Former One America News (OAN) anchor Liz Wheeler got a brutal fact-check from herself after she defended Donald Trump’s controversial new tariffs that tanked the stock market this week.
In a post on X, Wheeler claimed that Americans have been “propagandized” to believe that tariffs are “basically a tax” that will make goods more expensive.
In the lengthy post, Wheeler argued that tariffs are necessary to protect American jobs, being back manufacturing jobs to the US and stop the flow of fentanyl into the country.
“Trump is the perfect person to use tariffs as the means to an end—an actual better quality of life, security and prosperity for the American people that we were promised by the lying elitists that Trump is now reclaiming for you,” she added. “In summary, I love tariffs. Stop freaking out. This is gonna be awesome.”
But, Wheeler’s post praising Trump’s tariffs was hit with a community note highlighting her post from 2018 in which she simply wrote, “A tariff by any other name is still a giant tax hike on Americans.”
Wheeler responded to the post after it was community-noted writing, “I’m laughing my head off at this community note. You smart alecks are hilarious. I speak frequently about the transformation of my political philosophy for this exact reason, so people who aren’t yet based… start being based about politics.”
