Crybaby Donald Trump slammed Fox’s Juan Williams after he had the audacity to call out Dear Leader’s losing approach to the trade war with China and his “unpredictability” as a risk for global recession yesterday, on Fox News Sunday.
On the Fox News Sunday panel, Williams contradicted a clip in which Trump claimed Chinese tariffs “have really bitten into China, they haven’t bitten into us at all.”
First, Williams slammed Trump’s “brutish approach” to China as “the problem.” He noted that “it's not just Democrats who say, hey, this guy is inartful. The Wall Street Journal has said that.” Williams also said Trump’s “unpredictability” risks “global recession” because it “really scares Wall Street, because it depresses the likelihood of capital investment, which is necessary for stock growth.”
Williams later inflicted what may have been the biggest wound to Trump’s ego. He said, “We’re not winning” the trade war. Williams added insult to injury as he continued: “He firstly says, we're not paying for the tariffs, China is paying. Well then now, he says, I'm delaying the tariffs because guess what? It's going to drive up consumer costs going into the holiday season. That's not good for Americans’ economy.”
Rather than defend himself, Trump attacked Williams in yet another Trump Twitter Temper Tantrum:
Juan Williams at @FoxNews is so pathetic, and yet when he met me in the Fox Building lobby, he couldn’t have been nicer as he asked me to take a picture of him and me for his family. Yet he is always nasty and wrong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2019
Watch the criticism that set off Trump below, from the August 18, 2019 Fox News Sunday:
First, Juan Williams actually was articulating a REPUBLICAN talking point, if anyone was watching it carefully. He was taking the same basic position as various non-Trump Right Wingers, like Max Boot and George Will. Meaning: A light criticism of Pence’s childish spokesman as “inarticulate” and potentially unhelpful to the US economy.
Second, Williams was, as usual, fairly meek about his conservative criticism of Pence’s childish spokesman, which really just invited the usual tantrum from that person.
Third, Williams has already meekly retreated, making an appearance where he tried to explain away how he asked for a photo with Pence’s childish spokesman, as though that mattered in the slightest.
We need to keep our eye on what is actually important – not what Pence’s childish spokesman rants about on Twitter. Pence is the one making the policy decisions that are causing problems for everyone. The spokesman is nothing more than a distraction, and an irrelevant one at that.
I find it interesting that the Right Wing is trying to play a silly game about how “the Left wants a Recession”, which is an utterly false premise. The Dems are NOT “the Left” and other than Bill Maher making snarky comments to get attention, we are not seeing any sane person advocating for a massive recession. What we are seeing is that the incompetence and idiocy of the Pence White House has destabilized the US economy, between the lack of any focus to the policy and the open meanness of the Tax Transfer that skyrocketed the tax burdens of Middle Class employees and Blue State residents across the country. (The only focus Pence has had over the past 2 1/2 years has been toward erasing ALL of the policies of the Obama White House and ramming the most cravenly partisan gargoyles into our judiciary. Past that, Pence has been happy to understaff much of the government and to leave the rest of the world where the US stands on anything other than blustering tantrums. The result hasn’t been hard to understand – instability and an obvious slide into recession from the stronger economy that President Obama had worked to shepherd after the huge GOP recession of 2007-2009.)
If the Right Wing wanted to look at the economic situation with ANY honesty, they would acknowledge that Pence has squandered the economic conditions he inherited from an actual functioning White House, and that we need to be prepared for the inevitable dip into negative numbers. “The Left” isn’t cheering for the numbers to go down – actual Left economists are simply noting that the numbers ARE GOING DOWN without cheering or booing. They’re acknowledging reality – something Fox News is incapable of doing. We went through something similar, noted on this website, when Sean Hannity was throwing tantrums in 2008 rather than acknowledging the major recession that was hitting the US during an election year.
And speaking of Hannity, has he spoken up for his “good friend” Williams yet? I noted that Brit Hume and one other commentator gave Williams condescending little pats on the head, but nothing from Hannity yet, to my knowledge.