'Scared and sick': Trump voters struggle to deal with tariff reality set to go into effect

CNN's John Berman asked conservative commentator Scott Jennings to explain in one sentence what he thinks President Donald Trump's tariff policy will look like when he announces it on April 2, adding, "Do you think [the president] can explain it in one sentence today?"

"Well, I would never want to predict or get ahead of Donald Trump," Jennings began. "But my view is, is that he's been very clear that he believes tariffs will force more manufacturing, more production, more onshoring into the United States, which will ultimately be good for the working class of America."

Jennings said the people who agree with the president are the unions, like the head of the United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain.

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"But Scott, what's he doing? What's he going to do?" Berman continued. "Because he said 'reciprocal' — now he's maybe saying not now."

Berman added that no one eally knows where Trump is going with this strategy, "and this is like two days from now."

Jennings explained the general principle behind Trump's thinking is "he believes that tariffs force jobs, manufacturing and production back into the United States. The working class will benefit from this. and if allowed to play out over the long term, it will benefit, you know, the core working class constituency that he believes has been hollowed out by trade policies of the past. that is their general economic view."

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Peter Navarro, senior counselor for trade, "says 10 years, $6 trillion of revenue of revenue from tariffs, which some economists will tell you is $6 trillion in taxes," Berman added.

Democratic political consultant Maria Cardona claimed, "This is something that Americans are actually becoming very concerned with, and that's why you're seeing the volatility in all of these special elections. The fact that we are even talking about the two special elections in Florida tomorrow, John, I think is an indication of how scared and sick voters are about what Trump is imposing on them versus what they expected because of his promises during the election."

Trump said on Sunday that the reciprocal tariffs he plans to announce this week will include all nations, "not just a smaller group of 10 to 15 countries with the biggest trade imbalances," according to NBC News.

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