'At Risk Of My Job': CNBC Reporter Sounds Alarm On 'Insane' Donald Trump Move

[highplainsdem]

Source: HuffPost

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“I’m going to say this at risk of my job but what President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane,” Liesman said on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Exchange.”

“And now he’s saying he’s putting 50% tariffs on Canada unless they agree to become the 51st state,” the journalist continued. “That is insane. There is just no other way of describing it.”

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“The other thing that’s not talked about,” he added, “is what’s going on within the administration in terms of how they’re treating the Constitution and laws.”

“I think all of that is bad for the attraction of capital,” Liesman argued. “We need massive amounts of capital if we want to fund our deficits, pay for the things we want to pay for, sell our bonds and have high stock prices. And it seems as if this administration is doing everything it can to chase foreign capital away.”

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnbc-reporter-donald-trump-economy_n_67d12d53e4b02a1e69bdc4e1

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This was a real "The emperor has no clothes" moment for CNBC. I haven't heard yet whether Trump is openly calling for Liesman to be fired, but I suspect that's already happened behind the scenes.

Video at the link. Liesman starts talking about 2:50 there, but that video cuts off a few seconds before the video Brian Tyler Cohen posted on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social/post/3lk5magb7vk2f

What the CNBC video cut off was Kelly Evans foolishly trying to suggest this is "insanity as a strategy" - which Liesman immediately interrupted: "Insanity's not a strategy."

[underpants]

1. I actually just heard that on talk radio

If you think Kilmeade sounds dumb on TV, without lines to read he’s even dumber.

He had some cohost on - message - it’s ALL opinion. Anything you hear (not on Fox) is aaaalll opinion based on politics
🙄

[republianmushroom]

2. Seems to have nailed it.

[Strelnikov_]

3. Rule of law as it relates to the dollar

Good to see someone actually mentioning this.

The dollar is done as the worlds reserve currency if there is no rule of law. Which means, we are done, debt default, Greatest ever Depression . .

“The other thing that’s not talked about is what’s going on within the administration in terms of how they’re treating the Constitution and laws.”

“I think all of that is bad for the attraction of capital. We need massive amounts of capital if we want to fund our deficits, pay for the things we want to pay for, sell our bonds and have high stock prices. And it seems as if this administration is doing everything it can to chase foreign capital away.”

[Strelnikov_]

4. Yea, typical sanewashing by the cohost "but is this a strategy"

Leading to the quote of the day

[electric_blue68]

5. Ty Good to see someone on that kind of channel speak out.

[Justice matters.]

6. The convicted felon's "Golden Age" BS is the same BS as

the B-movie actor's "Trickle Down" that never trickled down.

It only trickled up. Different words for the same insane BS.

[Beachnutt]

7. Joe Kernon

will say how great it is.

[dchill]

8. Citizen's arrest for violating the oath of office?

I bet Gomer Pyle would do it!

[Upthevibe]

9. Kick. N/T

[orangecrush]

10. K&R

[moniss]

11. The last time CNBC got this honest was during the

dot com mania when veteran business anchor Mark Haines called out his co-host Joe Kernen over the madness of of interviewing "companies" with no money, no assets, no customers and nothing but "dot com" as part of their name and then watching as soon as the interview ended and the stock of said company rising to the moon. Kernen defended it all and CNBC moved on to full "carnival barker" mode with Jim Cramer etc.

But I remember when Haines said it because the look on Kernen's face was priceless and you could tell the producers giving instructions to the other hosts through their earpieces must have crapped their pants because the quick banter normal for the show stopped and things began to go from silence to "umms" and "wells".

[Marcuse]

12. Liesman will be attacked by POTUS with an uncreative schoolboy pejorative a la Schiff and Newsome.

..3…2…1.

[BattleRow]

13. It's all Lies man...so will the regime reply.

[617Blue]

14. The idea that there is a "strategy"

Is sanewashing at its finest.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

15. "Insanity as a strategy"

Basically the newest term for the ridiculous “he isn’t an imbecile; he js playing amazing 4D chess that you commies don’t understand.”

Cathy Wood had some insane thesis about Trump causing “deflationary boom.” That’s like celebrating “weight loss to severe obesity.” Deflation happens in economic collapse due to mass defaults and destruction of the money supply.

Even their gurus are completely

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Speaking of new terms:

How about Musk calling his Rocket exploding: an "ENERGETIC DIS-ASSEMBLY"...........

Also, I love that the "Powers To Be", are now calling a PSYCHOPATH, a SOCIOPATH......seems so much more benign than reality......

[BrianTheEVGuy]

17. Ashekenazi Jews have a word for this

We call it “farpotschket,” which means “breaking something you’re trying to fix or change.”

Musk is a meshuggeneh putz. I will let you google that one.

[electric_blue68]

27. Heh. Never heard the first one, but having lived in a 2/3rds Jewish neighborhood (Conservative, Reform & Secular) I...

as a Catholic back then; know what the second one is.
👍 😄

[BrianTheEVGuy]

28. It was the very first Yiddish word I ever learned (putz)

[electric_blue68]

29. Oy, Ha!

A d ....Oy gevelt! Although that's Hebrew?

[BrianTheEVGuy]

34. Welllllll....

Hebrew, Yiddish, a good bargain, shopping at Ollie’s… they’re all legit Jewish traditions.

[electric_blue68]

35. Wait, you forgot Chinese Takeout, and a Movie on Xmas Day! 😄👍

At least in the mid 60's to early 70's in NYC. 👍

[calimary]

31. Hey, I learned all the dirty words in Catholic school.

They ran as though through an open faucet.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Liesman immediately interrupted: "Insanity's not a strategy."

I like that so much, I just made it my signature line.

[Gary 50]

19. Liesman is the token liberal on CNBC.

Joe Kernan is a piece of dog shit. I love listening to Liesman. Can't stand the fucking nazi.

[Festivito]

20. It's not insane if it makes Putin smile. eom

[Cha]

23. Yeah, it's what Putin wants...Mump is a devotee of Putin.. Strings

and all.

[Martin Eden]

21. For Vlad Putin, Kraznov's actions are services rendered.

The Orange POtuS is is a treasonous criminal. What's so difficult to understand?

[Sparkly]

24. My thoughts exactly.

If it's a strategy, it's the strategy of our enemy to weaken the country as quickly and thoroughly as possible.

[sop]

22. If you view every word and every action through the lens of "Trump is a Russian asset run by Putin,"

then everything he does and says makes complete sense, Mr. Liesman.

[RhapsodyFav]

25. Someone should outright call him a traitor and Soviet Asset.

No beating around the bush. He's taking orders from Putin to destroy this country.

[BadgerMom]

26. Liesman? He's actually a Truthman.

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I love that he pushed back on that attempt at sanewashing. It made me think I’d slipped into a 1970s timeline. I liked it.

[Daleuhlmann]

30. Liesman Is Right: "Insanity's not a strategy"!

Liesman is "telling it like it is": Trump's economic policies ARE insane!

[SheltieLover]

32. Kick

[Raster]

33. Almost as if Trump* and the rethuglicans are DELIBERATELY DESTROYING...

… The United States of America.
#RepublicansAreTheProblem
#RepublicansAreDeliberatelyDestroyingAmerica