Tiana Lowe

Washington, D.C.

Commentary Writer at Washington Examiner

Columnist @DCExaminer, @TheFirstonTV. Formerly @NRO, @USC_Econ Review. Kafkaesque. Don't say I didn't warn you. ig: @TianaTheFirst

Articles

Democrats defend wife-beaters and Hamas fans to #Resist Trump’s greatest success

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

Nine months before Rosa Parks became an American heroine over her refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus, another black woman was arrested for the exact same defiance. Claudette Colvin was far from the first black American to be arrested under the tyranny of Jim Crow. But by 1955, the NAACP was ready to wage legal warfare against the clearly unconstitutional regime.
Melinda French Gates slams billionaires for showing ‘true personalities’ with Trump in White House

1 week ago | denvergazette.com | Asher Notheis |Tiana Lowe

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates admits she has "become more political" in recent years while also slamming other billionaires who are supporting President Donald Trump. French Gates, who was promoting her new memoir, The Next Day, made the statement when asked about the political donations of other billionaires and the influence they have within the country. She suggested on CNN that over the last few years, the public has seen “some of their true personalities” emerge.
How Bessent’s billion-dollar bet on the bond market saved Trump from autarky

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

Less than half an hour before the opening bell on Friday, April 4, President Donald Trump shared a video claiming that the single-largest decline in the New York Stock Exchange since March 2020 was not a blunder but rather the very basis of the president’s double-digit, universal tariff regime. “So, why is he doing this?” asks an anonymous TikTok user.
US trade deficits are necessary to protect entitlements

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

In the end, it wasn’t the $7 trillion in equities lost after “Liberation Day” that made President Donald Trump pause. He didn’t dither over his congressional consiglieres’ panic over whether the White House‘s impending trade war would jeopardize their crusade to extend the landmark 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He didn’t move because of his poll numbers.
Lowest inflation since Bidenomics shows Trump economy thriving before tariffs

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

In the second full month of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that consumer price index inflation fell markedly below expectations to just 2.4% in the 12 months ending in March. In the last month alone, consumer prices actually fell by 1% on a seasonally adjusted basis thanks to a dramatic 6% fall in energy commodities and gasoline prices.
If Trump wants tariff reciprocity, he must reject Lutnick and Navarro

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

While investors spent the weekend licking their wounds over the $6.6 trillion wipeout in American equities in the 48 hours after “Liberation Day,” world leaders went into overdrive to secure eleventh-hour trade deals with President Donald Trump before the so-called reciprocal tariff penalties on the 60 countries subject to additional tariffs beyond the 10% baseline goes into effect this Wednesday.
Mercantilism For Dummies has taken your 401(k) hostage

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

The White House waited until after the closing bell on the afternoon of April 2, “Liberation Day,” before President Donald Trump announced the details of his long-awaited tariff regime. For the sake of the nearly two-thirds of people who have money invested in the stock market, it’s probably good that the administration did.
Trade.gov contradicts Trump's bogus 'reciprocal tariffs'

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

Within an hour of President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would impose a global tariff minimum of 10% and punish the “worst offenders” with an additional tariff margin based on the “reciprocal” tariff the offender in question levied on our exports, the unwashed masses realized the White House had quite literally made its “reciprocal” tariffs up. Trump bragged how “kind” he was for only charging 50% of the tariff levied by such offenders on our exports, but U.S. Trade Rep.
'Liberation Day' means 10% minimum tariffs on America's imports

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Tiana Lowe

After months of teasing that he would finally unveil his sweeping tariff regime on the “Liberation Day” of April 2, President Donald Trump made good on his threat, announcing a baseline minimum of 10% tariffs on all imports into America with zero exceptions. The so-called “worst offenders” will be subject to an additional tariff margin calculated by the Council of Economic Advisers.
‘Disingenuous’ Democrats can’t fool voters who ‘know when they smell a rat’: Tiana Lowe Doescher

3 weeks ago | denvergazette.com | Heather Hamilton |Tiana Lowe

The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher slammed Democrats for missing the mark as they have tried to reconnect with voters following their 2024 election losses. While appearing on Fox Business’s The Evening Edit, Doescher noted that prominent Democrats have recently slammed the party’s messaging, with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) notably calling the Democratic brand “toxic.” Doescher said the rhetoric fell short of a more “real” concern.