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In the clip, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade asked Trump’s econ guy if the president would consider a 90-day tariff pause, and Hassett gave the kind of meandering, unclear answer that has typified Trump officials’ remarks of late.

After he tried to explain during a television appearance last month how high tariffs would “increase the welfare of Americans” by bringing manufacturing back from overseas, he was challenged by Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, who wrote, “No, Kevin, that’s not how we do it in Econ 101.”

In a conversation on the Harris campaign’s plan to fight against corporate price gouging, Senator Elizabeth Warren had to set CNBC’s Joe Kernen back on track after he launched into an Econ-101-esque “lecture.”

“This zionist econ professor purposefully stepped on the list of martyrs before our march and came by again after & said ‘everyone should be killed,’” a student group posted on Instagram.

“Although it’s politically very awkward to talk about higher fuel prices, from an environmental economics perspective, that’s kind of the point,” James Bushnell, an econ professor at the University of California, Davis, told The Seattle Times this summer.