MAGA pundits were cornered by panelists on CNN’s “NewsNight” with host Abby Phillip on Monday over the president’s latest batch of empty threats toward Iran. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video of him attacking Kharg Island, a strategic island in the Persian Gulf th…
President Donald Trump just pulled off what one political expert described as a “mafia state” type of move that revealed the rotten core of a deal he allegedly struck with a foreign country over its oil reserves. Trump recently announced that the U.S. and North American Blue Energy Partners, a priva…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s seeming overtures toward a future run for office, or possibly even the presidency, startled a CNN panel on Monday evening — as they tried to work through the implications.Mark Williams of Ferox Strategies attempted to downplay the possibility of it happening.”I do…
Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander who led controversial immigration crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, was secretly under internal investigation when he suddenly announced his retirement in March, per newly released records.Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show…
Construction on Donald Trump’s aloof, monarchical, for-rich-whites-only 90,000-square-foot ballroom can proceed, thanks to an aloof, monarchical, and for-rich-whites-only Supreme Court.What the Supreme Court handed down today isn’t a ruling about a simple, easy-to-explain throwback to the Gilded Age…
A Republican lawmaker is joining forces with a Democrat to reverse the controversial Trump-era restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon.Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) introduced bipartisan legislation Monday that would restore press access to areas of the Pentagon that were ope…
President Donald Trump took a victory lap Monday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for construction of his controversial White House ballroom to continue, calling the massive project a “gift” to the country.“I am pleased to report that the United States Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of…
President Donald Trump was roundly mocked by his critics on Monday after he appeared to fall asleep during a press conference in the Oval Office where his cabinet members heaped effusive praise on him. Trump and multiple of his cabinet secretaries gathered the press in the Oval Office to tout the ad…
Journalist Jim Acosta filmed workers tearing chunks out of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a day after President Donald Trump declared the landmark almost completely fixed.In a video posted to X on Monday, Acosta reported while standing at the edge of the drained pool on the National Mall just …
Vice President JD Vance came to Michigan to campaign against Abdul El-Sayed, the former public health official turned Democratic Senate candidate — but El-Sayed had other plans.At a campaign event on Monday, El-Sayed seized his moment during a press conference to hit back at his rival, former Rep. M…