Axios Founder On Trump's Tariff Pull-Back: 'Make No Mistake—He Panicked'

[mystery-ak]

Axios Founder On Trump's Tariff Pull-Back: 'Make No Mistake—He Panicked'
Mark Finkelstein
April 10th, 2025 12:06 PM

File this one under "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished."

The liberal media has been leading the charge against the Trump tariffs. So what happens when Trump heeds the warning signs and pulls back? Does the MSM applaud his statesmanship, his courage in changing course given changed circumstances?

C'mon—of course not. This is the liberal media, after all.

Thus, on today's Morning Joe, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei, purporting to explain Trump's change of direction, declared:

    "Make no mistake: he panicked."

For Trump, there's no winning with the liberal media.

Trump adapts his policy to changing realities: "He panicked!"

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[catfish1957]

From wiki bio on this puke....

VandeHei was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin[2] and graduated from Lourdes Academy in 1989. In 1995, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh with a double major in journalism and political science.

From this, what are the odds he even took ECON 101?

[Kamaji]

WADR, it may not even have been an adaptive change in policy.  It may have been the plan all along to bitch-slap the world with a tariff threat, believing full well that most of the world would respond by offering to drop many of their own tariffs; so the pause would have been a baked-in contingency or feature, not a change.

[Bigun]

WADR, it may not even have been an adaptive change in policy.  It may have been the plan all along to bitch-slap the world with a tariff threat, believing full well that most of the world would respond by offering to drop many of their own tariffs; so the pause would have been a baked-in contingency or feature, not a change.

My son, a degreed economist, told me that was the plan a week ago.

[Wingnut]

From wiki bio on this puke....

VandeHei was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin[2] and graduated from Lourdes Academy in 1989. In 1995, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh with a double major in journalism and political science.

From this, what are the odds he even took ECON 101?

I was a declared Journal major for about a minute...actually, it was a year.  When I changed majors I realised i wasted about 10 credit hours on that worthless POS school.  Anyway, the majority of the students were smelly long-haired pinko hippie types who spent most of their time hanging out in the Rathskeller drinking coffee, smoking pipes and braiding their g/f's armpit hair.  The daily conversions revolved around how "The Man" was keeping them down and hating on Tricky Dick.  Nam was winding down so they didn't have anything in their ricki ticki lives to protest and give it meaning. 

We had our share of "VandeHei's" back in the 70's.  They are easy to spot, just follow the stench.

[mountaineer]

Axios is right up there with The Atlantic in accuracy and insight.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Good for the Japanese for demonstrating that they, too, have leverage in trade negotiations with the US by selling US Treasury Bonds yesterday.

Sure, Japan won't sell as much if the US market is closed to them, but then they won't have money to subsidize US deficit spending.

I always thought it would be China who'd weaponize their US Treasury Bond holdings.

[berdie]

Good for the Japanese for demonstrating that they, too, have leverage in trade negotiations with the US by selling US Treasury Bonds yesterday.

Sure, Japan won't sell as much if the US market is closed to them, but then they won't have money to subsidize US deficit spending.

I always thought it would be China who'd weaponize their US Treasury Bond holdings.

I'm still not sure it wasn't.