Trump on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning: "There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting."
Squawk Box's Joe Kernen asks Trump about cryptocurrency. Trump serves up a word salad and quickly pivots to talking about his sneakers.
Trump on CNBC confuses NATO and the European Union but reiterates that he told allies during his presidency that he wouldn't protect them unless they boosted military spending
Trump on CNBC claims that the 10 percent tariff he wants to implement isn't inflationary because the US could cut taxes to make up for it. (It doesn't work like that!)
Trump claims that steelworkers would come up to him crying and hug and kiss him
"Let American companies come back to America" -- Trump says he would simply tell companies like Starbucks and McDonald's that it will be more difficult for them to do business in China while he's president
"I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people along with a lot of the media" -- Trump on CNBC
CNBC: Under your presidency, what can you tell us about how stable the US will be, especially as it appears you are stoking a political divide. You had a rally in Waco, Texas
TRUMP: Well, when I had the rally in Waco, we had 100k people show up. That's where they wanted to rally
Trump on CNBC's Squawk Box touts the endorsement authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán just gave him at Mar-a-Lago
Trump winds down his lengthy CNBC interview by (unprompted!) smearing E Jean Carrol as "Ms. Bergdort Goodman," claiming he never met her, and accusing her of making false claims about him
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Grassley kicks things off by saying Republicans recognize that Biden won the 2020 election -- something the leader of his party has never in fact been able to bring himself to admit
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Sen. Roger Wicker: "This nomination is unconventional, just like that New York developer who rode down the escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for president. That may be what makes Mr. Hegseth an excellent choice."
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Trump: "If I didn't know that we won in 2020, I wouldn't have done this."
Pete Hegseth's mom Penelope on Fox & Friends makes a direct appeal on behalf of her son to Trump
Penelope Hegseth goes full MAGA on Fox & Friends by attacking the media for coverage of a letter she wrote to her son Pete criticizing him for his abusing behavior
"Not the Pete from seven years ago. But the Pete of today" -- Pete Hegseth's mom Penelope on Fox & Friends claims Pete is now a changed man
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Trump is extremely orange. Almost looks like a pumpkin.