Fox News’ Trey Gowdy Takes A Bite Out Of Trump Policy With Movie-Themed Burn | EUROtoday

Fox News host Trey Gowdy on Sunday served up a “Silence of the Lambs”-inspired quip to critique the fallout from President Donald Trump’s financial agenda.

“I’ve been watching ‘Silence of the Lambs’ because it’s less scary for me than looking at the stock market,” Gowdy, a Republican former South Carolina congressman, informed Forbes Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes throughout a dialogue about Trump’s tariffs which have, up to now at the very least, tanked the markets.

“The president is not relenting on tariffs, but neither are other countries,” Gowdy famous, referring to retaliatory measures being put in place by America’s former financial allies and buying and selling companions.

“So, where does that leave us?” Gowdy requested.

Forbes suggested to not focus an excessive amount of on the “Hannibal” side of the scenario, referring to Anthony Hopkins’ fictional cannibalistic character Hannibal Lecter within the hit 1991 horror movie — a personality Trump, by the way, weirdly liked to heap reward on throughout his 2024 marketing campaign.

Uncertainty over the on-off, on-off tariffs has seen companies and people pausing their plans and it simply underscores the necessity to move “a big beautiful tax cut bill to get real tailwinds for this economy,” Forbes added.