Our co-host, Rob Armstrong, has been talking about the “taco trade” (Trump the Chicken Out) for several weeks. On Wednesday, a journalist asked the US president about it. Trump didn’t like the questions. But the Internet did. Now traders are worried that Trump won’t kick the chickens out. Was Rob just crashing the US economy? And if so, would he want to apologize? Also, Katie gets the long Elon Musk back to his day’s work, and Rob cuts his 15-minute fame.
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