Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent strode onto Hannity this week and did something refreshing that the establishment media won’t: he spoke plainly about the hard choices America faces and why President Trump’s tough negotiating posture with trading partners is working. Bessent unpacked the president’s blunt warning to Canada over its recent deal with China, blasted California’s performative elites in Davos, and urged Americans to get ready for real economic growth — not the limp recovery the last administration sold us.
On the Canada front, Bessent echoed the White House’s red line: if Ottawa allows itself to be used as a backdoor for subsidized Chinese goods, the U.S. will respond with forceful tariffs to defend American workers and supply chains. That isn’t warmongering — it’s common-sense trade policy from a government that finally puts national interest ahead of globalist handshakes. The corporate chattering class will howl about short-term pain, but ordinary Americans know you can’t rebuild manufacturing by letting Beijing flood our markets.
Bessent saved his sharpest barbs for Gavin Newsom at Davos, and he deserved to. While Newsom posits himself as a moralist lecturing the world, Bessent pointed out the reality: California is hemorrhaging people, suffering fiscal chaos, and the governor’s elite photo ops don’t fix homelessness or rising crime. Conservatives have long said the coastal political class prefers virtue signaling to results — Bessent’s takedown was a corrective reminder that leadership is measured by outcomes, not sermonizing at wealthy conclaves.
To the predictable chorus of foreign officials threatening retaliation, Bessent offered sober advice: don’t escalate — let the tariffs land and negotiate from a position of strength. That is grown-up diplomacy; it’s what happens when a country decides to stop being taken advantage of and starts demanding fair play instead of endless concessions. Washington’s renewed willingness to use economic leverage is exactly the medicine American manufacturers and workers have been asking for.
Finally, the Treasury secretary didn’t just throw grenades at elites — he promised prosperity is coming if the administration’s policies are allowed to work, forecasting an economic boom on the horizon. For patriotic, industrious Americans who get up before dawn and build this country, that’s the signal to prepare, invest, and seize the opportunities that follow from lower regulation, pro-growth tax policy, and energy independence. Forget the doom-saying pundits — the Bessent message was simple and optimistic: America is coming back, and conservatives should be unapologetically proud to lead that revival.
