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Batya Ungar-Sargon, a journalist describing herself as a "MAGA lefty," told Fox News that President Donald Trump's tariffs would help bring manly jobs back to America's working class that is facing a "crisis in masculinity."

"It's not just the destruction of the economic vitality of the working class," she explained during a Sunday interview with host Rachel Campos-Duffy, "but there has been a spiritual decimation that has come along that, a crisis in masculinity because we shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living and rely on brawn and physicality off to other countries to build up their middle class."

During the panel segment of CNN's "State of the Union," Rep Hillary Scholten (R-MI) slapped aside claims by one of her Republican House colleagues about all the wonderful things Donald Trump has done since his re-election.

The conversation began when host Jake Tapper asked Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), "Do you think that there are Trump voters who might have some regret today, given what's going on in the markets with their 401k's?"

"I think people are coming into this looking, look, the president has secured the border, border crossings are down 95 percent," she offered before breathlessly continuing. "He is deporting tens of thousands of people who have been dangerous, including murderers from New York City. He is also making sure that, look, we've seen. Mortgage rates come down, inflation has come down, egg prices have come down –– these are things you cannot ignore."

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"So is there a little concern about the market? Absolutely, there is," she conceded. "I think it is a little bit of a overexaggeration by the market at this moment and I would equate it to a little turbulence as you move to smooth skies, but you've seen trillions of dollars in investment. You've seen companies saying that they're going to expand operations here and of course, a great jobs report the other day, nearly a quarter of a million new jobs."

Offered a chance to respond, Rep. Scholten, who had been smiling and shaking her head, tuned to her colleague and explained, "A jobs report that that came out before the market started crashing and Americans lost $4 trillion in savings."

"You can't ignore, you know, you're talking about giving subsidies to farmers because you know how bad this is going to be," she continued. "You know America is losing under Trump. The American people are losing under Trump."

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) warned that "entire men's teams across the country" were "turning trans" after Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have banned transgender athletes in women's sports.

Tuberville reacted to his bill being shot down during a Sunday interview on Fox News.

CBS News host Margaret Brennan grilled Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about why President Donald Trump placed tariffs on islands inhabited by penguins.

Brennan highlighted Trump's policy while speaking with Lutnick on Face the Nation on Sunday.

A combative Donald Trump Cabinet official attempted to lecture CNN's Jake Tapper about what she called "fake science" when he fact-checked her about the reasons European nations balk at some purchases from the U.S.

In a longer-than-normal interview, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did her best to defend the president's tariff policies even when confronted with the ugly stock market collapse after Trump held his "Liberation Day" Rose Garden press conference, repeatedly assuring the "State of the Union" host that the president's economic brain trust contains the best people available.

Things grew heated after she complained about European nations refusing to buy U.S. beef and pork products due to the hormones used on the animals.

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"We have watched our farmers and ranchers again, can't get our corn into Mexico, can't get our dairy into Canada, have Honduras buying more pork and poultry than the entire European Union, have a 700 percent tariff from Japan on our rice," she complained. "This is not okay and it is not sustainable. And for us to continue to build our agriculture, which is the backbone of our country, but also our manufacturing base, our energy, et cetera. for us to be able to do that, we have to put America first. "

"So those tariffs as the economy, the market begins to adjust, we will see a more positive as we move, I believe very quickly," she added.

" So just in point of fact, the reason that the European Union, even though they are our fourth biggest market for agricultural products, as you know, don't take as much American pork as you would like is because they have issues with hormones used in pork," Tapper explained.

"I don't want to get into a whole debate over that, but that's not, it's not an issue about tariffs," he continued. "But let me ask you about the computation of these tariffs because conservative economists at the American Enterprise Institute ––."

"Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, Jake," Rollins loudly interrupted. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is really important. You can't just say that. So here's the bottom line: they are using fake science and unsubstantiated claims to not take our products. So it isn't just that they have high tariffs."

"Thank you for making this point for me by the way, I meant to make it. It's not just the tariff numbers, it's the way they've treated our products," she persisted. "'Oh, sorry, we can't take your beef since 2002 because you use a certain type of feed.' That's just absolute bull. It is not correct and not appropriate. Our supplies, our farmers and ranchers, we produce the safest, the most secure, the best food in the world. And so to use that for the EU to say, 'Oh, my goodness, we can't do it because of this reason,' it's absolutely wrong. And it's not based on sound science."

