Intentional or not, Fox News had a sense of grim humor today when the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture tried to paint a rosy picture of Donald Trump's unpopular new tariffs.
"It's a whole new world based on Liberation Day yesterday," Brooke Rollins told Fox host Maria Bartiromo, nodding and smiling as if the Trump tariffs are a win.
Meanwhile, the huge graphic next to her head displayed a ticker showing the stock market tank before our very eyes, with Dow Jones down 1,216, Nasdaq down 769, and S&P 500 down 191. (See video below, posted by Aaron Rupar.)
But more than just a whole new world, it's also a whole new hour — as of this writing, shortly after Rollins appeared on Fox, the Dow is now down more than 1,500, while Nasdaq is down 983 and the S&P 500 down 247. Welcome to the chaos of Trump 2.0.
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