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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump causes a market debacle, brought to you by willing Republicans [1]

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Date: 2025-04-05

CNBC:

DOW DROPS 2,000 POINTS AS TRUMP TARIFF MARKET ROUT DEEPENS: Live updates The stock market was pounded for a second day Friday after China retaliated with new tariffs on U.S. goods, sparking fears President Donald Trump has ignited a global trade war that will lead to a recession.

Fox Business:

Dow sinks for second day as Trump’s tariffs rock global markets: Live Updates The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are under pressure for a second day as global investors sell equities in response to President Trump’s sweeping tariffs against the majority of U.S. trading partners, including China who is retaliating.

Note the headlines. Of course, these are also Republican tariffs. See below.

Reed Galen/The Home Front:

Name the Opponent These are REPUBLICAN tariffs. Not Trump tariffs. Not Musk tariffs. REPUBLICAN tariffs. A lot has been made of the Democratic Party’s declining popularity with Americans. We should remember that the GOP clocks in at about 36% approval. Two-thirds of the country doesn’t like them, either. Further, in the targeted messaging we need, utilizing Trump’s name and likeness only gives Republican politicians and voters a huge wall behind which to hide. There are many who will support what’s happening simply because Trump is the leader. Many Members of Congress are happy to let Trump take the heat so long as it passes them by. Don’t give them that option.

x Robert Wolf on Fox News: "This big beautiful economy that actually was rolling pretty good with jobs and inflation coming down feels more like the Game of Thrones red wedding. I mean, it's not going well." pic.twitter.com/GRnM41HDer — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 4, 2025

Forbes:

Trump Shares Claim He’s Crashing Stock Market ‘On Purpose’ As He Lobbies For Emergency Rate Cuts The U.S. stock market is in a freefall after President Donald Trump announced his all encompassing tariffs earlier this week, and Trump is trying to crash the stock market on purpose—at least according to a video he reposted to social media Friday riddled with inaccuracies.

A heavy social media post today in a quickly changing sitch.

Play the tape:

x Jeff is if anything underselling this https://t.co/TetCsYkDQ7 pic.twitter.com/vYYj0UT8cS — Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) April 4, 2025

Kyle Tharp/Chaotic era:

On YouTube, left-leaning channels are growing faster than the right Conservative content has long dominated politics on the platform. New data shows that’s beginning to change. As you can see, conservative shows in this list possess a larger audience than their progressive counterparts, 203.5 million to 141.6 million. But, when I looked at how much each channel had grown since January 1st, I saw these right-leaning channels only added 6.9 million net new subscribers, compared to a gain of 10.1 million new subscribers for left-leaning channels. The chart below shows the top 50 fastest-growing partisan political or politics-adjacent channels I could find: ... As you can see, the fastest growing channel tracked was Meidas Touch, which has combined anti-Trump resistance energy with growth hacking tactics to add over 1 million new subscribers this year. Other fast-growing liberal accounts included corporate-owned MSNBC, political creator Brian Tyler Cohen, Shorts-focused video startup NowThis Impact, and The Daily Show. It wasn’t just these heavy hitters growing quickly, a set of young pro-Democrat individual creators also added over 150k new subscribers each: Aaron Parnas, Keith Edwards, Jack Cocchiarella, and Luke Beasley. I wrote about some of these guys in my old newsletter last summer.

x NEW 🧵



A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:



1) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic. pic.twitter.com/PbthcATkbF — John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) April 4, 2025

x 9/9 On the same dynamic:



Trump’s approval is holding up well with Maga, but he’s rapidly losing support among the rest of the coalition who voted for him in November.



Or to put it another way, the view from inside the Maga echo chamber remains rosy. Outside, not so much... pic.twitter.com/z0TH5TGExp — John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) April 4, 2025

John Burn-Murdoch brought up the Liz Truss parallel. Tank the markets, lose your party.

x GOP Sen. Ron Johnson on Trump tariffs: “I’m concerned, the stock market is very concerned…I don’t have the president’s strongly held belief this is something that absolutely has to be done.” pic.twitter.com/grinHan5Wq — Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurns) April 3, 2025

Greg Sargent/The New Republic:

Obama’s Blistering New Takedown of Trump Gives Dems a Way Forward In an appearance on Thursday, the former president laid out the connection between Trump’s lawlessness and—yes—the price of eggs. Will other Democrats follow? That’s all good stuff. But the key line that’s directly relevant to center-left debates right now was easy to overlook. “People tend to think, eh, democracy, rule of law, an independent judiciary, freedom of the press—that’s all abstract stuff because it’s not affecting the price of eggs,” Obama said. “Well, you know what? It’s about to affect the price of eggs.”

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