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Donald Trump dropped the hammer with the biggest wave of tariffs in modern U.S. history. The stock market dipped, the dollar staggered, and economists sounded alarms of a looming global recession.
And now? Vice President JD Vance is telling working-class Americans that it will be all worth it some day.
In a Fox & Friends interview on Thursday, Vance faced tough questions about how Trump’s sweeping tariff strategy would affect those living paycheck to paycheck. Fox host Lawrence Jones didn’t sugarcoat it.
There are a “lot of MAGA folks” cheering Trump on, “especially when he takes it to other countries,” Jones said. “But I also know people that come from our background—they’re living paycheck to paycheck. And they want to do the patriotic duty of taking it to these other countries. But it’s going to hit them a little bit, they feel.”
Jones pressed further. He asked what Vance could tell Americans who “just can’t afford an extra three dollars here and there.” Would the pain be temporary? A few months of struggle?
Vance, whose net worth now hovers around $10 million after the success of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, explained a familiar origin story in response.
