Fox’s Ben Domenech Blasts Trump’s ‘Stupid’ Tariffs: ‘They’re Backwards’

Fox News contributor Ben Domenech offered a blunt reaction to the massive tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.

Speaking in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, Trump unveiled across-the-board tariffs of 10% on all imports. He also hit dozens of countries, such as China and European Union member states, with even higher tariffs. Moreover, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on all automobile imports, regardless of origin. The president justified the moves by using a chart that falsely claimed other nations had imposed high tariffs on U.S. exports. Unsurprisingly, markets plummeted on Thursday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed four percent, the S&P dropped five percent, and the NASDAQ lost six percent.

A couple of hours after the closing bell, Domenech appeared on Fox News’s Special Report and said congressional Republicans could be in a politically vulnerable position because of Trump’s trade policy. He cited Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who earlier in the day quoted John Maynard Keynes by stating, “In the long run, we are all dead“:

I think the president is undergoing a serious risk factor with this that is going to be felt by all of these Republicans that we have heard from today, including John Kennedy whose encouraging words were eventually we’re all dead, which is not exactly a great thing to run on in terms of a midterm.

Look, I hate tariffs, I think they’re stupid. I think they’re backwards. I don’t think they help the American economy. The president has a different opinion.

Domenech went on to note that Vice President JD Vance has also spoken favorably of tariffs because they allegedly bolster American culture.

“He wants to return manufacturing to the American heartland,” Domenech continued. “He believes that’s something that is achievable. But it takes time. It’s not gonna be something that happens overnight. And the serious pain that has been inflicted with these tariffs is something that might be short-term, but short-term is relative in terms of the way that you could view it.”

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