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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers delivered a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, an action he estimated amounted to a $30 trillion cumulative hit to the economy.

“That's more damage than any economic policy pursued by any president in the last, probably in American history,” Summers said Thursday in a CNN interview.

Republican pollster Sarah Longwell thinks that President Donald Trump's carefully crafted image is faltering as his economic policies leave Americans desperate.

"Trump's carefully curated impression, you know, through his years on 'The Apprentice,' for voters is that he's a businessman. So, I hear it over and over and over again when people say, look, I don't like his personality or, you know, I don't always like the way he behaves this way or that. But he's a businessman, and I think he's going to lower prices. I think he's going to do good things for the economy. And so right now, what you're seeing is Donald Trump taking a knife to the mythology that keeps him above water with people."

House Speaker Mike Johnson was dealt yet another blow when President Donald Trump weighed in on the bitter internal GOP fight over whether to allow members of Congress on maternity leave to vote from home.

"You’re having a baby, you should be able to call in and vote,” Trump said Thursday, as reported by The Associated Press' White House correspondent Seung Min Kim. “I’m in favor of that.”

The Department of Justice appeared before Judge James Boasberg for a Thursday contempt hearing, discussing the specifics of whether the U.S. government defied his temporary restraining order to prevent deportations to El Salvador.

In a court hearing on March 16, Boasberg said that two flights carrying immigrants to El Salvador and Honduras must immediately turn around. The judge also issued a temporary restraining order barring President Donald Trump from using an 18th-century law to justify additional deportations.

The White House has been adamant: President Donald Trump’s sweeping mass tariffs, which he is imposing on nearly every country across the globe, are a line in the sand—non-negotiable, not up for discussion, debate, or deviation.

“This is not a negotiation,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN on Thursday, “emphasizing that the tariffs are part of a national emergency response to countries that have, in her view, harmed American workers for decades,” according to Newsweek.

A pro-MAGA outlet with a weekday livestream on Rumble had a blunt message for its followers a day after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that economists warned could cost consumers: “You do NOT need the new iPad.”

“You do NOT need the new Cell Phone. You do NOT need the new video game console,” The Quartering wrote Thursday on X. “You WANT them. There is a big difference and if you look at the people whining about the tariffs I challenge you to ask them how their lives have been affected in any way.”

President Donald Trump's new, sweeping regime of tariffs on imported goods from essentially the entire world is meant to build up American manufacturing, but the president will swiftly discover that it will have the opposite effect, warned the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Thursday — the latest in a long line of criticisms the board has written about Trump's trade policy.

The move toward "blowing up the world trading system," coming as Trump also seeks to dismantle much of the federal government, including institutions that boost manufacturing, will have several consequences, the board argued — none of them good.

President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay £626,000 in legal fees after a lawsuit he brought in England was thrown out of court, said The Guardian.

Trump sued Orbis Business Intelligence, a consulting firm founded by Christopher Steele, who penned an extensive memo that claimed Trump was conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. The dossier also alleged that as a result of those relationships in Russia, Trump was "compromised."

President Donald Trump's announcement of new tariffs sent Wall Street into a tailspin as investors panicked about the sharp new taxes on imports worldwide, which would curtail supply chains and raise prices. But to hear it from Trump loyalist Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), Trump has created a great opportunity for Americans by sending stock prices low enough for millions more people to buy the dip.

“I would go out and buy stocks today,” said Moreno, a former car dealership and crypto technology tycoon worth tens of millions of dollars, in conversation with reporters.

In what could be a U.S. first, President Donald Trump last week pardoned a criminal corporation, a move that largely flew under the proverbial radar amid his pardon spree for white-collar criminals including at least one of his supporters.

On March 28, Trump pardoned HDR Global Trading, the owner and operator of the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX; company co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed; and former business development chief Gregory Dwyer.

On Wednesday afternoon, April 2, President Donald Trump had a visitor in the White House Oval Office: far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, a self-described "proud Islamophobe" who is controversial even among fellow Trump supporters.

During the meeting, according to reporters Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Ken Bensinger, Loomer "pressed for him to fire National Security Council staff members whom she deemed disloyal to him."

An email asks that fired Food and Drug Administration (FDA) workers return to work after they were let go or put on paid leave.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that the request came mere hours after workers were shut out of government offices.

CNBC journalist Steve Liesman on Thursday found himself absolutely baffled by the math that President Donald Trump and his administration were using to justify the massive tariffs they slapped on nearly every nation in the world.

While discussing the tariffs, Liesman said he immediately knew something was off with Trump's presentation in the Rose Garden when he falsely claimed that the European Union charged 39 percent tariffs on American goods.