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Here are 90 people across Fox News and Fox Business who cheered Trump’s destructive tariffs

Written by Alicia Sadowski, Helena Hind, Isabella Corrao, Jane Lee & Torri Lonergan

Research contributions from Noah Dowe, Sage Hodil, Reed McMaster & Casey Wexler

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On April 2, President Donald Trump announced various tariffs on nearly every country. A week later, he announced what he called a “pause” of some country-specific tariffs, while implementing a universal 10% import tax rate for 90 days on most goods, significantly raising import taxes on Chinese goods, and keeping new tariffs on Canada and Mexico for goods not covered by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

In the week between Trump’s April 2 announcement and the so-called pause, at least 90 people across Fox News and Fox Business, including 8 guests from the Trump administration and 16 Republicans in Congress, praised his tariff plan.

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    • Fox News guest and OutKick host Charly Arnolt noted that “we are already seeing countries figuring it out” when it comes to negotiating on tariffs with the Trump administration. She said, “People are going to have discussions amongst themselves, find ways — ‘OK, maybe we should reel back tariffs on our end so that we don't get hit with the tariffs by the Americans.’” [Fox News, Gutfeld!, 4/4/25]
    • Fox Business anchor David Asman said he loves reciprocal tariffs. “I love reciprocal — it’s very simple. … But here’s the problem: Americans used to live a lot better with a lot less than they do. … We have lost the value that used to make the American dream real for American families, and Donald Trump wants to get it back and he sees trade as a way of doing that.” [Fox News, The Will Cain Show, 4/7/25]
    • Fox Business guest Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) said, “These tariffs work, and they will continue to work to bring these good-paying jobs back to places like my state.” [Fox Business, The Bottom Line, 4/2/25]
    • Fox News guest Evan Barker said under Trump, tariffs will “bring back jobs to communities like mine in the Midwest that have been left behind and hollowed out by policies that have been perpetuated by the Democrats." [Fox News Fox News @ Night 4/4/25]
    • Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said on Fox that he supported the tariffs, adding that “President Trump is fully within his authority.” He continued, “I appreciate what the president is doing on tariffs, specifically in our home state of Wyoming. I mean, in terms of beef, the cattle producers, they’re saying, it is about time.” [Fox News America’s Newsroom 4/7/25]
    • Fox Business anchor and global markets editor Maria Bartiromo called Trump's tariffs “brilliant” and said, “I would be buying this market with both hands.” [Fox News, The Ingraham Angle 4/2/25]
    • Fox Business guest autoworker James Benson Jr. voiced his support for tariffs, arguing that in Trump’s first term, “we saw those jobs come back and we're going to see them come back in even bigger numbers this time.” Benson predicted that thanks to Trump and tariffs, the United States will “finally actually have growth in the biggest middle class that we ever saw in our country, which is in the industry and manufacturing.” [Fox Business The Evening Edit 4/2/25]
    • Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent claimed Trump was using the tariff plan to give himself “maximum leverage.” Bessent said, “President Trump, as you know, is better than anyone at giving himself maximum leverage.” [Fox Business Kudlow 4/7/25]
    • Fox News guest and YouTuber Patrick Bet-David dismissed the idea of panicking due to the market crash and said Trump’s tariff strategy is “doing it the right way.” He added, “It’s going to be nasty, it’s going to be ugly, it’s going to be painful. But if we can get through this season, everything in the way deals have been done with other countries, it's going to be a whole new standard which is good for the American people.” [Fox News Jesse Watters Primetime 4/7/25]
    • Fox Business guest Rep. Sheri Biggs (R-SC) said that the economy and tariffs “will all work out in the end.” Biggs: “I feel really confident that the president is going to make good decisions to put U.S. first, and I think he is promoting businesses and to promote the economy in the United States and we're moving forward. I think this will — it will all work out in the end. I really do.” [Fox Business Mornings with Maria Bartiromo 4/4/25]
    • Fox News contributor Brian Brenberg claimed tariffs are Trump’s way of “putting an invitation out there” for other countries to lower tariffs on the U.S. Brenberg added, “It makes sense to a lot of people, right. It’s the ultimate fairness tariff." [Fox News The Will Cain Show, 4/2/25]
    • Fox News host Will Cain called Trump's tariffs “a potential restructuring of the American spirit, the purpose of America.” [Fox News The Will Cain Show 4/3/25]
    • Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell said, “There needs to be a change, and this is something. I will give him a little time to see what happens.” Caldwell noted, “Back when President Trump passed tax reform in his last administration, many of the economists said that the economy was going to tank when in fact we saw record GDP growth. And I think we’ll witness something very similar with this particular effort that he's making.” [Fox News Fox News @ Night 4/3/25]
    • Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy claimed that “the working class are going to benefit from both” Trump’s border security and tariff policies. She explained, “The tariffs are about cheap labor overseas, and the open border was about cheap labor coming here domestically. … Closing the border means wages that were — the illegals who were coming over were competing for the lower end jobs with Americans. That's going to raise the wage and so is bringing the manufacturing here.” A chyron during the segment read, “Trump rolls out sweeping tariffs to protect U.S.” [Fox News Fox & Friends Weekend 4/5/25]
    • Fox Business guest Breitbart’s John Carney said, “I'm a big supporter of these tariffs, Larry, as you know, but we need to couple them with pro-growth economic policies.” In a Fox appearance the next day, Carney said,, “Sometimes you have to take measures and adopt policies that will hurt the stock market.” [Fox Business Kudlow 4/2/25; Fox News The Ingraham Angle 4/3/25]
    • Fox Business host Cheryl Casone said that “iPhones are going to be $2,300” but argued that “the fight against China that Donald Trump has brought to the table has been successful and needed to happen.” [Fox News Outnumbered 4/4/25]
    • Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz said Trump’s tariffs will be “a little painful” but will “pay off in a big way.” Chaffetz: “He's taking a long-term view of this. I think he's trying to correct some wrongs. … He's doing it in the best interests, I think, of the United States of America, and I think it'll pay off in a big way. It takes a little bit of time, it's a little painful today and yesterday, but I -- he is negotiating. And I think these will eventually come down in a big way once we get the reciprocity that we deserve in these other countries.” [Fox Business Varney & Co. 4/4/25]
    • Fox Business guest Gordon Chang: “We have all of the leverage. ... If we don't back down, Liz, we will win this trade war." [Fox Business The Evening Edit, 4/7/25] 
    • Fox News co-host Emily Compagno defended Trump’s tariff strategy as “a short-term pain that we are going through, but we are already seeing results.” She continued, “The reality is that the impact for us will be positive if we just give it a minute.” [Fox News Outnumbered 4/7/25]
    • Fox News contributor Joe Concha said homeland security adviser Stephen Miller made “a great point” while defending Trump’s tariffs. “He said, ‘Look we protect and defend Japan and Canada and Europe, and what do they do? They tariff our goods not remotely to the same extent that we tariff theirs and the word ‘reciprocal’ is something that people can generally agree with. You don't have to be an economist, just, oh, eye for an eye, tariff for a tariff.’” [Fox News The Big Weekend Show 4/5/25]
    • Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway claimed Trump’s tariffs are “going to make America wealthier” and “give us more opportunities in the long term.” [Fox Business Kudlow 4/2/25]
    • Fox guest American Frontier Strategies CEO Mehek Cooke argued that tariffs will “help American-made products and American pockets before illegal immigrants and other countries that are benefiting off the backs.” Cooke predicted that the markets will “catch up eventually. There's going to be short-term pain for long-term gain.” [Fox Business Mornings with Maria 4/8/25]
    • Fox News correspondent Kevin Corke responded to a map of reciprocal tariff rates: “It’s interesting because I think sometimes, people wonder — maybe those of us who aren’t business experts — what's wrong with making it fair?” He then asked the former national deputy director of the U.S. Department of Commerce Chris Garcia to “help me understand why that doesn't make sense to some people on Wall Street.” Garcia said, “If we stick with the president's plan, we’re going to see some robust growth in the very near future.” [Fox News Fox Report with Jon Scott 4/5/25]
    • Fox Business host Jackie DeAngelis defended Trump’s tariffs as stocks crashed: “If you're at retirement age and you were fully invested in the market, why?” [Fox Business The Big Money Show 4/7/25]
    • Fox Business guest Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) claimed that Trump’s tariff plan “is going to work for the American people.” Donalds claimed, “These nations have become not just developing nations, they are now strong economies. And so we have to have fair trade if you're going to have free trade. And so that's why the president's plan, I think, is going to work for the American people, and it's going to work for high paying jobs for the Americans over the long term.” [Fox Business Varney & Co, 4/3/25]
