September 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM EDT
Former Trump staffer says horrible no-good week has president 'melting down'

Stephanie Grisham is a former communications person for President Donald Trump in his first term, and she says she recognizes what drove Trump to try to illegally ban certain news outlets from the White House. As Trump's press secretary Grisham told CNN anchor Brianna Marie Keilar that Trump tasked her with the impossible job of getting the press corps off the White House grounds, even if that means searching for stragglers off the grounds.

September 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM EDT
Panel slaughters GOP pundit on live air for downplaying Trump's press ban

Lobbyist and Republican strategist David Urban hit a wall on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 after trying to pivot away from President Donald Trump's abrupt call to ban certain media companies from the White House on Friday. News was circulating most of the evening after Trump vowed to ban CNN, MS NOW and other organizations for reporting stories he does not like. Urban attempted to pivot from Trump's announcement, which critics called a First Amendment violation.

September 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM EDT
We need 'a psychiatrist': Press Sec. floored after supercut of Trump abusing women

While speaking with a panel about President Donald Trump's recent ban of CNN, MS NOW and other possible media outlets, CNN anchor Erin Burnett played a withering supercut of Trump's adolescent-grade abuse and name-calling of women around him at press gaggles. This, Burnett insisted, was "only a small sample."

September 18, 2026 at 7:10 PM EDT
JFK's niece wrecks 'petty little tyrant' Trump threatening Kennedy memorial

Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of JFK's younger brother, former attorney general and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, held nothing back after hearing of President Donald Trump's justification for insisting his name should be on the memorial of an entirely different president. "It's heartbreaking to me," Kennedy told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Friday night, while describing a recent photograph of Trump seated on Air Force One, holding what looks like a presentation poster entitled "Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED. "It's heartbreaking because this is the monument to our slain president. And this is also the monument to the arts. The most important monument to the arts in our entire country. And these are the actions of a petty little tyrant who can't get his way. And because he can't add his name to it, he's going to blow it up."

September 18, 2026 at 6:19 PM EDT
Tapper nails news companies who caved to Trump and still got banned

CNN anchor Jake Tapper took no kindess on Friday to President Donald Trump's announcement that he was "banning" CNN, MS NOW and Politico "from the White House, " effective immediately." There was no indication the Trump administration had taken steps to follow through on the ban. CNN reporters were not escorted from their White House workspace near the briefing room later on Friday, nor was the CNN team traveling Friday with Vice President JD Vance removed from the reporters' pool.

September 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM EDT
'This is a big deal': GOP senator calls out Trump family 'corruption'

On Friday, a Republican Senator said outright that President Donald Trump's son has engaged in "corruption." This is according to Senator John Curtis (R-UT), who was responding to reports that Donald Trump Jr's luxury wedding was paid for by a Russian oligarch. "Believe this -- a Russian oligarch paid for a lavish wedding afterparty for Donald Trump Jr., which to me, it just stinks. It's corruption. I don't like it," said Curtis in a video address posted to social media. He said that he would have more to say on the matter later, but for now asserted, "This is a big deal."

September 18, 2026 at 4:51 PM EDT
DOJ wants prosecutors fired for refusing to chase Trump election claims

Two DOJ sources are are sounding the alarm, saying a top Justice Department official threatened managers in a recent conference call that federal prosecutors could be fired if they "decline to investigate and pursue cases of reported election fraud," according to MS NOW. "Aakash Singh, the top lieutenant to the deputy attorney general, warned that Department of Justice lawyers must pursue election fraud cases that FBI or Department of Homeland Security agents present to them, or risk termination, according to the people, who sought anonymity to avoid reprisals for sharing internal discussion," reported MS NOW on Friday

September 18, 2026 at 4:23 PM EDT
'Only spite': Longtime Trump pal begs him to stop

On Friday, media personality Geraldo Rivera took to social media to literally beg President Donald Trump to stop his assault on the Kennedy Center. Rivera - who has been a close friend of Trump for nearly 50 years - warned the president that it would not bring him the "honor" he hopes for, suggesting the result would be quite the opposite. "Dear President Trump," posted Rivera, "As someone who has often supported you, including during the Russia, Russia, hoax, I ask that you forgo your announced intention to demolish the Kennedy Center if it is not named in your honor. There is no honor in that, only spite."

September 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM EDT
Impeachment coup: Mark Kelly says Hegseth just walked into a trap

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduced a resolution Tuesday to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of defying Congress and illegally continuing the U.S. war in Iran, among other crimes. However, one target of Hegseth's alleged abuses unleashed a devastating "I told you so" on the defense secretary. In addition to the defying Congress over the Iran War, Massie's eight-article resolution also targets Hegseth over U.S. military operations in Venezuela and Yemen, and accuses him of illegally directing the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicola's Maduro without congressional authorization. It also accuses him of carrying out extrajudicial killings.

September 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM EDT
Tax forms expose exactly how Trump tanked the Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump argues that his name should be on the Kennedy Center because it is his administration that is trying to renovate it -- despite the fact that the building itself is a memorial to an entirely different president. But Zeteo reports recent tax records reveal the non-profit's revenue took a steep nosedive precisely when Trump entered the White House roughly two years ago.

September 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM EDT
Maggie Haberman reveals 'the furthest thing from' Trump's mind

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who is often called the "Donald Trump whisperer," walked through a range of comments on "The Mishal Husain Show" for Bloomberg News. While she said she doesn't believe that the U.S. is likely to see someone like Trump again, what he has done to government "is a fundamental re-imagining of the US presidency."

September 18, 2026 at 11:21 AM EDT
George Will sounds alarm on 'cascading' military crisis

At a time of instability around the world -- from U.S. President Donald Trump's war against Iran to the Russia/Ukraine war -- geopolitics experts are worried that another major crisis will occur if Mainland China invades Taiwan. Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will examines that possibility in his Friday column, warning that the fallout would be enormous if such an invasion occurs. "Deterrence employs military, diplomatic, economic, technological and political measures to prevent wars," Will explains in his Post column. "The number of times deterrence has failed approximately equals the number of wars history has seen. Deterrence failed to protect Ukraine against aggression, the consequences of which are slight compared with those that would follow a failure to deter Chinese President Xi Jinping from invading Taiwan, or attempting to coerce its surrender by measures (intended to be) just short of war. Xi has ordered his military to be able to seize Taiwan in 2027."