CNBC’s Steve Liesman torched President Trump’s stiff tariffs as “insanity” in a rant that he claimed put his job at the network at risk. The longtime business journalist on Tuesday tore into Trump after the president threatened to hike tariffs on Canada’s aluminum and steel imports to 50% unless the neighboring country agreed to become the “51st state.

CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman pulled no punches with his blistering analysis of Donald Trump’s economic policies, in particular the tariffs the president keeps proposing then, in some cases,

At the “risk” of his job, a veteran CNBC journalist has blasted President Donald Trump’s tariff threats as “absolutely insane” — and popular financial news host Jim Cramer wondered if Trump is deliberately “manufacturing” a recession.

CNBC reporter Steve Liesman blasted President Trump over his trade policies and broader economic strategy in the wake of a struggling stock market this week. “I’m going to say this at the risk of my job,

CNBC's Steve Liesman has had it with President Donald Trump's ever-changing trade policies. The post ‘What President Trump Is Doing Is Insane’: Exasperated CNBC Host Loses It Over Trade War With Canada first appeared on Mediaite.

CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman on Tuesday called Donald Trump’s whiplash actions on tariffs “insane.” “I’m going to say this at risk of my job,” Liesman acknowledged on The Exchange. “But what President Trump is doing is insane.