    • Fox News co-host Ainsley Earhardt argued, “We can continue what we’re doing, continue to go down this road of paying, and paying, and paying more than any other country, or we can put our foot down like Donald Trump’s doing.” Earhardt added, “He’s drawing a line in the sand, saying, ‘We're not going to be taken advantage of anymore.’" [Fox News Fox & Friends 4/7/25]
    • Fox News anchor and co-host Harris Faulkner said, “This is really, really a critical time for the world to take a peek and see who really we are. And he’s showing them, and he's not going to show every card until they’re at the table.” [Fox News Outnumbered 4/7/25]
    • Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher said Trump’s tariff “plan may already be working,” as evidenced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford saying he would remove tariffs if Trump did. [Fox News Fox News @ Night 4/2/25]
    • Fox guest Nile Gardiner applauded Trump for “standing up strongly for the American people after the E.U. has treated the United States with a fundamental lack of respect, I think, for far too long.” [Fox News America Reports 4/3/25]
    • Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) expressed support for the tariffs because he said they will help America “decouple from China.” Gimenez said: “I'm glad that the president is taking such a tough stance, especially against China. You've heard me many times saying, we need to decouple from China. We need to decouple from China, because every dollar we spend over there, send over, they’re going to be using it against us.” [Fox Business The Evening Edit 4/8/25]
    • Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich said the tariffs would “actually [return] us to a very successful American model that created the biggest industrial society in the world.” [Fox News Hannity 4/2/25]
    • Fox News host Trey Gowdy urged patience, saying, “Resetting the trade playing field will not happen overnight.” Gowdy argued, “If this were easy, someone else would've already done it. There will be short-term pain. And during COVID, people complained that more things weren’t made here. Fixing that doesn’t come without lamentation.” [Fox News Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy 4/6/25]
    • Fox News guest and Marlin Steel CEO Drew Greenblatt argued, “If you want to create more middle-class jobs, if you want to pull people up from poverty and give them an opportunity with this great American economy, you have to give them a fair opportunity. And right now it’s not fair.” Greenblatt explained, “We’re having a big challenge. Right now we’re up against a number of countries where it’s wildly against the American worker. … We have a wildly unfair playing field. … We’re competing with China, where they have — they despoil the environment, they subsidize the renminbi, they use slave labour against us. It is wildly unfair for the American worker.” [Fox News The Will Cain Show 4/3/25]
    • Fox News host Greg Gutfeld claimed Trump's tariffs are “already a win” and that “we are already getting results.” [Fox News The Five 4/4/25]
    • Fox News host Sean Hannity said Trump’s tariffs will be the start of “a new golden age of American wealth and exceptionalism.” He explained, “Let me sum it up, America first. That is exactly why today is Liberation Day. It's a day that will be remembered as a turning point and the start, I hope for every American, of a new golden age of American wealth and exceptionalism.” [Fox News Hannity 4/2/25]
    • Fox guest and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Trump “should say, ‘We didn't start this. These are reciprocal reactions for 50 years. So we don't want to have a trade war. They have been waging the trade war and reciprocity is the goal.’” Hanson continued, “I don't understand Wall Street. I mean, if you look at the DOW and Wall Street's still up about 15, 16% than it was on January 1 of 2023. So, it hasn't just collapsed, it just hasn't maintained these exorbitant prices.” [Fox News Fox & Friends Weekend 4/5/25]
    • National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett claimed, “We’re finally stopping the trade war.” Hassett said, “It's absolutely an incredible day in the history of American economic history, because we're finally stopping the trade war. We’ve actually — it's not, we’re starting a trade war, we’re stopping the trade war, because we are going to once again build everything here in the U.S.” [Fox News The Ingraham Angle 4/2/25] 
    • Fox News host Charlie Hurt defended the tariffs: “The big thing to remember, though, is that this is precisely what Donald Trump said he was going to do, which is always a shock when a politician does that. But — and it's what he has been saying for literally decades. That this is what needs to be done to save the American economy." [Fox News Fox & Friends 4/7/25]
    • Fox News host Laura Ingraham celebrated Trump's tariffs as “kind of ingenious.” She denied that the tariffs would be a tax and told her audience to “consider the broader picture” before playing a clip of Trump insisting the tariffs would lead to increased jobs and manufacturing in the country. [Fox News The Ingraham Angle 4/2/25]
    • Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins argued, “The purpose of these tariffs is to realign the global trade that has been so unfair and imbalanced, with America getting taken advantage of, while bringing American manufacturing jobs — thousands, tens of thousands of them — back to the U.S." Jenkins also dismissed concerns about tariffs, complaining about “people white knuckling as we speak because Nintendo … isn't going to release the Switch 2.” [Fox News Fox & Friends Weekend 4/5/25; Fox News Outnumbered 4/4/25]
    • House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the tariffs are “going to do a level-set for American workers and job creators and innovators and entrepreneurs.” According to Johnson, “It’s going to work better I think.” [Fox Business Kudlow 4/2/25]
    • Fox News co-host Lawrence Jones suggested the Trump administration should continue to push the “messaging” that tariffs are the “patriotic thing to do.” Tariffs, he suggested, would help America “to build here, to have jobs here, to be reliant on our people, not on foreign governments.” [Fox News Fox & Friends 4/3/25]
    • Fox Business guest Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) suggested that the tariffs would bring manufacturing jobs back. Jordan said “My dad was a union worker, 30 years he worked for General Motors in Dayton, Ohio. I remember when there were multiple plants in Dayton, Ohio. That is not the case today. President Trump wants to bring that back to our country. Manufacturing, those jobs that he talked about that that union leader talked about. I think that's a good thing and I think most Americans think that's a good thing.” [Fox Business The Evening Edit 4/2/25]
    • Fox guest Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) called the president’s goal with the tariffs “laudable” and “not complicated.” Kennedy said, “We're in the economic unknown. The president's long-term goal is laudable. I support it. It’s not complicated. America is rich. We buy a lot of stuff. Every business in the world wants to sell to us. The president is saying to those businesses in other countries, if you want to sell to us and take our money, then you need to move your business to America and hire our people. Now who can be against that?” [Fox News The Faulkner Focus 4/4/25]
    • Fox Business host Larry Kudlow argued the tariff plan “makes a lot of sense,” arguing that the U.S. “has been on the short end of the stick, tariffs, nontariff barriers, currency depreciation, you name it.” He added, “Mr. Trump is placing significant tariffs, baseline tariffs and reciprocal tariffs, on nations who are most offensive to us, and if you make their goods more expensive at home, then hopefully Americans will buy America, produce America, build factories in America. That's the plan.” [Fox Business Kudlow 4/2/25] 
    • Fox contributor Tomi Lahren argued, “This needed to be done. We could not just continue this way in perpetuity. Somebody needed to do it.” Lahren continued, “This president is bold and he’s standing in the fact that he's going to trust this process.” [Fox News Outnumbered 4/4/25]
    • Fox host Mark Levin called Trump’s tariff strategy “the most aggressive effort at pro- American growth in American history.” Levin justified Trump’s increase on tariffs “because other countries have been increasing tariffs against us without any response.” [Fox News Life, Liberty & Levin 4/5/25]
    • Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler claimed that Trump was fighting for America and “as soon as the tariffs were announced, 900 jobs were saved in one factory alone in Indiana.” According to Loeffler, “What President Trump is doing is standing up for the American worker, for small businesses, for farmers and saying, ‘Enough.’ This is an unsustainable trade policy.” [Fox News Fox News Live 4/5/24]
    • Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said the tariffs were Trump standing up for “our farmers, our ranchers and our manufacturers to let the world understand either they are buying our products or don't bother coming here unless you are paying for the right to come.” [Fox News Hannity 4/2/25]
    • Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum said the tariffs are the “global reset,” noting, “We've heard many presidents talk about the unfair trade practices.” [Fox News, The Story with Martha MacCallum 4/4/25]
    • Fox News guest and comedian Joe Machi said free trade doesn’t benefit American workers, adding, “I understand that free trade is a good thing in theory, but so is having a rock band that plays funk music and party music, but then when you hear it, it’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers and it’s terrible.” [Fox News Gutfeld! 4/3/25]
    • Fox Business host Elizabeth MacDonald claimed Trump is trying to “reignite a manufacturing golden age” and end “a disastrous post-Cold War era.” MacDonald: “History shows President Trump's first term, higher tariffs did not trigger inflation; the stock market boomed due to his pro-growth strategies.” [Fox Business, The Evening Edit 4/2/25]
