CNN’s Matt Egan was left stunned Tuesday after new data showed President Donald Trump’s tariff policy was having the “exact opposite” effect on domestic manufacturing than he promised.

“That was a dismal jobs report on Friday, but it was especially grim for those industries most exposed to tariffs,” Egan said, who went on to break down job losses detailed in Friday’s jobs report by industry.

According to the report, 6,000 jobs were lost in August in mining and logging, 7,000 in construction, 12,000 in manufacturing and 11,700 in wholesale trade. Egan noted that the August’s job numbers were “not an anomaly,” and saw similar trends starting in April, the same month Trump kicked off his so-called reciprocal tariffs.

“U.S. manufacturing, it's lost jobs four months in a row,” Egan said. “You go back to April, that was the month that those sky-high tariffs were first announced, employment was unchanged during that month, so this is of course the exact opposite of what the White House is looking for.”

Friday’s jobs report showed just 22,000 new jobs being added in August, far less than the initially projected figure of 75,000. The report also saw unemployment tick up from 4.2 percent in July to 4.3 percent, and job numbers from June and July revised down by a combined 21,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.

“They're trying to engineer this American manufacturing renaissance, they're trying to cause a jobs boom – that has not happened,” Egan continued. “Economists say, at best, that effort is off to a slow start, but at worse, it's actually backfiring completely, that it's been counterproductive.“

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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough clashed with a panelist over President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in American cities — and many viewers were repulsed by the exchange.

The "Morning Joe" host has been using his platform to encourage Democratic governors and mayors to partner with the president to fight crime in their cities using federal forces, but Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. argued that Scarborough's premise was faulty because Trump was motivated by political bad faith.

"Donald Trump doesn't give a damn about crime," Glaude said. "In fact, he's repeating something that's at the heart of the drive around crime, that it's not really about protecting those communities. It's about protecting certain communities from those communities, and it generates a certain orientation of policing, and I want us to get at that as we call for a surge of cops. Is that cool?"

Scarborough laughed and asked whether he'd been watching the show in recent days, because he said that's the same argument he's been making on air, and he rolled on through Glaude's argument that adding more police officers to the streets in Black communities can often lead to bad outcomes.

"That's what we've been saying for the past three weeks, and that's what we've been saying repeatedly, that, as [DC Mayor] Muriel Bowser said, Washington needs more police officers," Scarborough said. "Washington's getting more police officers, they're getting paid better. They're getting good training, they're going to be part of the community, and that's what we need everywhere.

"You talk about moral panic, though, and I ask you, maybe you should go back and look at the Washington Post poll that shows 91 percent of Washington residents back in May said crime was a serious problem, and the people apparently most victimized by that crime, Black women. So I am not comfortable – perhaps you are comfortable – I am not comfortable in accusing Black women in Washington, D.C. of moral panic."

"There is a real problem in Washington, D.C., according what, not according to rich white people, because, again, the Washington Post poll showed that rich white people are like, 'Oh, we're doing fine. It was people of color,'" Scarborough continued. "It was specifically Black women who were the most concerned. We've seen that time and again. We saw it during the 'defund the police' protests, as I said before.

"So when you say moral panic, maybe if you're you're talking about the administration trying to get white people to be swept into a moral panic. We all certainly agree with certain segments of the president's base on that, but in this case, it does sound, when you start talking about moral panic and we don't need more police officers, it does sound, if you don't mind me saying, like, you may be being a bit condescending to the 91 percent of the people in Washington, D.C., who told pollsters they don't feel safe, that crime and violence is a serious problem."

Social media users cringed watching the lengthy televised debate.

'[Eddie Glaude Jr.] gives a wise argument against more cops on streets as panacea -- a reminder of stop and frisk and the carceral state. Of course, Joe ignores that, launching into a defense of troops on the street cuz polls' vibes, sneering 'academic' and, as always, interrupting," argued media critic Jeff Jarvis.

"'I don't want a moral panic around crime to devastate communities again,' says [Glaude]," Jarvis added. "Scarborough says 'that's what we've been saying for the past three weeks.' No, it is not. It is Joe who's not listening."

"Joe Scarborough lecturing Eddie Glaude on the Black experience in DC is jaw-droppingly embarrassing for this middle-aged Caucasian," posted Bluesky user Kimmyfest61.

"Once again, I’m so disappointed in the conversation on Morning Joe about policing," said law professor Anthony Michael Kreis. "There’s just no nuance and no policing experts to pushback against the 'more police = always good' narrative. It’s just recycled 1990s policy rot. Today felt like [Eddie Glaude Jr.] was the only voice of reason."

"Joe Scarborough is in full blowhard mode against Eddie Glaude this morning," agreed Bluesky user Neal Tasch.

"What on earth just happened in that segment with Eddie Glaude, Jr.?" asked Bluesky user Daily Cuppa. "Am I the only one that felt extremely comfortable at Joe’s unrelenting tone?"

"Yes! Did you hear him downing Eddie," agreed her follower Bootsy. "Asking him if he was living the same life experience as other black folks? So now it's a class thing too. Joe Scarborough just needs to go to Fox."

"This conversation on Morning Joe with Eddie Glaude now is a prime example of how when a Black person makes a point that eviserates the irrational and racist ideologies of white men, they continue to move the goal post away from the original topic and say, 'see that's not what we're talking about,'" said writer Aisha K. Staggers.

"Joe was about to explain the Black experience to a Black man from Mississippi and then tried to go there by saying because Eddie is a professor from Princeton he couldn't possibly know what 'regular Blacks' go through," Staggers added.

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The stunning release of a photograph of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein holding a joke novelty check as payment for a woman at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate may be a precursor to even worse revelations about Trump and his former friend.

Appearing on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade claimed the photo, which has been described as “Epstein and a longtime Mar-a-Lago member joking about selling a 'fully depreciated' woman to Donald Trump for $22,500," is far more alarming than the actual birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote to his pal Epstein, which was also revealed on on Monday after being hinted at weeks ago.

McQuade was asked on “Morning Joe, “Where do you see this going from a legal perspective?”

“I found this item even more troubling than the drawing because of what it suggests,” she began. “Now, of course, it appears that it was created by some member, It may be a completely fabricated joke, but, you know, people make jokes based on some grain of truth because that's what makes it funny.”

“So I think it raises a lot of questions,” she continued. “I also think the drawing suggests, you know, the drawing itself is sort of bawdy, but it suggests a close relationship with Trump — if it's authentic — referring to Jeffrey Epstein as his pal and that they have secrets together. So I think it raises a lot of questions as to where it's going.”

“I am very cognizant of protecting the identities and the privacy of the survivors here, that's very important,” she elaborated. “I'm even cognizant of protecting the identities of subjects of investigation for whom there was insufficient evidence to charge. But one thing President Trump could do immediately is to say, in an effort to clear my name once and for all, I hereby direct the Justice Department to disclose every piece of material, whether it's a document, an image, or a video that includes me. Let's put that out there and let's put this scandal to rest.

"He could do that, but he's not, and why is he not doing it? I think it is for fear that there are things like this, or other things that would cause him embarrassment, if not shame, within his base.”

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