As we've witnessed for nearly 10 years, the TDS-riddled left-"leaning" media has taken (and intentionally created) every opportunity possible to trash President Donald Trump at the drop of a proverbial hat.

The Democrats' lapdog media's latest Trump-bashing fave is the president's tariff policy. 

Yet, when Trump hit the pause button on Wednesday — holding off on tariffs on most countries for 90 days, even as he kicked tariffs on imports from China up to 125 percent — the usual suspects jumped at the self-created opportunity to blast him.

One of those regulars was Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei, who trotted onto MSNBC's "Morning Joe," no less, to explain to Joe Scarborough and wife Mika Brzezinski — and the 50 people or whatever who watch their ridiculous show — that the reason Trump paused the tariffs was because he "panicked." Yeah.

Love Trump or loathe him, but this is a guy who doesn't panic — even if it means continuing to pursue things that don't turn out in his favor.

Scarborough kicked off the absurd festivities:

Jim VandeHei, the president, getting ready for Masters weekend by employing that famous golfing term, the yips—is what you say about somebody standing over a putt that doesn't know how to get it in the hole—but said that things were getting a little yippy. 

That included also, of course, the bond markets, where a real concern, this one Scott Bessent and others went to the president saying this could go sideways very quickly. 

In golf slang, "yips" (or sometimes "yippy") refers to a sudden and involuntary loss of control of the hands or wrists; often manifesting as flinching or jerking movements, particularly when putting or chipping.

VandeHei was of course all over it — and then some (emphasis, mine):

Yeah, I mean, make no mistake, he panicked. It's probably the first time we've seen him blink in such a public way. 

He was under a lot of pressure from GOP senators, a lot of CEOs, a lot of investors, Elon Musk, people calling him saying, listen, look, not just the bond market, look at the regular market, look at the bond market, look at the dollar. That a real economic collapse was in the offing. And he saw that and he hit pause. 

And then you had his entire team come out and say, no, this was like part of the art of the deal. And I don't think anyone's buying that. Certainly, a lot of people internally aren't buying it. They underestimated the effect it would have on the markets. 

Look, one can have mixed feelings on Trump's sweeping tariffs policy, rightly or wrongly, but to suggest that Trump "panicked" rather than perhaps listened to Musk and others who advised him to hit the break pedal, allow the markets to stabilize, and then perhaps adjust his policy, is to do so out merely wanting to attack the president.

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And trotting onto the set of MSNBC's late-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome "Morning Joe" is just the place to trash Trump.

VandeHei continued: 

And now, yes, the market's surged, but if you talk to CEOs, there's still so much unpredictability. You basically replaced the largest, maybe the largest trade war of generations with another, maybe the second largest trade war, which is us versus China. Which might be a bigger deal, and it's now escalated, which still creates a h**l of a lot of uncertainty for CEOs. 

In other words, Mr. President, damned if you do; damned if you don't. 

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