"Okay, well, you can take that up with the Europeans," Tapper dryly replied.

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Fox News host Alexis McAdams confronted White House trade adviser Peter Navarro over a possible "rift" with billionaire DOGE administrator Elon Musk.

During a Sunday interview, McAdams noted that Musk had attacked Navarro on his X social media platform over President Donald Trump's tariffs.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," a former Republican member of the House of Representatives jumped on Donald Trump's tariffs and the devastating effect it is having on American consumers, manufacturers and farmers.

Speaking with the hosts, ex-Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) cited soybean farmers losing their livelihoods to make his case.

"The soybean market is destroyed, right?" he began. "What do we do now? Where's the money going to be for any type of subsidies for farmers? Now, how are you going to fund it? I mean, if you're defunding the IRS, how are you going to get the monies to actually come in to actually pay for all the subsidies for farmers right now?"

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"There's a cascading effect of stupid and stupidity is terminal, right?" he continued. "And that's that's the issue that we have right now, is you have a terminal administration that thinks that stupidity is policy, right. and fantasy is fact. And when you have people that are like that making policy choices, we're in really big trouble."

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On Saturday, billionaire Elon Musk broke ranks with Donald Trump on tariffs in a video posted online and on Sunday morning MSNBC's Michael Steele was not in a forgiving mood.

At the start of MSNBC's "The Weekend," the co-hosts started off talking about Donald Trump enjoying himself at a golf tournament while the stock market is in a collapse due to his tariffs, before Steele turned on the tech billionaire who has been cheering the president on.

"A message to Republicans: watch out," was the advice of one MSNBC political analyst on Saturday morning when asked about the election results in Wisconsin and Florida this past week.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," analyst Dave Jolly, who previously served as a Republican in the House representing Florida, was asked whether the actions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk are "waking up the sleepy beast" that is the electorate.

That led Jolly to issue his warning to GOP lawmakers and explain to co-host Alicia Menendez, "What Donald Trump is doing with a collapsed Republican Congress is not good for the American people, regardless of your party registration."

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"I mean, as you described, these are ruby red seats and the one in the panhandle in particular, [Ex-GOP Rep.] Matt Gaetz's district has the military presence, but also so culturally conservative –– you know, we often joke about it being lower Alabama. I mean, this is this is a culturally conservative national security military, veterans-based district and that district moved by about 17 points."

"So the math is pretty simple here," he elaborated. "If we saw Democratic districts in Florida move 15, 16, 17 points, imagine now if you're an incumbent Republican and a five-point seat, a four-point seat, a six-point seat. You're terrified. And you know, that's about 30 to 40 members of Congress right now, because now they're coming for you next."

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A discussion on CNN's "Table for Five" about the growing unpopularity of Elon Musk, led one panelist to straighten out conservative Scott Jennings who claimed the seemingly ever-present billionaire lost favor with liberals when he threw in his lot with Donald Trump.

With the segment devoted to the question of whether Musk has become "political poison" as evidenced by the loss this past week of a shot at a Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat that Musk threw his support and a reported $26 million at, Jennings suggested the billionaire is being unfairly maligned.

After stating that he thought every on the panel was "dramatically over-reading the results" in Wisconsin," he added, "He's a great entrepreneur. I think his companies and he personally are getting all sorts of negative attention and even vandalism and all these violent attacks, and it's terrible. I know personally that he's been getting death threats, all for the sin, all for the sin, of having been a liberal who decided to support Donald Trump and then go serve in his government for a short period of time."

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"It's outrageous," he emphasized.

That led podcaster, Van Lathan, host of "Higher Learning," to push back.

"It's actually not true," he began. "I just want to say something real quick. I understand it, a lot of people want to frame this as people started to hate Elon Musk or not like Elon Musk once Elon Musk decided to support Donald Trump –– it's just not true."

"I definitely think it's true," Jennings protested.

"It's definitely not true.," Lathan shot back. "It started long before then when Elon Musk bought Twitter. Hate speech just erupted on Twitter. Elon Musk's flirting with Naziism and far-right type of stuff for a couple of years before this, has made –– has gotten people off the Elon Musk bandwagon way before he decided to ––."

