Left Wing Chicken Little Media’s Fearmongering on Tariffs Was Wrong: Savage Rich Baris [WATCH]

Rich Baris said a new GDP report delivered a much larger upside surprise than expected, crediting President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy for shrinking trade deficits, boosting growth, and undercutting dire predictions from left-wing media.

Baris said coverage from major financial networks struggled to grapple with the size of the report, which exceeded consensus forecasts.

“Look that report, you know, I you watch CNN, you watch CNBC, and you know, they can’t help it,” Baris said.

“They have to, you know, at least they could try to glaze if they want. But this was a much bigger than number than expected.”

He argued that the results were predictable for anyone who understood how GDP is calculated and the effects of Trump’s approach to trade.

“And truth be told, if you understand how the methodology for GDP works, you understood from the beginning the brilliance of Donald Trump’s tariff strategy,” Baris said.

According to Baris, decades of trade policy carved away at U.S. economic output through persistent deficits, a trend he said Trump directly confronted.

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“Steve, we’ve had this insane policy of slicing a massive chunk of our GDP off with ridiculous trade deficits, and now we have these multi year lows that we haven’t seen in a long time, or narrowing of the deficit, plus the tariffs themselves,” he said.

Baris said the outcome stands in stark contrast to repeated warnings that tariffs would trigger runaway inflation and economic harm.

“And I think there’s a very big, very big deal for people who had to, you know, tolerate and live through what the left wing media said would happen with these tariffs,” Baris said.

“They did not create the inflationary crisis that the Chicken Littles who are, you know, were claiming the sky was going to fall, said they would create.”

He said those fears never materialized, while growth accelerated instead.

“So this fear that they put into the public never came to fruition, and now we’re seeing this huge growth,” Baris said.

Baris also pointed to spending figures as another indicator that the economy outperformed expectations, noting a significant beat versus forecasts.

“He changed,” Baris said. “He did something that no other president really had the, you know, the stomach or the backbone to do. He went after the ridiculous trade regime, and that was always going to have a dramatic impact on GDP plus spending was a lot, much more than people expected to it was 3.5 the consensus on economy was two and a half. That’s a big beat.”

WATCH:

BARIS: This was a much bigger number than expected. If you understand GDP methodology, you understood the brilliance of Trump’s tariff strategy from the beginning.

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