Fox co-host on Trump's tariffs: “These are enormous, they're historic, they're going to reset the American economy”
Kayleigh McEnany: “I would not be surprised if the great negotiator has an endgame in mind here”
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From the April 3, 2025, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): You heard the White House there saying, you know, 'This is not part of a negotiation. This is here to stay.' I firmly believe that is posturing. This is the great dealmaker, the great negotiator, and he's someone who understands how to get to a good end result. And, with that in mind, you set the posture that this isn't going away, these are here to stay, you've had 70 years to negotiate. That's what I think this is.
The $6 trillion question, as Politico put it, is what's next? I heard Scott Bessent say, 'Look, we have less to lose than these other countries.' If in economic textbooks we're the deficit country, they're the surplus country, and the surplus country has more to lose. What that says to me is he knows these other countries have something to lose. In other words, they're going to be pushed to the negotiating table. Commerce Secretary Gutierrez, Carlos Gutierrez for the Bush administration, said, "I would assume that these will not be in place in a month, two months, definitely not the back half of the year. I'm in the camp it's a big negotiation."
So is this a negotiation, is my first question. Number two we have no doubt it's historic. They went big. Stephen Miller said this is the biggest reset of global trade relations in the last 100 years. He said it's the greatest reshoring of American manufacturing in 100 years. I think it's more like 131 years because when economic analysts look at it, these tariffs are bigger than Smoot-Hawley from the 1930s.
These are enormous, they're historic, they're going to reset the American economy. We'll see what happens, but I would not be surprised if the great negotiator has an endgame in mind here.