Donald Trump holds up his chart of made-up tariff numbers in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2025 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
EA-Times Radio VideoCast: Trump — When Wannabe Dictator and Economic Moron Intersect
I joined Dublin NewsTalk’s The Anton Savage Show on Sunday to analyze if court rulings can limit Donald Trump’s damage to the economies of the US and the world.
I consider two cases: a Federal Appeals Court striking down most of Trump’s tariffs as illegal, rejecting his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and his attempted firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
I evaluate the next steps in each, with the possibility of the Supreme Court being asked to issue a final ruling. In the meantime, I set out how Trump, his inner circle, and the hard right activists of Project 2025 planned to create this uncertainty and damage.
Markets, investors, manufacturers, and the agricultural sector all rely on predicatibility and stability.
One of the elements for this is that you do not make your economic decisions for political reasons or, in this case, one man’s ego.
