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The former chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers admitted on MSNBC on Monday morning that Donald Trump is finding out initial supporters of his tariff plans are quickly abandoning him.

On the same day that a bevy of Wall Street executives — many of them the president's biggest boosters during the 2024 election — harshly criticized his economic policies, noted economist Jared Bernstein told MSNBC's Ana Cabrera things are not looking good for the embattled president.

Over the weekend, a Justice Department attorney was put on administrative leave after acknowledging in court that he'd never been given a "satisfactory" answer for why the U.S. government couldn't return a wrongfully deported immigrant from Venezuela who had been residing in Maryland. Now, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is scolding the DOJ's behavior in a new ruling.

In a unanimous decision on Monday, the court denied President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to resist returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight on Monday, wrote Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney on X.

The National Park Services (NPS) has removed a prominent photo of Black abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its Underground Railroad webpage after President Donald Trump's executive order abolishing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

According to a snapshot of the webpage saved by Archive.org, the reference to Tubman was removed as early as March 25. It had been replaced with a smaller Tubman photo that included white abolitionists Catherine Coffin and Thomas Garrett.

While running in 2024, President Donald Trump promised his audience, "I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution."

By the end of the campaign, Trump backed off.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday morning to attack China and issue new trade threats.

"Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs, Non-Monetary Tariffs, Illegal Subsidization of companies, and massive long term Currency Manipulation, despite my warning that any country that Retaliates against the U.S. by issuing additional Tariffs, above and beyond their already existing long term Tariff abuse of our Nation, will be immediately met with new and substantially higher Tariffs, over and above those initially set," Trump promised, with randomly capitalized words.

MSNBC host and former Wall Street executive Stephanie Ruhle jumped all over Donald Trump on Monday morning as the stock market spiraled downward once again due to economic uncertainty over his wide-ranging tariff plans.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Ruhle, who spent 14 years working on Wall Street before leaving her job as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, criticized the president's blithe dismissal about the economic pain the country is experiencing while he was busy playing golf in Florida.

Speaking with the hosts, she explained, "I would just say the thing that's really alarming about what our government is doing is, think about this weekend. Over this weekend, I was talking to former colleagues of mine from Deutsche Bank saying, compare this weekend to where we were in 2008, right? That the famous 2008 weekend when traders were flooding back to trading desks to figure out what was their counterparty exposure to, to all other banks out there, how bad was it going to be?"

Stock market investments took a wild swing as the White House disavowed rumors that President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on his trade war.

The Dow fell over 1,000 points just minutes after Monday's opening but swung into positive territory for a few seconds when some outlets reported rumors that White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Trump was considering a tariff pause.

Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, one of President Donald Trump's key cheerleaders on the network, acknowledged on Monday amid the latest panicked selloff of stocks on Wall Street that the United States could be heading for a recession if Trump's tariffs proceed as they currently are.

Trump has imposed a 10 to 49 percent new import tax on foreign goods from practically everywhere in the world, even singling out obscure, isolated islands with negligible trade with the U.S., and in at least one case a chain of volcanic islands off the coast of Antarctica with a population of zero. The result has been chaos and uncertainty not just in U.S. markets but around the world.

Donald Trump started his Monday morning repeatedly talking up his sweeping tariff plans as the stock market, once again, spiraled downward and could lead to a Republican "bloodbath" in the 2026 midterm election.

With the Dow Jones Indices dropping another 1,000 points moments after opening, Trump wrote on Truth Social, "The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!"

Since taking over the Department of Health and Human Services, conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been quietly reshaping the department's press team to boost his own personal image — to the point where staffers are scrambling to try to get their own names taken off the press releases they're being forced to issue, political reporter Tara Palmeri wrote on Monday.

This follows reporting on Kennedy's tenure being marked with massive layoffs of public health experts in critical roles, which ultimately forced a number of them to be rehired back as Kennedy claimed the layoffs were never meant to be permanent — a situation unfolding in a number of departments of the federal government as tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force makes rapid cuts to personnel.