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President Donald Trump likes to boast that he's created a historic economy, but new polling shows he may be on the wrong side of history.

The 79-year-old president was re-elected to a second term in 2024 largely on the basis of his economic message, but CNN's Harry Enten presented polling data that shows Americans have not liked seeing those policies in action.

After being alerted to the fact that Donald Trump was up well after 2AM posting on Truth Social, only to resume once again five hours later on Friday morning, a lifelong friend from his Manhattan days claimed he was worried about the president’s health and stability.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire pointed to liberal influencer Harry Sisson who has been documenting the president's late-night social media postings, which have increasingly been going later and later at night, indicating the 79-year-old is not sleeping much.

MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire called attention to a shift in tone from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his latest press update on the Iran war.

The Pentagon chief attacked reporters once again during Friday's briefing, but the "Morning Joe" co-host noticed that Hegseth seemed to be shifting the terms of what the Trump administration would consider to be a military victory.

Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s press conference, which was once again notable for his combative performance with the press, MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire suggested the former Fox News personality appeared to want to avoid addressing Donald Trump’s war of words with Pope Leo XIV about the Iran conflict.

Hegseth, who can be counted on to bristle at any suggestion that the Middle East war was unfounded or is being conducted poorly, was asked about the Pope’s word criticizing the war in Iran, which led the president to complain bitterly, with Catholic Vice President JD Vance chiming in to tell the pontiff to stick to matters to “morality.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argued that his so-called Department of War should win the Nobel Peace Prize every year after initiating a military conflict in Iran that has caused death and destabilized the world's oil supply.

During a press conference on Friday, TMZ asked Hegseth what he felt while carrying out "this extreme level of violence."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blew a gasket when asked about recent setbacks in the war in Iran, and he responded with new threats against journalists.

The Pentagon chief has disparaged reporters as "unpatriotic" and compared them the Pharisees, the biblical scribes who played a hand in handing over Jesus to the Romans for crucifixion, and he reacted hotly Friday morning when asked about U.S. Army nuclear chief Andrew Hug, who reportedly revealed top-secret information to a stranger he met through a dating app.

During his Friday Pentagon Press conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired off a collection of boasts about how well the war on Iran is going that led MS NOW host Joe Scarborough to have his producers cut the sound so he talk over the former Fox News personality for an immediate fact-check.

Then he did it again, moments later after cutting back to Hegseth.

According to Axios founder Jim VandeHei, there is a pervasive sense of doom in Donald Trump’s White House, and his unrestrained actions continue to crater not only his popularity, but that of the Republican Party.

Addressing the predicted wipe-out of the GOP House majority and the possibility that the president will be immediately impeached after the November midterms, VandeHei told “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough there is a cloud of dread when he speaks to Trump insiders.

During a Thursday Oval Office press availability, Donald Trump took time out to complain about still not getting credit for turnout at his first inauguration, and then snapped at multiple reporters who questioned him on the stalled Iran war negotiations.

On MS NOW, “Way Too Early” fill-in host Sam Stein shared a clip of the president rambling about the National Mall reflecting pool that he is having cleaned up, before taking time out to whine that his inauguration crowd was listed at 25,000 instead of the million he continues to claim showed up despite all evidence to the contrary.

MS NOW's Chris Hayes took a deep look at scandal-plagued FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday evening, opening up his segment with a brutal nickname that references reports he has been drinking heavily.

"As scrutiny mounts on Donald Trump's handpicked FBI director, Kash Patel, some people have started calling him — not me — J. Edgar Boozer," said Hayes. "We're getting stunning new reporting in The New York Times. The Bureau launched an investigation into one of The Times' reporters last month after she broke a story about Patel, quote, 'using Bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation.' The FBI told The Times in response, quote, 'While investigators were concerned about how the aggressive reporting techniques crossed lines of stalking, the FBI is not pursuing a case.'"

The Trump administration's criminal fraud charges against the anti-hate group watchdog the Southern Poverty Law Center are haphazardly conceived and doomed to failure, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Thursday.

"Let's start there," said Melber, himself a lawyer by training. "Your view of the case legally. And if it doesn't have legal merit, what is it?"

Democrats have built a tremendous lead among independents, Carrie Dann of the Cook Political Report told CNN's Kasie Hunt on Thursday's edition of "The Arena."

"[Your outlet] has this new poll of battleground House districts that's giving us an idea of where control the fight for control of the House stands at this moment," said Hunt. "What are you learning about independents and nonaffiliated voters and where they are?"