Bessent: No One Does “Strategic Uncertainty” Like Trump, “Will Make Sure We Get The Best Deal Possible”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said everything is on the table with tariff discussions with China in an interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham.
LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: Dumping products in the United States, which we know they do as well. One of the things he loves to do, and this is what I like about how President Trump negotiates, he likes to keep everybody guessing until the last possible minute here. And so in this case, I mean, China, again, they said they’re not going to talk unless that 145 percent is off the table, at least temporarily. President Trump has also said, if it turns out we don’t have a deal, that’s okay. He’s fine with no deal. So that, I like that personally. I think it’s great and brilliant, but Wall Street, your old friends, hate it. They hate that kind of uncertainty. What do you say to them tonight, given President Trump’s comments about, well, we don’t have a deal? We don’t have a deal. We’ll survive. TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT: Well, Laura, it’s called, in game theory, it’s called strategic uncertainty, what you’re talking about. Nobody does it better than President Trump, and it can be unsettling for the markets, but why are they unsettled? Because they have a lack of information. You know, I have, President Trump has, asymmetric information for what he’s willing to do. We don’t disclose it, and again, with President Trump, that the strategic uncertainty will make sure that we get the best deal possible. That’s what’s happening with the trading partners who are coming to us.
