Fox Anchor Accuses Reporters Of ‘Taunting’ Trump By ‘Using The Term Chickening Out’
Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo accused reporters of trying to “taunt” President Donald Trump by “using the term chickening out” — a term that has become popular with stock professionals.
The derisive Wall Street acronym TACO — “Trump Always Chickens Out” — broke big this week when the New York Post ran an item about investors embracing the “TACO trade” strategy to outsmart Trump’s chaotic market-roiling tariff policies.
Less than a day later, CNBC Washington Correspondent Megan Cassella got attacked during an Oval Office event for asking Trump about the strategy.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Thursday morning’s edition of Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria, during which the anchor made reference to the confrontation that Cassella called “a badge of honor”:
MARIA BARTIROMO, FBN ANCHOR: Joining me now is White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett. Kevin, good to see you. Thank you so much.
KEVIN HASSETT: Good to see you.
BARTIROMO: I think the reporters at this point know how to taunt President Trump by using the term “chickening out”. What’s your reaction?
HASSETT: Yeah. Well, actually, I think if President Trump had just a minute more, if you go back into the room behind the Oval, he has got all his hats and things over there —
BARTIROMO: Yeah.
HASSETT: — and he has a hat, which is the accurate response to what that person said, which is Trump always wins. You go look. A lot of people are wearing that hat. Trump always wins and Trump is always right. Those are the two. But, Trump does always win these negotiations because we’re right. We’re right that America has been mishandled by other governments, that our tariffs are taking them to the table, and they’re coming in with massive concessions, opening up their markets to our products and lowering their tariffs on us. And so, this trade negotiation season has been really, really effective for the American people, and it’s unfortunate that people would attack it, as the journalists did, or the way the judges just did. These activist judges are trying to slow down something right in the middle of really important negotiations.
And the idea that the fentanyl crisis in America is not an emergency is so appalling to me that I’m sure that when we appeal, that this decision will be overturned.
Watch above via Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria.