"I think chronologically that is accurate," CNN host Abby Phillip interjected.

After some overtalk, Phillip continued, "I don't think it's solely about Donald Trump. I think it is, to Van's point that he has been, even before he owned Twitter, actually before he bought it, before he wanted to buy it, he was turning his personal platform into a place where conspiracy theories, harassment. He accused a random person of pedophilia and was sued for it. I mean, like, this was happening years ago before all of this."

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Donald Trump's Senior Counselor for Trade, Peter Navarro, faced a blizzard of questions on CNN on Saturday morning as he attempted to put a happy face on the president's trade war with the rest of the world.

Speaking with host Michael Smerconish, the Trump insider was put on the spot over the wreckage on Wall Street as the Dow Jones slid downward over 4,000 points since Navarro's boss announced his sweeping tariff plan.

During the animated back and forth, the CNN host held up the front page of the New York Times which proclaimed that Trump's tariffs "send markets reeling," which seemed to exasperate Navarro.

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"I'm holding up the front page of the New York Times today with all the downward trajectory," the CNN host prompted his guest. "And I simply want to know, did you anticipate this? If I had been with you 2 or 3 days ago at the announcement in the Rose Garden, would you have expected that on Saturday morning, it would all, as I said, have hit the fan to this extent?"

"It hasn't hit the fan!" Navarro insisted. "Look, sure, what we're having is going to be a restructuring and a repricing of companies, that's a given. I mean, it's a given. But what's also a given ––."

"So you knew this would happen?" Smerconish interrupted.

"What's 'this' you're referring to?" the Trump adviser argued. "We knew that markets were going to adjust to the bond market ––."

"I'm referring to the S&P 500 bottom falling out in one week," Smerconish shot back.

"Okay, so let's let's level set here for the American people," the clearly exasperated Trump advisor replied. "And this would be a great poll question: do you think the world is treating the United States and its manufacturing base fairly? The problem we're trying to deal here with, and I would love to see the New York Times put up a front page on this is a national emergency associated with a $1.2 trillion annual trade deficit. that is the result of systematically higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers, which are institutionalized by the World Trade Organization."

"That's what we're up against, Michael," he exclaimed. "We've transferred. $18 trillion of wealth into foreign hands since China joined the WTO in 2001. $18 trillion –– that's two thirds of our annual GDP in 2024."

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Reacting to the economic chaos Donald Trump has set in motion with his decision to institute sweeping international tariffs that have had a devastating effect on the stock market, a former Republican member of the House compared the president to the Covid pandemic.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, ex-Rep Dave Jolly (R-FL) attempted to put into perspective the economic damage the re-elected Trump has already done –– long before he has reached the 100-day mark of his second term.

Speaking with "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele, the former head of the Republican National Committee, Jolly explained, "Let's start with a snapshot in time, a real statistic measurable by consumer confidence. Donald Trump has had a greater impact on economic uncertainty than Covid -9 did –– think about that? In a matter of 75 days, Donald Trump has proven worse than Covid for economic uncertainty. That's your buddy."

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He then added, "That's families across the country. Those are consumers, low income, high income, wherever they are and I think what's fascinating with this issue, that we may not see with others in the same way, I agree with [California Democratic Rep] Robert Garcia, there's a latency to this where it's going to get much worse."

He later added, "I'm not sure Donald Trump realizes that the world economy may not need the United States of America in 2025. In the past, in trade wars, we were the heavyweight where maybe we knew we could win. I'm not sure we win this trade war."

"There is a good possibility that Donald Trump just launched a trade war that doesn't just cool off, doesn't just return back to baseline, but a trade war that the United States loses," he added. "And it is because of his ignorance, but also because of his vanity that he has gotten us into this. I don't know how he gets us out of it, truly."

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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) didn’t hold back in his condemnation of President Donald Trump for choosing to appear at a golf tournament in Florida instead of at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of the four U.S. soldiers who died in Lithuania.

Kelly reacted on Friday to the uproar caused by Trump’s snub of the fallen soldiers during an appearance on "The Rachel Maddow Show,” where he not only threw barbs at Trump but also at his allies – both inside and outside his MAGAfied administration.