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"A message to Republicans: watch out," was the advice of one MSNBC political analyst on Saturday morning when asked about the election results in Wisconsin and Florida this past week.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," analyst Dave Jolly, who previously served as a Republican in the House representing Florida, was asked whether the actions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk are "waking up the sleepy beast" that is the electorate.

That led Jolly to issue his warning to GOP lawmakers and explain to co-host Alicia Menendez, "What Donald Trump is doing with a collapsed Republican Congress is not good for the American people, regardless of your party registration."

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"I mean, as you described, these are ruby red seats and the one in the panhandle in particular, [Ex-GOP Rep.] Matt Gaetz's district has the military presence, but also so culturally conservative –– you know, we often joke about it being lower Alabama. I mean, this is this is a culturally conservative national security military, veterans-based district and that district moved by about 17 points."

"So the math is pretty simple here," he elaborated. "If we saw Democratic districts in Florida move 15, 16, 17 points, imagine now if you're an incumbent Republican and a five-point seat, a four-point seat, a six-point seat. You're terrified. And you know, that's about 30 to 40 members of Congress right now, because now they're coming for you next."

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Tech executives and Silicon Valley insiders are having second thoughts about placing all of their chips on Donald Trump in the 2024 election, betting he would be great for the industry and are now discovering otherwise.

According to a report from the Washington Post, there was great hope that the president's plan to gut regulations and shy away from anti-trust lawsuits would be a boon to the technology sector but, after 75 days in office, his reliance on tariffs has impacted not only their complex manufacturing capabilities but has also had a devastating effect on their stock values.

A discussion on CNN's "Table for Five" about the growing unpopularity of Elon Musk, led one panelist to straighten out conservative Scott Jennings who claimed the seemingly ever-present billionaire lost favor with liberals when he threw in his lot with Donald Trump.

With the segment devoted to the question of whether Musk has become "political poison" as evidenced by the loss this past week of a shot at a Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat that Musk threw his support and a reported $26 million at, Jennings suggested the billionaire is being unfairly maligned.

After stating that he thought every on the panel was "dramatically over-reading the results" in Wisconsin," he added, "He's a great entrepreneur. I think his companies and he personally are getting all sorts of negative attention and even vandalism and all these violent attacks, and it's terrible. I know personally that he's been getting death threats, all for the sin, all for the sin, of having been a liberal who decided to support Donald Trump and then go serve in his government for a short period of time."

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"It's outrageous," he emphasized.

That led podcaster, Van Lathan, host of "Higher Learning," to push back.

"It's actually not true," he began. "I just want to say something real quick. I understand it, a lot of people want to frame this as people started to hate Elon Musk or not like Elon Musk once Elon Musk decided to support Donald Trump –– it's just not true."

"I definitely think it's true," Jennings protested.

"It's definitely not true.," Lathan shot back. "It started long before then when Elon Musk bought Twitter. Hate speech just erupted on Twitter. Elon Musk's flirting with Naziism and far-right type of stuff for a couple of years before this, has made –– has gotten people off the Elon Musk bandwagon way before he decided to ––."

"I think chronologically that is accurate," CNN host Abby Phillip interjected.

After some overtalk, Phillip continued, "I don't think it's solely about Donald Trump. I think it is, to Van's point that he has been, even before he owned Twitter, actually before he bought it, before he wanted to buy it, he was turning his personal platform into a place where conspiracy theories, harassment. He accused a random person of pedophilia and was sued for it. I mean, like, this was happening years ago before all of this."

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Donald Trump's Senior Counselor for Trade, Peter Navarro, faced a blizzard of questions on CNN on Saturday morning as he attempted to put a happy face on the president's trade war with the rest of the world.

Speaking with host Michael Smerconish, the Trump insider was put on the spot over the wreckage on Wall Street as the Dow Jones slid downward over 4,000 points since Navarro's boss announced his sweeping tariff plan.

During the animated back and forth, the CNN host held up the front page of the New York Times which proclaimed that Trump's tariffs "send markets reeling," which seemed to exasperate Navarro.

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"I'm holding up the front page of the New York Times today with all the downward trajectory," the CNN host prompted his guest. "And I simply want to know, did you anticipate this? If I had been with you 2 or 3 days ago at the announcement in the Rose Garden, would you have expected that on Saturday morning, it would all, as I said, have hit the fan to this extent?"

"It hasn't hit the fan!" Navarro insisted. "Look, sure, what we're having is going to be a restructuring and a repricing of companies, that's a given. I mean, it's a given. But what's also a given ––."

"So you knew this would happen?" Smerconish interrupted.

