Donald Trump's television diet is ordinarily filled with the junk food and empty calories of Fox News, or OAN, or other devoted purveyors of MAGA propaganda. He feels secure in the bunker he has built that is populated by friendly pundits whose perpetual outpouring of praise feeds his massive, yet fragile ego.
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Trump's fear of honest reporting keeps him in a state of constant anxiety and debilitating dread. However, on occasion he manages to stiffen his noodly spine sufficiently to hate-watch news programs that are something less than worshipful. In the meantime he barricades himself behind a wall of disciples who are ordered to sing his divine praises...
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On Friday morning Trump took to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, to express his outrage at a segment he had watched on MSNBC's Morning Joe. The segment featured an interview of Stephanie Ruhle, a financial expert and host of an MSNBC primetime show. Ruhle's analysis of Trump's recessionary tariffs triggered another one of Trump's tormented tantrums. He wrote that...
"I just watched an exhausted, highly neurotic Stephanie Ruhle spew LIES about Tariffs, as do many others, in order not to give me the Victory that they all see coming."
As usual, Trump is delusional. Ruhle's reporting (video below), unlike Trump's rant, was calm, reasonable, and rooted in facts. It was in line with what most reputable economists have concluded about Trump's disastrous tax attacks on America's international trading partners.
Trump went on to call his alleged "deal" with the UK "AMAZING," and claimed, contrary to reality, that "We’re going to make a fortune with Tariffs [but that] only smart people understand that." He still hasn't explained how there will be any revenue from tariffs after he's made all the deals he has promised in order to remove them.
Continuing in his infamously infantile fashion, Trump insulted Ruhle as "Never known as a 'High IQ” person.'" And in closing he accused MSNBC of engaging in a "Major Campaign Violation," and raged that...
"MSDNC has become the Voice of the Democrat Party, and they should be treated as a Political Advocate with all of the Taxes and Penalties therefrom. Their Ratings are terrible, but Brian Roberts and his crew should be forced to TELL THE TRUTH."
Trump's tunnel-blindness in asserting that MSNBC is "the Voice of the Democrat Party," while ignoring how Fox News is literally aligned with his administration, is the purest form of hypocrisy. MSNBC has numerous Republicans on their roster, including Joe Scarborough, whose show he was actually watching as he unleashed this screed. Trump, meanwhile has recruited at least 21 Fox News hacks to serve in his White House.
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What's more, Trump is again demanding that the free press protections in the Constitution be discarded so that he can impose "Taxes and Penalties" on the network, and "force" it to tell whatever bullpucky he regards as the truth.
For the record, the segment that is apparently the cause of Trump's concern included the following discourse by Ruhle who warned that Trump "needs to get off this crazy tariff train, and he knows it." [Because] unless he turns this around...we're going to have a COVID-like supply chain crisis."
"Donald Trump is backed into a corner. His grand plan of tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, aren't working. You're seeing, day in and day out, more business leaders - whether it's Warren Buffett or Jamie Dimon or Ken Griffin - on big global stages saying 'This is going to crush us economically.' And then you've got congressmen, senators, saying to this White House 'our small businesses are strangling, are dying here.'"
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"Unless he turns this around, three weeks from now, you walk into a store and we're going to have a covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit" -- here's the @stephruhle.bsky.social commentary that triggered a Trump Truth Social meltdown
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-09T16:31:48.237Z
Everything that Ruhle said was true and verifiable. Conversely, everything that Trump said was fantasy and preposterous. Not to mention un-American and inspired by the authoritarian practices of Trump's heroes, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un. But then, what do you expect from a wannabe dictator who doom-scrolls cable TV networks that he despises?
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