On the Sunday shows, hosts took Trump advisers to task over the president’s tariff plans.
Days after the president’s announcement of tariffs kicked off stock market chaos, Trump administration officials faced a barrage of adversarial interviews on Sunday morning talk shows.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins were grilled across networks, at times looking as uncomfortable as any American with eyes on their 401K.
On NBC’s «Meet the Press», host Kristen Welker wondered if the Trump administration had put any forethought into their global raft of tariffs. Noting that the stock market had lost an astonishing $6 trillion in value over the course of the last week, Welker cornered Bessent.
«The markets lost more than $6 trillion in value. Was this disruption always part of the plan, Mr. Secretary?” she asked.
