‘This was the plan’: Fox News hosts have fun Trump backing down on tariffs however elevating duties towards China | EUROtoday

Fox News hosts heaped reward on President Donald Trump for his abrupt tariffs U-turn, calling his resolution “genius” and claiming that the president—and America—“won.”

Just hours after urging the general public to “be cool” within the face of his sweeping levies as Wall Street reeled, the president introduced his resolution Wednesday to pause reciprocal tariffs on most nations for 90 days whereas rising duties on Chinese imports to 125 per cent.

“What a day, but more great days coming!!!,” the president wrote on TruthSocial Thursday morning.

As markets rebounded across the globe Wednesday afternoon, Fox News hosts have been fast to rally behind the president and unashamedly promote the concept this was the “plan all along.”

“Trump announced a brilliant move to pause the higher tariffs on countries negotiating with us, but meanwhile to raise China’s tariffs to 125 per cent, to wall off China by boxing them out, further weakening their economic power. It’s genius,” Laura Ingram stated on The Ingraham Angle.

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Meanwhile, The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro claimed that “China was always the endgame.”

“Trump won. He’s doing exactly what he said he would do. He said there would be short-term pain for long-term pain,” she continued. “His timing was right to the edge. And it was a business decision to get everyone to the table so everyone can win. If there’s a standoff, nobody wins.”

“But now, this is the biggest win for America because we’ve got a level playing field. We are no longer a doormat for other countries,” Pirro added.

MAGA favourite Jesse Watters recalled the Cold War, drawing comparisons between Trump and former President Ronald Reagan who tried to intimidate the Soviets into concession.

“Remember how Reagan crushed the Soviet Union? He used economic force and military spending to break them into pieces,” he stated on the Jesse Watters Primetime. “Trump has an opportunity to do the exact same thing here in China. It’s what everybody has always wanted.”

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Hannity host Sean Hannity – who hosted a city corridor for Trump in September – took purpose at “stupid people” who thought the president wasn’t within the driver’s seat all alongside.

“I’m just loving the reaction of stupid people. All of these people that have been trying to create in other people’s minds that Donald Trump does not know what he’s doing,” he stated on his podcast, The Sean Hannity Show.

“The Treasury Secretary Bessent just confirmed what I had pretty much understood because I know the guy so well. This was the plan all along. I’ve been saying this… He’s lining up all these nations, one after another after another, to the point where they’re begging to do a deal with us.”

However, Fox Business senior correspondent Charles Gasparino conceded that he wished to inform viewers that Trump “outsmarted the world,” however he conceded, “That’s not really what happened here.”

“You know, I don’t want to say this because I am a patriot, I am an American, but it is the White House who capitulated based on everything I hear and all of my sources,” he added.

Gasparino argued that it was an “imploding” bond market that spurred Trump to freeze tariffs for 90 days. “Let’s see if those markets improve,” he added.

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A day previous to the announcement, former Fox News contributor Erick Erickson lambasted his fellow conservative media pundits for defending Trump’s tariff agenda.

“I am so unbelievably frustrated with the level of intellectual dishonesty of so many people on the right,” he stated on his YouTube channel Tuesday. “I just find that level of mendacity, and lying, and dishonesty to be utterly appalling, particularly among people you would think would show a modicum of intellectual honesty.”

On Tuesday, a day earlier than his tariff reversal, the president stated that world leaders have been lining as much as kiss “my a**” in a bid to cut back the levies.

“Please, Sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, Sir,” he mocked in a simpering voice on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising gala.

Trump officers – who simply someday earlier stated the president would by no means again down – claimed “this was his strategy all along” and “the art of the deal” at work.

When probed about his 90-day freeze, Trump informed reporters that Americans “were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.”

Amid the reduction, the president ratcheted up the strain on China, instantly mountain climbing the tariff on Chinese imports to 125 per cent from the 104 per cent stage that had already kicked in earlier on Wednesday.

Beijing retaliated by slapping 84 % tariffs on U.S. imports on Wednesday, escalating the commerce warfare between the world’s prime two economies.