'What are you doing?' Conservative fears recession unless Congress stops 'lunatic' Trump

As tariff threats continued to pummel market numbers Wednesday, political commentator and Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum offered a dire prediction on what the endgame will eventually look like.

“It ends probably with a recession,” Frum told MSNBC “Deadline White House” anchor Nicolle Wallace. “It ends with probably the next Congress trying to remove some of the tariff authority from Donald Trump's hands, and they may or may not be successful. Remember, [Trump] gets to veto if they pass a law removing tariff authority, so you need enough members of Congress to override the veto.”

More likely, Frum predicted the market chaos will have to end “with the next president, should there be free and fair elections,” with the next president rolling back the damage. He also lamented that Trump was "surrounded by enablers, rather than people saying, 'what are you doing, you lunatic?'"

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Ultimately, however, Frum said it would have to end with "everyone in the world remembering that the United States" caused the initial mess with a vote and disengaging themselves from the U.S. in the event the nation “elects another president like Donald Trump.”

“You know, after Trump won, there was an opportunity for the United States to turn to the world and say, ‘look, we swear to you, we will never, ever, ever mix tequila and quaaludes ever again. … [B]ut the second time your protector and ally and customer mixes tequila and quaaludes, you think ‘this is beginning to look like a habit’.”

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