MSNBC’s Juanita Tolliver: Trump Is ‘Running the Economy into the Ground Through His Tariff Standoffs’

EXCERPT:

TOLLIVER: “Alicia, it wasn’t broken in the first place, especially pointing back to that date you just emphasized. This is the first decline since March 2023. So, Donald Trump has no one to blame but himself. And I think it’s part of a lot — a larger theme that we’ve seen with him running the economy into the ground through his tariff standoffs that were completely unwarranted with his big announcement back in April, with the 90 deals and 90 days promise that is clearly something that he is also not going to realize. But also, the — it’s the additional impacts of those actions. Aggravating inflation further, disrupting supply chains and systems, continuously seeing increases in the cost of goods for regular people. Like, he has no one to point to but himself, because each of his actions have precipitated this moment, and I think we’ll see the same when and if this bill makes it across the finish line in Congress.”