'The View' host Sunny Hostin says Trump shouldn't be 'let off the hook' for destroying the economy

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: It was claws out during the Tuesday, April 8, episode of 'The View' — and this time the ladies had their sights set on President Donald Trump and the chaos his tariff plans have brought to everyday Americans, including their own families.

Tuesday’s numbers on the stock exchange were brutal. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6%, while the Dow slid 0.84%. Trillions have evaporated from the value of Wall Street investments since the tariff showdown began last week, per the Daily Mail.

Sunny Hostin lamented about the financial damage hitting home. She revealed that her dad — who busted his back for years working night shifts and finally got to retire while still healthy enough to enjoy it — just took a brutal hit, OK! magazine reported.

“He’s lost 30 percent of his retirement,” she confessed. “I have two concerns, especially for the retirees like my dad, who worked his entire life, worked night shifts and finally was able to retire at a time when he… is still healthy and can actually enjoy himself.”

Hostin said she’s also personally lost a chunk of the money she’d been stashing for her kids’ college dreams. “I’ve been putting away money since my kids were born to pay for their college education. I just lost 20 percent of that, and I have kids in college.”

The outspoken co-host laid the blame squarely at the president’s feet.

“This is Trump’s economy. We should call this ‘The Trump Slump.’ This is the Trump Slump,” she declared. “This is his deal. He needs to own this, and we should not let him off the hook anytime he says something like, ‘Well, it’s probably going to be good. I’m using it as a negotiation.’”

Sunny Hostin calls it 'The Trump Slump'

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who used to be part of Trump’s own communications team, backed her colleague up. She jumped in to say, “My heart really goes out to the retirees right now, who were really close to thinking they were going to be able to make it. They’ve saved their whole lives, and they may have lost as much as 30 percent of their portfolio.”

The discussion actually began the day before, on the Monday, April 7, episode, when Griffin decided it was time to put one of Trump’s key allies on blast.

According to her, there’s one man quietly wreaking havoc behind the scenes — and his name is Peter Navarro.

“I want to talk about one person who’s having an outsized influence on this trade war that has tanked the markets, cost people a lot of money in their retirement accounts already. And it’s an individual named Peter Navarro,” Griffin dished.

“Candidly, the smart economic advisors around Donald Trump in the first term would try to keep Peter Navarro out of meetings with Donald Trump. Because he so often lacked information, preparation, statistics; he would put wrong information in front of him,” she insisted.

Apparently, Navarro wasn’t even supposed to be in the room half the time.

According to Griffin, individuals like Mike Pence prevented Navarro from attending meetings during Trump's first term. Now that Pence is gone, Navarro has apparently become Trump's right-hand man - thereby rocking "global markets and plummeting the wealth of this country."

Tariffs, tension, and Trump’s trade war

To be fair, Trump has long been obsessed with tariffs. For decades, he’s insisted they’re the key to making America richer — arguing they’ll make people buy more US-made stuff, rake in more tax revenue, and get big businesses to invest heavily in the States. 

The whole idea is to close the gap between what the US buys from other countries versus what it sells. Trump’s been yelling for years that America’s been “cheated” and “pillaged” by foreign countries — and with tariffs, he’s finally turning the tables.

Trump didn’t just go after China with tariffs — he also slapped them on Mexico and Canada after demanding they do more to stop migrants and illegal drugs from crossing into the US. 

Of course, Trump is defending his economic moves like it’s a full-time job, but it’s not just Democrats who are raising eyebrows now. More and more Republicans are breaking ranks and slamming the tariffs too — and you can bet foreign leaders aren’t thrilled either, the BBC noted.

With America slapping additional tariffs on China after they refused take down their retaliatory tariff has added to the uncertainty, and the economical future looks pretty gloomy.

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