{"id":2430953,"date":"2025-05-05T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-continues-spat-with-loser-karl-rove-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:04:52","slug":"trump-continues-spat-with-loser-karl-rove-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-continues-spat-with-loser-karl-rove-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump continues spat with &#8216;loser&#8217; Karl Rove &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-continues-spat-with-loser-karl-rove-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2430953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-fires-back-after-biden-rejects-proposal-to-cancel-50k-in-student-loan-debt\/\" title=\"Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back After Biden Rejects Proposal To Cancel K In Student Loan Debt\">public disagreement<\/a> between President Donald Trump and political analyst Karl Rove. The conflict arose after Rove criticized Trump&#8217;s handling of tariffs, suggesting that Trump&#8217;s comments about possibly reducing consumer choices echoed the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, prompting public concern. Trump retaliated by dismissing Rove as a \u201ctotal loser\u201d and asserted that he didn\u2019t need Rove\u2019s advice.<\/p>\n<p>rove\u2019s critique came following reports on Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/percent-of-americans-wanting-government-to-leave-me-alone-up-by-double-digits\/\" title=\"Percent Of Americans Wanting Government To \u2018Leave Me Alone\u2019 Up By Double Digits\">declining approval ratings<\/a>, notably concerning economic issues. He noted that while Trump receives positive feedback on immigration policies, his overall performance, especially regarding the economy, is viewed unfavorably. this exchange is occurring against the backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oil-prices-drop-more-than-5-despite-saudi-and-russian-production-cuts\/\" title=\"Despite production cuts by Saudi Arabia and Russia, oil prices plummeted by over .\">escalating trade tensions<\/a> with China,which has imposed punitive tariffs and recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. at the World Trade organization in response to the tariffs. The article also mentions that goods exported from the U.S. to China are subject to a 125% tariff, illustrating the complexities of the ongoing trade disputes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump continues spat with &lsquo;loser&rsquo; Karl Rove over &lsquo;Scrooge&rsquo; nickname<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2112382\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> took issue with comments made by&nbsp;Karl&nbsp;Rove over the weekend, after he resorted to name-calling regarding Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3394838\/russell-vought-trade-deals-fast-around-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"tariffs\">tariff battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China&nbsp;remains the outlier among foreign countries facing tariffs with its&nbsp;145%&nbsp;tariff.&nbsp;Additionally, Trump&rsquo;s executive order announcing the tariffs removed a customs exemption that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >allowed foreign packages<\/a> to avoid tariffs for goods worth less than $800. Trump suggested that a likely result would be that &ldquo;the children will have two dolls instead of 30, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3400671\/mike-lawler-town-hall-ban-filming\/\">Mike Lawler latest to host town hall but first to ban filming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3400689\/education-department-resumes-collecting-loans-5-million-borrowers-default\/\">Education Department resumes collecting loans for 5 million borrowers in default<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3400646\/trump-announce-washington-dc-host-2027-nfl-draft\/\">Trump expected to announce DC as host of 2027 NFL draft<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Rove criticized Trump&rsquo;s comments, claiming they were &ldquo;problematic&rdquo; while on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It sounds like Mr. Scrooge,&rdquo; Rove said. &ldquo;The ordinary American is like, &lsquo;Wait a minute, I thought you were on my side, I didn&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;re on the side of I need to do with less. You&rsquo;ve got plenty of money, and I&nbsp;got to make mine stretch as far&nbsp;as I can.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2920536&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=cdbe68de4e9c7501fc9a6ce4e0a5a6e4\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The likeness to Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles Dickens&rsquo;s shrewd businessman from <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, prompted an online response from the president in the hours after it aired.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t need to have Karl Rove of FoxNews to tell me what to do,&rdquo; Trump wrote late Sunday on Truth Social. &ldquo;The guy&rsquo;s a total Loser who&rsquo;s been wrong about almost everything!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/114452877224020351\/embed\" class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>These latest comments from Rove followed his reporting on Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">approval rating<\/a> last week. Rove pointed out that the president &ldquo;gets reasonably good marks on immigration and handling of deportations, but even those he&rsquo;s upside down on,&rdquo; Rove said of the polling. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When it gets to the economy, he is in very bad shape. And it&rsquo;s not only that he&rsquo;s in the short term in bad shape, there&rsquo;s also evidence in the poll that no matter &mdash; even if he gets his way on certain things like tariffs, that he&rsquo;s not good in the long run,&rdquo; Rove&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/he-is-in-very-bad-shape-karl-rove-absolutely-dumps-on-trump-in-scathing-fox-news-segment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;on Fox News&rsquo;s<em>&nbsp;Journal Editorial Report<\/em>. In that case as well, Trump called the results &ldquo;FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3393924\/trump-approval-rating-reaction-republican-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP&rsquo;S APPROVAL RATING BRISTLES REPUBLICAN PARTY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Chinese&nbsp;Communist Party&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3308064\/china-filing-lawsuit-us-world-trade-organization-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed a lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;against the United States with the World Trade Organization over its initial 10%&nbsp;tariff. In an additional move to pressure the U.S.,&nbsp;China&nbsp;issued&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3341726\/china-slaps-tariffs-on-canada-for-leverage-against-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tariffs&nbsp;against Canada<\/a>. Most recently, China opted to halt the exports of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3379148\/china-export-critical-minerals-electric-vehicles-missiles-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critical minerals<\/a>&nbsp;to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. goods in China are also under a 125% tariff. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2112382\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2112382\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump clashes with &#8216;loser&#8217; Karl Rove over &#8216;Scrooge&#8217; remark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2430954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-60-Minutes-transcript-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14161,45825,5894,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2430953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-feud","tag-karl-rove","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-60-Minutes-transcript-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430957,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430953\/revisions\/2430957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}