President Donald Trump is doing something that his predecessors have not. Fighting for the middle class.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy editor for Newsweek, explained to podcast host Piers Morgan that the president is doing something that many presidents promised to do, but never did by fighting for the working man and woman.

“What I find so frustrating about the conversation around tariffs is that we all agree on the problem. We all agree that the deindustrialization of America led to the downward mobility of the American working class, deaths of despair, people working multiple jobs and not being able to afford the American dream. We all agree that it is deeply unfair for the American middle class to be bearing the burden of unfair tariffs from other countries,” the deputy editor said.

“We all agree that it is great for the president to have leverage in order to demand reasonable things like that country stop allowing fentanyl to murder 100,000 Americans every year, and that Mexico do its part to police its own border. And yet when somebody has the courage to show up and say to Wall Street, screw you, I am waging class warfare on behalf of the American working class. And you elites in Wall Street, you do what you need to do because I’m not going to stop fighting for the American working class,” she said.

“Suddenly everybody is sitting around going, oh no, the stock market. Yeah, the stock market looks like that because the rich are punishing Trump for siding with the neglected and humiliated American working class over them. We have already seen these tariffs work, Pierce,” the journalist and author said.

“The number of people crossing the southern border is at zero. Fentanyl is at record lows for the last 10 years. We have already seen 1.2 trillion dollars in manufacturing invested in this country since January 21st. So they have already worked. Now, how long is Wall Street going to keep trying to punish this president for standing the American working class? I don’t know, but I can tell you that the view from the street is people cannot believe that there is a president who is working for them, who is putting them first and telling Wall Street to go screw itself. Wall Street, which picked the Democrats for the last three election cycles in a row. That’s what the real story is here,” he said.