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Int'l Business Times
02-07-2025
- Business
- Int'l Business Times
Fox Host Mocked After Learning of Job Decline on Live TV Despite Touting High 'Expectations': 'The Shock on Her Face'
A Fox News host is being ridiculed on social media after she seemingly learned about how jobs within the United States are steadily declining while on live television. Fox News host Maria Bartiromo appeared on her show, Mornings with Maria, where she discussed President Donald Trump's "one big, beautiful" tax and spending bill with various guests. "Of course President Trump is talking about this bill leading to growth in the economy. We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs numbers for the month of May," Bartiromo began. "The expectations call for the ADP numbers to be up 95,000 for the month of June rather, it's the June jobs data. Right now, seeing the number actually show a decline in jobs, down 33,000 on ADP," she said, seeming surprised. Social media users ridiculed Bartiromo for her surprise at the diminishing job numbers, as well as her expectation that the numbers would be way up. "Look at the shock on her face as she tries to cover it," said one user. "I, too, am often wrong by more than 130%," said another. "You can see the barely-constrained horror in his expression as he hears that and realizes," added a third. "That was the fastest segue in the history of broadcasting," a fourth joked as Bartiromo seemed to quickly change the subject. US private payrolls have decreased as 33,000 jobs were lost in June, according to the ADP National Employment Report. In May, the report revealed that 29,000 jobs had been lost, marking a steady decrease. Originally published on Latin Times
Time of India
01-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Donald Trump drops bombshell: US is hacking China just like they are hacking us
During a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo, Trump made a shocking claim that the U.S. is also hacking China, not just the other way around. Bartiromo first said that China hacked U.S. telecom systems, stole intellectual property, fentanyl, and even caused COVID. She asked, 'How can you trust China in business if they do all this?' Trump replied, 'You don't think we do that to them? We do. We do a lot of things.' Bartiromo was stunned and asked, 'That's how the world works?' Trump answered, 'Yeah. It's a nasty world', as stated by Fox News . Trade and tariffs Trump said there's a huge trade deficit with China, and China is paying heavy tariffs. He claimed he had a great relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping despite the issues. Trump blamed Joe Biden for letting the trade deficit rise to $1 trillion, as mentioned in the report by Independent. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Dhoni's Exclusive Home Interior Choice? HomeLane Get Quote Undo Trump said under his deal, tariffs on China were 145%, which 'stopped everything in China'. He claimed the U.S. 'did China a favor,' and that they're still getting along well. Trump insisted he could use more pressure on China, but only if he had to. Chinese nationals & pathogens Bartiromo said the U.S. just arrested 3 or 4 Chinese nationals trying to bring in a pathogen that could make people sick and destroy food, according to the report stated by Independent. Live Events Trump wasn't sure if the pathogen came from China officially or just crazy individuals. Bartiromo mentioned that one Chinese person signed a paper saying he valued Mao Zedong's system, as per reports. ALSO READ: Donald Trump drops bombshell: US is hacking China just like they are hacking us Rare earth minerals & business with China Bartiromo asked if China would stop forcing companies to give up info in return for access to rare earth minerals. Trump said companies shouldn't put themselves in that position. He said China now needs these companies more than before, as per the Independent report. Trump claimed many companies are now moving back to the U.S. He said China treated U.S. companies badly under Biden, but treats them better under Trump because they need them now. Past similar comment (Russia 2017) This China hacking comment reminded people of a 2017 interview where Trump said something similar about Russia. In that old interview, the host said Putin is a killer, but Trump replied, 'We've got a lot of killers too. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?', as stated by Fox News report. Trump said he respects many leaders, not necessarily likes them, and thinks it's better to get along with Russia if they help fight terrorism, as per the reports. FAQs Q1. Is the US really hacking China like China hacks the US? Yes, former President Donald Trump said the US does hack China, just like China hacks the US. He said 'that's how the world works' in an interview on Fox News. Q2. What did Trump say about US-China trade and tariffs? Trump said China pays big tariffs because of the US trade deal. He also said many companies are moving back to the US from China, and the trade deficit got worse under Joe Biden.
