Donald Trump landed in the U.K. and apparently brought a tariff tutorial with him — then blamed the confused look on the faces of Americans. In a no-beat, take-no-prisoners interview with Martha MacCallum, the former president waved off economic grumbling by insisting that the tariffs are brilliant
Trump dialed up swagger on the economics lesson circuit, telling Fox’s Martha MacCallum that his tariff moves are helping the country — and anyone grumbling about grocery prices or polls simply “doesn’t understand” what he’s doing. He leaned into the classic Trump playbook: big claim, confident shrug, and immediate pivot to “fact: factories are coming back,” delivered like a man explaining a magic trick to skeptics. Critics roared (and economists sighed): tariffs can protect some jobs but raise consumer costs, and voters tend to notice the grocery-cart math faster than long-range trade theory. Meanwhile, pundits and meme accounts did their thing — one side framed the remarks as presidential candor, the other as the latest example of tone-deaf leadership — and the polling numbers that prompted the whole exchange stayed stubbornly, awkwardly obvious.
