Jessica Tarlov Blames Trump For Biden’s Economy, Immediately Regrets It

Fox News host Jessica Tarlov stepped in it on Friday after taking her tirade to X where she lit into President Donald Trump for poor inflation just three weeks on the job.

“Golf, Gulf of America and tariffs aren’t bringing down inflation…who knew?!” snapped “The Five” host in response to CNN analyst Harry Enten’s explanation on new Treasury data showing that inflation ticked up to 3% in the month of January. Thirty-four percent of Americans continue to rank inflation as the most salient issue for Trump’s focus over his first year back in office.

Conservative podcaster Michele Tafoya spotted Tarlov’s not-so-witty remark and quickly chided her for rushing to blame Trump for what she said is poor residual economic results from the Biden-Harris administration.

“I genuinely respect @JessicaTarlov… But she knows better than this,” Tafoya said, quoting the Fox host’s original post.

As more social media users began to tune into the catty exchange, Tarlov upped the ante and fired back.

“Hey Michele, while I appreciate that you continue to at least pretend to respect me, in this instance it’s not about ‘me knowing better.’ The data is showing 66% of Americans think he’s not focused on inflation. Maybe we’ve all got it wrong, but that’s a lot of ppl to be off base,” she replied.

Tafoya wasn’t “pretending,” she countered. “I respect how you hold your own on @TheFive,” she said. “But after 3.5 weeks, you’re willing to blame the rise in inflation on the new admin? That is where you should know better. For 4 years your party told us inflation was ‘transitory,’ etc. But after four weeks, it’s now the fault of the White House?”

Tafoya might have dropped the mic at this point, but Tarlov didn’t realize it. She kept chiming in to the X thread on Thursday afternoon, but the podcaster stopped responding.

“I continually talked about how persistent inflation was a problem, people were upset at prices, etc. Of course it’s not all Trump’s fault! But if 66% say he’s not focused on it enough doesn’t that suggest an issue? Also, tax cuts and trade wars are inflationary,” she argued.

Readers were quick to side with Tafoya and give Tarlov a hard time for hunting for any angle to blame Trump.

“Next to Elizabeth Warren, we have Jessica Tarlov,” one user joked. Another, calling Tarlov “queen of the Karens,” said they’re happy with Trump’s job performance along with a majority of Americans.

“Don’t know where you’re getting your information from, but I totally approve of what Trump is doing,” they replied to Tarlov’s final post in the thread.

Unlike Tarlov, most Americans also give President Trump a pass for early poor economic data. In a recent poll by YouGov, most respondents said the Republican deserves at least six months in office before he can take credit or blame for the economy’s performance.