Former George W. Bush administration strategist David Frum told MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace that the dismal economic figures released on Friday aren’t an accident — they are direct and intentional, a result of President Donald Trump’s trade and immigration agenda.
“The message to drive home for Democrats about prices is Trump did it on purpose,” said Frum. “That’s one of the reasons that I don’t quite like the ‘affordability’ slogan, because it makes it seem like this is like something happening because it’s in nature, it’s something that happened beyond any human control.”
In contrast to that, Frum said, “The price increases that happened in ’22, ’23 and ’24, that was the world economy coming — the world economy was closed. It comes back online. It’s tremendously distorted. Some parts of it were working, some parts not. If you’ve ever lived in an old building with old water radiators, when the heat comes on the first day of winter, that banging sound as the steam makes its way, bang.”
“Well, yes, your kids are like, can you make it stop? No, not unless we move,” laughed Wallace.
“That’s the economy in 2022. Bang bang bang,” said Frum. “It’s coming back to life after COVID and there are a lot of price distortions. And maybe Biden handled it right, maybe he made mistakes. But they weren’t trying to actively to make it worse.”
“But Trump’s two big ideas when he became president: One, I’m going to put a tax on every imported good, everything that goes into every food item, every input into manufacturing,” said Frum. “Of course, he’s making it expensive. That’s the goal. If a tariff doesn’t make things more expensive, it doesn’t work. And the second thing he said was, I’m going to round up and deport a million workers. And so there are going to be fewer people working. There’s going to be more; I’m making everything more expensive. What was supposed to happen? He did it on purpose.”
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