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“This is a president who has actually lost money for being president of the United States.”<\/p>\n
— White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
GUEST ESSAY<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Trump’s financial disclosures this week showed not millions but billions in wealth growth for the president and his sons — in a single year.<\/p>\n
His defenders call that transparency. Voters, standing at gas stations where prices are only now returning to reality, have another word for it: unfair.<\/p>\n
It’s a split screen the White House keeps producing heading into the midterms. Billions on the disclosure forms while voters rank affordability as their top concern. Gatsby parties at Mar-a-Lago during the shutdown while Americans stood in food bank lines. Calling affordability a hoax while pressing on with vanity projects on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n
Republicans had an open-book test on how to message the economy. They passed it in 2024, winning the election by hammering the Biden-Harris administration for failing on affordability. Yet now they’ve reached for the very same talking point: “Isn’t the stock market doing great?”<\/p>\n
It turns out, once again, the stock market is not the litmus test the American public wants.<\/p>\n
A RAINY FOURTH?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
From NOAA: <\/strong>“Isolated to scattered storms will be possible from the central Plains into the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic this Fourth of July. The greatest concentration of strong to severe storms will be within portions of the Mid-Atlantic.”<\/p>\n
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WHAT THEY SAID<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Eugene Robinson on Iran talks<\/strong><\/p>\n
“It is fascinating how President Trump is essentially making JD Vance hold the bag on this. Vance is out having to try to justify and explain this war, negotiate a peace with the Iranians, while the president sits back and flies around on his new jet.”<\/p>\n
Richard Haass on public service<\/strong><\/p>\n
“I’m old enough to remember when going into government meant a degree of sacrifice. The blatancy and the nakedness of Trump’s conflicts of interest is striking — he’s getting away with it on a scale that is really unprecedented.”<\/p>\n
Stephanie Ruhle on stock market and affordability<\/strong><\/p>\n
“People cannot afford the basic things they need — a place to live, a decent job — to get their lives started. When the president is boasting about 401(k)s, people who can’t get a job don’t have a 401(k) to feel good about.”<\/p>\n
Jonathan Lemire on the U.S. World Cup win<\/strong><\/p>\n
“It was a really thrilling win. Next up: Monday night in Seattle against Belgium will be a scene, with the U.S. on the precipice of the quarterfinals. Making it that far would be a resounding triumph for the hosts of the World Cup.”<\/p>\n
MAILBAG<\/h2>\nDo you have a favorite Fourth of July memory or tradition? Tell us here<\/a>and we may share your answer in an upcoming newsletter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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Ali Vitali is MS NOW’s senior congressional correspondent and the host of “Way Too Early.” She is the author of “Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House … Yet.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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