June 14, 2026 at 5:53 AM EDT
Donald Trump's seven-word claim on Fed policy needs 'a reality check': expert

President Trump has repeatedly pressured the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, claiming in a recent NBC interview that "there's no reason to raise interest rates." However, according to a recent report from financial site The Motley Fool, economic data and market indicators suggest his seven-word assertion requires a reality check. Since Trump's inauguration in January 2025, he has publicly criticized former Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee for not aggressively slashing rates. The FOMC has lowered the federal funds rate six times between September 2024 and December 2025, but the current range of 3.5% to 3.75% remains well above Trump's stated target of 1% or below.

June 14, 2026 at 5:39 AM EDT
Trump's capitulation has an obvious loser -- one he desperately won't acknowledge

This week, the president canceled a planned attack on Iran intended to pressure the regime into making a deal. Donald Trump said he canceled, because a deal was already close at hand. It was the 39th time he said peace was imminent since the war started. CNN ran a super-cut: The regime denied a deal, but it did leak to Iran's state-run media text of the demands that it said the president had agreed to. The Wall Street Journal 's Yaroslav Trofimov said:

June 14, 2026 at 4:56 AM EDT
Inside the disturbing message behind tonight's Trump spectacle

Tonight, Trump is throwing an 80th birthday bash for himself (he says it's in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States) with a "Freedom250" Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match on the South Lawn of the White House at 8 p.m. ET. It will be a bloody gladiator fight taking place inside a 600-ton, 154-feet-tall skeletal structure called "the Claw," painted red, white and blue. Opponents will punch, kick, wrestle, choke, and use jiu-jitsu on each other until one of them is unconscious or verbally concedes, or a referee stops the fight because one is judged too damaged to absorb any more violence.

June 14, 2026 at 4:03 AM EDT
Americans crushed this same Trump con Republicans pushed 100 years ago

I just toured the opulent Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. I love beautiful homes as much as anyone, but this tour didn't land as intended. To me, America's largest private residence, one that took 1,000 laborers six years to build, is a testament to inherited wealth and inequality . The lavish indoor swimming pool was built at a time when most homes didn't have plumbing. As I walked through the gardens and imported Italian tapestries, I couldn't stop thinking about how the laborers who built the estates of Gilded Age scions lived in squalor themselves, and could barely afford to eat.

June 14, 2026 at 3:07 AM EDT
Trump broke his biggest election promise -- and Republicans enabled the betrayal

Sometimes I provide you with information that I hope you'll find helpful in making arguments with others. I don't expect that what I share with you will change the minds of committed Trumpers, but the facts and the evidence may have some sway with Republicans and independents who are wavering about whom to support in the midterms. One of the main reasons Trump was elected was his pledge to keep the United States out of wars, especially the kind of "endless" wars America has fought in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan.

June 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM EDT
No accident: ex-staff accuse Trump candidate of 'intentionally' stealing valor

The Daily Mail reports President Donald Trump's Republican pick for Alabama's Senate seat deliberately mischaracterized his military record, according to the candidate's own staff. Several local Alabama media outlets reported Congressman Barry Moore padded his military record throughout his time in public office, as well as on the campaign trail. However, a former senior staffer from Moore's congressional office told the Daily Mail this was no accident, that he has been 'intentionally misleading' about his service record for years.

June 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM EDT
Ex-prosecutor says Trump's 'mob boss' world is about to spiral

Former prosecutor Barbara McQuade knows mob tactics, and she says she sees the mob in countless aspects of President Donald Trump's practices. "From 2010 to 2017 she served as the US attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. She has prosecuted high-profile corruption cases, including that of the former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, as well as the 'underwear bomber' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the Volkswagen emissions scandal," reports the Guardian. "Now she turns her prosecutorial gaze on the occupant of the White House and makes the case that Trump governs like a mob boss."

June 13, 2026 at 12:40 PM EDT
Devastation: Economist uncovers searing truth about the trillionaire threat to democracy

Economist Justin Wolfers delivered a searing shock to the hosts of MS NOW's "The Weekend" on Saturday. And his news carried an unnerving warning to the state of the nation's vulnerable democracy. Government statistics released this week show the annual inflation rate hit 4.2 percent in May -- the highest in three years -- while the latest YouGov poll shows almost 60 percent of Americans say the economy is getting worse.

June 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM EDT
The nation is already building 'antibodies' to Trump's corruption: opinion

At the age of 80, President Donald Trump has been plodding around on American dirt for more than 30 percent of the nation's entire 250-year lifespan. That is no small number, and critics say his advanced years have been bearing down on him as he prepares to celebrate his 80^th birthday at taxpayer's expense.

June 13, 2026 at 10:47 AM EDT
'He let me down': Another prized voting bloc is dumping Trump for good

Bulwark founder Sarah Longwell hosts weekly surveys with President Donald Trump supporters. And this week's inquiry reveals a sea change that's going to irreparably clobber Trump and the Republican Party in the next few months. "We've done a series of focus groups in recent months with a bunch of Zoomers who identify as politically moderate," said Longwell. -- With the ones that had voted for Trump, we saw a lot of evidence that the large gap between Trump's current approval rating and his vote share in 2024."

June 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM EDT
Court critic drops bomb: Alito 'doesn't care' that he's flagrantly partisan

Pamela Carlin, the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery professor of Public Interest Law and a founder and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law school, has argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court. And during that time, she's come to an assessment about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito: the man is a partisan hack -- and he makes no bones about it. They don't care if they make the court "look nakedly, openly political," said Carlin speaking on Slate's Amicus podcast with host Dalia Lithwick.

June 13, 2026 at 7:57 AM EDT
Hysteria looms as a beloved Trump faction abandons him

The last time President Donald Trump got stomped in a midterm election, in 2018, his unpopularity cost his Republican Party more than three dozen House seats. But the New York Times reports even that wasn't a true stomping because "the bottom never truly fell out for the Republicans that year."