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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.

CNN unloaded a devastating supercut of clips of Donald Trump declaring on the campaign trail he'd never golf because he'd be so busy — as the president once again leaves Washington, D.C., to hit the links.

As markets continued nosediving due to his steep tariffs, Trump departed the nation's capital and arrived at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday morning. The president planned to attend a $1 million-a-plate fundraising dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate Friday evening and host a LIV Golf tournament at his Doral property over the weekend.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow walked her viewers on Friday through the origin story of how President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, joined the MAGA team during his first presidential run – and brought a phantom source with him to Washington, D.C.

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that's not how it's working out,” the primetime host told viewers during her show’s opening monologue. “Turns out, it doesn't take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together.”

A CNN host on Friday had a tough time reining Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) back into the conversation about the devastating market losses that continued for a second straight day once the topic of the network’s treatment of Joe Biden emerged.

The spirited back-and-forth ignited on CNN’s “The Arena with Kasie Hunt" after the host peppered the Republican lawmaker with questions surrounding the effects that President Donald Trump’s massive set of tariffs are having on his Tennessee district.

CNN's Jake Tapper began his Friday show by addressing the startling drop in the financial markets at the end of the week and the reaction of Wall Street experts.

President Donald Trump said his tariff plan "is already working," Tapper quoted.

CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid reported Friday afternoon that President Donald Trump was handed his first "win" by the U.S. Supreme Court, and it "is significant."

According to the High Court ruling, Trump can block $65 million in Department of Education grants that were earmarked to help states with teacher shortages.

In a Maryland court on Friday, the Justice Department dropped what one lawyer called a jaw-dropping claim.

The DOJ faced off against lawyers for an immigrant that the administration has admitted was mistakenly sent to an El Salvador prison.

If President Donald Trump's administration brings back to the U.S. any of the deportees he sent to El Salvador, it could have significant ripple effects for his administration, a legal analyst claimed Friday.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland immigrant who had protected legal status, was sent to a notorious prison in the Central American country under the accusation that he had gang ties, the Associated Press reported on April 1.

A former Republican congressman tried to make sense of president Donald Trump tipping the U.S. economy toward recession.

The president announced double-digit tariffs on at least 90 nations Wednesday, sending stock markets into a tailspin and stoking fears of a recession, and former congressman Charlie Dent told MSNBC that he couldn't see any logic to Trump's decision.

A former aide to two House Speakers is warning that President Donald Trump will need a hefty spin to handle the fallout of the implementation of tariffs on goods from countries around the globe.

For the second day in a row, the U.S. Dow Jones sank below 40,000 for the first time in nearly a year amid fears about a possible trade war, said MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart on Friday.

The labor market added far more jobs than expected last month, but former labor secretary Robert Reich warned that Americans could be in for a "crude and rude shock" in the coming weeks.

The U.S. added 228,000 jobs last month, far more than the 140,000 that economists had expected, and that number was nearly double the 117,000 roles added in February, but the former labor secretary under Bill Clinton told CNN's "The Situation Room" that president Donald Trump's tariffs would have far-ranging consequences for the economy.

NBC business analyst Christine Romans smirked and took a dim view of a Donald Trump boast on Friday morning that now was a good time for investors to sink more money in the stock market while it was still experiencing a meltdown for the third day in a row.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire, she was alerted to a Trump Truth Social post where the president wrote, "TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!"

Asked for her reaction, specifically to Trump's boast his policies would "never change," she replied, "Well, that means they think that he's not going to negotiate, even though yesterday he said maybe he would negotiate."

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"So again, this is all sort of Donald Trump 'Art of the Deal' stuff. In terms of always being rich, I mean $2 trillion stock market value was lost yesterday and you're going to lose another big chunk of it today so value is being lost as we speak here."

"The question is, the White House, you know the White House is talking about the 10-year note yield is kind of looking at that, not the stock market," she observed before adding, "They've really tried to decouple themselves from the stock market."

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