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On Squawk Box, CBO director discusses how tariffs are “slowing down the economy”

09/15/25

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Ben Shapiro: “The tariffs are in fact a tax on American consumers. They drive up the prices.”

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CNBC's Joe Kernen mocks media “hyperventilating” about turmoil caused by Trump's policies

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Fox Business guest: “These tariffs are really scary ... it has a real possibility of bringing on a recession”

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Fox host on Trump's tariffs: “There might be some pain in the beginning, but ultimately this is to help all of us”

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CNBC's Joe Kernen expresses support for Trump's universal tariffs because they'll increase inflation

10/23/24 mma

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Donald Trump has just canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen, who has been described as “pro-Trump.”

The cancellation comes as many are watching video and reading reports about Trump’s Monday night town hall in Pennsylvania, during which the Republican presidential nominee, three weeks before Election Day, took just a handful of questions. Then, after two audience medical issues, he turned the night into a music event as he stood and swayed on stage listening to his favorite hits.

Trump “abruptly canceled an interview on his economic plans with business channel CNBC, one of its anchors announced Tuesday,” The Daily Beast reports. “Joe Kernen, the conservative-leaning host of its flagship show Squawk Box, revealed the move during an interview with Charles Phillips, the Oracle chairman who is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, saying ‘Trump canceled.’ The interview had not previously been announced by either side. Sources told the Daily Beast that the network had invited Trump to an in-studio sit-down on Squawk Box to take place later this week and that his campaign had initially accepted.”

The move comes after Trump pulled out of an agreed-upon “60 Minutes” interview, and one day before Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic presidential opponent, will sit down for an interview with Fox News.

“The cancelation continues Trump’s policy of avoiding mainstream television interviews,” The Daily Beast adds. “Instead he has been interviewed repeatedly by friendly Fox News hosts including Maria Bartiromo, and appeared with podcasters including comedian Andrew Schultz. His public schedule said he would be interviewed Tuesday by Bloomberg before an address to the Economic Club of Chicago.”

The Bulwark reports since Trump’s only debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he isn’t giving interviews to the mainstream media.

“In recent weeks, Trump has almost exclusively decamped to outlets that are already in his tank. Since the September 10 presidential debate, with the exceptions of a Las Vegas ABC affiliate and a quick NewsNation hit, nearly all of Trump’s 14 one-one interviews have been with interviewers ranging from friendly to sycophantic:

“Fox News hosts Maria Bartiromo, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfield.

Chris Salcedo, Carl Higbie, and Rob Schmitt of NewsMax.

Sinclair’s Sharyl Attkisson.

Conservative radio host Dave Ramsey.

Wayne Allyn Root of Real America’s Voice.

Andrew Schultz and Akaash Singh of the comedy podcast Flagrant.

Over the same period, he’s totally eschewed tentpole mainstream outlets—making a point of skipping, for instance, the traditional interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes.”

“Trump still talks with the press and takes questions at events, including (likely) today when Bloomberg News is hosting his speech at the Chicago Economic Club. But when it comes to one-on-one interviews, he’s never been more cloistered within his MAGA media bubble.”

Overnight, Trump lashed out at Harris in a series of social media posts, defending his mental health.

“I’ve put out more Medical Exams than any other President in History, and aced two Cognitive Exams (the Doctor stated that my “cognitive exams were exceptional!”). I am far healthier than Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, but especially, Kamala,” Trump alleged. “Also, I am far too busy campaigning to take time, from the 22 days left, as I am using every hour, of every day, campaigning, because we have to take back our Country from the Radical Left people that are destroying it.”

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CNBC's Joe Kernen tries to credit the strong economy to Trump's 2017 corporate tax giveaway

09/30/24

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September 24, 2024, edition of CNBC's Squawk Box

ANDREW ROSS SORKIN (CO-HOST): As it relates to the tariffs, because you talked about strategically using the tariffs. At least our understanding of it, and a lot of the way these tariff proposals have been quote-unquote “scored” by economists is a broad tariff plan, not necessarily one that looks by an industry-by-industry or even item-by-item. And I think one of the reasons people say, "well that could be a tax on the American public" is there are industries unfortunately, which we, the American public, are not in manufacturing yet. And so the question is, yes, it would be great to induce more folks to manufacture here, but the time it may take to actually get that to work in a meaningful way is going to have at least a short-term cost, if not a longer-term cost, right?

JOHN PAULSON (TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISER): Yes. So, I think the 10% is an average tariff. Tariffs will be allocated strategically. First, to industries that are essential for our American industrial base and for defense industry. We can't buy critical minerals from potential adversaries. Second, we have to level the playing field in industries that we haven't had fair competition. And using tariffs will restore a level playing field.

BECKY QUICK (CO-HOST): Well, yesterday, he [Trump] leveled it at John Deere, too. I mean, that was — are we going to see one-offs? You're talking about an orderly form.

PAULSON: Well, that would be an example — yeah, that would be targeted. We want to keep American companies manufacturing in the U.S. And if they're going to close U.S. factories, to relocate abroad, particularly in Mexico, take advantage of their cheap labor, fire American workers. That's not a policy that Trump wants to support. And I think it makes a lot of sense.

JOE KERNEN (CO-HOST): But it seems like some of that — some of it could be inflationary, if it was, you know, not done carefully. The other thing that we have so much disagreement on, just in the economic literature, is who pays tariffs. And when that criticism is levied that it's the American consumer, not China or somebody else that's going to pay the $450 billion, and it's going to be through higher prices and that's going to cause inflation, how do you counter that? And it's an effective argument they use. They just roll their — there's an entire group of economists and voters who roll their eyes when they think that you can tax other countries instead of just taxing American consumers with tariffs.

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