Atlantic
30-06-2025
- Business
- Atlantic
Trump Insults America—Again
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Oops, he did it again. On Sunday, President Donald Trump had a rambling conversation with the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. It was a typical Trump performance: He leaned into his trademark edge-of-the-chair crouch and spooled off long strings of words that were only sometimes on topic or related to one another. ('They call it 'magnets,'' he helpfully informed Bartimoro at one point when she asked about rare-earth minerals.) But when it came to China, Trump returned to one of his favorite themes: moral equivalence between the United States and authoritarian regimes. Bartiromo noted that authorities recently arrested some Chinese nationals accused of smuggling in biological materials that could threaten the U.S. food supply. 'We don't know where that came from,' Trump said, waving away the arrests as possibly nothing more than the apprehension of a few 'whackos.' Bartiromo pressed on: The Chinese have hacked 'into our telecom system; they've been stealing intellectual property; fentanyl, COVID, I mean, you know, all of this stuff, so how do you negotiate with obviously a bad actor and trust them on economics?' And then Trump went for it. 'You don't think we do that to them?' he said with a smirk. 'You don't think we do that to them?' he repeated as Bartiromo struggled during a few seconds of silence. 'We do,' the president said. 'We do a lot of things.' 'So,' Bartiromo asked, 'that's the way the world works?' Trump shrugged. 'That's the way the world works. It's a nasty world.' As a card-carrying expert who taught international relations for more than three decades, I can affirm the president's assertion that we do, in fact, live in a nasty world. But as a patriotic American, I have a bit more trouble with the idea that the United States of America and the People's Republic of China are just two bad kids on the playground. In my many travels to university campuses over the years, I have often heard that America is only one of many horrendous regimes in the world. Usually these pronouncements came from students trying out new intellectual clothes in the safety of an American classroom, or from radicals on the faculty for whom anti-Americanism was a central part of their academic credo. And I know, especially from studying the Cold War, that presidents in my lifetime did a lot of shady, immoral, and illegal things. But I have never heard a president of the United States sound like a graduate student who's woozy from imbibing too much Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn. This isn't the first time that Trump has resorted to this kind of embarrassing equivocation. In early 2017, then–Fox host Bill O'Reilly asked Trump about U.S. relations with Russia and how he might get along with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'He's a killer,' O'Reilly said. 'Putin's a killer.' Trump bristled—and rose to Putin's defense. 'There are a lot of killers,' Trump said, with the same kind of half-smiling smirk he deployed at Bartiromo. 'We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?' Of course, Trump's only consistent foreign-policy principle during the past 10 years has been to side with Russia whenever possible. But leaving aside his obsession with Putin, the president's smears on his own country are not the result of a deeply considered moral position, or even some kind of strategic big-think. Principles are inconvenient, and if they get in the way of winning the moment—the news cycle, a trade negotiation, an argument with a reporter—then they are of no use. Indeed, Trump has shown, over and over, that he has no real ability to make moral distinctions about anything. Perhaps nothing illustrates this vacuousness more than Bob Woodward's report that when Trump decided to run for president, an aide told him that his previous pro-choice stances and donations to Democrats would be a problem. 'That can be fixed,' Trump said. 'I'm—what do you call it? Pro-life.' As Groucho Marx is rumored to have said: 'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them … well, I have others.' But there is also a laziness in Trump's casual slanders against America. If Trump admits that the United States is a far better nation than Russia or China, with a heritage of liberty and democracy that imposes unique responsibilities on the United States as the leader of the free world, then he would have to do something. He would have to take a stand against Russia's military aggression and China's economic predations. He'd have to take the hard path of working with a national-security team to forge policies that are in the long-term interests of the United States rather than the short-term interests of Donald Trump. Likewise, when Trump depicts America as an unending nightmare of crime and carnage, he's not only trying to trigger a cortisol rush among his followers; he's also creating a narrative of despair. It's a clever approach. He tells Americans that because the world is nasty, all that 'shining city on a hill' talk is just stupid and all that matters is making some deals to get them stuff they need. Meanwhile, he paints America as something out of a medieval woodcut of hell, implicitly warning that he can't really extinguish the lava and the fires but promising to at least put on a show of punishing some of the demons. This nihilism and helplessness is poisonous to a democracy, a system that only works when citizens take responsibility for their government. It is a narrative that encourages citizens to think of themselves as both scoundrels and victims, crabs in life's giant bucket who must claw their way up over the backs of their fellow Americans. The modern global order itself—a system of peace, trade, and security built by the genius of American diplomacy and the sacrifices of the American armed forces—is, in Trump's view, one big criminal struggle among countries that are no better than mob families. In his world, the United States isn't a leader or an example; it's just another mook throwing dice against the wall in a back alley. Some people support Trump because they want certain policies on immigration or taxes or judges. Others enjoy his reality-TV approach to politics. Some of his critics reject his plans; others reject everything about the man and his character. But none of us, as Americans, have to accept Trump's calumnies about the United States. We are a nation better than the dictatorships in Moscow and Beijing; we enjoy peace and prosperity that predated Trump and will remain when he is gone. We live in an America governed by Trump. But we do not have to accept that we live in Trump's America. Here are four new stories from The Atlantic: Today's News A suspect, found dead, is believed to have set a brush fire and ambushed firefighters, killing two in Idaho yesterday. The Senate is in the midst of an extended vote-a-rama session on amendments for President Donald Trump's sweeping policy bill. An Israeli strike on a popular waterfront café in Gaza killed at least 41 people and injured dozens, according to a hospital official. Dispatches Work in Progress: The whole country is starting to look like California, Rogé Karma writes. Housing prices are rising fast in red and purple states known for being easy places to build. How can that be? Evening Read The Conservative Attack on Empathy By Elizabeth Bruenig Five years ago, Elon Musk told Joe Rogan during a podcast taping that 'the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit.' By that time, the idea that people in the West are too concerned with the pain of others to adequately advocate for their own best interests was already a well-established conservative idea. Instead of thinking and acting rationally, the theory goes, they're moved to make emotional decisions that compromise their well-being and that of their home country. In this line of thought, empathetic approaches to politics favor liberal beliefs … But the current ascendancy of this anti-empathy worldview, now a regular topic in right-wing social-media posts, articles, and books, might be less a reasonable point of argumentation and more a sort of coping mechanism. Read the full article. More From The Atlantic Culture Break Extending lifespans. America has more great-grandparents than ever. It also has a new caretaking challenge, Faith Hill writes. Express yourself. What are emoji? Megan Garber unpacks the 🍑, the ️🤡, and the 👍. Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.
