Trump official triggers uproar with astonishing admission: 'Extremely serious blunder'

Kevin Hassett, who leads the Trump administration’s National Economic Council as its director, made the startling admission Tuesday that the economic harm inflicted on American consumers from the Iran war was “the last of our concerns right now” — a comment critics described as a gift for Democratic ad-makers ahead of the 2026 midterms.

“The U.S. economy is fundamentally sound, and if [the Iran war] were to be extended, it wouldn’t really disrupt the U.S. economy very much at all,” Hassett said, speaking with CNBC Tuesday.