Bessent slams 50 years of surrender to foreign trade cheats. Trump team sets 100-day plan to undo half a century of failure

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NOW – Bessent Just Blew the Lid Off 50 Years of American Failure—Trump’s First 100 Days Are About to Change Everything

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just said the quiet part out loud and it was a direct shot at the political class that ran Washington for the last half-century.

“I’m not mad at the tariffs and the barriers and the currency manipulations that the other countries were doing.”

“I just wonder how it went on for four or five decades without anyone who had been behind the resolute desk doing anything about it.”

He’s not pointing fingers at China. He’s not blaming Europe. He’s calling out our own leaders—the ones who were supposed to stand up for American workers and didn’t.

But the era of surrender is over.

With calm precision, Bessent laid out his plan:

“We are putting together this plan and executing on it day by day, week by week and it doesn’t all happen at once. But the first hundred days set the table for the successes that we are going to see in the next hundred.”

And the mission is clear: No more one-sided deals. No more bending the knee.

“None of these trade deals are going to get done unless they are fair.”

For the first time in decades, America is no longer playing defense.