John Kennedy isn’t sure he can walk this next mile with President Trump.
Trump faced the biggest decision of his presidency.
And John Kennedy got nervous when Donald Trump made one daring announcement.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
President Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs on foreign countries that Trump long criticized for ripping America off on trade.
Trump said these countries looted America’s wealth and stole its jobs through lousy trade deals past American presidents agreed to.
The Republican Party prior to President Trump was a pro-free trade party that supported these globalist deals.
Senator John Kennedy comes from that wing of the party and told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow that Trump’s tariffs could go one of two ways.
Kennedy argued that the best way to boost the economy and reduce inflation was Trump’s plan to slash taxes and government spending.
“I believe that the recipe for lowering prices is to reduce government spending, deregulate the economy, extend the Trump tax cuts and redesign the tax code. I know that will work. I don’t know what the impact of tariffs will be,” Kennedy began.
Kennedy admitted that tariffs could lead to massive onshoring of production facilities which would create a jobs boom in America.
“It may be positive, but I just don’t know, and no one knows. The best-case scenario is that you’re absolutely right that tariffs cause businesses in the short run to move here,” Kennedy added. “They hire people. The economy explodes.”
To that point, Apple, Hyundai and Nissan are three of the companies that announced they were moving production to the United States in response to the tariffs.
But Kennedy claimed tariffs could have a downside if they cause an inflation-induced recession.
“Worst-case scenario, the tariffs cause inflation. Inflation causes the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. That puts pressure on labor costs. People are laid off. We go into a recession,” Kennedy continued.
In that case – Kennedy warned – Democrats would win the 2026 midterm elections in a rout and then impeach President Trump in 2027.
“We lose the midterms. And President Trump’s four-year term just became a two-year term because if we lose the House then the president’s going to spend his last two years defending himself against frivolous impeachment procedures,” Kennedy cautioned. “That’s the best case and the worst case. All I’m saying is I’m being very candid. No one knows the impact of these tariffs. In the long run I think we’ll be fine. But no one knows the short-run impact.”