Fox News host Jessica Tarlov didn't hold back in her assessment of President Donald Trump's economic record, delivering pointed criticism that's particularly notable coming from a network often friendly to the administration.

"The Trump team knows the economy is going badly. Good luck blaming [Joe] Biden for an economy of the GOP's creation," she wrote on X. "Trump is just setting the economy on fire and not in the good way, in the dumpster-fire kind of way."

Missing Numbers Tell Their Own Story

Here's where things get interesting. Tarlov accused the administration of essentially playing hide-and-seek with economic data, which is a pretty serious charge when you think about it. "We aren't getting the jobs numbers anymore, the GDP numbers, or the inflation numbers," she said during a recent episode of "The Five." Her theory? The numbers look bad, and the administration knows it.

"And we know that Donald Trump, if a number is even remotely good or he can lie about it, he tells you what it is," Tarlov added. The implication being that silence speaks volumes.

She backed up her concerns with some concrete data points that have been reported: layoffs are trending toward Great Recession levels, 70% of Americans report paying more for groceries, 60% are seeing higher utility bills, and the manufacturing sector has been contracting for nine months straight. None of that paints a particularly rosy picture.

The Biden Blame Game Isn't Working

Tarlov pushed back hard against Republican attempts to pin current economic troubles on Biden's policies. "The argument that the guy who's been out for a year, that it's all his fault when you've implemented a totally new economic agenda, and that it's a failure in basically every corner of it, is not really resonating with people," she said on Fox News.

She also pointed out a key difference in the challenges each president faced. "Donald Trump doesn't have the same issues that Joe Biden did," Tarlov noted. "He doesn't have a supply chain problem. He doesn't have a global health pandemic that was killing millions of people all over the world." In other words, Trump inherited a relatively stable situation compared to what Biden walked into.

Tariffs, Bailouts, and Frustrated Farmers

Tarlov took particular aim at Trump's trade policies, specifically the $12 billion farmer bailout that became necessary after his tariff decisions. "He didn't need to put the tariffs in in the first place," she said. "And the farmers are speaking out about this. This is Donald Trump's problem. He's the one who caused this."

She quoted National Black Farmers Association President John Boyd Jr., who said agriculture has been in "complete turbulence and turmoil" since Trump returned to office. Tarlov's verdict? "This is a man-made crisis."

The broader point here is about accountability. When you implement major policy changes and the economy struggles, at some point you own those outcomes. That's the argument Tarlov is making, and it's hard to dispute the basic logic.