Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman likes to present himself as a different kind of Democrat.
But it’s all an act.
And now Donald Trump will need to be sitting down when he hears what John Fetterman just said.
John Fetterman is a constant presence on Fox News as he tries to cozy up to President Trump in the hopes of winning over swing voters when he runs for re-election in 2028.
Fetterman could only keep up appearances for so long.
The “mask off” moment came in an interview with Fox News’s Aishah Hasnie, where Fetterman walked back his past comments that Trump’s tariffs worked “pretty well.”
Fetterman claimed all he meant was that the experts were all wrong that Trump’s tariffs would tank the stock market and plunge the economy into a recession.
“I mean, what I said was in the context that, yeah, you didn’t crater the economy, and you did not trash the stock market, but I have also said there’s part of those tariffs that I’ll never get. I don’t understand the upside to go after our allies, whether it’s Canada or Mexico or, you know, other nations in Europe,” Fetterman stated.
Fetterman then claimed he was in favor of targeted tariffs to isolate Communist China.
“I don’t understand that because they are allies and I think — now, I think he should work with Congress because I think at least with me, you have an open mind, and if we can use those kinds of tariffs to go after China and isolate China, I absolutely would vote and want to support those things,” Fetterman added.
Hasnie then asked Fetterman about Trump’s upcoming trip to China and if the new 15 percent global tariff that Trump recently announced would accomplish the goals Fetterman claims he supports.
“He is going to China in a couple of weeks now, and he has often said that tariffs give him a lot of leverage. So, what do you think of these 15% tariffs that he just announced?” Hasnie wondered.
Fetterman fully planted his flag in the globalists’ camp, saying Trump shouldn’t tariff countries like Canada even though Canada pillaged American industries through the disastrous NAFTA trade deal.
“Well, I do agree. That’s why those tariffs, you know, do have some leverage, and I do think that the president is entitled to have some of that kind of leverage, but to use that kind of leverage on someone like China, not going after, you know, our allies like Canada and others. Like Brazil, to me, it seems like it’s just made coffee unnecessarily more expensive. So, for me, if you can isolate and hold China accountable, I would absolutely support that and use the kinds of leverage for those tariffs,” Fetterman concluded.
Fetterman wants voters to think he is a reasonable moderate.
But conservatives contend that when it comes time for choosing Fetterman, like he has on tariffs and supporting transgender surgeries for children, he will always pick the left.
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