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‘Lots of blinking!’ MSNBC’s Sorkin dunks on ‘strongman’ Trump for taking ‘180-degree turn’
MSNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin mocked President Donald Trump for "blinking" under pressure and perpetuating the economic whiplash that continues to rile the markets.
Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski introduced Sorkin Wednesday, asking, "We have Trump blinking? Or, how would you describe it?"
"Oh! I think it's full blinking, lots of blinking!" Sorkin quipped while fluttering his eyelids.
He continued, "Actually, the market's up this morning. I think a lot of folks actually think that he's blinking. Whether he really will blink, we don't know. But it is a 180-degree turn, both in terms of what he's suggesting about how he's going to negotiate with China. For the last several weeks, he's been playing the role of strongman. Now, he says he wants to be nice and wants to find a compromise, which is going to be interesting to see how the Chinese react to that and will have either leverage over him or he'll have leverage over them. "
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Sorkin also mentioned Trump's "180" on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
"[Trump] had been both, you know, on Truth Social and other places, saying that he thought that the federal reserve chair should effectively get fired, was too late, should have lowered interest rates. And now he's saying, 'I'm not firing him.' And I think he suggested basically that he was never planning to fire him, which is not what he said originally."
Sorkin said investors may be regaining some confidence because they see Trump course-correcting after "realizing he can't do all the things that he wanted to."
Sorkin concluded by pointing out the unpredictability of how the Trump administration has been reacting on any given day.
"What looks like a blink today could be very different tomorrow," Sorkin said.
