President Trump Hires Larry Kudlow To Head National Economic Council

If you had told me in 2016 that Donald Trump was going to pick Gary Cohn and Larry Kudlow to be his chief economic advisers, I would have never voted for him:

“WASHINGTON — President Trump loves big personalities, live television, the stock market and loyalty. In choosing Larry Kudlow, a CNBC television commentator, to serve as the next director of the National Economic Council, he has checked all those boxes.

Mr. Kudlow, often clad in a pinstripe suit and colorful tie, is a frequent pundit on the financial news channel where he opines about everything from the economy to the stock market to tax cuts and free trade. He is an unabashed prognosticator who relishes making the kinds of provocative statements that Mr. Trump has turned into an art form. He has lamented “growing government dependency,” touted tax cuts for the wealthy and lavished praise on high-flying corporate executives …”

This is the final blow to the campaign myth that Donald Trump was ever a “populist.” It is dead and buried now. You can go ahead and start shoveling dirt on top of it. Larry Kudlow is the embodiment of supply side neo-liberal conservative orthodoxy on economics.