Fox Host Tells Trump Official ‘We’re Going to Have to Suffer’ Bad Jobs Report — Asks ‘How Can You Blame Trump?’

Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow told Trump Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins that lots of bad economic news is coming in the next few days, including a jobs report with potentially negative job creation. His main question was “How can you blame Trump?”

President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk have been chainsawing federal government jobs and Trump’s trade policy has been tanking the stock market this week. Now, expectations for Friday’s jobs report are all over the place.

On Wednesday’s edition of Fox Business Network’s Kudlow, the host braced for a raft of bad news, including what he said could be a net loss of jobs — and negative GDP growth after seeing gains every quarter but one under Biden.

He asked Rollins how anyone could blame Trump, with the secretary responding, “You can’t turn an entire economy around in 30 days”:

LARRY KUDLOW: You know, Brooke, the other part of this, and I appreciate what you’re trying to do on the egg story. It’s a hard story. You inherited that story.

USDA SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS: That’s right.

LARRY KUDLOW: Some very, very smart people are telling me that the jobs number that’s coming at the February jobs number that’s coming out Friday could be flat, even negative, Brookie!

The GDP now tracker from the Atlanta Fed is showing, I mean, for the first quarter, a minus two and a half or -2.8%, and we’ve had lousy numbers on things like housing and business investment.

My generic point here, with respect to affordability and the economy, is we’re going to have to suffer through some bad news!

This has nothing to do with Trump. Trump’s programs not in yet!

And I’ve got people on the left who are blaming Trump. How can you blame Trump when he wasn’t president when these seeds were planted?

USDA SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS: Well, you couldn’t be more right about that because we’ve only been here 30 plus days. You can’t turn an entire economy around in 30 days.