I think the White House has clearly been very intentional in its messaging of this, the idea that they believe that this is a ...

This is mind boggling to me that the media is focused on pain, pain, pain” STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): First thing they talked ...

Liberation day, they call it, right? The reciprocal tariffs go into effect April 2, not April Fools, but today, April 2. Yes, ...

JOHN AUTHERS (BLOOMBERG OPINION COLUMNIST): Basically, the biggest point that — you can make lots of general arguments about what the U.S. tariffs have been, but the main point about them is that they ...

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Yesterday was so magnificent and the stagecraft was so perfect. His speech was so incredible. He had full command, like you want an executive to have. Full command of the issue — ...

Really magnificent about how they set that up yesterday. This is one Poso [Jack Posobiec] loves. And now that meme is President Trump like Moses, those are the reciprocal tariffs, right? By country.

So what exactly happens? Well, Tyler Cowen points out, quoting Scott Lincicome over at Cato, Trump's reciprocal tariffs impose hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans without public ...

RICK SANTELLI (CNBC ON-AIR EDITOR): They don't have an allegiance to the ​U.S. That's the heart of the problem in Trump's mind​, is the elite​, ​multinational corporations know no borders, the money ...

I mean obviously we all know consumption taxes of any kind are far superior to income tax, precisely because it does incentivize that saving. One of the issues, of course, with a tariff in particular ...

So everybody, all the pundits were wrong when they said it's inflationary, it's really recessionary, so it should have been paired with the tax cuts, we were talking about that earlier. But the reason ...

This is about more than prices for consumers. Pat Buchanan pointed out in 2019: "Tariffs are the taxes that made America ...

MARIA BARTIROMO (FOX HOST): That's right. And how about a little empathy about the manufacturing sector in the United States ...