Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick continued his gaslighting during an interview on this weekend’s Fox News Sunday. I’m not sure how much longer they can keep this up as reality rapidly catches up with their bullshit. Trump’s already told the dock workers and truck drivers to basically go pound sand while they lose their jobs due to his tariffs.
Now we’ve got Lutnick continuing to deny that consumers are the ones who will pay for the tariffs with higher prices, while also denying that prices are going to rise at all — and just glossing right over the job losses and telling them they should be “optimistic and happy” because Trump is. Sure thing pal.
Here’s the reality-denying exchange between Lutnick and host Shannon Bream.
BREAM: So Americans are watching and hoping for those long term benefits, but our polling shows they’re pretty skeptical at this point. 72 percent tell us they think tariffs are going to make the things they pay for right now more expensive, and a majority of them think that tariffs are actually hurting our economy.
I mean, how do you work against that perception with messaging while people wait in the interim for something to happen?
LUTNICK: You just do trade deals, right? Like, look at the UK deal, right? Just look at that deal. It opens the UK market for the first time to $5 billion of exports.
