Why people are 'missing the point' on Trump's tariffs

The mainstream media have been in a state of doom and gloom over President Trump’s tariffs, but as usual, they’re missing the point.

And while the mainstream media fearmonger over the tariffs, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has faith that Trump’s plan will work.

“Just to be really objective about this, there will be an economic quarter or two where things are choppy. The treasury secretary has said as much, because what Trump is trying to do is reset the world economic order,” Roberts tells Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“If I had to guess, as he gets into this negotiation with other countries and they recalibrate, because the administration is so good, they’re going to focus on the reciprocity part of this,” he continues, adding that alongside “deregulation, cutting the budget” and “making tax cuts” will get “America back on its feet.”

“There needs to be a zealous focus, a real target, on the worst abusers,” he says, noting that China and the European Union are among these abusers.

“The EU is the biggest protectionist racket in history, and they’re telling us we can’t place a tariff on them. That’s the kind of reset that Trump is doing. He deserves much more credit for it than he’s getting,” Roberts explains.

BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden is in full agreement.

“It’s just absolutely typical. Trump does something, the press loses their mind over it, and the problem is they’ve done this so much that people just don’t care any more,” Marsden says, adding, “If you just have reciprocal tariffs, then it’s very easy to say, ‘Well, hang on a second, the messaging is very easy. You have this, we have this,’ it’s just very simple.”

“But I think that Americans know now that we have to go through this, because we were being bled dry. We were going to go bankrupt, the country faced a very, very uphill battle to prosperity,” he continues.

“We know that we have to have some discomfort, and I think the majority of Americans that voted Trump in, we knew we were going to get that,” he adds.

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