Did Warren Buffett say President Trump is making the best financial decisions in 50 years? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Buffet praised Trump saying he was making stellar financial decisions in March 2025. A search of Google did not return any matching credible news stories. Buffett did blast Trump's tariffs on an interview with CBS News show Sunday Morning, calling them "an act of war to some degree."
The claim appeared in an article (archived here) where it was published on X on March 13, 2025. It opened:
"President Trump making best financial decisions in 50 years." Warren Buffett
The hard decisions the President makes today will benefit us tomorrow.
America First
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken on Fri Mar 14 14:33:37 2025 UTC)
The tweet did not provide proof of Buffett's quote and did not cite any sources or credible news outlets for the quote.
Had Buffett said such flattering things about Trump, it would have been national and international news. Lead Stories searched Google and Google News (archived here) using keywords "President Trump making best financial decisions in 50 years Warren Buffett," and did not find any matching news stories.
Buffett is Berkshire Hathaway's CEO. As of this writing, he is 94 years old. The quotes are not on the Berkshire Hathaway website (archived here) and the "Message from Warren E. Buffett" link (archived here) does not mention Trump.
Buffet has an account on X, (archived here), but it does not contain many entries. The most recent one is from 2016.
Buffett did blast Trump's tariffs on CBS News, as Yahoo! Finance reported on March 10, 2025:
In his recent interview, Buffett briefly touched on tariffs and called them "an act of war to some degree," saying that the U.S. has had a lot of experience with tariffs and that over time they become a tax on goods. "I mean the tooth fairy doesn't pay them," he said.
CBS Sunday Morning posted the video of Buffett calling Trump's tariff's "an act of war to some degree" from March 2, 2025, on their Facebook page (archived here).
Other Lead Stories fact checks regarding Warren Buffett can be found here and Donald Trump can be found here.
