President Donald Trump unleashed a flurry of threats, promises and ideas Sunday in a phone call with Fox News’ Trey Yingst, the details of which left one independent journalist in utter shock.The phone call occurred Sunday morning, just one day after Iranian military officials announced they would b…
Authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat is predicting that President Donald Trump’s praise for China’s Xi Jinping will end the same way his Iran standoff did: with the president backing down to a strongman he admires.Her forecast came in response to an Axios clip in which Trump gushed about the Chin…
Donald Trump’s habit of punishing Republicans who cross him may have just cost him the political cover he needs to sell his Iran deal, according to political analyst Sabrina Haake, who argues the president’s domestic vendettas are actively undermining him abroad.In her latest newsletter, Haake makes…
A corner of the MAGA online world has found a new enemy, and it is not a liberal news organization. It is Reason, the libertarian magazine, which set off a wave of right-wing fury by criticizing outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat.The flashpoint was a Reason p…
U.S. and Iranian officials met in Switzerland Sunday ahead of negotiations to solidify the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran and bring about an end to the U.S. war against Iran, but according to one expert, President Donald Trump and his administration are ignoring a pressing issue …
Joe Rogan thought he was making nervous small talk with the president of the United States about the possibility of a terrorist attack. Donald Trump, by Rogan’s account, treated the prospect of their shared demise as no big deal.On a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the podcaster who en…
Donald Trump asked the public to celebrate ICE as misunderstood heroes Saturday, and veteran White House correspondent Brian Karem answered with a single word: “LIE.”The president had posted what he framed as a poll, declaring that “ICE has been abused by the Fake News Media at levels never seen bef…
In one of his most astonishingly oblivious moments, President Donald Trump may have revealed more about himself — his honest, true beliefs regarding his “talents” and place in history — than at any point in his public life. During an interview with Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman for their forthco…
Donald Trump’s insistence that vandals carved up the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool keeps colliding with one stubborn problem his critics will not let go of: if it really happened, where is the footage?After the president announced on Truth Social that “many additional people have been arrested” o…
James Carville has a survival strategy for anyone still working inside Donald Trump’s White House, and it boils down to two words: start leaking.On the latest episode of his Politics War Room podcast, the veteran Democratic strategist delivered a blunt appeal to administration staffers, urging them …