The barrage of bad economic news as Donald Trump's flip-flopping on tariffs has sent the U.S. stock market reeling and business leaders calling the White House to complain, has also led Trump-friendly Fox News hosts to no longer be able to ignore what is happening.
According to MSNBC analyst Ja'Ham Jones, hosts and fellow analysts at the conservative network have read the room — and are becoming openly critical of the burgeoning trade war.
And they're letting their viewers know it will be far from smooth sailing for an extended amount of time.
Combined with high-profile Fox host Maria Bartiromo expressing incredulity at Trump's inability to assure worried conservatives that a recession is not on the horizon, Jones noted that recently on Fox Business, conservative economist Brian Wesbury warned, “We’ll have some pain” — which the MSNBC columnist noted was a breakthrough moment.
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As the MSNBC analyst wrote, "Now that the cat is officially out of the bag, many contributors and hosts on the president’s favorite news network, Fox News, and its sister channel, Fox Business, seem to have rallied around a common conclusion: Pain is on the horizon."
Noting that on other Fox shows there have been warnings about economic suffering, Jones made the case that the network is doing something similar to when former Fox host Tucker Carlson went to Russia and tried to gloss over economic strife.
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"They’re essentially encouraging their viewers to embrace a lower standard of living — and to view it as an act of service toward MAGA’s grand vision for the country," he wrote before wryly adding, "This certainly wasn’t the message coming from Fox News in the lead-up to the election. But faced with the reality of Trump’s policies, it appears to be the best spin that some conservatives can muster."
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