    • Fox columnist David Marcus said “I sure hope” people are “ignoring” the mainstream media’s warnings about the potential negative economic consequences of tariffs. Marcus continued, “I'm pretty confident that they are because they're not stupid and they've seen the mainstream media lie to them over and over again.” [Fox News Fox Report with Jon Scott 4/6/25]
    • Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) claimed that the tariffs were supposed to “fix a financial unfairness” and that the global economy was not giving American businesses a “fair deal.” McCormick said, “Second thing we know is that these tariffs are designed to fix a financial unfairness in the global trading system. What’s happened over decades is that American workers and American businesses have not been getting a fair deal because of tariffs from our trading partners, because of nontariff barriers, because of currency, and that’s hurt our manufacturing base.” [Fox News One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, 4/6/25]
    • Fox Business co-host Dagen McDowell celebrated Trump’s tariffs: “America shafted no more by our trading partners. Today, ta-da, tariffs galore.” [Fox Business, The Bottom Line 4/2/25]
    • Fox News co-host Kayleigh McEnany on Trump’s tariffs: “These are enormous, they're historic, they're going to reset the American economy.” She added, “I would not be surprised if the great negotiator has an endgame in mind here.” [Fox News Outnumbered 4/3/25]
    • Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows complained, “We've had three decades or longer of continued trade which has been unfair to the American worker.” Meadows claimed, “The American worker is at the very top of [Trump’s] priority.” [Fox News The Faulkner Focus, 4/8/25]
    • Fox News guest and former Trump campaign communications adviser Jason Miller said, “What President Trump did was the first step in how we turn this economy around.” Miller said Trump made “a big move in the Rose Garden at the White House and I loved it.” [Fox News The Ingraham Angle 4/2/25]
    • Fox News guest Stephen Miller claimed the tariffs are going to bring back all the wealth “ripped apart by our elites” and that the tariffs are already working. According to Miller, “All of that wealth, all of that manufacturing, all of that industry was ripped apart by our elites, shipped to foreign countries, and then they sent us the bill. … This is about saying that the American steel industry, which once built and sustained the modern world and is now a former husk of itself, coming back now thanks to Trump's tariffs, has to be completely revitalized.” [Fox News The Ingraham Angle 4/3/25]
    • Council of Economic Advisers Chair Stephen Miran asked, “What could be better than tariff revenue paid for by foreigners that's used to cut taxes on American families and American companies and American firms?” Miran continued: “What could possibly be a better combination than that? That, to me, is an idea that can help usher in the golden age.” [Fox Business Kudlow 4/2/25]
    • Fox Business guest Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) claimed the tariffs will liberate the American industrial base and celebrated the end of “economic surrender” to other nations. Moore said, “This marks the liberation of our industrial base here in the country, the liberation of communities that have been crushed by globalization for decades and the liberation of the American worker and the family. The era of economic surrender is finally over.” [Fox Business The Bottom Line, 4/2/25]
    • Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said that “what the president is saying here is, he’s not wanting to start a trade war, he’s simply wanting to even the playing field. Reciprocal tariffs isn't just about the tariffs but it’s also access to our economy.” [Fox News Fox News Sunday 4/6/25]
    • Fox contributor George “Tyrus” Murdoch cautioned against panic: “We need to respect the process. This is what we voted for.” Tyrus continued, “We voted for an aggressive businessman who’s going to change stuff up, he’s going to challenge, he’s going to scare the other guys who have been taking advantage of us. So, at first it may seem like, ‘Oh, no, I don't know what's going to happen,’ but I have all the confidence in the world that this is going to play out the way he plans.” [Fox News Gutfeld!, 4/2/25]
    • Fox guest and former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli argued, “These decisions he’s making on tariffs are the right decisions.” Nardelli continued, “We’ve got to get away from Wall Street really determining the strategy for our country. I'm very encouraged on where we are, disappointed the markets responding the way that they are, but I think we're on the right track for sure.” [Fox Business Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street 4/5/25]
    • On Fox Business, director of the Office of  Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro said tariffs would “help pay for the tax cuts.” Navarro: “These tariff revenues, by the way Jackie, $600, 700 billion they're going to raise a year, $6-7 trillion over the 10-year period. They're going to help pay for the tax cuts.” [Fox Business Sunday Morning Futures, 4/6/25]
