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The White House on Friday unveiled a new lo-fi video on its YouTube channel, and social media critics weren't enamored.

The feed, titled "Lo-fi MAGA Video to Relax/Study To," had about 900 people watching around 6:15 p.m. Eastern Time, and included brags about Trump keeping his campaign promises next to an anime rendering of the president signing orders in the Oval Office.

At the top of CNN's "The Lead," host Jake Tapper smacked down President Donald Trump's new jobs claim.

The host reported that the financial markets have finally returned from the hefty losses they experienced after Trump announced the trade war. On his Truth Social platform, however, Trump wrote that gas prices were down "as billions of dollars pour in from tariffs."

According to a former adviser to ex-House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Donald Trump will end up paying the price for derailing a U.S. economy that was on the upswing when he took office.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Chris Jansing, GOP insider Brendan Buck hammered the president over his trade war and stated he will have to live with the consequences of the financial instability his tariffs have created.

With Jansing pointing to the new jobs report that shows unemployment stalled at 4.2 percent, she asked her guest, "I wonder if we're going to see the president taking credit for this in the economy, right after claiming it's actually Joe Biden's economy?"

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"Yeah, well, the White House already put out a paper declaring a jobs boom today," the amused Buck replied before quipping, "So yeah, of course. When the GDP numbers go down it's Joe Biden's economy. When jobs numbers look good, it's Trump's economy."

Turning serious, he continued, "Look, I think this shows two things. One, as we discussed, Donald Trump inherited an economy that was ready to take off; he didn't have to do a whole lot to have a really solid economic legacy. But he's completely botched it through this trade policy."

"But I love it when they embrace, you know, a good jobs number like today because I do think the president is going to own whatever happens here for better or worse. And there will be no being able to blame Joe Biden if store shelves are empty."

New polling that shows Americans believe president Donald Trump's tariffs have hurt their personal finances, and a congressional correspondent said those numbers were "disturbing" to Republican lawmakers.

A major shipping loophole closed Friday, removing the de minimis exemption that allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to come into the U.S duty-free, which allowed low-cost Chinese retailers like Shein, Temu and AliExpress to flourish, but a solid majority say the president's trade war has already hurt them financially.

Labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer ran into an instant fact check from CNN's Pamela Brown on a statement issued by a major dockworkers union.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union denounced president Donald Trump's tariffs in a strongly worded statement, arguing his trade wars would "kill jobs, raise costs, and fuel economic instability," and the dockworkers demanded fair trade policies that serve public interest instead of the "president's whims."

NBC business analyst Christine Romans shot down enthusiasm over the new jobs numbers released on Friday, stating unusual circumstances related to DOGE government cuts kept unemployment numbers lower than expected.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, Romans was asked about the report that showed unemployment numbers held steady at 4.2 percent, 177,000 jobs added in April.

Asked if the job numbers could "cushion" the blow of Donald Trump's tariffs just taking effect, Romans replied, "The job market is resilient and you know we ended last year and came into this year with a strong labor market; cooling but still strong."

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"So I think that's good news considering all the uncertainty that is ahead here," she explained. "An unemployment rate of 4.2 percent that is near historic lows, you look under the hood here and you can see health care hiring a lot. You can see warehouses hiring. I wonder why? Because companies have been pulling forward a lot of their purchases of goods before tariffs."

"Then you look also in these numbers in federal workers, you see 9,000 federal workers lost jobs this year, about 26,000, that's probably an undercount and here's why," she offered. "The government, even in this notice, says if you're furloughed or you're still getting a paycheck, you're still counted as as employed. So a lot of these people with buyouts are just not in these numbers yet. So this is a solid position to start from with a lot of tariff uncertainty happening right now."

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Secretary of state Marco Rubio will take on additional responsibilities as the next national security adviser, becoming the first person since Henry Kissinger to serve in both roles simultaneously, but a White House veteran cast doubt on his ability to do both jobs effectively.

Rubio's position in Donald Trump's administration expanded after the president said he would nominate his first national security adviser, Mike Waltz, to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, but longtime national security official Brett McGurk told "CNN News Central" that the jobs were too demanding in the current era for one individual to perform those duties.

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A woman caught using racial slurs against a kindergarten-age boy in Minnesota has raised a quarter of a million dollars after video of the incident went viral, according to reports.

Cell phone video spread widely on social media Wednesday showing a man confronting a white woman at a playground at Soldiers Field Memorial Park for allegedly calling the boy the N-word, and she then repeats the slur to the man filming the video and accuses the child of stealing from her, reported the Star Tribune.

The new jobs report contained some surprisingly good news, but a global economic analyst issued a "preemptively gloomy" prediction for the coming months.

Hiring slowed in April over the previous month, going from 228,000 in March to 177,000 last month, and a Commerce Department report this week showed the U.S. economy shrank over the first three months of this year, but CNN's Rana Foroohar warned that president Donald Trump's tariffs have not fully taken effect.

Prosecutors in the case against Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger have asked the court for permission to conduct their own psychological testing and the trial judge rejected a defense motion to rule out the death penalty.

Ada County judge Steven Hippler denied a motion to strike the death penalty in the quadruple murder case despite Kohberger's recent autism diagnosis, and CNN attorney Jean Casarez explained the latest developments in the high-profile criminal case.

CNN’s Abby Phillip delivered a sharp constitutional lesson Thursday night as she stopped Republican strategist Scott Jennings in his tracks after he insisted that it was the president who has the power to declare war under the U.S. Constitution.

The tense on-air moment unfolded on CNN’s “NewsNight” as the panel discussed President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies and efforts to address the southern border. Jennings, a staunch defender of the MAGA administration, suggested that federal judges were interfering with Trump’s ability to act as commander in chief.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) delivered a blunt and profane response after a right-wing reporter tried to press her on her Democratic colleagues’ trips to El Salvador – and she’s not backing down.

The moment unfolded on Capitol Hill when Myles Morell, a journalist with the conservative news outlet The Daily Caller, approached Omar with a question about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father wrongfully deported to El Salvador.