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2 days ago
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Trump Expert Reveals the Only Time He Made Her Laugh
Donald Trump biographer-slash-nemesis Maggie Haberman admitted that Trump has made her genuinely laugh one single time. Asked if there had been a time Trump made her laugh 'intentionally,' not because of 'something silly he's done,' during the On With Kara Swisher podcast, Haberman recalled the moment Trump mocked his former chief of staff Reince Priebus in 2015. It was 'the one time that he has ever made me laugh,' Haberman prefaced, though 'I can't speak to whether it was intentional or not.' Haberman wrote the 2022 Trump biography Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America and covered his initial rise to the presidency. It was right after Trump first entered the 2016 presidential race and Haberman called him to ask about a story that quoted Reince Priebus—then Republican National Committee chair and later Trump's chief of staff— sternly lecturing him about his offensive rhetoric about Mexican immigrants. 'I was asking Trump about it, and he said…'He knows better than to lecture me.' And then there was a pause,' before he added, ''This is not a five star army general,'' she recalled. 'And it just, it made me laugh. Whether he was trying to make me laugh, I don't know.' 'I've seen him try to make crowds laugh,' she explained, but this was different. 'I think he was more just—being sarcastic.' Haberman then weighed in on whether anything Trump does is intentional. 'It is more calculated than it seems sometimes, and then other times it's not,' she said of his social media outbursts. 'The problem is figuring out which one is which.'
The Hill
11-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Haberman: Threat to nix habeas corpus just a way to ‘intimidate courts,' ‘scare migrants'
Journalist Maggie Haberman said the Trump administration's proposal to nix habeas corpus is an attempt to sway the courts and strike fear into undocumented immigrants. 'Some of this might just be fear. A, it's a way to intimidate the courts, which we have seen Trump and Stephen Miller do, a lot of, they've been criticizing judges routinely and repeatedly,' Haberman said during a Friday evening appearance on CNN's 'The Source with Kaitlan Collins.' 'It also might be to scare migrants and to get migrants to leave,' she added. The constitutional statute ensures individuals who are detained are brought before a judge or into court to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention. The White House has argued that its large-scale deportation measures are authorized under the Aliens and Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime authority used to support rapid removals for migrants in the event of an invasion. 'Well, the Constitution is clear — and that of course is the supreme law of the land — that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,' White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday. 'So, it's an option we're actively looking at. Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not,' he continued. Haberman and various judges have said the Trump administration is misinterpreting the law and overreaching their authority. 'A number of judges, including a Trump-appointed judge from his first term, have already said that they are misreading, they are overstretching the statute on the Alien Enemies Act, which is what they have used for these controversial deportations,' Haberman told Collins.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
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Haberman ‘not sure' if Trump has ‘actual, specific outcome' planned for tariffs
National political correspondent Maggie Haberman is 'not sure' if President Trump has an 'actual, specific outcome' planned for the implementation of his tariffs on other countries. Haberman, a CNN contributor, joined Anderson Cooper on Tuesday after Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as the countries grapple with increased tensions due to Trump's tariffs. 'Is it clear to you what kind of outcome he's looking for?' Cooper asked. 'No,' Haberman replied. 'And I'm not sure that it's clear to him what kind of actual, specific outcome he's looking for, other than one where the U.S. can say we're on top and somebody else is not.' Haberman's remarks come after Trump shared that the United States doesn't 'really want cars from Canada' and after he put a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods. 'At a certain point, it won't make economic sense for Canada to build those cars,' Trump said in the Oval Office. 'We really don't want Canadian steel, and we don't want Canadian aluminum and various other things, because we want to be able to do it [ourselves].' Haberman noted that no matter what the outcome of tariff negotiations is with Canada, most of the United States's other trading partners will see it as 'some kind of a framework of a deal.' 'And Trump will say, 'We won. This is what I wanted,'' Haberman said. 'It won't be an actual trade deal. 'Those take months and sometimes years to hammer out,' she continued. 'He will take some kind of off-ramps, but I don't think he knows exactly what he wants to see, other than a headline that says success.' Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' tariff announcement shocked global markets. The president then implemented a 90-day pause for 'reciprocal' tariffs on every country, except for China, with the hope that countries will come to the negotiating table. The administration has expressed confidence that deals will be made, and allies like India, South Korea, Japan and the European Union are negotiating with the U.S. Trump's meeting with Carney comes just after the Canadian election. Trump's tariff plan and comments about acquiring Canada largely fueled Carney's win, experts have said. Their meeting was shadowed by Trump's tariffs against Canada. The president downplayed the idea that Canada could escape tariffs already in place and indicated negotiations would not result in traditional trade deals. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill.
