Trump: Economic adviser Larry Kudlow suffers heart attack

Trump says his top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, has suffered a heart attack

6/11/2018
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON  — President Trump said that his top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, suffered a heart attack and was being treated Monday at a military hospital.

Mr. Kudlow’s condition wasn’t immediately released by Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

“Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack,” Trump wrote from Singapore.

Mr. Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, had joined Trump last week in Canada for what became a contentious meeting of the Group of Seven world leaders. The meeting was shadowed by the Trump administration’s escalation of rhetoric on trade and tariffs and splintered shortly after the president left Quebec and tweeted he was pulling back his approval of a joint statement by the group.

Mr. Kudlow appeared Sunday on CNN to back up Mr. Trump’s complaint that he had been blindsided by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s criticism of his tariff threats at a summit-ending news conference.

Mr. Trump’s choice of Mr. Kudlow to be his top economic aide elevated the influence of a longtime fixture on the business news network CNBC. He previously served in the Reagan administration and emerged as a leading evangelist for tax cuts and smaller government.

The famously pinstripe-suited Mr. Kudlow succeeded Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive who left the post in a dispute over Mr. Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.