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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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In the wake of Donald Trump's highly controversial decision to put in place a wall of international tariffs that has roiled the business world, the president's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly looking to move on from his current job slightly more than two months after being sworn in.

That is according to MSNBC host and former Wall Street executive Stephanie Ruhle, who appeared on "Morning Joe" on Friday.

Speaking with co-host Jonathan Lemire, Ruhle first pointed out that she has been unable to find people who support Trump's decision to begin a trade war that is causing worldwide economic chaos.

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"I have reached out to so many people in the Trump universe, business people who have supported Trump, who have supported President Trump and, Jonathan, I cannot find one single investor with one single argument that makes sense for these tariffs. All I'm getting is, well, this is what the president thinks. This is what he's always wanted to do."

Turning to Bessent, a billionaire who she said has had trouble defending the tariffs and seems at a loss to explain to reporters how things will pan out, Ruhle pointed out that he is not close to the president and remains an outsider in the administration.

"My sources say that Scott Bessent is kind of the odd man out here and, in the inner circle that Trump has, he's not even close to Scott Bessent or listening to him," she told host Joe Scarborough. "Some have said to me, he's looking for an exit door to try to get himself to the Fed, because in the last few days he's really hurting his own credibility and history in the markets."

"Those have said this man actually understands how the markets work and, what's happening right now, is only going to hurt markets," she added. "And even for Scott Bessent to say a few weeks ago, you know, getting cheap goods fast is 'not part of the American dream.' No, it's not part of the American dream, but it's part of the way Americans live, especially people who are economically vulnerable. They don't have the option to say, 'No, I'd like higher things that cost more.' They need low cost things because they don't make that much money."

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A financial journalist laid out a "disaster scenario" that could be triggered by president Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.

The president announced double-digit tariffs against nearly 100 nations, and CNN's global economic analyst Rana Foroohar warned that this week's stock market sell-off could be the beginning of a worldwide crisis.

Donald Trump's economic policies have damaged the U.S. economy in "historically unprecedented" ways, according to CNN's Harry Enten.

The president announced a wave of tariffs that quickly triggered a stock market sell-off, leading to the worst week since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Enten compared the financial wipeout to past plunges.

Donald Trump's treasury secretary's inability to answer questions about the president's sweeping tariffs announcement on Tuesday drew gales of laughter from the hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning.

The segment began with a Comedy Central "The Daily Show" montage of clips of billionaire-turned-Trump cabinet member Scott Bessent answering, "We're going to wait and see how this plays out," "I just don't know if there are going to be negotiations," and "I don't know," when pressed by reporters on what Trump is doing.

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That led Comedy Central's Micheal Kosta to joke, "I have a question: do you know anything? Why are you out there doing interviews?" before doing a hilarious impression of the hapless Treasury secretary.

Cutting back MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire, the two laughed as Scarborough quipped, "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent not completely comfortable, I think, with this whole tariff thing," before turning to the release of the most recent jobs numbers.

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CNN's Scott Jennings admits that president Donald Trump made a huge gamble with the U.S. economy, and he conceded there'll be no one else to blame if things don't work out.

The president carried through on his campaign promise to enact sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly 100 countries worldwide, which has sent stocks into a tailspin, and the conservative commentator said he trusts Trump on the issue for now.

The path that Donald Trump has chosen for America's economic future with his tariff war will result in the U.S. coming out on the bottom, claimed MSNBC "Morning Joe" financial analyst Steve Rattner.

On Friday morning, the noted investment analyst stood before a series of charts and explained that the president will do extensive damage to America's GDP, unless he changes course and backs down as the stock market downslides.

Getting deep into the weeds, he explained to co-hosts Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire, "Let's start with the stock market yesterday. We talked about the almost 5 percent drop. This is actually $5 trillion of wealth lost since the inauguration. The stock market had already been starting to go down as people got more and more nervous about what Trump was or wasn't going to do –– so a huge drop."

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"But here's what's actually quite interesting," he added as he pointed at his graphics. "The stock market dropped here was actually larger than the stock market drop in every other major index, every other major country. In Japan, it was down 2.8 percent. In Europe it was down 2.6 percent. In the U.K. just 1.6, and in China just 0.6%. So why is that?"

"Trump thinks he's hurting all these people," he continued. "He thinks everything is, you know, negotiation where somebody wins and somebody loses and he thought he was the winner and we turned out to be the loser."

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Conservative Scott Jennings rarely breaks with President Donald Trump on CNN — but even he conceded late Thursday he has "mixed feelings" about the MAGA leader's economic plan, which sent the global economy into a tailspin.

The markets plummeted on Thursday, with major indices in the U.S. stock market seeing sharp declines. The NASDAQ Composite dropped by nearly 6 percent, losing over 1,050 points, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by roughly 4 percent, down nearly 1,680 points. The S&P 500 declined by just under 5 percent, shedding about 274 points.

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan launched a brutal take down of Vice President JD Vance over his insistence that the Trump administration made no mistake in deporting a legally protected immigrant to an infamous mega prison in El Salvador.

Hasan on Thursday took on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father with protected status who the Trump administration admitted to mistakenly labeling as a gang member before loading him aboard a plane bound for El Salvador – despite his lack of a violent criminal history.

Until this week, Jim Cramer of CNBC's "Mad Money" was sympathetic to President Donald Trump's plan to drop tariffs on foreign goods — but then he saw the actual plan.

The "Liberation Day" tariffs, which put new duties of 10 to 49 percent on goods for just about every foreign country and even some uninhabited Antarctic islands, were billed as "reciprocal" tariffs to retaliate against unfair trade barriers other countries have imposed — but in reality, said Cramer, Trump's tariffs don't have anything to do with what trade barriers actually look like.

A member of the Senate Finance Committee told CNN viewers Thursday night swiftly smacked down President Donald Trump's method to determine tariffs — calling it "nutty."

Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) joined "Anderson Cooper 360" on Thursday and called it a "disastrous day for our economy and for our Americans" as the stock markets plunged, sending millions of retirement accounts spiraling downward with it.

CNN’s Erin Burnett eviscerated the “magic formula” behind Donald Trump’s massive new set of tariffs, which she flagged for viewers in a stinging takedown of the president's economic policy.

The primetime host on Thursday subjected Trump’s math – and the chart he propped up during his Rose Garden “liberation day” announcement – to a thorough analysis during her show’s opening monologue.

While the White House’s top economic advisers have continued to insist that the administration’s massive new set of tariffs are non-negotiable, President Donald Trump’s new contradicting comments made clear he’s not on the same page with his team.

"The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have,” Trump told reporters Thursday aboard Air Force One a day after his Rose Garden “Liberation Day” tariff announcement sunk the market to its lowest point since the COVID-19 pandemic.