MSNBC's @Ari Melber 📺 🎤 reacts to recent comments from Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who said during a CBS interview that a recession as a result of the administration's policies would be "worth it." "You think about what America's been through from pandemic on and inflation on — no one in this last election cycle was asking for policies that would increase the odds of recession," Melber said. #trump #commerce #news #politics #economy #news

Trump threatened to impose more retaliatory tariffs on the European Union after the bloc said it would implement tariffs on the U.S. next month in response to tariffs on steel and aluminum by the Trump administration. "The European Union treats us very badly. They have for years," Trump said in remarks to reporters while sitting in the Oval Office with Taoiseach of Ireland Micheál Martin. #trump #tariffs #politics #news

BREAKING: Canada announced new trade duties on some $21 billion worth of U.S. goods in response to President Donald Trump implementing universal steel and aluminum tariffs. In a news conference announcing the retaliatory duties, a Canadian government spokesman called Trump's tariffs "completely unjustified, unfair and unreasonable." #breakingnews #news #canada #tariff #economy #trump

President Trump turned the South Lawn of the White House into a temporary Tesla showroom in a conspicuous favor to his adviser Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the car company. Tesla delivered five vehicles for Trump to inspect, hours after he said in a social media post that he planned to buy a Tesla to demonstrate his support for Musk and the slumping car company. Co-host of MSNBC's new primetime edition of “The Weekend,”Catherine Rampell, joins Alicia Menendez to discuss. #trump #musk #tesla #politics #whitehouse #news

WATCH: Trump's campaign rhetoric on the economy versus what's actually happening. #politics #economy #trump #stocks #news