The market turmoil that greeted investors already reeling from weeks of President Donald Trump’s tariff-inspired trade war sent MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow delivering a blunt analysis of the MAGA leader’s impact on the U.S. economy.
Maddow kicked off her Monday evening show by highlighting the growing number of protests in opposition to Trump administration policies, which she said are playing out nationwide, “including in the reddest of red states.”
But it was the havoc Trump unleashed on the economy Monday, with not only the uncertainties surrounding his trade war, but also his escalated attacks on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, that lit up the primetime host.
“The financial markets continue to just reject and repel Trump like he is a magnet turned around the wrong way,” Maddow said as she cited a Wall Street Journal report which stated the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped roughly 972 points on Monday, “and is on pace for its worst April since 1932.”
“In other words, Donald Trump is not just tanking the financial markets, he's potentially destroying America's economic status in an irreversible way,” she added.
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After Maddow zeroed in on the unfolding protests across the country, she concluded, “This is not business as usual.”
“This is quite a thing that is happening over and over again at state capitals and on overpasses and in town squares and on street corners and in all sorts of unexpected places, including the reddest of red states,” she said. The MSNBC host went on to predict that the opposition rallies will gain more interest as Trump’s poll numbers “continue to drop.”
“They're going to get more and more attention as well as the dominant news narrative in the country becomes not just what it has been – which is the failures and mistakes and scandals of the administration – the damage Trump is doing,” she said. “But I think the dominant narrative in the country is becoming not just that disastrous behavior by Trump, but also the country saying no to him and resisting him more and more and more all the time.”