The Hill
07-05-2025
- Business
- The Hill
Haberman ‘not sure' if Trump has ‘actual, specific outcome' planned for tariffs
National political correspondent Maggie Haberman is 'not sure' if President Trump has an 'actual, specific outcome' planned for the implementation of his tariffs on other countries. Haberman, a CNN contributor, joined Anderson Cooper on Tuesday after Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as the countries grapple with increased tensions due to Trump's tariffs. 'Is it clear to you what kind of outcome he's looking for?' Cooper asked. 'No,' Haberman replied. 'And I'm not sure that it's clear to him what kind of actual, specific outcome he's looking for, other than one where the U.S. can say we're on top and somebody else is not.' Haberman's remarks come after Trump shared that the United States doesn't 'really want cars from Canada' and he put a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods. 'At a certain point, it won't make economic sense for Canada to build those cars,' Trump said in the Oval Office. 'We really don't want Canadian steel, and we don't want Canadian aluminum and various other things, because we wanna be able to do it [ourselves].' Haberman noted that no matter what the outcome of tariff negotiations is with Canada, most of the United States's other trading partners will see it as 'some kind of a framework of a deal.' 'And Trump will say, 'We won. This is what I wanted,'' Haberman said. 'It won't be an actual trade deal. 'Those take months and sometimes years to hammer out,' she continued. 'He will take some kind of off-ramps, but I don't think he knows exactly what he wants to see, other than a headline that says success.' Trump's April 2 'Liberation Day' tariff announcement shocked global markets. The president then implemented a 90-day pause for reciprocal tariffs on every country beside China, with the hope that countries will come to the negotiating table. The administration has expressed confidence that deals will be made and allies like India, South Korea, Japan and the European Union are negotiating with the U.S. Trump's meeting with Carney comes just after the Canadian election. Trump's tariff plan and comments about acquiring Canada largely fueled Carney's win, experts have said. Their meeting was shadowed by Trump's tariffs against Canada. The president downplayed the idea that Canada could escape tariffs already in place, but indicated negotiations would not result in traditional trade deals.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Politics
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Maggie Haberman Spots Donald Trump Supporter Revolt In Unexpected Place
The New York Times' Maggie Haberman noted to CNN's Kaitlan Collins a rare instance of blowback against Donald Trump from his usually-loyal supporters who use his Truth Social platform. Trump recently falsely claimed on the site, 'Gasoline just broke $1.98 a gallon, lowest in years.' Collins noted the national average for gas is actually currently around $3.18 per gallon. Haberman acknowledged that while recent job numbers and stock market gains offer some legitimate 'good news' for the Trump White House, some of the president's statements on lowered prices 'just don't comport with reality.' And what is 'interesting,' she continued in a video shared online, is how 'a bunch of replies' to a similar post from Trump about prices said 'essentially, 'Not where I live,' 'Not where I live,' 'Not where I live.'' The posts on the president's platform are 'normally very praising of' Trump, she noted. 'So there is actually a limit to how much he can keep saying that and have his own voters believe him but he right now seems to believe himself.' Collins agreed, telling Haberman: 'That's actually really interesting because I have a Truth Social account to obviously monitor what the president says but people who get Truth Social accounts typically are supporters of the president.' Haberman responded: 'I had never seen pushback on something he was saying before and there was still some praise in response but there were a number of comments of people saying, 'That's not happening where I am.'' Trump Flips Out At Wall Street Journal Reporter: 'You Hear Me? What I Said?' Trump's Latest Blame Game Slammed As Have-It-Both-Ways Nonsense 'Absolutely Enraging': John Oliver Scorches Democratic Apathy Over 1 Key Trump Issue
