BREAKING: Maggie Haberman Reveals Trump Had No Idea What His Own Tariffs Were

Описание: BREAKING: Maggie Haberman Reveals Trump Had No Idea What His Own Tariffs Were, and His Reaction Says Everything

The man who crashed the markets over tariffs did not even know what his tariffs were.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman left podcast host Sam Fragoso speechless on Sunday when she revealed what she and Jonathan Swan uncovered for their book Regime Change. Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods had climbed all the way to 145 percent before he found out how high they had gotten. When he finally learned the number, his reaction, according to Haberman, was "Holy s---."

A stunned Fragoso had to make sure he heard her right. Was the president really surprised by his own numbers? "Correct," Haberman replied.

Remember what those tariffs actually did. When Trump announced them in April 2025, the stock market went into a tailspin and the Dow suffered its worst single-day drop since June 2020. Retirement accounts bled. Prices climbed. And the man who signed the order apparently never checked the math.

It gets worse. Haberman said Trump later floated a new China tariff by simply telling aides to "put them in for 10." No analysis. No model. As Haberman put it, "that's not a formula, that's a gut feeling."

And when advisers like Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick brought him real economic data he didn't like, Haberman says he turned to loyalist aide Natalie Harp to feed him friendlier numbers instead. Her verdict on how this White House works: "The real numbers are whatever Trump believes they should be."

Trump's response to all this reporting? A late-night Truth Social tantrum on Saturday calling the book "a joke," claiming 90 percent of it is fake news, and mocking Haberman with a childish nickname. Notice what he did not do. He did not dispute the 145 percent story.

Maggie Haberman spent years in the room taking notes. Now the notes are public, and Trump is melting down because she wrote down exactly what he said.

The economy of the United States is being run on one man's gut feeling. He told us so himself.