{"id":109956,"date":"2025-08-01T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109956\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:01:13","slug":"trump-blew-up-at-josh-hawley-because-he-was-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109956\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Blew Up at Josh Hawley Because He Was ‘Confused’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump<\/a> lashed out at his longtime ally and prominent MAGA Senator Josh Hawley<\/a> (R-Mo.) in a bizarre Truth Social post on Wednesday. The president pilloried the senator<\/a> as a \u201csecond-tier\u201d lawmaker who had been used as a \u201cpawn\u201d by Democrats, after Hawley broke with Republicans to vote in favor of a congressional stock trading ban that will also apply to future presidents.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump reacted with unchecked rage after Hawley voted to advance the legislation out of committee.\u201cThe Democrats, because of our tremendous ACHIEVEMENTS and SUCCESS, have been trying to \u2018Target\u2019 me for a long period of time, and they\u2019re using Josh Hawley, who I got elected TWICE, as a pawn to help them,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the \u2018whims\u2019 of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHawley defended himself later on Wednesday. The president is \u201cnot covered by the PELOSI Act, but Nancy Pelosi is,\u201d Hawley told reporters<\/a> after Trump\u2019s post bashing him. \u201cListen, I want the president to sign the bill, so I\u2019m happy to do whatever it would take to get him to say, \u2018Yes, this is good.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe legislation was initially dubbed the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act, after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), whose husband\u2019s lucrative stock portfolio<\/a> has practically become its own trading index. Pelosi has said she supports the trading ban, which has been renamed the HONEST Act. An amendment<\/a> proposed by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), which would have authorized a review of the Pelosi family\u2019s past trading activity, was voted down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe version of the legislation that passed out of committee on Wednesday was amended to apply its trading ban to the president and vice president \u2014 rather than only members of Congress<\/a> \u2014 as a compromise to win support from Democrats. However, that prohibition would only cover the president and VP starting in 2029. In other words, the legislation still exempts Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHawley claimed on Thursday that the president\u2019s meltdown had been prompted by a misunderstanding: that Trump had been told the version of the bill Hawley supported would have forced Trump to sell Mar-a-Lago<\/a>. Two sources familiar with the situation tell Rolling Stone that Trump indeed lashed out at Hawley because he was \u201cconfused\u201d or \u201cmisunderstood\u201d the details of what Hawley was proposing.<\/p>\n

\n\tHawley had already signed on to a version of the ban that had a carve-out in place for Trump and Vance. The president was convinced that the Hawley-endorsed version didn\u2019t have the carve-out and would negatively affect him and his business empire before he left office. Hence, Trump thought it was, in the words of one of the sources, \u201can attack on him\u201d favored by the Democrats, so he took it out on Hawley, a Trump ally and MAGA devotee. The two sources blamed Hawley and his office, in part at least, suggesting the legislative details weren\u2019t made clear to the White House during this process.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the end, though, some close to the president are saying that Trump was just yelling at the wrong Republican senator. \u201cThe guy he should have been shouting at is Rand Paul,\u201d a White House official says.<\/p>\n

\n\tPaul \u2014 whom Trump\u2019s team is already annoyed with given the Kentucky Republican\u2019s opposition<\/a> to the president\u2019s tariff agenda \u2014 attempted<\/a> to drive Democratic support away from the bill by highlighting the fact that, while the legislation will cover the president, it will exempt Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI would oppose the substitute change because I think it should apply to everybody or nobody,\u201d Paul said, according to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tHawley assured reporters on Thursday that he and Trump were back on good terms after he explained that he favored a version of the bill that would exempt Trump from the ban. \u201cHe said at the end, \u2018Oh OK, great. This is good,\u2019\u201d the senator reportedly<\/a> said of his call with Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump lashed out at his longtime ally and prominent MAGA Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in a bizarre…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[327,69,16539,50,2437,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-109956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-josh-hawley","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-stock-market","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114952934786201982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}