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Conservative Rasmussen head pollster Mark Mitchell admitted that President Donald Trump has experienced a "significant" drop in approval after the stock market fell dramatically because of his tariff policies.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, Mitchell reflected on his organization's latest polling on the president.

Economist Larry Summers, whose warnings to Democrats about the risks of inflation during President Joe Biden's term proved prescient, is now warning that something even worse could be coming thanks to President Donald Trump's global trade war.

Writing on X, Summers warned that the trade war sparked by Trump has led to developments that "suggest we may be headed for serious financial crisis wholly induced by US government tariff policy."

As Americans begin to feel the pain in their pocket from the new tariffs, the President is advising everyone to "BE COOL!" on Truth Social.

"Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!" Donald Trump claimed as many GOP insiders question his ultimate success.

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton on Tuesday warned President Donald Trump that a protracted trade war with China would only hurt his own voters and that there was only so much they could take.

Appearing on CNN, Singleton said that while Trump voters understood the need to make trade more fair, the president needed to be more considered in his approach, which so far has consisted of launching an economic war against nearly every nation on Earth.

Friday, President Donald Trump is getting his first physical of his second term.

While the president is posting on Truth Social, "I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done!" NPR's Tamara Keith is questioning how forthcoming this physical will be.

An Iowa ag company accused of operating a billion-dollar check-kiting scheme is being sued by a lender that says 110,000 piglets are at risk of starvation.

Compeer Financial of Minnesota is suing Sunterra Farms Iowa Inc., Sunwold Farms Inc., and Lariagra Farms South Inc. in U.S. District Court. Compeer alleges that the three defendants operate extensive swine operations in Iowa and South Dakota, and have granted Compeer, their lender, exclusive security over their collective assets.

The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got an enthusiastic welcome from the Grand Canyon State’s Make America Healthy Again crowd during a stop at the Arizona Senate on Tuesday.

A small but noisy crowd that gathered in the Arizona Senate building — including comedian and prominent anti-vaxxer Rob Schneider, a Scottsdale resident — cheered and applauded while Kennedy praised two Republican-backed health bills that have already passed through the legislature.

CNN's Kate Bolduan was gobsmacked by China's escalation of president Donald Trump's trade war.

China announced retaliatory tariffs of 84 percent on U.S. imports Wednesday matching Trump's additional duties of 50 percent, bringing his so-called reciprocal tariffs to 104 percent on Chinese imports, and the tit-for-tat escalation of the president's trade policy has rattled global markets.

As the markets fall sharply, President Donald Trump seems to be blissfully unaware of how this will cost the GOP financially during a Tuesday night fundraising dinner, according to a NOTUS report.

"There was an elephant in the room: the roiling unease among some members of his party — and major donors — regarding the tariffs on the eve of their implementation," the article, which holds a double byline for Alex Roarty and Taylor Giorno, noted.

The New York Times on Wednesday interviewed several experts on international trade who were utterly baffled by President Donald Trump's obsession with bilateral trade deficits, which Trump has long cited as evidence that other nations are "taking advantage" of the United States.

In reality, a trade deficit simply means that the United States imports more net goods from foreign countries than foreign countries import from the United States, and experts say that there are many reasons such trade deficits exist that have nothing to do with other nations "cheating" in international trade.

“Quantitative easing,” “dynamic scoring,” and “current-policy baseline” are just some of the "odd phrases" being used to "obscure" economic policy, according to one Washington Post Columnist.

George F. Will slammed the GOP for their "wild Republican verbal gymnastics" when attempting to "justify asserting that a permanent extension of the [2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act] under reconciliation will not add to the deficit."

President Donald Trump gave no indication that he intends to back down from his so-called reciprocal tariffs after they went into effect against about 90 countries.

China responded to his punishing 104-percent duties with 84 percent tariffs against American imports, and while Trump boasted at a Republican National Committee fundraising event that world leaders were "kissing my a--" to avoid the double-digit tariffs, he encouraged foreign companies to move their operations into the U.S.