Politico
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Trump continues to project optimism that strikes on Iran ‘obliterated' its nuclear program
President Donald Trump is insisting that his strikes on Iran last week left the country's nuclear program 'obliterated like nobody's ever seen before,' even as the United Nations nuclear watchdog says Tehran could resume uranium enrichment 'in a matter of months.' Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo he doesn't think the satellite images of trucks at two of the nuclear sites later hit by American pilots mean the country smuggled out much of its enriched uranium. 'No, I think,' he told Bartiromo in a pre-recorded interview that aired on 'Sunday Morning Futures.' 'First of all, it's very hard to do, it's very dangerous to do. It's very heavy, very very heavy. It's a very hard thing to do. Plus, we didn't give them much notice because they didn't know we were coming until just, you know, then. And nobody thought we'd go after that site because everybody said that site is impenetrable.' The White House has continued to promote its attacks on Iran's nuclear program as a complete victory. But the administration has not been able to provide convincing evidence, as experts caution that a definitive assessment on the strikes' impact could take weeks or even longer. In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS' 'Face the Nation,' the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the damage to Iranian facilities wrought by the attacks was 'not total.' And without clarification about the whereabouts of the enriched uranium, 'this will continue to be hanging, you know, over our heads as a potential problem,' he said. But the president is projecting confidence. 'You know what they moved? Themselves,' Trump told Bartiromo. 'They were all trying to live. They didn't move anything. They didn't think it was going to be actually doable, what we did.' And Trump doesn't think Iran has any incentive to rebuild its beleaguered nuclear program as the country contemplates its future following a damaging war with Israel and a tentative ceasefire. 'The last thing they want to do right now is think about nuclear,' he said. 'They have to put themselves back into condition, in shape.' Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has long supported aggressive American action against Iran. But though he called the strikes on Iran 'a tremendous military success,' he said Sunday it was 'too early to tell' if Iran would ultimately abandon its ambitions to become a nuclear power. 'The question for the world: Does the regime still desire to make a nuclear weapon? The answer is yes. Do they still desire to destroy Israel and come after us? The answer is yes,' he said on ABC's 'This Week.'
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fox Star Maria Bartiromo Sucks Up to Trump in Stunning New Video
President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Maria Bartiromo this week—and she wants everyone to know. The Fox Business Network anchor gushed about her private dinner with the president the night prior, praising Trump's 'very successful first 100 days in office' in a fawning segment on Mornings With Maria Thursday. 'The president could not have been more gracious and generous with his time,' she said. During the intimate meal, Bartiromo was wined and dined with 'a bundle of bibb lettuce salad and petite filet of beef with baby kale, followed by strawberry shortake.' She was joined by White House Communications Director Steven Cheung and later fawned about the event for her Mornings With Maria fans. 'I was incredibly honored to have dinner with President Trump and his key communications director, Steven Cheung, at the White House last night,' she wrote, adding that the trio discussed Trump securing the border and 'reining in inflation'—despite major stock market instability prompted by his chaotic tariff rollout. The praise didn't end there. 'After an incredibly busy night meeting business leaders at the press conference and then in the Oval Office, the president was kind enough to dine with me,' she added. Before the feast, she added, she was able to tour the president's home. 'I was so grateful to see some of the president's new designs at the White House and the changes, including that iconic portrait of President Trump with his fist in the air saying fight, fight, fight after being shot in the ear back on July 13 last year,' she said. She ended her speech by expressing extreme gratitude: 'Thank you so much, President Trump, for your leadership, friendship, and protection of this great nation.' Trump reposted the video of Bartiromo's high praise on his Truth Social account. It's not the first time the MAGA lover has dined with Trump, and it's likely far from her last. And Bartiromo isn't the only one that's been wooed by Trump's banquets. Bill Maher recently came under fire for his cozy meal with the president. The comedian compared Trump to a king and later called himself a hero for even stopping by. Like Bartiromo, he called the president 'gracious and measured.' Maher received major backlash for his obsequiousness, including from actor Larry David, who wrote a scalding New York Times essay titled 'My Dinner With Adolf' to parody Maher's visit.
