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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's glib response to seniors possibly not receiving their Social Security checks set off the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Sunday with host Michael Steele repeatedly shouting "How dare you?"

In an interview with podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya, the Donald Trump appointees claimed, "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain," before adding that anyone who protested the delay could well be a "fraudster."

After sharing the clip on Sunday morning, both Steele and co-host Symone Sanders Townsend covered their mouths in shock and dismay before Steele went off on a scathing rant.

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With Sanders Townsend calling the billionaire Trump appointee's comments "tone deaf" at minimum, Steele interjected, "What is his net worth?"

"So your mama would call you, she would call you and guess what you would do? You'd write her a check," Steele exclaimed. "But what about the mother who doesn't have someone that they can call to put money in that bank account for a month? You insensitive lug! How dare you? How dare you?"

Pointing to Lutnick's reported wealth, he continued, "$4 billion? Yeah, your mama's not going to work because if you're if you're any kind of a decent son, you're going to cover that month. But there are a lot of mothers out there who don't have that. How dare you?"

"I mean, this is the arrogance right now in America," he ranted. "This is the arrogance. They're looking you in the eye and saying you can miss your payments, you'll be okay,,you can feed your family with no money, you can clothe your family with no money for a month –– you can do that."

"You arrogant SOB," he added. "$4 billion and sitting there telling America you can miss a payment. My daddy's on Social Security. What is he going to do? He's going to come to me if he misses the payment because he's got a resource. He's got a son who can help him. He's got a daughter who can help him. But there are families that don't have people who can help them."

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy, argued that it "doesn't matter" whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to take over Europe.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Witkoff told host Shannon Bream that Putin "wants peace" in Ukraine despite overnight attacks that killed at least seven people.

Corporations believing boycotts related to bowing down to Donald Trump's demands are being advised that the damage to their brands could linger longer than was once believed.

The president's war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has been embraced by companies including Target, Pepsi, Amazon and McDonalds which have rolled back their own programs and subsequently have led to public fury and then boycotts for abandoning their principles.

Donald Trump's war on judges, which has earned him a rare rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, will not end well for him according to one highly influential retired judge who served on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

In a column in the New York Times on Sunday morning, conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig wrote that, by trying to bully the courts to rubber-stamp his agenda with criticism and threats, Trump risks a wave of blow-back that will end his re-election honeymoon.

Canada's new prime minister Mark Carney is expected to announce snap elections Sunday, seeking a stronger mandate as his country fights off a trade war and annexation threats from Donald Trump's United States.

The former central banker was chosen by the centrist Liberal Party to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister, but he has never faced the broader Canadian electorate.

White House envoy Steve Witkoff has praised Vladimir Putin in glowing terms as trustworthy and said the Russian leader told him he had prayed for his "friend" US President Donald Trump when he was shot.

Witkoff met with Putin over multiple hours last week in Moscow and told US media the talks -- which involved discussions about forging a path towards ending Russia's war in Ukraine -- were constructive and "solution-based."

In just a few weeks, the US tourism outlook has clouded as a result of some of President Donald Trump's policy decisions, which have angered some foreign visitors and prompted fear of a surge in prices and a stronger dollar.

Foreign traveler arrivals in the United States are expected to decline by 5.1 percent in 2025 compared to last year, against a previously projected increase of 8.8 percent, Tourism Economics said in a report published late last month.

A jovial new podcast in which California Governor Gavin Newsom pals around with provocative right-wing guests has infuriated the Democratic Party, as its leaders clash over the best way to fight back against Donald Trump.

In an apparent bid to court centrist US voters, Newsom -- a presumed frontrunner for the Democratic leadership -- this month launched "This is Gavin Newsom," pledging to talk to "those I fundamentally disagree with."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raised onlookers' eyebrows on Saturday with an attack on a judge who recently ruled against the Trump administration in a court case about banning transgender troops.

A right-wing news source recently reported that, "U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes orders Pentagon to allow transgender troops, calls Trump ban ‘unabashedly demeaning.'"

Chief Justice John Roberts may have been sending Donald Trump a message, but it's the President's response that concerned a Supreme Court writer on Saturday.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, and was asked about Roberts issuing a rare statement suggesting that appeals, not impeachments, are how to handle court orders you don't like.

A judge might decide to prosecute Trump's DOJ officials for disobeying a court order, despite the fact that Trump would likely pardon them, an ex-prosecutor said on Saturday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance over the weekend weighed in on the case in which Judge James Boasberg ordered Trump's DOJ to turn planes around as they deported Venezuelan immigrants to a third country's prison. Vance told a story which she said could tell us how Boasberg might handle the Alien Enemy Act case, "where the government seems disinclined to provide factual information regarding contempt allegations the Judge is reviewing."

Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas took heat from anti-Donald Trump observers and MAGA on Saturday after he posted a "staged" photo.

Cornyn, who has been largely supportive of Trump's agenda but has bucked the President at other times, took to X this week to post a photo of himself reading Trump's Art of the Deal. The ghostwriter for that book has since opposed the President.

Donald Trump's recent reply to a reporter's question is sure to end up hurting the President in court, according to another reporter on Saturday.

A MSNBC reporter flagged a "confusing" response from Trump, who was asked about why he signed a controversial immigration order in the dead of night but replied by saying someone else handled it. The White House has said Trump was talking about the law on which is order was based, which was signed hundreds of years ago, but MSNBC panelists were skeptical.