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Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House communications director during President Donald Trump's first term, responded to the Friday New York Times report that Elon Musk is causing consternation among the Cabinet.

Behind closed doors, Secretaries Marco Rubio and Sean Duffy fought back against Musk's attempted cuts of their departments, which resulted in Musk accusing them of not doing more to fire more members of the federal civil service.

A longtime columnist is leaving the Washington Post after a clash with the newspaper's publisher over an op-ed she wrote criticizing owner Jeff Bezos' changes to the opinion pages.

Columnist and associate editor Ruth Marcus announced her departure Monday, saying she can no longer stay at the paper where she's worked for four decades after she said chief executive and publisher Will Lewis spiked her column that was critical of Bezos' mandate to the opinion section, reported NPR.

Baird financial services analyst Ben Kallo warned that Tesla CEO Elon Musk's political antics could be destroying the valuation of his company.

During a Monday morning report, CNBC host Carl Quintanilla offered investors bad news about Tesla's stock value.

A radio reporter claims he was threatened with a knife as he covered a fire that damaged or destroyed four Tesla Cybertrucks in Seattle.

The trucks were parked in a fenced lot in the city's SoDo neighborhood late Sunday along with 50 to 80 other electric vehicles awaiting delivery to dealerships or buyers, and video recorded by Seattle Department of Transportation traffic cameras show them going up in flames shortly after 11 p.m., reported KOMO-TV.

President Donald Trump's erratic economic policy is panicking overseas investors, and is likely to cause a mass withdrawal of European money from American markets, said Zanny Minton Beddoes, an editor for the British publication The Economist, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday.

Beddoes' fellow guest, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, moved the conversation with his analysis of Trump's comments over the weekend, where he refused to rule out that there would be a recession this year under his tariff policies.

Donald Trump neglected to mention a critical fact in his complaint that Canada imposed tariffs above 200 percent on dairy products imported from the U.S., according to a fact checker.

Those steep tariffs snapped into place only after the U.S. hit a certain quantity – negotiated by Trump himself – of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year, and the American dairy industry acknowledges it's not hitting it's zero-tariff maximum in any individual category of dairy products – and many categories, including milk, it's not even meeting half of that ceiling, reported CNN's Daniel Dale.

A squabble between billionaire Elon Musk and a Poland's foreign minister led Secretary of State Marco Rubio to jump into the fray with an abrasive response that took the tech mogul's side against the longtime ally.

That led MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to castigate Rubio and accuse him of throwing away his credibility to stay in good graces with Musk and Donald Trump.

Radosław Sikorski responded on X after Musk argued with a Ukraine supporter over the U.S. instead favoring the invading Russian army and threats over restricting use of Starlink. That led to Musk to fire back, "Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost, and there is no substitute for Starlink.”

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Rubio then joined the argument by writing on X, "Just making things up. No one has made any threats about cutting Ukraine off from Starlink And say thank you because without Starlink Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now."

The secretary of state's comment rehashed a recent meeting in the Oval Office where Vice President J.D. Vance berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for not thanking Donald Trump personally for his tepid support of the war-torn nation.

Scarborough then called out Rubio, who walked away from his Senate seat representing Florida.

"To get into a fight on Twitter with a leader in Poland, this would be like Ronald Reagan's cabinet member getting in a fight with a leader of West Germany in the 1980s," Scarborough observed.

"You have Poland, who is the tip of the spear for America for western democracy, they are on the front lines and everybody knows it," he added. "You could go back and see Rubio in 2014 castigating the Biden, the Obama administration and castigating them for ignoring the treaty that that everybody signed, including Putin signed, that if the Ukrainians gave up their nuclear weapons, that we would guarantee their sovereignty and guarantee their borders."

"Poland is now what West Germany was at the height of the cold war," he added. "It is just unspeakable that this former cold war warrior would now be going on X attacking the Poles."

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President Donald Trump has brought about an alarming retreat from American values on the world stage, in ways that all seem to empower Russia and Vladimir Putin, wrote conservative analyst Max Boot in a scathing column for The Washington Post published on Monday.

"Unrestrained by any administration 'adults,' Trump is executing what may be the most startling U-turn in the history of U.S. foreign policy," wrote Boot, a frequent critic of the president. Specifically, he is trying to align America with the Kremlin, something that has been diametrically opposed to U.S. interests since 1917.

The recently appointed acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy has been busy deleting posts on social media where he questioned Secretary of State Marco Rubio's sexuality and cast aspersions on his IQ.

According to a report from CNN, Darren Beattie was ousted from his job as a speechwriter during Donald Trump's first administration for attending a conference of white nationalists and for inflammatory posts on Twitter, since renamed X, and now he has another social media problem to fend off.

Pro-Trump Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) scrambled to try to deflect blame from the president for any potential recession that might happen in 2025 on CNN Monday morning, instead pinning the blame on former President Joe Biden while simultaneously confusing anchor Kate Bolduan.

"Given the uncertainty that President Trump's tariff approach is creating, and given that tariffs often prove inflationary, Donald Trump was asked over the weekend about a possible recession happening this year," Bolduan told Malliotakis, who represents Staten Island in Congress. "He was not 100 percent confident that he could stave off a recession in 2025. If that is the risk that he is running with this kind of whiplash and environment of business uncertainty while prices go up, is that a risk you think is worth it?"

CNN's Sara Sidner reacted to a fiery speech by Canada's next prime minister, Mark Carney, who vowed a robust response to Donald Trump's trade war and annexation threats.

The 59-year-old Carney will take over for Justin Trudeau after winning the race to lead the country’s Liberal Party, and the two-time central banker blasted the Trump-led U.S. as "a country we can no longer trust" and insisted "Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form."