'He needs to own this': The View urges audience to keep heat on Trump
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a "Foreign Trade Barriers" document as he delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo

"The View's" Sunny Hostin wants to nickname President Donald Trump's economic woes the "Trump Slump."

On Tuesday's show, the co-hosts questioned whether Republicans in Congress would ever hold Trump accountable for the stock market volatility and broader economic uncertainty.

While former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin blamed bad messaging, former Republican strategist Ana Navarro said that "the messaging is bad because the policy is bad."

She pointed to the formula Trump hand-picked to calculate what he called "reciprocal tariffs."

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"They put out this formula, this mathematical formula, and it was wrong," Navarro said. "Every mathematician that has looked at it has talked about how stupid it is. If he's talking about 'panicans' being stupid, he has to look inside his own circle of advisers."

Trump invented the word "panicans," a combination of the words Republicans and panicking, and shared it on his Truth Social platform.

Navarro also attacked Trump's economic advisor, Peter Navarro, who in know to have invented a source to justify his ideas about trade policy in his writing.

A "fake person based on an anagram of his last name, which unfortunately is my last name, Ron Vera," said Navarro. "And quoted in 10 books since 2001. And today, forget that I'm saying he's stupid, let me quote you what Elon Musk said an hour ago. 'Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false.'"

But it was Hostin who said that the crisis is so significant that it should be "named."

"We had someone saying, 'This is Trump's economy. This is Trump's economy," Hostin said, referencing comments by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA). "We should call this the 'Trump Slump.' This is the 'Trump Slump.' This is his deal. He needs to own this. And we should not let him off the hook.

"Any time he says something like, well, it's probably going to be good, I'm using it as a negotiation — as you pointed out, 'Trump Slump.' This is all on him."

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