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“He asked me, ‘How do you like my tweets?’” Sen. Kennedy said on the Pod Force One podcast with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine Wednesday. “I said, ‘Mr. President, don’t take this the wrong way, but tweeting a little less would not cause brain damage,'" Kennedy said. Kennedy said that the American people would like it if he cooled down on the posts — and that it appears Trump seemed OK with the critique — but that it probably did not sway him to relax on the posts. It's unclear when the exchange happened. “He looked at me, said, ‘You don’t like my tweets.’ I said, ‘No, I didn’t say that.’ I said, ‘I like steak, but I don’t like eight steaks at one time. And you can’t just say everything that comes into your head,” Kennedy said. “He just says anything. He says everything,” Kennedy said. Over the last few weeks Trump has shared a slew of posts on his Truth Social platform, including a racist AI video of House Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in a sombrero and poncho, “King Trump” flying a jet in a crown and dumping what appears to be feces on purported "No Kings" protesters and artistic renditions of the “Arc de Trump,” similar to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, that he hopes to build. He has also posted about attacks on alleged drug boats from Venezuela and "his bizarre ambitions of a 21,993rd run for the presidency in the year 90,000," The Beast reports. Kennedy notes that the American people are watching. “The American people get it,” Kennedy said. “I’m not saying my party’s perfect, but I think this is the way most Americans look at it today.” “People look at their choice, Democrat, Republican. They say, ‘Well, Republicans aren’t perfect, but the other side’s crazy,’” he explained. “And that’s why they elected President Trump. They know all about President Trump.” Speaking to MSNBC about the request on Wednesday, Eisen said, "Nobody's ever seen the kind of profit-grabbing exploitation of the presidency. By some estimates, approaching $2 billion of Donald Trump is profiting off the presidency." The New Yorker calculated a total Trump cash-in of $3.4 billion in profits, if both administrations are combined. "For example, where he's getting huge sums through those business enterprises that hit his pockets from Gulf nations, where we have strong interests," cited Eisen. "But here, when he's grabbing, preparing to grab, might be grabbing $230 million grabbing $230 million from the American taxpayer, there's a constitutional barrier to that. You're not allowed to do it. It's called the Emoluments Clause," cited Eisen. "A president cannot seize that kind of money to benefit himself. Donald Trump just admitted it. What he just said that he's suing himself will be Exhibit A in the lawsuit." He went on to recall suing the first Trump administration over the Emoluments issues and went all the way to the Supreme Court. Trump left office, and the issue was "mooted." "But if he breaks the law, he will be held accountable, and so will those who are enabling this behavior. You have a 34-time convicted felon in connection with campaign finance violations. In that 2016 campaign, Stuart talked about that pattern of criminality, campaign finance violations, and cover-ups. What do you expect if he does it? There will be legal accountability," Eisen promised. He recalled that he wouldn't even let President Barack Obama refinance his home in Chicago during the Great Recession because Obama technically regulated the banks. Stuart Stevens, a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Never-Trumper, compared Trump to Tony Soprano from the HBO drama of the early 2000s, "The Sopranos." "If you had Tony Soprano as president, you have to ask yourself, what would Tony be doing differently. He probably would be more worried about his image than Trump," said Stevens. "So, look, this is just one more egregious criminal act. And I think the question we have to start asking ourselves is when this Trump period has passed, which it will, what is the structure that we are going to be able to erect to hold these people accountable?" "The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil," Trump posted. "If it weren’t for me, they would be doing just as they’ve done for the past 20 years — Terrible!" Trump suggested ranchers were insufficiently grateful and blamed them for higher prices for consumers. "It would be nice if they would understand that, but they also have to get their prices down, because the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking, also!" Trump posted. U.S. ranchers have been enjoying some rare profitable years in an industry that ebbs and flows, but agricultural economists say Argentine beef accounts for only about 2 percent of beef imports, so even doubling that amount would not change consumer prices by much but could create uncertainty for ranchers and make them less likely to invest in raising more cattle. “I love ‘Make America Great Again’ rhetoric. I love ‘America First’ rhetoric,” South Dakota rancher Brett Kenzy told the Associated Press. “But to me this feels a lot like the failed policies of the past — the free trade sourcing cheap global goods.” Trump's tariffs on Brazil, which is a much bigger beef importer than Argentina, and limits on Mexico due to concerns about a parasitic infection have driven down beef imports and spiked prices for meat. "In addition to everything else, Tariffs on other Countries SAVED our Cattle Ranchers!" Trump insisted.
