Bill O’Reilly warned Donald Trump’s presidency will end because of this bad defeat
Donald Trump is taking the biggest risk of his career.
One of his biggest supporters isn’t sure how events will play out.
And Bill O’Reilly warned Donald Trump’s presidency will end because of this bad defeat.
President Trump was elected for two reasons – the economy and immigration.
Trump sealed the border through executive orders and now the President is attempting to rebalance the American economy to benefit working Americans.
One of President Trump’s signature campaign themes was that globalist elites looted America and gutted the middle class through trade deals that were lopsided in favor of countries like Communist China and Mexico.
President Trump declared April 2 “Liberation Day” where he imposed reciprocal tariffs to charge other countries the duties they slapped on American goods.
Wall Street panicked as the stock market suffered through the worst quarter since 2022.
But polls also show the highest number of Americans saying the country is on the right track in 20 years.
Trump is betting that the tariffs – combined with legislation cutting taxes and regulations – will keep the economy humming and that the tariffs would only cause a temporary increase in prices.
NewsNation host Leland Vittert asked O’Reilly why Trump would take such a huge gamble that could tank his Presidency if the economy slips into a recession.
O’Reilly said it was because Trump built his fame and fortune on taking big swings and this was Trump’s chance for the rubber to meet the road on his fundamental belief about how globalist trade deals ripped America off.
“Because it’s exciting—he’s an adrenaline junkie. I’m harkening back to my book, The United States of Trump—best book ever written on the man—and he gets bored easily. This has been in his mind for decades: why should the most powerful nation on earth and the most generous nation on earth get screwed by Liechtenstein and Austria and Cambodia? Why?” O’Reilly began.
Polls showing more Americans thinking the country is on the right track than at any point since 2004 shows the public is optimistic and willing to give Trump some runway to put his agenda into place.
Tariffs and renegotiated trade deals are core to Trump’s agenda.
But O’Reilly said the public’s patience isn’t unlimited.
O’Reilly predicted that if inflation wasn’t heading in the right direction by next year at this time, then Democrats would win the 2026 election in a landslide, which would effectively end the Trump Presidency.
“He’s run an enormous risk, far more than people know. Because this time next year, April Fool’s Day 2026, if the economy is wobbly and prices have not come down substantially, Democrats will win the midterms, and that’s it for Donald Trump’s presidency right there. So he’s got 12 months,” O’Reilly added.
When Republicans are in power, the media cover politics through the frame of who is hurt by GOP policies.
O’Reilly said that dynamic could severely damage the GOP’s prospects if Trump’s tariff gambit doesn’t pay off.
“The press is going to spin everything that happens economically negative—everything—not NewsNation, which I’m happy that people are finding now because you guys try to do a fair job, but ABC, NBC, CBS, all the cables outside of Fox and Newsmax, they’ll spin everything negatively. So people will get the perception the economy’s bad, my family’s in trouble,” O’Reilly continued.
O’Reilly revealed that Trump’s bet is that the United States economy is the big dog in the global marketplace so other countries will be the ones who line up to cut deals offering America concessions, which Trump will take to show that his tariffs worked to benefit American business.
“What Trump hopes is that he’ll be able to make these deals on paper quickly and therefore have to take the tariffs off, which he will. He’s nimble—he’ll do that. He’ll wave the paper—“Look at the deal I have, right?” O’Reilly concluded.
