Even Donald Trump’s top Fox Business cheerleader appeared confused this week as she witnessed the president wrestle with the definition of free-market capitalism.
During an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Maria Bartiromo, 58, openly challenged President Donald Trump over a growing contradiction at the center of his economic agenda: how a president who brands himself a free-market capitalist keeps leaning on government muscle to steer private companies.
Bartiromo began by reminding Trump, 79, of his own words. In a March 2025 interview on Sunday Morning Futures, the president promised an economy where “private enterprise carries the day.” But since then, she noted, his administration has seemingly done the opposite—taking equity stakes in companies and pressuring others on how they use their profits.
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