CNBC reporter Megan Cassella said Wednesday that she considered it a “badge of honor” that Donald Trump called her question about a mocking Wall Street term “nasty.”
During the swearing in for Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to serve as the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Cassella asked Trump about his response to TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out), a mocking acronym being used on Wall Street to describe his tariff policy.
Trump claims he never heard the term before, called Cassella’s question “nasty” and demanded that she never repeats it.
“He did not like this question, I can tell you,” Cassella said on CNBC’s The Exchange after her exchange with Trump in the Oval Office, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “Wall Street loves an acronym…..the idea here is just, yes, the markets will go down when he makes a threat only to rebound often even higher once the threat is back off the table. And so far where we are in sort of this tariff limbo right now, many, many of, if not most of the tariff threats that have been leveled so far are not yet in effect.”
“That could be a different story six months from now. But the question now being will other countries still take him seriously and come to the negotiating table if this sort of pattern continues,” Cassella added.
“I hear he called that a ‘nasty question,’” The Exchange, anchor Kelly Evans noted.
“He sure did! A badge of honor, I guess,” Cassella responded.
