Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow ‘expected to make full recovery’ after heart attack
Since joining the Trump administration, Kudlow has played a key role in ongoing trade talks, including disputes with China
US President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, is expected to recover fully after suffering a mild heart attack in the United States shortly before Trump’s nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a White House aide said on Tuesday.
“The great @larry_kudlow is expected to make a full and speedy recovery after a very mild heart attack,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a Twitter posting.
Trump announced Kudlow’s heart attack in a tweet from Singapore shortly before meeting with Kim.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that Kudlow, 70, experienced “a very mild heart attack” and was admitted to Walter Reed Military Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland, on Monday.
Conservative economist Art Laffer, who has been a friend of Kudlow for decades, said Kudlow called him last night from the hospital to let him know he was recovering.
“The called lasted 20 seconds. He just said, ’I want you to know I’m fine, I’m going to be fine’,” Laffer said.
Kudlow, a former economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan and a Wall Street economist, has played a central role in ongoing trade talks, including disputes with China that led Trump to threaten tariffs. Kudlow, along with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, is known as an advocate within the administration of more robust trade in opposition to more protectionist views advocated by trade adviser Peter Navarro.
