{"id":2398932,"date":"2025-02-04T18:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-navarro-says-trumps-tariff-standoff-is-about-more-than-trade-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:59:55","slug":"peter-navarro-says-trumps-tariff-standoff-is-about-more-than-trade-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-navarro-says-trumps-tariff-standoff-is-about-more-than-trade-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Navarro says Trump&#8217;s tariff standoff is about more than trade &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpeter-navarro-says-trumps-tariff-standoff-is-about-more-than-trade-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2398932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Peter Navarro,a \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-axelrod-warns-biden-you-cant-jawbone-americans-into-believing-things-are-better\/\" title=\"David Axelrod Warns Biden: You Can\u2019t \u2018Jawbone Americans\u2019 Into Believing Things Are Better\">key advisor<\/a> to former President Donald Trump,provided a\u200d staunch defense of \u2062the\u200b administration&#8217;s trade \u2064policy during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-newsom-lifts-calif-lockdown-orders-amid-mounting-backlash\/\" title=\"Gov. Newsom lifts Calif. lockdown orders amid mounting backlash\">recent interview<\/a>. He emphasized that &#8220;the United States was built on tariffs&#8221; and expressed confidence\u2063 that such policies could rejuvenate the economy. \u2063Navarro, who has remained a loyal supporter of Trump since 2016, \u2064criticized the media for its portrayal of the administration, notably regarding its trade strategies. He asserted that the challenges surrounding \u2064tariffs, especially those proposed against Canada and Mexico, \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">reflect broader\u2063 issues<\/a> such as drug trafficking rather than purely economic concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy generated by recent tariff announcements, Navarro dismissed claims of chaos,\u200d describing the process as methodical and strategic. He noted that \u200cTrump&#8217;s prior tariffs on China did not significantly increase inflation, predicting\u200c similar\u200b outcomes\u200b for \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-for-tripling-of-tariffs-on-chinese-steel\/\" title=\"Biden proposes tripling ... on Chinese steel\">current trade policies<\/a>. Navarro also pointed out that the administration\u2019s trade\u200b policy would soon \u2064be\u2064 overseen by key appointees, asserting that Trump&#8217;s approach is guided by a clear vision despite public perception. Navarro framed the administration&#8217;s actions as part of a\u200c larger narrative to restructure trade relationships and combat\u200d notable economic challenges, including a substantial trade deficit.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Peter Navarro says Trump&rsquo;s tariff standoff is about more than trade<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1975619\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>One of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s top deputies put in a sharp defense of his administration&rsquo;s trade policy on Tuesday, saying &ldquo;the United States was built on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"tariffs\">tariffs<\/a>&rdquo; and promising they can boost the economy again. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/peter-navarro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Peter Navarro\">Peter Navarro<\/a>, who spent four months in jail last year on contempt of Congress charges, is now Trump&rsquo;s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, and he offered nothing but praise for Trump in an interview with <em>Politico&rsquo;s <\/em>Dasha Burns.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re moving at warp speed, and it&rsquo;s good for the American people,&rdquo; he said, comparing the quick pace to the sluggish start Trump got off to in 2017. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be a golden age.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Navarro, 75, bragged about being one of the few people to stick with Trump from 2016 through the present and referred to him as &ldquo;the boss&rdquo; throughout the interview.<\/p>\n<p>He also offered pointed rebukes of the press, saying the media was at least partially responsible for any perception of chaos within the second Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The media does a terrible job covering trade issues,&rdquo; he said, saying that reporters tend to focus only on the downsides of tariffs rather than explaining why Trump proposed them. He accused the press of &ldquo;pearl clutching&rdquo; over import duties on Canada and Mexico that to date have yet to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced 25% tariffs on both countries last week but turned around after meeting with the presidents of each and securing what the administration says are important concessions related to border security and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on whether the rapid announcement and about-face amounted to chaos, Navarro responded, &ldquo;Not to us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Navarro defended Trump&rsquo;s tariffs both for their own sake and as a negotiating tactic. He lamented that the United States runs a $1 trillion trade deficit, which he said is equivalent to transferring that amount of money from the U.S. to other countries each year.<\/p>\n<p>But he also defended the proposed Canada and Mexico tariffs as being about drug policy rather than trade policy. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-draws-gop-attacks-as-biden-faces-calls-to-step-aside-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris draws GOP attacks as Biden faces calls to step aside - Washington Examiner\">president fighting<\/a> a drug war,&rdquo; Navarro said. &ldquo;This is not a trade war.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the proposal generated scores of controversy from Democrats and some Republicans, who argue that the uncertainty leaves businesses in limbo and could hurt the U.S.&rsquo;s relationship with two of its strongest allies. <\/p>\n<p>Navarro argued that those concerns are overblown, pointing, as others in Trump&rsquo;s orbit have, to the record from his first administration. Trump slapped tariffs on China during his first term while keeping inflation below 2%, which Navarro predicted will happen again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also said that trade policy will be largely run by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as well as commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnik and U.S. trade representative nominee Jamieson Greer once they&rsquo;re confirmed by the Senate. In the meantime, Navarro insisted that Trump knows what he&rsquo;s doing and that things are not always what they seem from the outside.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When he does stuff and it looks like things are little chaotic, it&rsquo;s not,&rdquo; Navarro said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s genius, and he delivers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1975619\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1975619\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Navarro defends Trump&#8217;s tariffs as beneficial for the economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2398933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Peter-Navarro-Trump-tariffs.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32215,13991,3634],"class_list":["post-2398932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-peter-navarro","tag-tariffs","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Peter-Navarro-Trump-tariffs.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398936,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398932\/revisions\/2398936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}