Steve Moore Advises Trump Not to Crowd out His Pro-Investor and Pro-America Agenda with ‘Non-Stop’ Talks About Tariffs

MATTINGLY: “And that‘s why I want to bring in former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore. Stephen, uncertainty, uncertainty. When you talk to executives, when you talk to lawmakers, when you talk to consumers, they don‘t really know which direction to go in right now. How big of a problem is that?”

MOORE: “Well, hi, Phil. Thanks for having me. You know, it‘s so interesting, those numbers you were reciting and those are accurate. But it was about mid-February when those, you know, they were very high and Trump had a very high approval rating. Everything was going very well in the first weeks of the presidency, Trump had gotten control of the border. And the stock market was doing very well. And it really wasn‘t until he started talking, you know, almost non-stop about tariffs, that those numbers started to dwindle down. And I think that should be a bit of a warning sign for the Trump White House. That the — at least with respect to how consumers feel about it, they‘re very jittery and so are investors. And so, look, I‘m a very, I‘m very bullish on the Trump agenda. I think we got to get that tax cut done. I love the deregulation. I love what he‘s doing on the border and DOGE. But that‘s been completely crowded out over the last 4 or 5 weeks with all of this tariff talk. And if I were advising Trump, I would say hey, that’s fine, but don’t forget the rest of your agenda, which I think is very pro-investor and pro-America.”