During an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five," Black Americans for Trump Coalition member Melik Abdul came clean and admitted he had no answers or excuses for the president's "chaotic week."
Speaking with the panel, he singled out mixed messages from the Trump White House as the tariffs rolled out, that caused the stock market to "tank," before expressing his dismay.
During his long monologue, he professed, "It is what I can only describe as a very chaotic week. Because you're right, a lot of the things that you pointed out, Donald Trump, they were full-throated in this, and this is the thing: it was the certainty that this is going to work."
"And as the market got that little bump and they say, 'See, this is what deal-making is, this is art of the deal.' and then we see a different story," he continued. "And it is the messaging where you have Donald Trump saying one thing. You may have [White House press secretary] Karoline Leavitt saying another thing, you may have [Commerce Secretary Howard] Lutnick saying another thing, you may have [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent saying another thing."
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"And Bessent in his press conference, said that this was all part of the plan we were going to do this all along," he added. "Now this is before the market tanked the next day. 'We were going to do this all along because we wanted to see who our partners were,' and he specifically said, 'Is that if you didn't retaliate, you would be rewarded, What!?"
"That's just not how this sort of thing works, he lamented. "And it lets you know that there was no strategy. It was a lot of shoot from the hip, and I say this as someone –– I always have to remind people that I voted for the man three times –– this is not what I expected."
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