But it turns out there are limits. One topic Fox personalities are not quite as willing to run interference for Trump on is the economy. And with signs mounting that Trump’s economy is hitting the skids, they are beginning to sound the alarm.
On Fox News on Friday morning, host Maria Bartiromo practically shouted that “the jobs picture is weakening!” She tried to spin this somewhat positively, insisting investors are rallying because the weakening job market means the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. But Bartiromo was blunt about the latest jobs report, which she pronounced “weaker than expected.”
Beyond this, the overall picture is darkening even more: This jobs report does not fully register the federal job losses unleashed by Elon Musk’s cuts via the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which are expected to show up any day now. Trump’s tariffs are deeply spooking investors, and his sudden, temporary cancellation of many tariffs intended for Canadian and Mexican exports is only increasing the agitation. As a scalding New York Times assessment of Trump’s economy put it, the “sudden deterioration in the outlook is striking, because it is almost entirely the result of Mr. Trump’s policies.”
“I think the boom times are over,” Fox anchor Charles Payne declared Friday, implicitly admitting that the economy under Trump’s predecessor was a lot better. Payne pointed to declines in consumer spending, which he pronounced “scary.”
Then there’s this striking exchange, flagged by indefatigable independent journalist Aaron Rupar, in which Bartiromo urged Trump to provide certainty about the future of his tariffs, so businesses can plan accordingly. “CEOs want to see predictability,” she said:
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 7, 2025
Bartiromo was plainly worried that Trump is not getting the message that the tariffs—and his erratic flip-flopping on them—are on the verge of spelling disaster. So she served up an easy opportunity for Trump to project calm. But Trump explicitly declined to take it. Instead of hinting at future certainty, Trump said: “The tariffs could go up as time goes by.”
A big part of the dynamic here is surely that Fox News is, at its core, allied with the corporate, plutocratic wing of the GOP. Tariffs are such an obvious affront to those interests that Fox figures will struggle to sugarcoat them. This is why you see the Wall Street Journal editorial board brutally attacking the tariffs. And it’s why you see Bartiromo practically pleading with Trump to reassure the plutocrats about them. She’s basically channeling those interests.
Trump’s overall political project is heavily dependent on an enormous network of propagandists and other pliant institutional players to sustain itself. Take Musk’s DOGE: Again and again, DOGE’s revelations of “waste” and “fraud” have themselves proven fraudulent to the point of buffoonery. It requires an immense roar of propaganda from right-wing media and dozens of GOP lawmakers, all declaring falsely that DOGE really is finding all kinds smoking guns, to keep alive the fiction that it’s producing dramatic results.
It’s no accident that Trump is reining in Musk’s DOGE right at this moment. Trump declared Thursday that cuts will be done with a “scalpel,” not a “hatchet,” and claimed agency heads, not Musk, will have the final say. This isn’t just Trump realizing that decimating government services like Social Security will be unpopular. He also grasps that with economic sentiment turning against him, the idea that Musk is magically removing mere “waste,” liberating the economy to roar forth, becomes a much tougher sell.
The truth is the other way around: The Trump-Musk cuts are already seriously threatening the economy. Miraculously, this is also something Fox is registering: Bartiromo recently suggested on the air that DOGE cuts might “induce a recession.” She, too, managed to blame this on Biden, but the acknowledgement is a significant one. The Trump-Musk agenda has grown so damaging and toxic that this warning must go forth, even if it means admitting to the heresy that cutting government is bad for the economy—and admitting to it right on Fox News.
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