Howard Lutnick Defends Tariffs

-- On the Show:

-- Donald Trump repeatedly praises New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during a meeting with him at the White House and appears unusually deferential

-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her 2026 resignation over frustrations with the Republican Party and Donald Trump publicly mocks her

-- Donald Trump shuts down DOGE, his signature waste cutting agency, after it becomes a source of waste and officials pretend it never existed

-- Donald Trump posts a series of frantic late-night messages attacking allies and inventing achievements on Truth Social

-- A clinical psychologist warns that Donald Trump shows clear dementia symptoms as footage surfaces of him walking unsteadily

-- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins defends Trump's failing farm policies while repeatedly contradicting herself under basic questioning

-- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins struggles to explain inflation data and makes claims that conflict with publicly available economic facts

-- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushes Trump's tariff message while offering talking points that conflict with basic economic reality

-- Elon Musk releases an accountability feature on X that reveals many major pro-Trump accounts are operated from overseas

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump is set to propose a plan on ACA subsidies, Eric Swalwell announces he is running for governor of California, Democrats consider ranked choice voting for the primaries, and much more...

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(00:00) Start (01:56) Trump praises NYC mayor (12:14) Greene resigns, mocked by Trump (22:17) Trump shuts down DOGE (27:49) Trump rants on Truth Social (33:39) Psychologist flags dementia signs (41:45) Rollins defends failing farm policies (50:15) Rollins misrepresents inflation data (56:00) Lutnick pushes conflicting tariffs (1:07:14) Musk exposes pro-Trump overseas accounts