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'Dumb': Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a message to Trump over tariffs

Speaking to the press on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacked President Donald Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada as "dumb. "

The tariffs began at midnight, and Trudeau announced that his nation would retaliate with a 25 percent levy on $30 billion of U.S. goods coming into Canada.

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'He called him Donald!' Harris Faulkner aghast over Justin Trudeau's response to Trump

Fox News host Harris Faulkner expressed outrage after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau referred to the U.S. president as "Donald."

In a speech on Tuesday, Trudeau responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian goods.

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'Livelihoods destroyed': Dem lawmaker comes out firing at Trump ahead of big speech

A Virginia Democrat issued a broadside against Donald Trump ahead of his address to a joint session of Congress.

The president will highlight his executive orders and dramatic overhaul of the federal bureaucracy that has cast thousands of federal workers out of jobs, and Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) posted a YouTube Short explaining the cost paid for those actions.

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Ex-lawmaker says Republicans are telling him they're 'overwhelmed' by angry calls

Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) told MSNBC in passing that the Republicans he's hearing from are being "overwhelmed" by the flood of angry calls and emails from constituents back home.

Republicans are being confronted by voters who are angry with the massive government staffing cuts and broad spending freezes ushered in by the new Donald Trump administration.

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'I would like to frame it in gilded gold': Mike Johnson gushes ahead of Trump's speech

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) vowed not to rip up President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night and said he would instead "like to frame it in gilded gold."

During a Tuesday House Republican press conference, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) noted that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) once ripped up one of Trump's State of the Union speeches after he gave it.

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‘Get back to work’: Alina Habba attacks fired federal workers for coming to Trump’s speech

Alina Habba, counselor to President Donald Trump, attacked former federal workers who were attending the president's speech to a joint session of Congress after being fired.

During a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Habba was asked to respond to those fired federal workers who decided to attend Trump's speech at the invitation of Democrats.

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'Weak, weak, weak': CNN analyst warns 'historically awful' rating could doom Trump

Donald Trump is off to a "historically awful" start to his second term, according to CNN polling analyst Harry Enten.

The president remains above water in his approval rating six weeks into his second term, but Enten said his popularity was well below the historical average.

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'I don't know where to begin!' Morning Joe angrily shreds JD Vance's diplomatic blunder

Vice President J.D. Vance's casual dismissal of the United Kingdom during an interview on Fox News on Monday night led to a furious tirade from MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday morning.

Speaking with host Sean Hannity, Vance downplayed Britain's support for Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky as "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years"

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He 'will actually drool': Journalist points to evidence Britain is playing Trump

During an appearance on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, longtime journalist and publisher Tina Brown applauded British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his masterful manipulation of Donald Trump that is still ongoing.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, Brown stated the leader of Labour Party had a rough start as prime minister but has hit his stride with his handling of both Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky which has made him the putative leader of the free world.

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'Is that going to be a gamble?' CNN host challenges Trump ally on Musk's role

A CNN host challenged a longtime Donald Trump ally to explain why the president was gambling his second term on the increasingly unpopular Elon Musk.

The tech mogul essentially bought his way into a prominent perch in the administration by pouring at least $277 million to Trump's re-election campaign, and he's used that influence to establish the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and slash federal agencies and cast thousands of government workers out of their

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'The economy is grinding down' as Trump is 'shaking investors to their core': MSNBC host

Donald Trump's decision to make good on his tariff threats aimed at Mexico, Canada and China beginning on Tuesday has not only caused a precipitous fall in the stock market, but will also have the long-term effect of crippling the economy.

That is the opinion of MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough who told the Financial Times' Ed Luce that, at the moment, investors are "shaken to the core" by the path the president has put the country on.

"I've talked about we had three bubbles: we had the fiscal bubble at $36 trillion debt that at some point is going to be a bomb that's going to wreck our economy and the world's economy if we don't take care of it," he began. "No, it doesn't look like they're going to take care of that. We have a crypto bubble. that, of course, is blowing up right now and we have the stock market bubble."

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'Going to be a problem': Musk comments to Rogan cast cloud over Trump administration

A CNN panel tackled Elon Musk, the world's richest man, signaling on a broadly popular podcast that Donald Trump's administration might disrupt Social Security payments.

The president's billionaire benefactor and top adviser appeared Friday on Joe Rogan's podcast, where he called the New Deal-era social safety net a "Ponzi scheme," arguing that birth rates have fallen and life expectancy has increased, and the former Social Security commissioner Martin O'Malley said Monday that cuts made by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could result in the system's imminent collapse.

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Maddow compares Trump to 1940s senator with Nazi ties who demanded allies 'say thank you'

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow drew a direct comparison between a 1940s Minnesota senator who was secretly on Adolf Hitler's payroll and pushing pro-Nazi policies to the MAGA embrace of pro-Russia policies.

Maddow began her eponymous show Monday night with a history lesson, noting that shortly after President Franklin D. Roosevelt urged lawmakers to push back against a surging Nazi Germany with $7 billion, Sen. Ernest Lundeen gave a "national speech on the radio in which he demanded that England should say thank you to us."

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