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MSNBC host and former Wall Street executive Stephanie Ruhle jumped all over Donald Trump on Monday morning as the stock market spiraled downward once again due to economic uncertainty over his wide-ranging tariff plans.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Ruhle, who spent 14 years working on Wall Street before leaving her job as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, criticized the president's blithe dismissal about the economic pain the country is experiencing while he was busy playing golf in Florida.

Speaking with the hosts, she explained, "I would just say the thing that's really alarming about what our government is doing is, think about this weekend. Over this weekend, I was talking to former colleagues of mine from Deutsche Bank saying, compare this weekend to where we were in 2008, right? That the famous 2008 weekend when traders were flooding back to trading desks to figure out what was their counterparty exposure to, to all other banks out there, how bad was it going to be?"

Stock market investments took a wild swing as the White House disavowed rumors that President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on his trade war.

The Dow fell over 1,000 points just minutes after Monday's opening but swung into positive territory for a few seconds when some outlets reported rumors that White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Trump was considering a tariff pause.

Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, one of President Donald Trump's key cheerleaders on the network, acknowledged on Monday amid the latest panicked selloff of stocks on Wall Street that the United States could be heading for a recession if Trump's tariffs proceed as they currently are.

Trump has imposed a 10 to 49 percent new import tax on foreign goods from practically everywhere in the world, even singling out obscure, isolated islands with negligible trade with the U.S., and in at least one case a chain of volcanic islands off the coast of Antarctica with a population of zero. The result has been chaos and uncertainty not just in U.S. markets but around the world.

Donald Trump started his Monday morning repeatedly talking up his sweeping tariff plans as the stock market, once again, spiraled downward and could lead to a Republican "bloodbath" in the 2026 midterm election.

With the Dow Jones Indices dropping another 1,000 points moments after opening, Trump wrote on Truth Social, "The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!"

Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday said countries could not appease President Donald Trump — even if they reduce their tariffs on American goods all the way to zero.

Appearing on CNBC, Navarro was asked about Vietnam's offer to completely eliminate its tariffs on American goods. He said that was nowhere near enough of a concession to satisfy Trump and get him to back off his plans to reduce the massive 46 percent tariff he slapped on all their goods.

Hedge fund manager and prominent Donald Trump supporter Bill Ackman became a target for mockery on MSNBC on Monday morning after becoming the face of billionaire resistance to the president's tariff chaos.

With the stock market likely headed for another meltdown on Monday, after the president claimed over the weekend he has no intention of backing down despite pressure from Wall Street, Ackman had a meltdown of his own on social media.

“We are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital,” he wrote on X, before adding that the president has put the country on the path to “a self-induced, economic nuclear winter.”

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Ackman, previously a big supporter of the Democratic Party, grew to prominence during the run-up to the 2024 election after turning on President Joe Biden and embracing the MAGA-ethos of Trump in long, widely-shared posts supporting Trump's candidacy and trashing Democrats.

With the billionaire the focus of stories in both the Wall Street Journal and on CNBC on Monday morning, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough singled him out for being taken in by Trump like so many others have.

"You know, there are some Republicans speaking out," Scarborough began. "[Iowa GOP Sen.] Chuck Grassley has spoken out about it. Ben Shapiro says it's unconstitutional."

"Bill Ackman, he saw the light," he continued before asking sarcastically, "How can Bill Ackman ever have seen this coming? How much, how can — oh wait a second, this is exactly what Donald Trump promised for years! In fact, he's been talking about this since 1987."

"So he believes in this, so people on Wall Street are going, '"Oh my god, I'm so shocked. How could this ever happen?" he joked.

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin on Monday delivered a grim assessment of the state of President Donald Trump's economy.

With stock futures once again showing steep losses, Sorkin said that Trump's decision to double down on his widely criticized tariff policies has put markets in a state of total fear.

President Donald Trump declared his willingness to send American citizens to a notorious prison in El Salvador where his administration has sent alleged gang members.

The president has cut a deal with that nation's president, Nayib Bukele, to send suspect gang members who were deported from the U.S., and he told reporters Sunday evening on Air Force One that he was receptive to an invitation to send additional detainees there – including American citizens.

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter who asked how much economic pain he would be willing to tolerate as his tariffs wreck the stock market.

The president returned Sunday evening to Washington, D.C., as U.S. stock futures plunged, indicating more market turmoil ahead, following two days golfing at his Florida resort, and a reporter asked whether he was trying to crash the market on purpose, which many have speculated after he posted a video on Truth Social claiming that was his strategy.

CNN's Harry Enten crunched the numbers and came away shocked by how quickly and strongly Americans have turned against president Donald Trump.

The data analyst has been measuring unease over Trump's handling of the economy at the start of his second term and warned the issue could wind up sinking his presidency, and he said the early returns on the stock market sell-off that accompanied his tariff announcement are not good.

Newsmax host Jon Glasgow said he was shocked after the stock market's reaction to President Donald Trump's tariffs took a toll on his personal wealth.

"I looked at my 401k and gasped," Glasgow told former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) on Sunday. "I mean, do you think that a lot of Americans are gonna give the Trump administration this grace period here while they trust in his plan?"

Republican and Democratic pundits battled over Elon Musk's numbered days in the government during a profanity-laced panel on Fox News.

On the Sunday panel, Fox News host Mike Emanuel asked Jonathan Kott, a former adviser to one-time Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, if he would miss Musk after the billionaire DOGE administrator returns to the private sector.