One month ago, Donald Trump announced that if he is once again elected president, he wants to impose a 10% tariff on all imported goods. Experts describe the tariff plan as “a disaster for the U.S. economy” that would raise prices for American consumers, particularly the poor and middle class, and potentially trigger “global economic chaos.” And according to his campaign team, the revenues created by the plan would be used to fund steep income and corporate tax cuts, the benefits of which would be slanted toward the rich.
But Trump’s tariff proposal has received vanishingly little television coverage over the last month through Monday.
ABC, CBS, and NBC have not covered it on their national morning, evening, or Sunday political talk shows. CNN and MSNBC have each provided less than a minute of coverage within a single segment, and neither addressed the potential impact…
