Fox Anchor Cuts In To Defend Trump As James Carville Savages Him Over Tanking Stock Market

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum interrupted to defend President Donald Trump when Democratic strategist James Carville savaged the president over the cratering stock market and consumer prices.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over a thousand points Monday and closed at -890 points amid fears fueled by Trump’s repeated refusal to rule out the possibility of an impending recession over the weekend, then dropped almost 500 on Tuesday amid trade turmoil. Wednesday, the Dow dropped only 82 points before resuming steep declines on Thursday.

On Wednesday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Carville rattled off a list of criticisms that included the stock market, and MacCallum cut in to defend Trump and told Carville “the market gyrates a lot” before changing the subject:

MACCALLUM: Thank you for being here. So is Elissa Slotkin’s message that — you know, that we’re sort of in angry teenager mode in the country going to resonate with independent voters and Democrats who feel the party has gone too far left?

CARVILLE: Well, I think people are afraid to death. They see markets collapsing. They see people calling Mark Kelly a traitor. They see disorder everywhere. You know, Trump was going to bring the price of eggs down to day one, and the secretary Rollins actually said that people need to raise chickens in their backyard, or we can’t call the Enola Gay, the Enola Gay.

I mean, what’s coming out of Washington would scare the living bejesus out of anybody, independent, Republican or Democrat. This administration is in total meltdown and total collapse.

MACCALLUM: Well, I would point out that the market is turning around a bit a today. We’ve had some good economic numbers —

CARVILLE: So, what is the market been since Trump took office? What is the market down since Trump took office?

MACCALLUM: It’s lower for the Dow and the NASDAQ.

CARVILLE: But he promised to —

MACCALLUM: But you know, as you know, the market gyrates a lot and it takes time to figure out whether or not these things are going to work. But I’m asking you what is, you know, resonating with voters out there. And I wonder, we did a segment earlier today that I want to bring back because we talked to Judge Jeanine a little while ago. We were talking about national security and Mahmoud Khalil…

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum.