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CNN's Dana Bash on Thursday mocked President Donald Trump for leveling tariffs against an island that are inhabited solely by penguins.

"No one is safe from President Trump's new tariffs, not even penguins," she said. "A remote island near Antarctica that is home to mainly penguins, no humans, is now subject to a 10 percent American tariff. This is not a joke. We are not kidding. These penguins, who do not trade goods or services with the United States as far as we know, are on the receiving end of a new tax."

Declaring a “national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life,” President Donald Trump, after markets closed on Wednesday afternoon, announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every nation across the globe—tanking stock market futures in the U.S. and abroad, unleashing global “chaos,” and pushing the so-called “fear index” to “extreme.”

Hours after what he dubbed “Liberation Day,” the president, on Thursday afternoon, will land at Miami International Airport and head straight to his Trump National Doral Golf Club for the LIV dinner, ahead of this weekend’s golf tournament which he is expected to attend.

One of Elon Musk's DOGE team members gained access to highly sensitive data involving thousands of children, including their mental health and therapy records.

The Unaccompanied Alien Children portal (UAC) contains extremely detailed records about minors who enter the U.S. alone, and the database contains reports of trauma such as physical or sexual abuse, in addition to photos, immigration records and addresses of their family members, reported The Guardian.

Donald Trump's unprovoked trade war with Canada is hitting his adopted home state of Florida in unintended ways as visitors from north of the U.S. border are seeking warm weather elsewhere rather than their usual haunts.

According to a report from the Washington Post, while hot spots like San Diego and Palm Springs in Southern California, and Phoenix in Arizona are also seeing a decline in visitors, the Sunshine State is seeing a drastic drop with the head of Visit Lauderdale claiming, "There is a lot of anger out there."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took a shot at Monica Crowley, President Donald Trump's nominee for Chief of Protocol, after she spent years defending former President Richard Nixon.

While introducing Crowley at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cruz noted that Crowley had disagreed with a book he wrote where he called Nixon a "crook."

President Donald Trump's trade war is a continuation of his American isolationism across all administration policies, said former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH).

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Kasich said that he hoped that the Trump tariffs were nothing more than a negotiating ploy.

The White House fired at least three National Security Council staffers after president Donald Trump met with far-right influencer Laura Loomer, according to three sources familiar with the situation.

Loomer met with the president Wednesday in the Oval Office and urged him to fire principal deputy national security advisor Alex Wong and others she believed were disloyal to the Trump agenda, but it was not immediately clear if he was among the three staffers who were let go, reported CNN.

The U.S. car company Stellantis has announced that it will stop producing vehicles at plants in Mexico and Canada as President Donald Trump's tariffs take effect.

Trump announced a 25% tax on automobiles, and according to one MSNBC host, Trump's tariffs are already hitting Americans.

A top aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson pleaded not guilty after facing a charge of operating a motor vehicle under the influence the night President Donald Trump made a speech to a joint session of Congress.

Politico reported that Hayden Haynes appeared Thursday at a hearing before D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Heide Herrmann via video conference. Stuart Sears, a prominent white collar attorney, accompanied Johnson's aide.

As part of a report on MSNBC on insecure young men leaning into conservatism and Christianity, the leader of the evangelical Promise Keepers organization attacked same sex-couples and was on the receiving end of pushback from NBC's Morgan Radford.

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Radford shared her reporting on the surge of men turning to the church. Radford spoke with Promise Keepers CEO Shane Winnings in order to get a feel for why the sudden interest as women increasingly are leaving.

"Are you seeing more young men, Gen Z come into the church?" she asked.

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"Yeah, we," he replied before adding, "I think it's very intentional, and I think the messaging from the administration was very intentional."

"The Trump administration?"

"Yeah, it was to win those kind of people you know, the young people, the men who want to be men," he elaborated. "What we're seeing in this erosion where now anyone can be a family. You know, two men can be a family and they can adopt kids, which I think is problematic. Two women could be a family, they can adopt kids. Marriage doesn't mean anything anymore."

"What threat is that to you? If those two men love each other?" Radford shot back.

"Because you can point statistically to our society being eroded from within because two men automatically create an unstable household. Because that is not god's design for a family," he retorted.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a longtime political ally of President Donald Trump, scrambled on Thursday to introduce legislation to put new limits on President Donald Trump's powers to unilaterally slap tariffs on foreign goods.

Via CNBC's Carl Quintanilla, Grassley is joining with Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to push new legislation requiring Congress to authorize all tariffs enacted by the president within 60 days of their issuance.