Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that Trump’s economy won’t change, and that it was destroyed in the midterms because voters weren’t “feeling” the great economy and were “skittish” because of COVID and President Biden’s inflation period.
I’d say the populace is “feeling” Trump’s economy just fine. The word that comes to mind is “furious.”
Anyone looking at the polling, exit polling, surveys, and the results would not deem the electorate skittish.
Bessent finally crawled out from under his rock after the shellacking Republicans just took on Tuesday, and joined pro-Trumper Joe Kernen on CNBC.
Kernen asked whether the administration plans to do anything differently after the midterms. Bessent responded with some bizarre remarks.
“And do you think that there was anything that, in reading the exit polls or in trying to analyze what happened, would there be any change in the fiscal policy, the tax policy, the tariff policy of the administration following what was a pretty bad drubbing?” Kernen asked.
“The American people have spoken,” Bessent said. “And we see that, post-COVID, post the Biden inflation of 22 percent, that the American people, they are rightly very skittish.”
The people are not skittish because of anything President Biden did. This election is a rebuke of the actions Trump and Bessent took towards the US economy and the Iran war, period.
Bessent continued his gaslighting.
BESSENT: The underlying economy was very strong.
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