Cenk Uygur believes that an extended trade war resulting from Trump's tariffs would be a disastrous economic outcome.

“if he dig keeps digging and digging and we have an extended trade war with Canada Mexico and China then it's going to turn into a disaster”

Piers Morgan claims that Trump's aggressive tariff threats are a transactional negotiation tactic rather than a genuine intent to implement long-term economic barriers.

“he was not intending to actually slap 25% tariffs on his neighbors he wanted them to be scared into thinking he was so they do a deal to do something quite significant that he could claim was a victory in one of his election pledges”

Natalie Winters argues that the United States is an economic hegemon that should use its leverage to negotiate rather than accept the status quo.

“the United States isn't economic Hedon we don't have to sit back and negotiate like losers”

Richard Quest states that tariffs will inevitably have an inflationary effect on the economy.

“the Peterson Institute just about everybody agrees that there will be an inflationary effect of tariffs it is an economics 101 the issue Natalie is not whether there will be an inflationary impact it is how big and how much people are prepared to withstand that”