CNN’s Dana Bash and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had an exasperating, circular argument on Sunday regarding Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency now having unfettered access to troves of personal data housed in the department.

“The Washington Post is reporting that Musk and his DOGE team have access to FEMA’s sensitive disaster data, which includes personal information about tens of thousands of disaster victims,” Bash said to Noem. “Have you authorized Elon Musk and his team to have access to Americans’ personal data that is housed inside DHS?”

“We’re working with them at the president’s direction, to find what we can do to make our department much more efficient,” Noem replied. “This is essentially an audit.”

“That’s different from him having access to personal data that is housed in—”

“The president has authorized him to have access,” Noem said curtly.

“And you feel comfortable with that?” Dash asked.

“Absolutely!’

“I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about, and worried about … the government—particularly unelected people—having—”

“Well we can’t trust the government anymore,” Noem retorted.

“You are the government,” Bash said.

Noem went on to reiterate the same point again: An unelected billionaire having personal access to this kind of information is totally fine because Trump said so, years of Republican policy be damned.

This is just another moment in Trump’s all-out blitz on the federal government, as he allows Musk and his team of young cronies to hack away at critical parts of our federal apparatus. A federal judge just rebuked DOGE’s attempted takeover of the Treasury on Saturday, and multiple lawsuits have been filed by states and labor unions against DOGE for violating privacy rights. But that hasn’t stopped Musk yet.

Donald Trump is once again taking shots at Taylor Swift, because it’s normal for the president to have a problem with a pop star.

Both Trump and Swift were in attendance at the Super Bowl LIX Sunday, where they watched helplessly as the very popular Kansas City Chiefs were decimated by the righteous Philadelphia Eagles. At one point, the jumbotron showed Swift in the stands, and the crowd reacted poorly.

Taylor Swift laughed off being booed at the Super Bowl 😅 pic.twitter.com/Zdc5fHKc0A

Swift, who has been dating the Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce for more than a year, has proved herself to be a lightning rod for the more misogynist sports fans. She was able to shake it off, laughing with her famous friend Ice Spice, but Trump took the opportunity to revive his one-sided feud with the musician.

“The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!”

Trump still seems sore that Swift endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and once pathetically declared, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Even before that, MAGA weren’t her biggest fans. However, it’s not clear that it was a MAGA crowd at all, but rather one composed mostly of Eagles fans cheering against her boyfriend.

Meanwhile, Trump fled the stadium during a very political halftime performance by Kendrick Lamar, after backing the losing team.

Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans spent the weekend openly attacking the federal judiciary and, by extension, the Constitution’s separation of powers.

Elon Musk took the first shot early Sunday morning with an X post, angrily reacting to a federal judge blocking his“Department of Government Efficiency” from accessing Treasury Department records.

“A corrupt judge protecting corruption. He needs to be impeached NOW!” Musk posted.

Later, JD Vance chimed in with his own attack on the federal judiciary.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Vance posted.

Trump initially feigned ignorance when a reporter aboard Air Force One asked him about Vance’s statements later in the day, even attacking the journalist’s media outlet.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Neither do you,” Trump said, asking the reporter who he was with. When the reporter replied “HuffPost, Sir,” Trump replied, “Oh, no wonder. I thought they died.”

President Trump demolishes Fake News "reporter" @svdate on Air Force One:

POTUS: "I don't know even what you're talking about. Neither do you. Who are you with?"@svdate: "HuffPost, sir."

POTUS: "No wonder. I thought they died." pic.twitter.com/kNB0359aJA

Trump gave a more complete answer to another reporter.

“We’re very disappointed with the judges that would make such a ruling. But we have a long way to go. We have to look, we have to find all of the fraud that’s going on. We have tremendous fraud, tremendous waste, and tremendous abuse, and theft, by the way,” Trump said. “And the day you’re not allowed to look for theft and fraud, et cetera, then we don’t have much of a country. So, no judge should frankly be allowed to make that kind of a decision. It’s a disgrace.”

Reporter: You suffered a couple of court losses and JD Vance said judges aren’t allowed to control the executive power.

Trump: No judge should be allowed to make that kind of decision. It’s a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/eJeztSCIDK

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