White House Official Sums Up Trump’s Tariffs With Foul-Mouthed Analysis: Report

A White House official offered an expletive-laden take to The Washington Post on Friday while describing the thinking behind President Donald Trump’s recent round of tariffs.

“He’s at the peak of just not giving a fuck anymore,” said the official in a report detailing the lead-up to Trump’s “liberation day” reveal.

In the days since Trump announced his so-called reciprocal tariffs on foreign countries, a move that saw him fulfilling a key campaign pledge, the president has been hit with backlash across the political spectrum while stocks tumble on Wall Street.

His formula for imposing tariffs has caused experts to scratch their heads, as well. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative economist at American Action Forum, told The Post that the Trump administration has “an indefensible foundation to an indefensible policy.”

But the “bad news stories” tied to the tariffs haven’t fazed the president, according to the White House official.

″[Trump] doesn’t give a fuck. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. He’s going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail,” the official told The Post.

The White House, in contrast to Trump’s first term, has reportedly seen less internal fighting on the president’s tariff plans as officials offered little pushback to his recent trade policy.

“In the first term, everyone thought they were president,” a senior White House official told The Post.

Check out more of The Post’s reporting on Trump’s recent tariffs here.