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Neighbors 'shocked and disgusted' after local erects sign calling Trump a 'rapist'

Residents in Madison Heights, Michigan are expressing displeasure with one of their neighbors who has erected a sign on her property that calls President Donald Trump a "d---less rapist."

Fox 2 Detroit reports that the Madison Heights woman in question, who does not wish to be identified for fears of physical retribution, isn't backing down from displaying her obscene anti-Trump sign despite objections from the neighborhood.

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'Salt in the wound': Fired CDC worker insulted by 'sketchy' email offering back her job

A laid-off worker at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to pass on returning to her dream job after receiving a "sketchy" email inviting her to come back.

Cancer outreach worker Bri McNulty was among 750 employees abruptly terminated from the CDC last month by email, and the 23-year-old had already moved on and accepted another job when she received another email offering her old job back, reported NPR.

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'You are making that assumption!' GOP lawmaker put on the spot over Trump's change of tune

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) wasn't buying CNN anchor Pamela Brown's assertion Friday that Donald Trump "changed his tune" on tariffs once the stock market started to tank.

Over the past weeks, Trump has imposed 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, then granted temporary reprieves, announced an exemption for car manufacturers, activated the tariffs, then announced Thursday that he was pausing tariffs on Mexico for one month "as an accommodation, and out of respect for, President Sheinbaum."

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'That's a lie! That's a lie! That's a lie!' MSNBC host slams Democrats giving Trump a pass

Reacting to Donald Trump's daily press availabilities where he sits at his desk and makes outrageous claims with no pushback from reporters, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed Democrats are missing a golden opportunity to undermine the president.

Speaking with longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, the "Morning Joe" host grew louder and louder as he complained about Democrats falling down on the job.

Harkening back to when he was a Republican serving the House during President Bill Clinton's administration, the MSNBC host asserted it is not that difficult to perform a rapid response to lies made by the opposing party.

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"So Donald Trump stands up and says things that just aren't true," he began. "You know, he talks about 300, we had $350 billion to him [Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky], repeats it over and over and over again. 160 year-old people are getting Social Security. Right, that's not happening! But he says it, right? And here's the thing: if you don't know how to respond to a lie, that's the biggest audience any politician is going to get."

"So Americans, what are they to think? 'Okay, well, I guess 160-year olds are getting...' -- I'm sorry I know it. Well, no, I don't. It's not harder than it looks because I've been in Congress and I can tell you it's not harder than it looks," he elaborated before adding, "Where are the Democrats when he starts saying this nonsense?"

"Why don't they get one person out there who can communicate extraordinarily well?" he asked. "Make it a meritocracy, why can't somebody go up there like Barack Obama would have done, or like Bill Clinton would have done, and just sit there and laugh and go, he says there -- we used to do this all the time in Congress!"

Scarborough then mimed holding up a piece of paper and pointed in multiple spots as he exclaimed, "Yeah, Bill Clinton says this and you hold up a sheet. No, that's a lie! That's a lie! That's a lie!"

"Why can't Democrats do this?" he asked again. "Why are they –– why are there now millions of Americans who believe that, quote, 160-year-olds are getting Social Security checks? Well, millions of Americans believe it, I guess, because Trump said it."

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'That's not clarity': Fox News' Maria Bartiromo pushes back on Trump's new tariff threat

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Friday pushed back on President Donald Trump's erratic decision making when it comes to slapping tariffs on foreign goods.

During an interview, Bartiromo pointed out to Trump that he was essentially ripping up a trade deal with Canada and Mexico that he negotiated during his first term, and she argued that this was adding unnecessary uncertainty to the markets.

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Internet blames Trump for 'brutal' February jobs report: 'Harder to pin blame on Biden'

The February jobs report is showing the impact of the beginning of President Donald Trump's economy, and many aren't surprised to see the turn.

Washington Post economics columnist Heather Long pointed out that people should remember that the report only shows the numbers through Feb. 15, and most of the federal government firings began after that date. According to the current report, only 10,000 federal employees had been laid off by the 15th, and that number has grown exponentially since then.

