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President Donald Trump spoke for an hour with NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker and claimed that things going wrong in America are the fault of former President Joe Biden — and things that go well are because of him.

The comment prompted an MSNBC economics panel to laugh Monday.

“When does it become the Trump economy?” Welker asked Trump in the extensive interview that aired Sunday.

“It partially is right now,” Trump replied. “I think the good parts are the Trump economy, and the bad parts are the Biden economy.”

Trump alleged the interview was "dishonest."

Speaking Monday, MSNBC host Ana Cabrera asked for a reaction from Jared Bernstein, former chairman of the Board of Economic Advisers.

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Well, my reaction is that if this interview goes well, it's because of me. And if it goes badly, it's because of the other panelists," Bernstein said, as the other panelists and the host cracked up laughing. "It's as simple as that."

Cabrera quipped, "That's what I tell my producers. It's your fault if I mess up."

"I can't imagine anyone hearing that thinking it's anything other than ridiculous," agreed Bernstein.

NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans warned that the big banks anticipate a coming recession due to Trump's trade war.

"Well, I mean, there's a big concern about his tariffs and whether they slow growth, and maybe lead to higher inflation, and the major banks are really struggling with whether this could be something that, instead of just being slower growth and higher inflation, actually is something really terrible: A recession," she said.

"JP Morgan puts it at a 60% chance [of] a recession. Goldman Sachs and Citi about a 40% to 45% chance. But Bank of America says you could avoid one. What does that mean? It means no one knows for sure."

However, the bad news is the U.S. isn't "debating how blockbuster the economy is. We're debating how bad the pain will be," she added.

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A new report from The Guardian delves into the "new media" personalities given prime seats in the White House press room that many say are perpetuating propaganda through "fawning, softball, or otherwise baffling questions.”

One example is Podcast host Tim Pool, who joined the press room last week.

A known far-right conspiracy theorist, Pool was paid almost $10 million by Russian state media operatives to publish videos promoting Moscow’s interests and agenda, according to the Guardian.

In his question to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Pool attacked media outlets by asking, “I’m wondering if you can comment on their unprofessional behavior as well as elaborate if there’s any plans to expand access to new companies?”

“We want to welcome all viewpoints into this room,” Leavitt replied.

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Another pro-Trump ‘influencer’ allowed into the press room is Dominick McGee. Known as Dom Lucre, the Guardian described him as a “self-styled Black Maga influencer.”

He is known to disseminate conspiracy theories on social media, including amplifying Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election he lost was fraudulent, and promoting the QAnon fiction that the so-called deep state was conspiring to usurp the president.

He asked Leavitt, “Is there any possibility for names such as Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to ever possibly get investigated for … any of the wrongdoings they might have done?”

The press secretary called the question “refreshing.”

One softball question Leavitt received came from TikTok creator Link Lauren.

Known as “Maga Malfoy” because of his resemblance to the Harry Potter character Draco Malfoy, he asked, “You’re a very high-profile young mother who seems to juggle and balance it all beautifully. What advice do you have to young parents out there who are starting their careers, having kids, building families, and trying to find that balance so desperately?”

Leavitt had no advice to offer.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) raged that unnamed advisers to President Donald Trump were "lying to him."

During a Monday interview with MGA influencer Steve Bannon, Greene reflected on complaints she made last week about the Trump administration moving closer to war with Iran — and losing his MAGA base.

"First off, Fox is making a huge deal of this, everybody's making a huge deal of this," Bannon told Greene. "Now you see a wedge coming between the base and President Trump. Nothing would be further from the truth."

"That's a lie," Greene agreed. "The wedge is between Congress and the establishment Republicans that are undermining the president's agenda. And also anyone that gets in the president's ear and is lying to him about what he should be doing, you know, here's the real issue."

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"We are embracing Make America Great Again, MAGA, America First, MAHA, No More Foreign Wars, this whole populist movement supporting America and American workers and American companies and American interests and solving American problems," she continued. "What we saw is all these Republicans that rejected Trump fought Trump in his first administration."

"And here's the issue, Steve, is they think they can manipulate the president, but you can't manipulate the base."

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Two top Republican lawmakers are throwing a wrench into their own party’s budget strategy as they made clear they would reject proposed cuts to food assistance programs that were expected to help fund what President Donald Trump has dubbed the “big, beautiful bill” on taxes, immigration and defense.”

That’s according to the Washington Post, which reported Thursday that the chairs of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees – Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) – said they won’t support reductions to SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Thompson told the Post he would not support a redesign of the benefit formula that the Trump administration claims would result in billions of dollars in savings, while Boozman said that he is “not in favor of reducing benefits.”

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“Those declarations could scramble Republicans’ bid to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts while slashing trillions of dollars in spending from the federal budget,” the Post noted Thursday. “The GOP is working to pass the legislation through a process called ‘reconciliation’ to allow the Senate to bypass a Democratic filibuster.”

Thompson added in his comments to the publication that his House committee can’t realistically meet the $230 billion in cuts called for in the GOP budget framework passed last month.

“I think it may have to be less than that,” Thompson reportedly said. However, Thompson said his committee is on the verge of capping the president’s ability to broaden food assistance benefits without congressional approval.

“That proposal would save $30 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper,” the Post reported.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is firing back after his 2026 primary opponent slammed his record in a new TV ad that aired not in the Lone Star State, but in President Donald Trump’s backyard.

The ad, funded by Preserving Texas, a group supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attacks Cornyn over his role in crafting a bipartisan safety bill in 2022, Axios reported Thursday. The group spent $60,000 to air the TV spot over the weekend on the Trump-approved Fox News, Newsmax and the Golf Channel in Palm Beach, home to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort, the publication added.

“As usual, President Trump was right,” the narrator says in the ad, which also references Trump’s past criticism of Cornyn as a “RINO,” another name for Republican in Name Only.

But Cornyn isn’t taking the hit lying down in an early preview of what is expected to be one of the nation’s most expensive and hotly contested Senate races of the 2026 midterms.

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“Corrupt Ken Paxton ordered up another mediocre campaign video that predictably lies about Senator Cornyn's long career of strongly supporting Second Amendment Rights," a Cornyn spokesperson, according to Axios. "As an avid hunter himself, Senator Cornyn supports the constitutional right to carry and always has."

The ad strategy highlights that the aggressive jockeying for Trump’s coveted MAGA endorsement has already begun, Axios pointed out Thursday. The approach has been tested before.

“Trump is a cable news junkie, and Republican candidates and interest groups are known to run ads in South Florida with an eye toward influencing him,” Axios reported. “In 2020, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie aired a commercial in Palm Beach in which he called his primary opponent a "Trump hater."

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke out Thursday against what she saw as President Donald Trump's efforts to bully and threaten the federal judiciary into submission, Politico reported.

The remarks from Jackson, the most junior member of the Supreme Court, came as she addressed a judge's conference in Puerto Rico.

“The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate,” she said. “The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.”

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President Donald Trump has escalated his verbal abuse of judges amid a series of rulings that block him from carrying out mass deportations and implementing various executive orders to reshape the civil service. Some of the judges to rule against him are judges Trump himself appointed. In other cases, like the dispute over returning wrongly deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran megaprison, observers have accused Trump of ignoring court orders outright.

As this standoff has continued, some of Trump's allies have advocated for stripping judges of power to prevent Trump from being challenged.

Jackson and the liberal wing of the Supreme Court do not stand alone in these criticisms. Chief Justice John Roberts has also spoken out, expressing worry that politicians on all sides are losing confidence in the judiciary, and particularly condemned Trump's call to impeach judges who rule against him.