Two of Donald Trump's key trade advisors who have been counseling him on his growing trade war which has been roiling the U.S. stock market were called out by the Washington Post's business columnist Catherine Rampell on Wednesday morning.
Rampell, who is taking a job at MSNBC as co-host of the evening edition of "The Weekend" after being a regular panelist on CNN, appeared on "Morning Joe" on Wednesday where she was welcomed after making the network leap before she was asked about the chaos being created by the president's on-again, off-again tariffs onslaught.
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'"It's just insane," she told the hosts before elaborating, "I cannot fathom why Trump is doing this, except for the fact that, A: he's in love with tariffs, he's a tariff man. And B: it is worth reminding people that the two people who are egging Trump on to wage trade wars against our friends and allies are people, on behalf of the steel industry, are people who used to work for the steel industry."
"The U.S. trade representative represented Cleveland-Cliffs, a major steel company in the United States," she pointed out. "Peter Navarro, Trump's trade guru, had previously had a film called 'Death by China' sponsored by Nucor, another major steel company."
"So he's getting bad advice," she accused. "I guess even if he got good advice, I'm not sure he would follow it, but clearly markets are very unhappy with how things are going as they should be."
Rampell later quipped, "... the best thing he [Trump] could have done when he came into office, as I have said many times before, is just nothing at all. You know, go play golf, take credit for the gains he was already inheriting. And instead, of course, he is wreaking havoc."
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