MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace's jaw hit the floor on Monday, following reports from U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue that President Donald Trump is considering an arms sale to China — something the U.S. government swiftly denied was on the table.

Perdue's remarks to The New York Times, said Wallace, "had the White House actually backpedal, going into damage control mode, which is a rare thing this time."

This apparent offer to China's leader Xi Jinping is especially galling, she noted, when "approved arms sales to our ally, a fellow democracy that is deeply needed by China, Taiwan, have been withheld. A package of $14 billion worth of weapons was approved by Congress earlier this year, but has yet to leave the State Department. Sound familiar?"

Wallace displayed a statement from House Armed Services Committee ranking member Adam Smith (D-WA), who, in her words, "noted how bonkers the admission by U.S. Ambassador Perdue was, yet at the same time, how it is what we've come to expect from the country's president."

"I guess it's not stunning to me that President Trump would have made that offer to President Xi," said Smith. "As we know, Trump bounces all over the place in terms of his relationships with just about everybody and says a lot of deeply unhinged things. I can conceive of him saying that, but that Ambassador Perdue would repeat it — I have a lot of respect for Ambassador Perdue ... I think he's doing a good job. But yeah, and let me just be clear that that is not going to happen. It's illegal. It's bad policy, and it's not where we're headed."

"We don't have any psychologists, but we'll try to get to the bottom of it," added Wallace. "We know Trump loves to cozy up to dictators, but offering to sell them weapons goes way beyond that."

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President Donald Trump sparked an angry backlash on Monday after calling Canada “one of the worst countries in the entire world” as he complained about stalled negotiations with the longtime U.S. ally.

“They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world,” Trump told reporters while taking questions in the Oval Office. “We get along with China, we get along with people, we make good deals, but Canada has been really very difficult to deal with.”

The remark quickly drew outrage online.

“Despite all of Trump’s b------- like this, Americans still like Canada a helluva lot more than they like him,” attorney and prominent Trump critic George Conway wrote on social media, pointing to a YouGov poll on Americans’ attitudes toward Canada.

Others piled on.

“This is Trump admitting that Canada has stood up to him,” author Steve Saideman, a political scientist at Ottawa’s Carleton University, wrote on Bluesky.

Writer Lawrence Herzog asked on Bluesky, “How much longer do Canadians have to endure bullying and abuse from this person?”

The War Monitor X account pointed to Trump’s treatment of two U.S. rivals, writing, “Meanwhile, Russia and China literally got red carpet treatment.”

Canadian health researcher Tara M. offered a shorter response for her Bluesky followers: “Seriously?”

“Of course he thinks that,” concluded politics writer Nick Field in an X post, “they’re one of the few countries that refuses to bribe him.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) drew mockery after defending his office's plea deal in a child sex abuse case by noting the defendant "served 60 days."

Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, made the remark in a video clip that the news account Headquarters posted on X Monday. The clip addressed the case of Adam Hoffman, a former Waco attorney whose 2025 trial on a felony child sex abuse charge ended in a hung jury.

Paxton brought up the case in his remarks after describing his office's work against human trafficking.

"I've had to deal with this crazy ad that's been running against me saying that I let this predator out of jail," Paxton said. "It's not quite as it's presented. It's actually very misrepresented what actually happened."

Paxton's Democratic opponent, state Rep. James Talarico (D-TX), recently debuted a television ad attacking him over the plea deal, The 19th reported.

"So we were in a case with an underage person where we got a 7-5 jury split," Paxton explained. "So our child witness, who was our best evidence, didn't want to testify again.. We could have subpoenaed that person, that kid, and made them testify."

"And yet the criticism has been that I let a child predator out [after] one day," Paxton said. "Well, guess what? They served 60 days."

Hoffman was released from the McLennan County Jail in May after serving 29 days of his 60-day sentence, Waco TV station KWTX reported. The station said inmates there typically earn two days of credit for each day served with good behavior.

Hoffman had initially faced up to life in prison without parole before pleading guilty in April to two misdemeanors, indecent assault and displaying harmful materials to a minor, the station reported.

The deal Paxton's office first put forward called for one day in jail, according to The Texas Tribune.

"One day. Seriously? Somebody has to sell me on the wisdom of it," visiting Judge Roy Sparkman said at an April 16 hearing, according to the Tribune.

The offer later grew to 30 days in jail, KWTX reported.

"My son just still doesn't want to testify again, but 30 days isn't enough," the boy's mother told Sparkman at Hoffman's April 27 sentencing, the Tribune reported.

Sparkman responded by doubling the sentence to 60 days, according to the Tribune. Hoffman also avoided registering as a sex offender because the plea did not specify the victim's age, the newspaper reported.

By Monday afternoon, the Headquarters clip had drawn more than 200,000 views on X, according to the platform's count.

"No way he thought this was a good line," left-leaning influencer Jared Shult wrote.

"Omg he is STILL lying," Democratic Texas House candidate Sara McGee posted. "A completely corrupt failure at every level."

"He's bragging about a two-month sentence for a serial child molester," progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen wrote. "Two months."

"Holy s---… the Republican Party, everyone!" Democratic influencer Harry Sisson responded.

"Calm down, everyone. He let the child predator out after two months. Problem solved," Friendly Atheist writer Hemant Mehta wrote.

"Ken Paxton: Tougher on pot smokers than pedophiles," progressive activist Lauren Windsor posted.

"Not really the punch back he seems to think it is," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance responded.

"At a certain level, only God-given talent could produce this type of answer," political reporter Jake Lahut wrote. "It just can't be taught."