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Batya Ungar-Sargon, a journalist describing herself as a "MAGA lefty," told Fox News that President Donald Trump's tariffs would help bring manly jobs back to America's working class that is facing a "crisis in masculinity."

"It's not just the destruction of the economic vitality of the working class," she explained during a Sunday interview with host Rachel Campos-Duffy, "but there has been a spiritual decimation that has come along that, a crisis in masculinity because we shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living and rely on brawn and physicality off to other countries to build up their middle class."

During the panel segment of CNN's "State of the Union," Rep Hillary Scholten (R-MI) slapped aside claims by one of her Republican House colleagues about all the wonderful things Donald Trump has done since his re-election.

The conversation began when host Jake Tapper asked Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), "Do you think that there are Trump voters who might have some regret today, given what's going on in the markets with their 401k's?"

"I think people are coming into this looking, look, the president has secured the border, border crossings are down 95 percent," she offered before breathlessly continuing. "He is deporting tens of thousands of people who have been dangerous, including murderers from New York City. He is also making sure that, look, we've seen. Mortgage rates come down, inflation has come down, egg prices have come down –– these are things you cannot ignore."

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"So is there a little concern about the market? Absolutely, there is," she conceded. "I think it is a little bit of a overexaggeration by the market at this moment and I would equate it to a little turbulence as you move to smooth skies, but you've seen trillions of dollars in investment. You've seen companies saying that they're going to expand operations here and of course, a great jobs report the other day, nearly a quarter of a million new jobs."

Offered a chance to respond, Rep. Scholten, who had been smiling and shaking her head, tuned to her colleague and explained, "A jobs report that that came out before the market started crashing and Americans lost $4 trillion in savings."

"You can't ignore, you know, you're talking about giving subsidies to farmers because you know how bad this is going to be," she continued. "You know America is losing under Trump. The American people are losing under Trump."

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) warned that "entire men's teams across the country" were "turning trans" after Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have banned transgender athletes in women's sports.

Tuberville reacted to his bill being shot down during a Sunday interview on Fox News.

CBS News host Margaret Brennan grilled Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about why President Donald Trump placed tariffs on islands inhabited by penguins.

Brennan highlighted Trump's policy while speaking with Lutnick on Face the Nation on Sunday.

A combative Donald Trump Cabinet official attempted to lecture CNN's Jake Tapper about what she called "fake science" when he fact-checked her about the reasons European nations balk at some purchases from the U.S.

In a longer-than-normal interview, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did her best to defend the president's tariff policies even when confronted with the ugly stock market collapse after Trump held his "Liberation Day" Rose Garden press conference, repeatedly assuring the "State of the Union" host that the president's economic brain trust contains the best people available.

Things grew heated after she complained about European nations refusing to buy U.S. beef and pork products due to the hormones used on the animals.

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"We have watched our farmers and ranchers again, can't get our corn into Mexico, can't get our dairy into Canada, have Honduras buying more pork and poultry than the entire European Union, have a 700 percent tariff from Japan on our rice," she complained. "This is not okay and it is not sustainable. And for us to continue to build our agriculture, which is the backbone of our country, but also our manufacturing base, our energy, et cetera. for us to be able to do that, we have to put America first. "

"So those tariffs as the economy, the market begins to adjust, we will see a more positive as we move, I believe very quickly," she added.

" So just in point of fact, the reason that the European Union, even though they are our fourth biggest market for agricultural products, as you know, don't take as much American pork as you would like is because they have issues with hormones used in pork," Tapper explained.

"I don't want to get into a whole debate over that, but that's not, it's not an issue about tariffs," he continued. "But let me ask you about the computation of these tariffs because conservative economists at the American Enterprise Institute ––."

"Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, Jake," Rollins loudly interrupted. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is really important. You can't just say that. So here's the bottom line: they are using fake science and unsubstantiated claims to not take our products. So it isn't just that they have high tariffs."

"Thank you for making this point for me by the way, I meant to make it. It's not just the tariff numbers, it's the way they've treated our products," she persisted. "'Oh, sorry, we can't take your beef since 2002 because you use a certain type of feed.' That's just absolute bull. It is not correct and not appropriate. Our supplies, our farmers and ranchers, we produce the safest, the most secure, the best food in the world. And so to use that for the EU to say, 'Oh, my goodness, we can't do it because of this reason,' it's absolutely wrong. And it's not based on sound science."

"Okay, well, you can take that up with the Europeans," Tapper dryly replied.

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Fox News host Alexis McAdams confronted White House trade adviser Peter Navarro over a possible "rift" with billionaire DOGE administrator Elon Musk.

During a Sunday interview, McAdams noted that Musk had attacked Navarro on his X social media platform over President Donald Trump's tariffs.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett insisted that President Donald Trump did not intend to "tank" the stock market, even though his boss suggested otherwise on social media.

In a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week program, Hassett defended Trump's tariffs by pointing to the president's campaign.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," a former Republican member of the House of Representatives jumped on Donald Trump's tariffs and the devastating effect it is having on American consumers, manufacturers and farmers.

Speaking with the hosts, ex-Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) cited soybean farmers losing their livelihoods to make his case.

"The soybean market is destroyed, right?" he began. "What do we do now? Where's the money going to be for any type of subsidies for farmers? Now, how are you going to fund it? I mean, if you're defunding the IRS, how are you going to get the monies to actually come in to actually pay for all the subsidies for farmers right now?"

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"There's a cascading effect of stupid and stupidity is terminal, right?" he continued. "And that's that's the issue that we have right now, is you have a terminal administration that thinks that stupidity is policy, right. and fantasy is fact. And when you have people that are like that making policy choices, we're in really big trouble."

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On Saturday, billionaire Elon Musk broke ranks with Donald Trump on tariffs in a video posted online and on Sunday morning MSNBC's Michael Steele was not in a forgiving mood.

At the start of MSNBC's "The Weekend," the co-hosts started off talking about Donald Trump enjoying himself at a golf tournament while the stock market is in a collapse due to his tariffs, before Steele turned on the tech billionaire who has been cheering the president on.

The Social Security Administration is being destroyed from within due to the machinations of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) according to staffers who are speaking out.

In interviews with The Guardian, employees of the agency that tends to care and support of elderly Americans and administers survivor benefits are raising red flags at what one employee called "complete chaos" brought about by the intruding DOGE employees.

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have claimed to have found fraud, so why haven't any arrests been made? That's the question on the minds of some prominent MAGA activists.

Juanita Broaddrick, who supports Trump and claims that she was raped by then-Attorney General of Arkansas Bill Clinton, took to social media on Saturday to ask a question. Broaddrick, a supporter of Musk and DOGE, wondered, "Why haven't there been any arrests for the fraud and kickbacks Elon and Doge have found?"

Protesters hit the streets on Saturday to protest actions by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and one senior Democratic leader got in on some of the fun.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, who was chosen by the Democratic Caucus to be the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the 118th Congress, weighed in on some of the protest signs he saw from the "Hands Off" protests that erupted on Saturday in response to actions by Trump and Musk.

Recent reports about Donald Trump pushing Elon Musk out of his orbit make more sense, according to some observers, now that Musk just attacked one of Trump's advisers.

Musk has been relatively silent regarding Trump's controversial tariff policies, and on Saturday the richest man in the world attacked one of the administration's chief tariff defenders, adviser Peter Navarro.