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'It's stupid!' Dem lawmaker puts Trump on notice that he's risking his coveted peace prize

According to one Democratic lawmaker, Donald Trump seems to be under the illusion that if he can force a peace agreement on Ukraine that will end the war precipitated by Russia's illegal invasion, that will put him in line for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" with co-host Jonathan Lemire, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said the devil is in the details and Trump only siding with the aggressor in the war is going to leave him empty handed when Nobels are announced.

After addressing drastic cutbacks planned for the Veterans Administration, the ranking minority member of the House Armed Forces Committee turned to the Ukraine war and Trump's bullying tactics aimed at President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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"Trump is not doing this because he wants both sides to a peace agreement," he told the host. "He's put no pressure on Russia ––he's taken it off. He's doing it because he's sympathetic to Putin and Russia and not sympathetic to Zelensky and I'll leave it to therapists to figure out exactly why that is, but it is absolutely true."

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'There's no answer': Tech reporter struggles to make sense of Trump's latest crypto scheme

A crypto reporter struggled to make sense of Donald Trump's moves to create a strategic reserve of the digital currency.

The president signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies by using tokens already owned by the government ahead of a meeting with crypto founders and investors at the White House, and Axios correspondent Brady Dale set about explaining the situation.

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Trump finally floats sanctions against Russia — while taking a shot at Ukraine

President Donald Trump is finally talking tough against Russia.

In a post on his Truth Social page, the president floated the possibility of hitting Russia with even more economic sanctions given that Moscow so far has shown little willingness to make any concessions to end its three-year war with neighboring Ukraine.

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'Bobblehead' Rubio is 'setting a land speed record for making himself irrelevant': analyst

Former Sen. Marco Rubio's brief tenure as secretary of state was panned on MSNBC on Friday morning by the New York Times' expert on foreign trade and affairs who labeled the Florida Republican as nothing more than a yes-man for Donald Trump.

Pointing to Trump's on-again, off-again tariff battle with key U.S. allies in a global economy along with his shunting Rubio off to the side as he and Vice President J.D. Vance battled with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Times' Tom Friedman noted Rubio went from a position of power in the U.S. Senate to a "bobblehead."

" Trump one was surrounded by buffers, responsible, intelligent adults, so when he came back from a night at the Mar-a-Lago restaurant or bar with some crazy idea, those buffers would contain it," Friedman told the "Morning Joe" hosts. "This Trump two is built around amplifiers. He comes back with some crazy a-- idea from the last person he talked to and these guys amplify it."

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"There's Marco Rubio though," he elaborated. "Marco Rubio is setting a land speed record for making himself irrelevant as secretary of state; He's basically secretary of state to Panama, okay?"

"And one reason is because Trump comes up with some crazy idea in Gaza or whatever that he's not briefed on, and Marco Rubio just amplifies it," the columnist accused. "Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, just amplifies it."

"Previously, buffers contained it and that's what scares me most for the long run," he added. "He's surrounded by amplifiers now, ––bobbleheads and not buffers."

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'Deadly serious': NYT reports Trump told Canada he wants to 'revise' our border lines

The New York Times is reporting that the Canadian government is taking President Donald Trump's threats to make it America's "51st state" incredibly seriously based on a phone call Trump had last month with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

During the call, the Times' sources say, Trump "told Mr. Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary" and he also "mentioned revisiting the sharing of lakes and rivers between the two nations, which is regulated by a number of treaties."

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'I want what he's drinking': CNN host reacts to dizzying analysis of Trump 'chaos'

CNN's Harry Enten stunned his colleagues with a dizzying analysis of the "chaos" generated by the early days of Donald Trump's second presidency.

The president and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk have roiled the government with a series of executive orders, job cuts across federal agencies and on-again, off-again tariffs, and the political analyst presented data that showed Americans were confused and concerned about what they're seeing.

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