Trump Ripped Over 'Let Them Eat Cake Moment'

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Donald Trump's former legislative director is slamming his attitude toward his trade policies.

During a Monday, May 5, appearance on CNN News Central, Marc Short condemned the current president for his recent remarks about the profound effect his excessive taxation will have on American citizens.

Keep reading to learn what the past staffer said about his ex-boss…

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During a Sunday, May 4, interview with NBC News, Donald Trump was asked about the consequences of his trade policies on American people and their families.

"I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs, that's 11 years old, needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls," the political figure explained. "Because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable. I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls, they can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils, they can have five."

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During Marc Short's CNN appearance, host John Berman asked Donald Trump's former employee what he thought of the remarks.

"I think it's really damaging messaging. It's a little bit of a let them eat cake moment, I think, for the president," Short noted of the right-winger's comments. "I think everybody understands he's very financially wealthy, but beginning to tell the American people how many dolls or how many pencils they can have, I think suggests a little bit of an elitism perspective."

"I do think this overall messaging. overall, has greater concerns coming forward. Because this is the week that the ports in Los Angeles and the West Coast are beginning to expect really to see a lot less goods coming into the United States. That's going to have impact on workers in the ports, it's going to have impact on truckers," Short continued. "It's going to have, ultimately, potentially impact in stores because the expectation is that stores can run through the inventory they've accumulated for the next four or five weeks, but that's going to begin to fall off. I think that's an image that really should concern the White House is if there's actually supply disruptions coming forward."

In a post shared to X, Mike Pence's former chief of staff wrote, "Telling Americans how many dolls or pencils they can have is a 'let them eat cake' moment. It reeks of elitism — and comes just as ports slow, truckers face cuts and shelves may start to empty. That's a real political risk for the White House."

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Donald Trump has done his best to deflect any potential ramifications of his tariffs, even blaming former president Joe Biden for the downturn in the economy.

"Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden 'Overhang,'" The Apprentice star claimed in a Truth Social post. "This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!"

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While Donald Trump may be doing his best to convince himself the current state of the economy isn't his fault, experts and economists on Wall Street aren't buying his excuses.

"Well, he tried yesterday to blame the stock market on [Joe] Biden," CNBC's Steve Liesman explained during the Thursday, May 1, episode of Deadline: White House. "And I think there was a lot of laughter around Wall Street, I think on that one. I think that people pretty squarely put this on the shoulders of President Trump."