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Transcript: Trump Wrecks Own Case for Tariffs in Truly Weird Tirade
Sargent: To circle back to where this all started, Trump just revealed yet again that the whole thing is really absurd. So we talked…
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Trump Wrecks Republicans’ Biggest Talking Points on Zohran Mamdani
President Donald Trump’s fawning over Zohran Mamdani Friday may have just detonated Republicans’ strategy for the 2026 midterm elections.…
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Transcript: Trump Wrecks His Case for Tariffs as SCOTUS Rant Backfires
And what those deals mean, I think, are up for interpretation. They often mean whatever is good for Trump. And so being able to get…
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Trump Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs as Bizarre SCOTUS Rant Backfires
Signs are mounting that the Supreme Court might invalidate President Trump’s tariffs, and he’s clearly on edge about it. Trump just vented…
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Tornado kills six, wrecks town in Brazil
A tornado killed at least six people and injured more than 400 as it destroyed most of a town in southern Brazil, authorities said…
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Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Eruption Wrecks Trump Shutdown Scam
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This…
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Trump Wrecks America. His “Patriotic” Fans Cheer. Is There Any Bottom?
This is certainly an “only in America” story, but I do not mean that in the normal, heroic sense. I mean it in the creepy, corporate,…
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Transcript: Trump Accidentally Wrecks MAGA’s Dumb New Jimmy Kimmel Lie
And this goes to the heart of our system. I have begun, Greg, to have some doubts about whether our civil society has the strength to push…
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Transcript: Krugman Wrecks Trump’s Europe Deal: “Scam on His Voters”
Krugman: Yeah. It’s going to hurt all of us a little bit, but Trump voters are particularly in the class of people who are hurt by what…
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Paul Krugman Brutally Wrecks Trump’s Europe Deal: “Scam on His Voters”
You’ve probably heard that President Trump and the European Union have reached a big trade deal. This is being widely portrayed as a “win”…
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Transcript: Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Esptein Scam in Odd Rant
So you’re right in that it’s not just Trump. Sometimes we in the media shorthand this. And of course we want to know what’s in there about…
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Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Epstein Lie as Musk Goes for Jugular
President Trump just offered some bizarre new ramblings about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. But he undermined himself: He claimed to know…
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Transcript: Stephen Miller Rages at Low Arrests—and Wrecks a MAGA Scam
Sargent: I think Trump knows that he’s got a problem here as well with the ICE morale issue and with the unpopularity of what we’re…
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Stephen Miller Rages Wildly at Low Arrests—and Wrecks a Big Trump Scam
Stephen Miller recently berated ICE officials in a private meeting, demanding that they hit supercharged new arrest quotas and…
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Trump Turns Sharply on Musk as Harsh New Data Wrecks Case for GOP Bill
President Donald Trump appears to have finally turned on Elon Musk over his scalding criticism of the “big, beautiful bill.” At a presser,…
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Trump’s Takeover Wrecks Kennedy Center as Subscriptions Plummet
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is suing New Jersey’s acting Attorney General Alina Habba and a Department of Homeland Security special agent on…
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Transcript: Trump’s Angry Tirade at Walmart Wrecks His Own Tariff Scam
I will say it’s not just the tariffs that are potentially going to result in high prices for Americans. There are a whole host of other…
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JD Vance Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Vile Scam on Abrego Garcia Case
As it happens, as G. Elliott Morris details, polling also shows broad disapproval of other particular moves—like deporting people to…
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Transcript: Fox Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Spin as Tariff Panic Grows
We heard a preview of this as the stock market was tanking over the last few weeks. They said, OK, there’s a little bit of pain, but there…
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Fox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens
After President Trump’s supposed tariff “pause,” we still have a 10 percent tariff on most global imports; the trade war with China is…
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Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner
The Wall Street Journal reports that in a private call with CEOs of the nation’s leading auto companies this month, the president warned…