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Joke’s On Me? HBO Comedian Bill Maher Admits Defeat on Trump Tariffs
Talk about being the butt of the joke. HBO comedian Bill Maher actually conceded that his typical smart aleck prediction that President Donald Trump's tariffs would wreck the economy by this point was way off the mark.

MEDIA FAIL: New Poll Shows Americans Spurning Doomism on Trump Economy
The leftist media couldn’t convince people that Bidenomics was the American economy’s saving grace. And now they’re failing to convince people that President Donald Trump’s policies are somehow going to drive the economy into Armageddon.

Dumb CNN Logic: Nixing Capital Gains Tax Will Increase Home Prices!
Why pay higher prices in a more competitive housing market when you can just keep paying compulsory taxes on your capital gains? That’s effectively the head-scratching argument CNN tried to make to ding President Trump’s tax-cutting agenda.

Living Under a Rock? WashPost CRIES Trump Politicizing Federal Reserve
Here’s a rule of thumb: Anybody who thinks that the Federal Reserve isn’t innately a political entity should have his head examined. But the collective of prefrontal cortex-challenged geniuses on The Washington Post editorial board are acting as if this politicization only started when President Donald Trump started putting pressure on Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.…

SHOCK: Washington Post Admits ‘Trump Economy Remains Pretty Strong’
The Washington Post is finding it impossible to admit that all the media scareporn about the Trump economy turned out to be less realistic than B-movies without still making it seem like disaster is just around the corner.

OOF! CNN Hit With One-Two Punch by Excellent Jobs Reports for Trump
CNN keeps getting hit like a punching bag with good reports that continue to blow its scare porn about President Donald Trump supposedly destroying the economy to smithereens. But this time, they got hit two days in a row.

So CNN, Where’s that Great Depression You Were Griping About in April?
The stock market continues to go gangbusters, so MRC Business thought it would be worth revisiting one of CNN’s dumbest End-of-the-World predictions about the Trump presidency to date.

DIDN’T HAPPEN: CNN Claimed Iran Strike Would Spur Surging Oil Prices
CNN is the latest to suffer from the utter humiliation of prophesying Armageddon-level economic catastrophe as a result of President Donald Trump’s military strikes on Iran, only to have their predictions collapse faster than Biden on the steps of Air Force One.

HUH? CNN Claims Good News of Falling Prices ‘Might Be for Bad Reasons’
CNN has a weird obsession with making itself look completely stupid by trying to stoke bad vibes whenever it has to report on any good news that can somehow benefit President Donald Trump. Instead of just reporting the straight news on price pressure relief for American consumers, CNN reporter Matt Egan instead chose May 14 to run one of the dumbest Tasmanian Devil spin headlines yet, “Good…

DOW DOOM: CNN Cries Potential ‘Great Depression’ in Stock Market
President Donald Trump’s first 100 days haven’t even been completed yet and CNN is already whipping out "Great Depression" scare porn to describe the current stock market under his administration. No, you didn’t misread that.

Snooty Nicolle Wallace: Walmart's Where You Go If You Forgot Something
On Deadline White House, snooty host Nicolle Wallace suggests that Walmart is the place you shop if you forgot an item. Blaming President Trump, Wallace also claims that the economy is in "mortal danger." Her evidence: the stock market was down 700 points today.

‘Jackass’ Scarborough Walks Back ‘I Told You So’ Stock Market Panic
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is having a rough day. The same media schlub who waved around the “I told you so” foam finger when stocks whipsawed on April 7 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs is doing the backstroke now after the markets surged just a day later.

AMAZING! Inverse Cramer Does It Again With Botched 'Black Monday' Call
CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer may really be an inverted soothsayer, as yet another of his predictions went in the complete opposite direction. That’s probably what happens when your brain just happens to be screwed on backwards.

TARIFFDOME: Scott Jennings Stands Tall for American Snacks
A very interesting exchange on last night’s CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip (AKA The Thunderdome) proved that a worthy argument can be undermined by an ineffective spokesperson. In this case, a point on the everyday effects of tariffs on imported goods that ended with Scott Jennings standing tall in defense of American snack foods.