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President Donald Trump spoke Monday about negotiations with China that resulted in a dramatic step back from a tariff trade war — but in a rambling speech, he revealed the talks had left him confused.

First, he told the press, "Both sides now agreed to reduce the tariffs imposed. After April 2nd, to 10% for 90 days as negotiators continue." The date was more than a month in the past as he was talking May 12.

President Donald Trump took time out of an announcement on medication prices to praise former television personalities Mehmet Oz and Jeanine Pirro.

On Monday, Trump made the remarks before signing an executive order on drug prices. Oz heads the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services while Pirro is expected to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

HBO's John Oliver highlighted President Donald Trump's comments about young girls Sunday night — and called them skin-crawling.

The president tried to justify his tariffs last week by arguing that girls might be forced to settle for “two dolls instead of 30 dolls" because they might "cost a couple of bucks more. But the "Last Week Tonight" host pointed to one particular comment that “makes my skin want to turn inside out."

Right-wing attorney Mehek Cooke argued that President Donald Trump should suspend habeas corpus rights if the U.S. Supreme Court "cannot understand" that he has a legal right to deport migrants without due process.

During a Sunday interview, Fox News host Kevin Corke asked Cooke to respond to White House aide Stephen Miller's threat to suspend the right to challenge detentions in court, which is known as habeas corpus.

Former GOP campaign consultant and current full-time Donald Trump critic Rick Wilson appeared on MSNBC on Sunday morning and pounced all over a report that the government of Qatar is gifting the president with a $400 million jet that he will be allowed to keep when he leaves office.

Late Saturday ABC reported, "The royal family of Qatar is prepared to gift a 747-8 jumbo jet for Trump's use as Air Force One until the end of his term, when the aircraft will be transferred to his presidential library."

With the jet being dubbed a "flying palace," Wilson had another suggestion when speaking with host Ali Velshi.

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"First off, this is what we call a bribe," Wilson began. "It's not a gift, it's a bribe, this is a bribe. This is a very, very expensive 740 7-8, it's a very fancy plane."

"In fact, the reason, I think that Qatar has been so smart about this is the interior decorating style.," he continued. "It looks like Saddam and Liberace's decorators got together and said, let's make a flying brothel that will appeal to Donald Trump."

"It is the most vulgar thing you've ever seen in your life, he added, "But that is his –– this is a bribe. This is not a gift, it's not a, it's not a loan, it's not a deal –– it's a bribe. And you need to, I mean, we need to just recognize how transactional and corrupt this is."

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Fox News host Jimmy Failla compared a 12-foot-tall statue of a Black woman to a "dream" of King Kong.

On his Saturday night Fox News program, Failla noted that artist Thomas J. Price had placed the statue in Times Square to change "the narrative of who we put on statues."

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) declined to rule out voting to suspend habeas corpus if it helps President Donald Trump deport undocumented people.

In a Sunday interview with the senator, NBC host Kristen Welker pointed out that White House aide Stephen Miller had recently floated the idea of suspending the right to challenge detentions in court.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) insisted President Donald Trump showed "strength and leadership" with an apparent call to ration dolls as his tariffs hit U.S. consumers.

During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker noted that Trump recently said young kids could get by with fewer toys.

NBC host Kristen Welker pressed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy about why airport outages continued under President Donald Trump's administration.

"I have to start with the latest out of Newark Airport, where air traffic controllers had another brief radio and radar outage," Welker told Duffy on Sunday. "This happened early Friday morning. This is, of course, on top of losing contact with pilots multiple times since August. Mr. Secretary, what can you tell us about this latest incident? And why does this keep happening?"

A boast by Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the effectiveness of the president trade war led CNN's Dana Bash to correct him on Sunday morning.

Appearing on "State of the Union," Lutnick launched extensive explanations about the upside of Trump's tariff threats, and butted heads with the CNN host, repeatedly replying," No, no, no," when she attempted to fact-check him.

In one exchange, he asserted, "Look, we published our rates on Liberation Day, negotiate with us, bring those rates down by opening your markets to Americans who can export. So what's going to happen is we're going to have imports. Of course, our ports, we are the consumer of the world! I mean, we consume $20 trillion worth of stuff. The world wants to sell us stuff."

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"But it's not happening.right now because of the president's policies," Bash interrupted.

"No, no, no, it's only stopping," Lutnick protested.

"Look," he attempted, "We are in a negotiation with China, we agree. We're in. It has stopped 145 percent on China. Of course, that stops it, but that –– they're negotiating that right now, we are optimistic that that will open."

"But what the president's tariff policy is, is let's open all the markets in the world that have been closed to us. Let's get that opportunity for Americans to export to them, let's really, really help Americans export," he continued. "And of course, those people who import are going to have great businesses. We are the greatest economy in the world. Everybody wants to come here, as the president likes to say, everybody likes to shop here with our consumers and it's going to work out great. "

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During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, the former deputy press secretary in Donald Trump's first administration expressed alarm that conservative gadfly Laura Loomer has the president's ear on hiring and firings.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's 'The Weekend," Sarah Matthews claimed she was told that there would be a firewall around Trump in his second term to keep him from following his worst instincts because of outside advice.

Asked by co-host Eugene Daniels, "I've heard a little bit of rumblings of some of the staffers around President Trump, who are actually supposed to have power and influence, getting a little frustrated with this happening with the Laura Loomer's of the world with definitely Elon Musk?" Matthews expressed dismay.

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"Well, you know, I was told that Susie Wiles was going to make sure that these kinds of clown-like figures weren't coming into the Oval Office or weren't getting on the phone with the president and having that kind of access to power," she replied.

"Obviously, it seems like you can only do so much; I think she has to kind of pick and choose her battles," she conceded. "And so with Laura Loomer, obviously she's still getting through to Trump, still being very influential in these hiring decisions or firing decisions."

"That is very scary to think that a far-right conspiracy theorist has the president's ear," she added. "And, unfortunately, she has a lot of power and some of these bad actors do too."

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