"What's 'this' you're referring to?" the Trump adviser argued. "We knew that markets were going to adjust to the bond market ––."

"I'm referring to the S&P 500 bottom falling out in one week," Smerconish shot back.

"Okay, so let's let's level set here for the American people," the clearly exasperated Trump advisor replied. "And this would be a great poll question: do you think the world is treating the United States and its manufacturing base fairly? The problem we're trying to deal here with, and I would love to see the New York Times put up a front page on this is a national emergency associated with a $1.2 trillion annual trade deficit. that is the result of systematically higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers, which are institutionalized by the World Trade Organization."

"That's what we're up against, Michael," he exclaimed. "We've transferred. $18 trillion of wealth into foreign hands since China joined the WTO in 2001. $18 trillion –– that's two thirds of our annual GDP in 2024."

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Reacting to the economic chaos Donald Trump has set in motion with his decision to institute sweeping international tariffs that have had a devastating effect on the stock market, a former Republican member of the House compared the president to the Covid pandemic.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, ex-Rep Dave Jolly (R-FL) attempted to put into perspective the economic damage the re-elected Trump has already done –– long before he has reached the 100-day mark of his second term.

Speaking with "The Weekend" co-host Michael Steele, the former head of the Republican National Committee, Jolly explained, "Let's start with a snapshot in time, a real statistic measurable by consumer confidence. Donald Trump has had a greater impact on economic uncertainty than Covid -9 did –– think about that? In a matter of 75 days, Donald Trump has proven worse than Covid for economic uncertainty. That's your buddy."

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He then added, "That's families across the country. Those are consumers, low income, high income, wherever they are and I think what's fascinating with this issue, that we may not see with others in the same way, I agree with [California Democratic Rep] Robert Garcia, there's a latency to this where it's going to get much worse."

He later added, "I'm not sure Donald Trump realizes that the world economy may not need the United States of America in 2025. In the past, in trade wars, we were the heavyweight where maybe we knew we could win. I'm not sure we win this trade war."

"There is a good possibility that Donald Trump just launched a trade war that doesn't just cool off, doesn't just return back to baseline, but a trade war that the United States loses," he added. "And it is because of his ignorance, but also because of his vanity that he has gotten us into this. I don't know how he gets us out of it, truly."

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A meeting Elon Musk scheduled with Pentagon officials in March was scheduled without Donald Trump's knowledge causing friction between the two, reports the Wall Street Journal.

As part of a deep dive into the relationship between the tech billionaire and the president that Musk had a large hand in getting re-elected, the Journal's Josh Dawsey, Annie Linskey, Brian Schwartz and Dana Mattioli report that tensions within the White House between Musk and staffers led the president to instruct chief of staff Susie Wiles to take control of the situation.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) didn’t hold back in his condemnation of President Donald Trump for choosing to appear at a golf tournament in Florida instead of at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of the four U.S. soldiers who died in Lithuania.

Kelly reacted on Friday to the uproar caused by Trump’s snub of the fallen soldiers during an appearance on "The Rachel Maddow Show,” where he not only threw barbs at Trump but also at his allies – both inside and outside his MAGAfied administration.

CNN unloaded a devastating supercut of clips of Donald Trump declaring on the campaign trail he'd never golf because he'd be so busy — as the president once again leaves Washington, D.C., to hit the links.

As markets continued nosediving due to his steep tariffs, Trump departed the nation's capital and arrived at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday morning. The president planned to attend a $1 million-a-plate fundraising dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate Friday evening and host a LIV Golf tournament at his Doral property over the weekend.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow walked her viewers on Friday through the origin story of how President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, joined the MAGA team during his first presidential run – and brought a phantom source with him to Washington, D.C.

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that's not how it's working out,” the primetime host told viewers during her show’s opening monologue. “Turns out, it doesn't take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, insisted this week that reinstating some employees and programs mistakenly cut during recent mass layoffs was "always the plan."

Not so, Politico reported Friday evening.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board, after months of warning, has had enough of Trump's tariff scheme — and is putting out a clear message to the administration: You're now making China great again.

Trump’s tariffs are poised to "change the world order in many ways," the board said. And "one winner is already emerging" — Xi Jinping, the autocratic ruler of China, who had an "excellent week."

A convicted drug dealer whose sentence President Donald Trump commuted is back behind bars after he was charged with assaulting a 3-year-old child and violating his supervised release, The New York Times reported Friday.

It was the fifth time Jonathan Braun has been arrested since Trump commuted his 10-year sentence as he left office in 2021, according to the report. The decision came as a “last-minute” clemency request that made its way to the president through Braun’s family connection with Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner, the Times added.