Ana Navarro does not think Americans are out of the woods now that President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on tariffs, which briefly raised the stock market last night.
On this morning’s episode of The View, Navarro accused Trump and his so-called “strategic” plan of inflicting undue distress on American citizens who lost money in the stock market after he announced his initial tariff policies.
“If they’re saying that this was all strategic, then he is a sadist,” she fumed. “Because what kind of government leader puts his people through this kind of distress and sadness and anxiety for a week just for giggles?”
“His supporters always say that he plays fourth-dimensional chess. I think he should be in a padded room playing with his own drool,” she continued. “Because the things he does are just simply lunacy. And we’re not out of this. We’re not out of this by any means.”
According to Navarro, there are still 10% tariffs on “everything” and a 125% tariff on China, who has since announced reciprocal tariffs on the United States.
“Let’s not underestimate the result on consumer confidence of the havoc he has wreaked for the last 11 weeks,” she said. “We have antagonized our allies yet again.”
Navarro also compared Trump’s tariff plan to that of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has fired and laid off thousands of federal employees since he regained power.
“This reminds me of what’s happening with DOGE as well, right? There’s so many things that could be done with a scalpel and that people would say, ‘This is a good idea,'” she said. “But like with DOGE, they go in there with a wrecking ball and just having absolutely no second thought about the consequences.”
She added, “The bottom line is I think people are gonna be hunkering down, not gonna be spending as much, tourists aren’t coming to America. The things that we need for our major industries, they have tariffs on. People, I think, have trauma from what we have endured these last 11 weeks and this is not going away because he is putting a 90-day pause on it.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.