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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed to take back the Panama Canal because he said that he could "feel" communism there when he visited.

While speaking to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Hegseth reflected on his recent trip to Panama.

Reflecting on the weeks of economic chaos Donald Trump has inflicted on American consumers and Wall Street investors as he has brashly instituted tariffs, then backed off, ramped them up again, and then started doing "carve-outs," a former GOP campaign consultant cautioned the president he is tempting fate.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Tara Setmayer detailed the economic pain Americans are experiencing while Trump's rich buddies get richer.

That, she explained, could come back to bite him because he is ignoring what she called "Rule #1 in politics."

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"He [Trump] doesn't care about anyone this hurts except for his billionaire buddies and his own bottom line," she explained. "Back in 2012, Donald Trump is talking about how he loves when there's a bad economy, when the economy is bad, then I can buy things more cheaply. So, I mean, this is all we need to look underneath about who's benefiting from this and it sure as hell isn't the average American."

"Because it's the billionaire tech bros and all these other people who, you know, [GOP Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene selling off stocks and buying things, and you know, what's going on with the insider trading, like the market manipulation," she added.

"There's a bigger thing at play here and playing chicken with China is a losing battle," she elaborated. "This country relies on, fortunately, since permanent normal trade relations in 2000, relies heavily on China –– our economies are intertwined."

"Are there issues that we could do to try to work around that and get better deals? Yes," she conceded. "But it was also called the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership that Donald Trump blew up in 2017. If we had moved forward with that, we wouldn't be here now either. So this is all a very dangerous game that Donald Trump is playing, here, that is going to cost the American people a lot, and rule number one in politics is you don't mess with people's money."

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he would let Vice President J.D. Vance "defend himself" after he called Chinese people "peasants."

During a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week program, host Jonathan Karl noted that Vance had recently insulted the Chinese people.

Fox News host Charlie Kurt and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a former Fox News host, compared President Donald Trump to a "modern Moses" for the Passover holiday.

In a Sunday segment on Fox & Friends, Hurt presented Huckabee with a clip of a freed Hama hostage asking Trump to be the "modern Moses" to "free my people" who are still hostages.

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle appeared with her old hosting partner Ali Velshi on Saturday morning to weigh in on a major announcement from Donald Trump's administration on Chinese imports.

In a bulletin posted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection late Friday, the administration announced smartphones, computers, and assorted electronics would be exempt from the ruinous 145% percent tariffs imposed on other Chinese products.

Following a week in which Donald Trump has made contradictory remarks about the wide-ranging tariffs he wants to impose, only to adjust them and then back off others, CNN's Abby Phillip noted there are growing concerns about his recent behavior.

Speaking with her panel on "Table ofr Five" on Saturday, Phillip's commentary followed a GOP strategist and member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition stating this is not the Trump he voted for three times.

During an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five," Black Americans for Trump Coalition member Melik Abdul came clean and admitted he had no answers or excuses for the president's "chaotic week."

Speaking with the panel, he singled out mixed messages from the Trump White House as the tariffs rolled out, that caused the stock market to "tank," before expressing his dismay.

During his long monologue, he professed, "It is what I can only describe as a very chaotic week. Because you're right, a lot of the things that you pointed out, Donald Trump, they were full-throated in this, and this is the thing: it was the certainty that this is going to work."

"And as the market got that little bump and they say, 'See, this is what deal-making is, this is art of the deal.' and then we see a different story," he continued. "And it is the messaging where you have Donald Trump saying one thing. You may have [White House press secretary] Karoline Leavitt saying another thing, you may have [Commerce Secretary Howard] Lutnick saying another thing, you may have [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent saying another thing."

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Reacting to news that failed senate and gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is being shuffled to the State Department for an unspecified job after not being installed as director of Voice of America (VOA), the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" rolled their eyes over the conservative now about to be "inflicted" on the world and not just the voters in Arizona.

Earlier in the week, it was reported that Lake, a former local news personality, was being shifted to Marco Rubio's State Department after Elon Musk's made noise about shutting down VOA, with no mention of exactly what she will do in her new job.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tore into the latest cuts at the hands of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency — an 87% reduction to the workforce at regional Social Security offices at a time, she said, when its customer service is "already absolutely collapsing."

Maddow flagged what she called "bad news" after WIRED reported that the Social Security Administration is gutting regional offices and shifting all its communications to Musk's X platform.

A.1. Steak Sauce is having a moment after Education Secretary Linda McMahon mixed the popular steak-topping condiment with artificial intelligence – and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was all over the gaffe she called “delicious.”

Maddow in the opening minutes of her Friday show paused to highlight the latest blunder to emerge from President Donald Trump’s administration after she first highlighted the infamous “Signalgate” debacle, and the president’s own misdialed call this week to his estranged former National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, who he proceeded to curse out.

A Trump-backing homebuilder from Tennessee joined CNN on Friday evening to discuss how President Donald Trump's draconian new tariff regime, rippling through the stock market, is impacting his industry — and while he broadly tried to downplay it as a serious threat to his own business, he admitted it's been suffering at least to some degree.

"Maybe it's just too soon to tell, but I'm just wondering if any potential customers have expressed any concerns just because of the volatility of the market and the potential impact of the tariffs," said anchor Jake Tapper.