Is This Maria Bartiromo Interview What Sparked Trump’s Meltdown Over The Wall Street Journal?

President Donald Trump sounded off on The Wall Street Journal Thursday morning, arguing that it “has no idea what they are doing or saying” in a post on Truth Social.

“The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of ‘screwing’ the United States of America,” wrote Trump. “Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA. But have no fear, we will WIN on everything!!! Egg prices are down, oil is down, interest rates are down, and TARIFF RELATED MONEY IS POURING INTO THE UNITED STATES. ‘The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself!'”

At first glance, it appeared that the attack on the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper might be related to yet another editorial critical of Trump’s trade policy published the day before. But after further review, it seems likely that it was sparked by Maria Bartiromo’s most recent interview of editor-in-chief Emma Tucker, which took place on Fox Business just minutes before Trump fired off his post.

After Bartiromo kicked off the conversation by remarking that Trump had “sparked a global selloff” when he acknowledged the possibility of a recession in her recent interview with him, she observed that “tariffs have become the dominant conversation” and asked Tucker “How do you see things?”

“Well, I have to say, you put the cat amongst the pigeons with that interview you did with Trump last-, it was the weekend. Since then, we’ve been on an absolute rollercoaster. And I mean, broadly speaking, we saw each other at the World Economic Forum in January,” began Tucker. “And you remember the mood then was so upbeat and the American chief execs were there all so excited. The talk was all of deregulation, growth, no tax rises, boom boom America and Europe was absolutely stuck in the doldrums, very unhappy.”

“But it’s very interesting how that mood has shifted pretty much since all the tariffs started coming in. I think businesses realizes now Trump is serious about this. But the problem they’ve got is that they’re being imposed in a very haphazard way, and that’s creating so much instability. Then along comes your interview and Trump refuses to rule out a recession. He’s talking in a kind of no pain, no gain kind of way. And I think, you know, chief execs, businesses, they’re just-, they’re slightly floundering because they don’t they don’t know where to look now,” she added.

Bartiromo and Tucker went on to discuss mounting frustrations with Trump among the business community, as well as the likelihood that the costs of tariffs would be passed on to American consumers.

The interview began at around 8:41 a.m. eastern time on Thursday. Trump’s post went up at 8:56 a.m..

Watch above via Fox Business Network.