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'Living in a fantasy world': Critics pounce as Trump TV interview goes off the rails

U.S. President Donald Trump gave a lengthy interview to CNBC on Tuesday and critics quickly pounced on the president for telling a large number of false claims on topics ranging from monthly jobs numbers to the price of gas to international trade agreements.

Toward the start of the interview, CNBC host Joe Kernen pushed back on Trump's claims that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had "rigged" job creation numbers against him and debunked a Trump statement that the BLS had covered up negative jobs data revisions under the Biden administration until after the November 2024 presidential election.

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Trump yells from White House roof in bizarre impromptu press conference

President Donald Trump shouted from the White House roof to reporters asking questions on the ground in a bizarre impromptu press conference.

While apparently surveying the site for a new White House ballroom on Tuesday, Trump was seen wandering around the building's roof.

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'Why is he not out there?' Trump shamed for throwing rank-and-file Republicans to wolves

Republican Rep. Mike Flood returned to his home district in Nebraska to face a hostile crowd at a town hall Monday — and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the reception was an ominous sign for the GOP's chances in next year's midterm elections.

The Nebraska Republican was booed repeatedly and sharply questioned about President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill," and the "Morning Joe" host panned Flood's efforts to defend the White House agenda as constituents chanted "tax the rich" and accused him of supporting fascism.

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'If they get a bad back, they die': Trump says quiet part out loud in immigrant backtrack

President Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud when it comes to why immigrants tend to work farm jobs instead of Americans.

During a Tuesday phone interview on CNBC, Trump was asked if he had changed his position on deporting undocumented farm workers.

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'Wrong, wrong and wrong': Trump's latest conspiracy theory torn apart by CNN fact check

CNN's John Berman fact-checked President Donald Trump's justification for firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

The president abruptly fired BLS chief Erika McEntarfer last week after the monthly jobs report suggested an economic slowdown, but he stoked baseless conspiracies Tuesday morning in an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box" to defend his decision.

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'This is an earthquake': Strategist warns town hall furor signals midterm disaster for GOP

Democrats can expect an “earthquake” election in the coming midterms, according to political strategist Paul Begala who predicted on CNN Tuesday that the party could win in a “40-seat landslide” due to fallout from current Republican leadership.

A former advisor to President Bill Clinton, Begala was featured on a CNN News Central with host John Berman, who asked Begala his thoughts on a Monday night town hall by Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) at which the GOP lawmaker was angrily shouted down by constituents.

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'Has to sting': Trump snub blamed for triggering MTG's nuclear attack on GOP

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone nuclear on the Republican Party after President Donald Trump delivered a stinging snub to her ambitions, an expert claimed Tuesday.

Greene, a firebrand right-winger who was long been Trump’s biggest cheerleader, claimed Saturday she was close to splitting with the GOP that she said has become out of sync with what its conservative base wants.

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'Just stupid!' Morning Joe warns 'idiotic' Texas scheme will blow up in GOP's face

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough hammered Texas Republicans for trying to deprive Democratic voters of congressional representation — and warned the plan could wind up backfiring.

Democratic legislators have taken refuge out of state to deprive Republicans of a quorum to ram through their unusual mid-decade congressional redistricting plan at President Donald Trump's behest, as the state's GOP House Speaker Dustin Burrows claimed voters wanted districts that heavily favored Republicans.

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'Not exactly': CNN's Kaitlan Collins smacks down MAGA lawmaker's 'promises kept' boast

CNN's Kaitlan Collins issued a harsh reminder to Republicans that President Donald Trump isn't keeping as many promises as he's claimed.

Collins discussed a new report from The Washington Post on her show "The Source" that details Trump backing away from a campaign promise he made to make in vitro fertilization courses more widely available. Collins then played a montage of instances where Trump made such a promise to voters.

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'There will be an insurrection': Trump gets dire warning from ex-Fox News host

Journalist Gretchen Carlson issued a warning Monday regarding the possibility of President Donald Trump pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of child predator Jeffrey Epstein.

During a segment on CNN, Carlson stated, "There will be an insurrection if he pardons Ghislaine Maxwell."

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‘Flattered!’ Republican’s rant backfires as Kaitlan Collins hits him with brutal supercut

A Texas Republican's attempt to bash CNN backfired spectacularly when Kaitlan Collins hit him with a devastating supercut smacking down his claims live on air.

Brian Harrison, a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives representing District 10, joined Collins on her nightly show, "The Source," to discuss his state's GOP plan to redistrict congressional districts mid-decade to boost the party's chances of clinging on to its narrow majority next year.

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Mike Johnson’s 'magic' fading as firebrand MAGA lawmaker turns on GOP: analysts

The "magic" House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has used to keep the GOP coalition together may be starting to fade, according to two analysts.

Johnson has presided over one of the thinnest Republican majorities in recent history. That requires him to be the ultimate party dealmaker to keep various factions in line to pass President Donald Trump's policy agenda.

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'She is very, very dumb': Fox News host mocked after major on-air error

Fox News host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (also known as "Kennedy") recently committed a major on-air error, and is being roundly mocked for it on social media.

On Monday, Kennedy was criticizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over his proposal to allow California voters to decide this November whether to get rid of the Golden State's independent redistricting commission. Newsom floated the idea in response to Texas Republicans carrying out a mid-decade redistricting plan aiming to strip Democrats of five seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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