Quick: what do you do when your boss is an “unglued” madman who makes policy decisions out of spite and whose lack of appreciation for facts, figures, and reason may very well drive the economy off a cliff? If you’re Gary Cohn, and your boss is Donald Trump, who announced tariffs last week that will likely cause a trade war, the loss of American jobs, and the alienation of key allies, you get on the phone and ask everyone you can think of to show up at the White House and convince the president that he’s making a yuge mistake.

Politico reports that Cohn and other free-trade advisers in the West Wing are mounting a last-minute attempt to stop the president from following through on his worst impulses. Although Trump said last week that he plans to slap steel and aluminum imports with 25 percent and 10 percent tariffs, respectively, Cohn and Co. are hoping that even if they can’t get him to call the whole thing off, they can blunt the impact by weakening the tariffs. The plan? Parade all the people who think the measure is a horrible idea through the White House, and hope that at least some of their words sink in through osmosis. The players Cohn is planning to trot out before the president reportedly include executives from industries likely to be hurt by the tariffs, many of whom have harshly condemned what they see as a lose-lose proposition. “These proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports couldn’t come at a worse time,” Cody Lusk, president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association, said last week, while Campbell Soup spokesperson Nicky Thompson said they would “result in higher prices on one of the safest and more affordable parts of the food supply.”

While Trump has publicly dug his feet in over the last few days, saying on Monday that the tariffs are “100 percent” happening and “we’re not backing down,” the one thing Cohn et. al. may have going for them is that the president tends to listen to the last person in his ear. Though Cohn reportedly believes that Trump is unlikely to flip completely for fear of looking “weak,” a person close to the effort to talk him down from the ledge told Politico they’re confident that the final proposal will have more nuance to it than the one Trump announced last Thursday. “I’d bet my life that’s not where it winds up,” that person said.

Even Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross, who are basically the only two people in the White House who don’t think the president has lost it, seem to be leaving him some wiggle room: “Whatever his final decision is, is what will happen,” Ross said in a recent interview. “What he has said he has said. If he says something different, it’ll be something different.” But team anti-tariff isn’t leaving anything to chance. In addition to Cohn’s internal scrambling, industry groups are hoping to get their message out using perhaps the most effective avenue for getting the president’s attention, barring Ivanka’s tears: Fox News. As one lobbyist told Politico, “You’ve got to use the same audience-of-one tactics that have been effective [in the past].”