By Katherine Tinsley
3:41am PDT, May 9, 2025
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Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary,
Scott Bessent, recently discussed the president's tariff policy while appearing on
The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday, May 6. The conversation sparked effusive praise from the Fox News anchor.
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Laura Ingraham slammed her peers for how they've covered Donald Trump's tariffs and approach to globalization: "The press on this has been so predictably bad, and I think they ultimately know that, you know, what Trump is trying to do is try to just reorient things and reset things, but no one wants what Trump is doing except, you know, the MAGA crowd, the reset crowd," she said.
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Laura Ingraham painted
Donald Trump's trade plans as brave: "Wall Street doesn't want to do this," she said. "They would be happy to roll the dice with the status quo. Is that not the case?"
"But Trump has the courage to do this," she continued. "No other president was going to touch it, period, end of story."
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Scott Bessent jumped in to defend Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs: "When President Trump says he doesn't blame the other countries for taking advantage of us, he blames the previous presidents at the Resolute Desk, I agree with him, because when these countries come with these good deals, like this is a great deal, how — how — how do we get here? How do we get here?" he said
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During his campaign, Donald Trump promised to address inflation and develop programs that prioritize American manufacturing jobs.
"We've created this barbell economy. So, of course, the status quo has done well," Scott Bessent said.
"The status quo is 'we have advanced finance,'" he continued. "We have the tech sector that's the envy of the world. On the other side, we have a natural resources economy led by energy, which by the way, the last administration tried to kill. And President Trump is filling in the arc in between with manufacturing jobs."
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Scott Bessent noted that factory roles have declined over the years: "You know, we're down to 8 percent manufacturing jobs in the U.S., and research has shown the best way to get the wage — real wage increases — is in manufacturing jobs, not in the service sector," he said.
