Ben Shapiro: Trump should “fire Peter Navarro, who's truly a dotard and a fool when it comes to trade policy”
Shapiro: “Firing Peter Navarro would shore up the economic health of the country in extraordinary ways”
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From the May 6, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): So it is unclear at this point, as we've said, what the results of President Trump's tariff war is going to be.
Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, is almost single handedly holding up the stock market at this point. As I said before, President Trump should basically just put tariff and tax policy in the hands of Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, and let him talk, and everything will be well.
And he should also fire Peter Navarro, who's truly a dotard and a fool when it comes to trade policy. Firing Peter Navarro would shore up the economic health of the country in extraordinary ways. Investors would put their money back in knowing that there was solidity. De-dollarization might itself slow or stop.
People are withdrawing money from the American system right now, investors, because they are unsure of what comes next. And they are also afraid that if the economy tanks, you will get a populist left-wing party in power that will then completely destroy the investment environment for everybody who actually wants innovation in the United States. So there has to be a recalibrated policy.