    • Fox Business guest steelworker Matt Novak said he is “very excited” about the tariffs. Novak said steelworkers support the tariffs “because we saw what it did back in 2018. It definitely made a difference in the market. It held back all the influx of all the stuff coming over from everywhere else. Saved a lot of jobs. Did a lot of good for us, as an American, just as a country, it did a lot but for the steel industry it definitely helped us.” [Fox Business The Evening Edit 4/2/25]
    • Fox guest Auto Workers for Trump founder Brian Pannebecker claimed that the tariffs will be beneficial to the auto industry. Pannebecker said, “We've been living with pain in Detroit for 30 or 40 years. We know we're going to have to go through some changes here over the next six or eight months, but a year or two from now I think a lot of the analysts, the so-called experts, are going to be singing the praises of Donald Trump's tariff strategy.” [Fox Business Varney & Co. 4/4/25]
    • Fox contributor Katie Pavlich acknowledged tariffs would cause “some discomfort” but said they are part of “a fundamental transformation” of the economy. [Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier 4/3/25]
    • Fox Business host Charles Payne praised “the draconianness” of Trump’s tariff strategy. “Tariffs haven't really hit anything yet. These are all assumptions, and it seems like the most negative case assumption,” he said. “The draconianness of this to me is the best part of it, because I think the more draconian, the quicker we get to whatever the resolution is.” [Fox Business Making Money with Charles Payne 4/3/25]
    • Fox News co-host Todd Piro said he’s “all on board with, generally, the approach of this administration.” Piro went on to say, “This goes beyond tariffs. … This is also about correcting those trade imbalances that have existed with too many nations for too long.” [Fox News Fox & Friends First, 4/8/25]
    • Fox News co-host Jeanine Pirro said Trump’s tariffs are “literally a transition to the golden age.” She warned, “If you want to retaliate, good luck to you because Donald Trump is not panicked and neither should we be because he's bringing us to the golden age … and that's the end of it.” [Fox News, The Five, 4/8/25]
    • Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed, “These tariffs are designed to completely realign the American economy, around putting America first.” [Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier 4/8/25] 
    • Fox News anchor John Roberts accused Wall Street of acting “like a petulant child that is concerned that they’re not going to get their peanut butter sandwich and their gummy bears.” Roberts continued, “I’m a lot more sanguine about this than many people are. I don't think that Trump is going to drive the economy off of a cliff. I think he's just trying to put pressure on a lot of these countries who have had historically high tariffs against the United States.” [Fox News America Reports 4/4/25]
    • Fox News guest and former Rep. George Santos said he was “skeptical” of tariffs but trusts Trump and thinks “we’re going to have a good time with this and I’m excited.” Santos also dismissed the stock market downturn, saying the market is “run by a bunch of hysterical little bitches.” [Fox News Gutfeld! 4/3/25]
    • Fox News guest Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) claimed Trump was “actually putting America first” by imposing tariffs. According to Schmitt “What you are seeing now is sort of the — at the Rose Garden with the announcement of actually putting America first. These policies, you’re seeing the last dying gasp of permanent Washington pushing back and resisting an agenda the American people want.” [Fox News The Ingraham Angle, 4/2/25]
    • Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said he is “proud of what the president is doing” in regards to tariffs. Scott: “I'm proud of what the president is doing. I’m glad at what he's doing because what’s going to happen is we’re going to get more American manufacturing jobs and rebuild this country instead of building more jobs in Vietnam or China or other places.” [Fox Business Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street 4/5/25]
    • Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) claimed the tariffs would bring in $7 trillion and reset “America as the economically dominant nation on the planet for a generation.” According to Scott, “The $7 trillion that’s on the table, that would be a fantastic blue-collar comeback. But more importantly, it resets America as the economically dominant nation on the planet for a generation.” [Fox News Hannity 4/8/25] 
    • Fox News guest and Good Day New York host Rosanna Scotto said, “Don't we want to even the playing field a little bit? We got to give it a little time." Scotto argued, “We’re only two or three days into this. … He said this is like medicine: It takes a little time to work.” [Fox News, Outnumbered 4/7/25]
