Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, a staunch defender of President Donald Trump’s tough stance on global trade, was in good condition in a Washington-area hospital after suffering a heart attack, the White House said on Tuesday.<\/b>
\nSINGAPORE (Reuters) — Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, a staunch defender of President Donald Trump\u2019s tough stance on global trade, was in good condition in a Washington-area hospital after suffering a heart attack, the White House said on Tuesday.
Trump announced Kudlow\u2019s heart attack in a tweet sent minutes before he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
\u201cOur Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center,\u201d Trump said.
Later, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, who was traveling with the president, issued a statement that said Kudlow\u2019s doctors said he had a \u201cvery mild heart attack\u201d.
\u201cLarry is currently in good condition… and his doctors expect he will make a full and speedy recovery,\u201d she said.
The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is in suburban Maryland.
A longtime television commentator, Kudlow, 70, was hired by Trump in March to replace Gary Cohn as director of the National Economic Council.
Kudlow joined the president at the Group of Seven summit in Quebec on Friday and Saturday. He did several media interviews on Sunday to vigorously defend Trump amid a trade spat between the president and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau, in a news conference on Saturday, had reiterated his strong objections to steep U. S. tariffs on Canadian exports of steel and aluminum. In return, Trump called the Canadian leader \u201cvery dishonest\u201d and \u201cweak,\u201d and said the United States would not endorse a joint G7 communique.
In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Kudlow said Trudeau \u201creally kind of stabbed us in the back.\u201d
Kudlow, a Republican who served as an economic adviser to former President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and also worked on Wall Street, is an ardent advocate of \u201csupply side\u201d economic policies that focus on cutting taxes and reducing regulations.
He has acknowledged ups and downs in his life, having been addicted to drugs and alcohol before getting sober more than 20 years ago.
When he was a CNBC contributor before taking the White House job, Kudlow argued the metals tariffs Trump had announced would harm consumers. The month he was tapped for the White House job, he co-authored an article that argued such tariffs were akin to sanctions on the United States itself.
At the White House, however, he has been one of the most visible and vocal of advisers arguing that the president was simply trying to fix a broken global trade system in which the United States was not being treated fairly.<\/p>\n

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