN.

Wednesday afternoon was the long-awaited (and dreaded, by some) “Liberation Day” as Trump rolled out a tariff program that was much larger and more comprehensive than many expected — cratering stock futures almost instantly.

On Thursday morning, the stock market dropped like a boulder as soon as the opening bell rang, and coverage of the unfolding financial disaster dominated the news — at least on some networks.

About 40 minutes after the New York Stock Exchange opened, Sidner took a shot at Fox News in an X/Twitter post in which she wrote “A tale of two Networks. As stocks tumble from Trump’s Tariffs. And countries respond. This is how these networks responded.”

The post featured a pair of split-screen images of Fox’s coverage juxtaposed with CNN’s:

The contrast that Sidner drew was borne out by at least one metric. After the opening bell rang Thursday morning, there were only three mentions of the stock market on Fox News, according to a closed caption transcript search. There were 19 on CNN and a whopping 25 on MSNBC.

Prior to the market opening, Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones did ask Vance about the effect on markets overnight after the announcement, framing the reaction as a “freakout”:

JONES: So, there — Mr. Vice President, there does seem to be a disconnect. You see Wall Street and the media and the markets, and they’re freaking out right now.

VANCE: Yeah.

JONES: But then I look at those workers that were in the Rose Garden yesterday and they’re celebrating. I think about all the diners that I’ve done across the country and all these businesses saying, we’ve lost manufacturing here, and they’re celebrating the move.

What is the disconnect between the market and the people those workers that are cheering this on right now?

VANCE: Well, I think on the one hand, frankly, a lot of people have gotten rich from American jobs moving overseas, but American workers have not gotten rich, and frankly American companies have not gotten wealthy from the increasing growth of foreign competitors manufacturing overseas.

They — they — as the president says, Lawrence, these foreign companies, they charge us ridiculous tariffs, they engage in a lot of non-tariff practices like currency manipulation, that has been awful for Main Street in the United States of America. It’s meant those diners, their customers don’t have jobs anymore. It meant those great steel mills, those great auto plants have closed down and their workers have been laid off.

But what I saw yesterday in the Rose Garden was incredible enthusiasm, because a lot of those workers, they’ve been working hard for 10, 20, 30, 40 years, young and old, were in the Rose Garden yesterday. They’ve never had a president who stood up for their jobs and stood up for American prosperity.

They finally see something has shifted. There were Democrats out there, Republicans. They were union and non-union workers alike. They know this is a big change but we need a big change in this country because what we’ve done — what we did under the Biden administration, it just wasn’t working.