Sean Hannity champions Trump’s tariff plan
Hannity: “You tell me how even the talk of tariffs is not a good thing and has not paid off already for the country”
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From the March 31, 2025, edition of Fox News' Hannity
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I won't mention everything but if you look at $1.4 trillion in investments from the UAE and another trillion from Saudi Arabia and $500 billion from Apple over 4 years and $681 million for EV production. Nissan and Honda, they were going to build plants in Mexico, now they're going to build them here.
Then of course you have $100 billion in new domestic chip production, $100 billion from a Taiwanese semiconductor company, and I'm scrolling the rest of them. And you tell me how even the talk of tariffs is not a good thing and has not paid off already for the country.
SCOTT BESSENT (GUEST): You know Sean, since President Trump came in on January 20th, there's just been a line through the Oval Office of the countries and companies who want to bring capital jobs and factories to the United States. And we're going to accommodate that through great regulation, low taxes, energy dominance and President Trump is attracting them back through the tariff plan and insisting on fair trade for the American people, something that he's been talking about for the past 30 or 40 years.
HANNITY: Okay, so, it's basically -- well, we agree to free and fair trade and if you're going to put unfair tariffs on us, there's going to be reciprocal tariffs in exchange. Okay, that sounds fair to me. Why would people have a problem with that?
Why would the markets become skittish over the "uncertainty" over what tariffs will remain or leave? You can see at the last minute countries like India are like, "I'm ready to make a deal now." The same with Great Britain and it's the same with other European countries -- "I'm ready to talk now" because the deadline is coming.