    • Fox News anchor Sandra Smith said Trump’s tariff policy “falls under the America first thing,” and that “voters made it very clear that they wanted to put America first and that was the promise from this president.” [Fox News America Reports 4/3/25]
    • On Fox News, Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) claimed that the tariffs will hold China “accountable” for “abusing trade agreements.” Steil said, “Making sure that we're holding China accountable is a big piece of this. Working with our allies to address the fact that China has been abusing trade agreements to the detriment of American workers and American farmers now for decades needs to be addressed.” [Fox News Fox Report with Jon Scott 4/5/25]
    • Fox guest and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said, “If you think about it, the president is doing the opposite of what the former president did. He’s taking away inflation. He is, you know, bringing in external revenue.” He continued, “It may be painful in the short run like it was for us in Miami, but it led us to 10 years of growth.” [Fox News Fox & Friends 4/4/25]
    • Fox News guest and Trump 2024 deputy communications director Caroline Sunshine compared the tariff strategy to Trump righting a “rigged football game.” Sunshine said, “It’s kind of as if for the last 30 years we've been playing a rigged football game. … It’s like the United States versus China, but every time the United States scores, China is going to score two touchdowns.” [Fox News, Fox News @ Night 4/4/25]
    • Fox News host Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law, lavished praise on him and the tariffs. Trump said. “Thank you, President Trump, for actually making it free, fair, and reciprocal trade. You talked about Cambodia. You talked about Vietnam. People are actually coming to the table, and I think my husband said it best. He put out something on X the other day, a post, and he said, ‘I have seen this man, Donald Trump, my whole life. You don't want to test him in this. He will win. And believe me, the countries are coming to the table right now and it will be to the benefit of the United States of America.’” [Fox News Hannity 4/4/25]
    • Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) claimed tariffs are important, because otherwise the United States was funding China’s military and “we're going to have to end up fighting them.” According to Tuberville, “We have to get manufacturing back in this country, and we have to stop China. We're funding China's military, and we're going to end up having to fighting them if we continue to do that. … It is going to work. There's going to be some short-term pain. But at the end of the day, this will be something that's really going to save the American taxpayers and our country.” [Fox Business Sunday Morning Futures, 4/6/25]
    • Fox News guest and deputy opinion editor of Newsweek Batya Ungar-Sargon called the tariffs “incredible” and said, “They do so much for this country.” She asked, “How can you be a sovereign nation if you are relying on your greatest enemy for pharmaceuticals, for steel, for aluminum, for lumber, for the very ships that you will need to fight them?” [Fox News Fox News @ Night 4/2/25]
    • Fox guest guest Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) said the country will be “stronger and better” after tariffs. Van Drew said, “This is also about making things in America. This is about American companies and American manufacturers and the American people. At the end of the day, we will be stronger and better for it. Just hang in there a little bit.” [Fox Business Mornings with Maria 4/3/25]
    • Fox Business host Stuart Varney said Trump “is engaged in a revolution” and that tariffs are “going to work for America.” Varney also stated, “There is no going back. We cannot go back to the old system, which did not work for America.” [Fox News The Will Cain Show 4/8/25] 
    • Fox News host Jesse Watters said that Trump was enacting tariffs “for the children.” He explained, “The vision: turn the country into a place with thriving main streets and hometowns where American workers make American products sold to the American public. Doesn't that give you a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling inside? And he wants to make it easier for people to start families, afford homes, and go to college. These tariffs are for the children.”  [Fox News Jesse Watters Primetime 4/4/25]
    • Fox contributor David Webb said, “You posture, you negotiate, but also, part of this is to reset because you have to have a fairer field of play.” Webb argued, “Being hostage to other nations is not a long-term strategy.” [Fox News Outnumbered 4/3/25]
    • On Fox News, Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) said the tariffs “will take care of themselves.” Williams said, “Main Street America, I will tell you this more than tariffs, they're looking for tax cuts and 100% expensing, less regulations, and that's what everybody wants right now and as we move forward, the tariffs, I think, will take care of themselves and level out.” [Fox News Fox News Live 4/5/25]