“Was this the plan?”: Trump admin officials lambasted over tariff chaos, market crash
Days after the president Declaration of definitions The chaos of the stock market, Trump administration Officials faced a barrier from hostile interviews in dialogue programs on Sunday morning.
Trade Secretary Howard LootnickTreasury Secretary Scott Pesin And the agricultural secretary Brock Rollins It was grilled over the networks, sometimes it looks uncomfortable like any American with eyes on 401K.
On NBC’s “Meet“The host Christine Wilker wondered whether the Trump administration had put anything in a set of global tariffs. Noting that the stock market lost $ 6 trillion last week, beating Wilker Bessent.
“The markets lost more than 6 trillion dollars. I asked.
Bessent replied that “the markets are organic animals” and accused Welker of paying a “false narration” despite the actual losses. He defended Trump’s decision, saying that the United States is unequal in commercial deals to be corrected despite the pain in the market.
“These have gone through years of making,” he said. “This is a national security issue. President Trump decided that we cannot be in danger like this.”
more than CNN“The Federation’s Case” Jake Taber The Trump administration was accused of acting like a handful of Pollyannas.
“It seems that there is a lack of recognition of real pain and people feel at the moment,” he told Rollins. “It seems that there is a separation between what you say and the reaction of the world.”
The Minister of Agriculture, for its part, did not deny the truth of the stock market. Unlike Bessent, she said that the administration knew that “uncertainty” would follow the declaration of customs tariffs.
“We knew that there would be uncertainty,” she said. “Markets are modified.”
Tapper and CBS“Confronting the Nation”, Margaret Brennan, all of their guests on the survival that has been discussed a lot Definitions on uninhabited islands. Rollins waved “whatever it was”, but Lootnick pushed back. Brennan asked the Minister of Commerce if the tariffist was “made with artificial intelligence”, which prompted Lottennik to imagine a scenario as companies direct their trade across the southern ocean to avoid duties.
“Because the idea – what is happening is if you leave anything outside the list, the countries that tried to arbitrate America mainly arbitrate those countries to the United States.” “Thus the president knows it. He is tired of it, and that will be correct.”
