Joe Rogan and Dave Portnoy are among the Trump backers now questioning his tariff policies

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump's tariffs roil planetary markets, immoderate of the thought leaders and influential podcasters who backed the Republican's run are voicing doubts.

Barstool Sports proprietor Dave Portnoy, hedge money manager Bill Ackman and adjacent Elon Musk are adding their voices to a fig of legislature Republicans who person weighed successful against the tariffs acceptable to instrumentality effect connected Wednesday.

Here's a look astatine immoderate of what they've said:

Dave Portnoy

“Welcome to Orange Monday,” Portnoy said connected his “Davey Day Trader” fiscal livestream, conscionable earlier markets opened this week, saying there’s “no governmental agenda” to his commentary, different than to marque money.

After past week’s marketplace plunge, Portnoy said helium had mislaid $7 cardinal “in stocks and crypto,” a fig helium estimated connected Monday was apt person to $20 million, oregon up to 15% of his nett worth.

But, Portnoy has said, helium plans to instrumentality with Trump, whom helium has called “a astute guy.”

“I deliberation they’re smarter than maine erstwhile it comes to these tariffs. I besides deliberation he’s playing a high-stakes crippled here,” Portnoy said past week connected his livestream. “I’m gonna rotation with him for a mates days, a mates weeks, spot however this pans out.”

Founded by Portnoy successful 2003 arsenic a escaped sports and gambling newspaper, Barstool has grown into a integer level covering sports, lifestyle, and entertainment, with hundreds of millions of followers. Portnoy has been a loyal Trump protagonist since archetypal endorsing him successful 2016, interviewing the president astatine the White House successful 2020.

Joe Rogan

Rogan, 1 of the nation's astir influential podcasters who endorsed Trump connected the eve of past year's election, said successful March that Trump's feud with Canada was “stupid” and bemoaned the information that Canadians “booed america implicit tariffs" during nonrecreational sporting events featuring teams from some countries.

Rogan has precocious breached with Trump successful different areas, including implicit wide-ranging deportations, referring to a caller cognition to detain immigrants arsenic “horrific.”

Just weeks earlier Election Day, Rogan taped a astir three-hour podcast interrogation with Trump, an accidental for the Republican nominee to item the hypermasculine code that defined overmuch of his 2024 White House bid.

Bill Ackman

The pro-Trump hedge money manager warned Sunday connected X that “we are heading for a self-induced, economical atomic winter” unless Trump took a much deliberate approach, likening the afloat tariff activation “economic atomic war.”

In different station aboriginal Sunday, Ackman assailed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick arsenic “indifferent to the banal marketplace and the system crashing.” The adjacent day, Ackman apologized for his disapproval claiming that Lutnick — antecedently the caput of the fiscal steadfast Cantor Fitzgerald — could payment from the tariffs due to the fact that of its enslaved investments.