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“We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others. The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A. They are already in effect, and a beautiful thing to behold. The Surplus with these Countries has grown during the ‘Presidency’ of Sleepy Joe …

EuroNews reports: US President Donald Trump insisted he had not deliberately triggered the intense market sell-offs but reaffirmed his goal of eliminating the US trade deficit. “I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “We have to solve our trade deficit with China,” …

Washington City Paper reports: President Donald Trump for years has lusted after a big military parade over which he could preside — just like he sees leaders do in other mostly authoritative countries. During his first term in 2018, Trump wanted a grandiose military parade on the streets of D.C. But Trump angrily and reluctantly canceled his plans after military …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump claimed to have won yet another golf tournament on Sunday—with the president spending all weekend on the course while global markets continue their downward spiral after the announcement of his controversial tariffs. As he was headed back to Washington, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he “won” the Senior Club Championship in …

Mediaite reports: CBS anchor Margaret Brennan challenged Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over how the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariff policy targeted remote territories such as the Heard and McDonald Islands on Sunday. She asked Lutnick, “Like, why are the Heard and McDonald Islands, which don’t export to the United States and are quite literally inhabited by penguins, why do …

The Hill reports: In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker asked Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent about remarks from last January, when Bessent wrote, “Tariffs are inflationary.” “Have you expressed any concerns to President Trump directly that his tariff policy could be inflationary?” Welker asked. “No, what I have said are tariffs are a one-time price adjustment,” …

“Just since January 20th, we’ve had over 170 lawsuits filed against us. That should be the constitutional crisis right there, 50 injunctions. They’re popping up every single day, trying to control his executive power, trying to control where he believes our tax dollars should be allocated. “It’s basically a game of whack-a-mole with these district court judges around the country …

CNN HOST JAKE TAPPER: “President Trump laid out with a giant graphic of all the countries where tariffs were going to be, what he called reciprocal tariffs, were going be imposed. And you’re imposing a 10% tariff on the herd in McDonald Islands. The McDonald Islands have zero human inhabitants. They have zero exports, they have zero imports. They do …

Politico Europe reports: U.S. President Donald Trump has interfered in French politics with his tirade against the conviction of French far-right politician Marine Le Pen, France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou charged on Sunday. In an interview with Le Parisien, Bayrou called Trump’s social-media defense of Marine Le Pen an example of interference. “Interference has become the law of the world,” …

“We need a Senate that will convict him this time, and I want you to know, from my heart, from my heart, I understand that he is a Goliath. He is a Goliath. He has control of the generals in the military. He has control of the Justice Department. He has control of the Republican Party, but my friends, my …

Mediaite reports: Trump is participating in golf tournaments over the weekend, and a statement on his progress sent out by the pool went viral Saturday among members of the press for being “tone deaf” or worse, after a terrible week for the stock market and the president opting out of a solemn ceremony for fallen American service members to attend …

The Associated Press reports: Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues. More than 1,200 “Hands Off!” demonstrations were planned by more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and elections activists. The …

Courthouse News reports: A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration had violated his order to halt sweeping freezes to federal funding by withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to at least 19 states. It seemed to be a “covert” effort to punish states with so-called sanctuary laws for immigrants, the judge said. In March, U.S. District Judge …

The Times of London reports: Jaguar Land Rover is pausing shipments of its British-made cars to America as the fallout from President Trump’s tariffs reverberates around the global economy. One of Britain’s biggest carmakers, JLR is making the move from Monday while it works out how to mitigate the cost of the 25 per cent import tariff that the US …

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that’s not how it’s working out. Turns out, it doesn’t take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together. In all of his books, Peter Navarro has cited an …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Barack Obama called on universities and law firms to stand up to intimidation from President Donald Trump’s administration and urged Americans to prepare to “possibly sacrifice” in support of democratic values. In a speech Thursday night at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Obama also accused Trump’s government of working to destroy the international …

The Baltimore Banner reports: A federal judge in Maryland ordered the United States government to return a deported Beltsville man by 11:59 p.m. Monday in a case she called “unprecedented.” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ruled against the Trump administration’s argument that the court had no jurisdiction, and said the record reflects that 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia was …

CBS News reports: As stocks continued to slide after markets opened, President Trump spike at a $1 million dollar-a-person candlelight dinner Friday at Mar-a-Lago. MAGA Inc. can raise unlimited money but is barred from coordinating directly with Mr. Trump’s campaign arm. The fine print for the Friday’s invitation says the president is attending as a guest speaker and not soliciting donations. …

CNBC reports: Trump on Friday shared an outlandish social media video that defends his recent policy decisions by arguing he is deliberately taking down the market as a strategic play to force lower interest and mortgage rates. “Trump is crashing the stock market by 20% this month, but he’s doing it on purpose,” alleged the video, which Trump posted on …

“If the trade is that I experience and you experience and we all experience some short-term pain in a 401(k) or in the market, money’s liquid, man. Losing money costs you absolutely nothing. Losing your country costs you everything. “Option B is to preserve this country and to strengthen it and to put up walls around this nation to make …