Trump Fires Official Over 'Rigged' Job Numbers: Shooting the Messenger

MEDIA BUZZmeter

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Howie Kurtz on Trump defending his firing of labor statistics chief, jury ordering Tesla to pay more than $240 million in autopilot crash and Google deleting decades of website links. Follow Howie on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HowardKurtz⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.7	It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.
0:41.4	I felt vindicated by the decision to spend a few minutes on my program yesterday on Sidney Sweeney.
0:45.8	It has just become this overwhelming story, as I've talked about, on the podcast. Well, it turns out a reporter told accurately President Trump that Sidney Sweeney,
0:52.6	the actress, the star of the blue jeans ad for American Eagle, is a registered Republican.
1:01.0	And Trump said, oh, now I love her ad.
1:04.5	Is that right? Sidney Sweeney?
1:06.1	You'd be surprised at how many people are Republicans.
1:08.4	That's one I wouldn't have known.
1:09.6	I'm glad you told me that.
1:11.6	If Sidney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.
1:16.9	You know, I think I'm guilty like everyone else of taking Katie Ladeke for granted.
1:24.9	She's 28 years old now.
1:27.4	And at the latest world championship events, she won the 800 meter, and she won the 1,500 meter, her 22nd and 23rd world title.
1:41.7	She hasn't lost the 1500 in 15 years,
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