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Democrats are frustrated with party leadership for their response to Donald Trump's disruptive second presidency, but some elected officials are pushing back harder as his approval ratings continue to fall.

Congressional Democrats have largely followed the grassroots opposition, rather than leading it, as Trump upends foreign and domestic policy, threatens open defiance of the courts, shreds the federal government and seeks retribution against his political enemies, and many believe there hasn't been nearly enough pushback, reported the New York Times.

If Donald Trump tuned into MSNBC's "Morning Joe," on Thursday he likely was not happy that financial expert Steve Rattner had nothing good to say about the Trump economy based on the latest economic news –– and then predicted things are about to get a lot worse.

Standing before an array of charts, the "Morning Joe" regular pointed to indicators that consumer confidence is in collapse and Wall Street is in turmoil because of the president's tariff trade war.

After noting Trump was not the president for the entire 90 days of the recently concluded quarter, Rattner told co-host Joe Scarborough, "When you strip it all apart, it does appear that the economy grew by a couple percent in the first quarter; that I would put on Biden when Biden was the president for a month of that, plus, it was his economy that Trump inherited."

"So I'd give Biden credit for what was actually not a bad GDP number," he added. "We got to look ahead, there was a jobs number yesterday from ADP, we're going to get another jobs number this Friday, but the ADP number that came out yesterday showed roughly half as many jobs being created last month as the month before so you may start to see some effects of Trump."

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"But, but, I –– but looking ahead it's all bad, there's nothing but gloom out there in the business and the investor community," he admitted.

Host Scarborough then contributed the "next 100 days would be telling."

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President Donald Trump is not sending the message he should be on tariffs, according to Former Trump White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin. Her comments came on CNN News Central Thursday morning in an interview with John Berman.

“I can picture the White House press shop gasping when they heard that line," Farah Griffin said, referring to Trump saying "maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30."

There are two major court cases which could not only stop President Donald Trump’s ability to tariff every county in the world, but also stop the administration’s fight to prevent judges from blocking his policies across the country, according to a new POLITICO analysis.

The first case is a motion to stop the tariffs. It was filed by the Liberty Justice Center, which is representing five small businesses that say that the tariffs could decimate their companies.

Tariffs have emerged as Americans' top economic concern, and CNN's Allison Morrow said president Donald Trump's trade wars may have already tipped the U.S. economy into a recession.

The Commerce Department issued a report Wednesday showing the gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter, the first drop since 2022, and consumer confidence has fallen for five straight months, all of which has sparked fears of a recession.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning joe," noted financial journalist Steve Ratner suggested Elon Musk got a lesson in humility during his time in Washington after seeing his creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under-perform at the same time he damaged the reputation of his Tesla auto company.

On Thursday morning the co-hosts on the MSNBC morning show first addressed Donald Trump trying to blame the latest terrible economic news on President Joe Biden –– and also preemptively blaming the next quarter on Biden too –– with Mika Brzezinski observing, "The future is not looking bright because he's already trying to blame it on Joe Biden, which is what he does with bad news."

Discussing the tariffs having a deleterious effect on the economy, Rattner made a leap to talking about billionaire Musk.

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"This is another example of a businessman who's never set foot in Washington going to Washington and thinking they can fix things and finding out that this is not –– the federal government does not run like a private company," Rattner stated. "And he ran into his own chainsaw, in effect, and it's just another example of that on steroids, of course, because we've never seen anything quite like it."

Returning to the original topic, he added, "Look, on the economy, the first quarter GDP number was a little bit illusory. It was very messed up by some tariff stuff and things like that, but the fundamental point is that Trump inherited an economy that was firing on all cylinders. It was growing at about 2.5 percent a year. We had low unemployment, we had low inflation. Business was operating, they were making investments, they were going about their affairs and now we have chaos."

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Elon Musk is planning to step away from his government role to focus on his businesses, but he's keeping his office in the White House.

President Donald Trump's billionaire benefactor has recommended sweeping cuts to the government workforce, which he says has saved $160 billion, which is far less than the $2 trillion he promised and could be offset by $135 billion in estimated costs associated with the cuts, but the Washington Post reported that Musk believes the U.S. DOGE Service has been a success.

A heated CNN panel discussion on Wednesday quickly spiraled into chaos after a fiery exchange between Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton and “The View's" co-host Ana Navarro, also Republican, left host Abby Phillip struggling to control her guests.

The turbulent moment unfolded when the debate over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia took a sharp turn as Singleton and Navarro began sparring over minority communities and profiling.

Former Trump administration cybersecurity official Chris Krebs said his removal from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry program is clearly “another act of retribution from the administration,” according to a new CNN report.

Krebs, who provoked President Donald Trump’s anger when he publicly contradicted the MAGA leader’s repeated assertions that the 2020 election was stolen, told CNN he was notified Wednesday afternoon that his Trusted Traveler Program status had been revoked.

President Donald Trump delivered a rambling response to a question about his push to crack down on Harvard University that left many political observers struggling to understand his answer.

The baffling moment unfolded Wednesday as Trump called into a NewsNation town hall hosted by Chris Cuomo, Bill O’Reilly, and Stephen A. Smith. When Trump was asked by Smith to explain his criticism of the Ivy League school, the MAGA leader instead launched into a puzzling anecdote about Harlem and the 2024 election.

The head of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) on Wednesday criticized US President Donald Trump's order to fast-track deep-sea mining in the open ocean outside American territorial waters.

"No state has the right to unilaterally exploit the mineral resources of the area outside the legal framework established by UNCLOS," ISA head Leticia Carvalho said in a statement, referring to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

by Aurélia END

Six months after defeating Joe Biden, President Donald Trump is back in power but remains obsessed with his White House predecessor, taking every opportunity to blame the man who remains his greatest political bugbear.