Top Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit

[Mr. Sparkle]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be planning to cut and run after Donald Trump’s disastrous “reciprocal tariff” announcement earlier this week.

During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday, contributor Stephanie Ruhle reported that the key Cabinet member is already looking for an escape hatch.

“My sources say that Scott Bessent is kind of the odd man out here and, in the inner circle that Trump has, he’s not even close to Scott Bessent or listening to him,” Ruhle said. “Some have said to me, he’s looking for an exit door to try to get himself to the Fed, because in the last few days he’s really hurting his own credibility and history in the markets.”

To be sure, Trump’s tariff policy represents a sort of defeat for Bessent, a former hedge fund manager who entered office under the delusion that he might actually succeed in stopping Trump from wrecking the economy. Should he flee the administration now, he would likely forfeit what little credibility remains.

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[sop]

1. I've lost track of the number of people who took jobs in the first Trump administration under the delusion they might

actually succeed in stopping Trump from wrecking something or other. Bessent might be the beginning of the second Trump administration exodus.

[UpInArms]

2. Bessent has no credibility to lose

Drinking from the poisoned MAGAt well is fatal.

[PJMcK]

3. I would think the opposite

If Bessent were to leave and publicly criticize Trump for his tariffs that might refurbish his credibility slightly.

[tinymontgomery]

4. trump would just say that he doesn't know the guy but may have brought

trump a his coffee once. Then the maga crew will come out with the knives and go after him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. He wants to leave and NOT criticize tRump. He would want something like a quiet Fed seat for 4 years

Like since Rex Tillerson left the Secretary of State position, we have hardly heard a peep out of him.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R

[spanone]

6. He was on Meet the Press and gave full throated trmp support.

A complete toady.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. We don't know if he nervously threw up in the green room. . . . . nt

[senseandsensibility]

18. I just was going to post this

so I'm glad you did. Not only that, he did a horrible job of gaslighting. Real deer in the headlights stuff.

[Vinca]

7. I saw him being interviewed and to nearly every question he responded, "I don't know."

He may be the sole normie accidently installed in the administration and now being ostracized. Of course I'm kidding.

[Mike 03]

10. Same. I've heard a couple of clips of him being interviewed on Bloomberg

radio and he sounded like the proverbial deer caught in the headlights. He's also way too civil and polite (in general) to remain part of this administration.

The markets are going to go bananas again if he flees.

[allegorical oracle]

8. Bessent's biggest hedge fund success came when he teamed up with...

wait for it...George Soros. They made a $1 billion deal in the pound sterling market.

Irony never dies.

[flamingdem]

21. But he also tanked a couple of hedge funds

NOT competent.

[struggle4progress]

9. "I want to be in hiding somewhere.very far away when people start waking up about this "

[AllyCat]

11. I doubt this. He's already saying prices won't go up.

Republicans always lie and will always do the wrong thing.

[RainCaster]

14. "Every thing Trump touches..."

Turns to shit.
His career is toast, and I'm ok with that.

[peggysue2]

15. Everyone who joined the regime . . .

Has already torched their credibility.

It's not as if they can rely on 'we didn't know how crazy he was' or pretend that Project 2025 wasn't lurking in the background. They came, they saw, they hopped on board.

Because power, money, billionaire dreaming.

Bessent can run but he cannot hide.

[krkaufman]

16. Sounds more like a guy paying a PR firm ...

... to try to have it both ways.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

17. I don't think many of them will be there long...

That appears to be the M.O. for Trump administrations. No one sticks around long.

[sakabatou]

19. Oh? He didn't like getting his face eaten, even after he was warned he'd get mauled?

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Scott Bessent in every job interview for the rest of his life:

"Hey, give me a break! I only wore that swastika armband for a few months."

[bronxiteforever]

22. I hope Scott knows that wherever he goes in life

to the American people he will always be a fucking idiot.