August 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM EDT
'Monumental shift' coming as Trump admin sinks into 'desperation'

President Donald Trump and his administration are sinking deeper into "desperation" with their latest moves, according to reporter Sarah Ewall-Wice, and it marks what could be a "monumental shift" in power heading for Washington. Ewall-Wice is a political reporter for The Daily Beast who appeared as a guest for the latest edition of the outlet's flagship podcast. During the conversation with host Joanna Coles, she said that there is "a growing sense of desperation ... coming out of this White House," based on the things she has heard, and this desperation is reflected in the questionable things that the president is choosing to focus on.

August 29, 2026 at 11:04 AM EDT
Shots fired: CBS staff turn on one another as ratings tank

President Donald Trump and MAGA's revamp of CBS News does not appear to be going so well. Staff are reportedly turning on one another as viewership wanes from the rebooted network, and staff are fighting hard for a chunk of the network's reduced audience. "Insiders told RadarOnline.comarOnline.com the ambitious journos see each other as competition and are each playing to win. While Dokoupil was recently on vacation, correspondent Matt Gutman stepped into the CBS Evening News anchor chair and delivered 4.1 million viewers, the broadcast's best weekly performance in 17 weeks and its first time topping 4 million since March."

August 29, 2026 at 10:17 AM EDT
Insider reveals White House now in 'constant state of chaos'

New York Times reporter and co-author Maggie Haberman confirmed MS NOW anchor Jonathan Capehart's claim that the White House is in a 'constant state of chaos' as employees lose purpose and leap from windows as the midterms encroach. "There's a sense of grind and a lack of having fun or common purpose in this White House right now," said Haberman on MS NOW's "The Weekend" Saturday morning. "They want to see him succeed, but [Trump] is not doing much to help himself."

August 29, 2026 at 8:55 AM EDT
George Conway warns Trump's 'delusions' sending GOP 'off the deep end'

Republicans are begging President Donald Trump to tap his roughly $400 million MAGA.in PAC money to help them struggle through bruising midterms, but Trump appears in no hurry to invest. But conservative attorney and eternal Trump critic George Conway says Trump's mental illness, coupled with his greed, will not allow him to invest in his own people. "This is pure Donald Trump," Conway told the MS NOW's "The Weekend" panel Saturday morning. -- Trump is the most narcissistic human being we have ever seen in American politics. Full stop. But on the upswing, that helped him because we had a society that is itself narcissistic and was sick of hearing, 'oh, we have to help these people,' 'we have to help those people,' and 'we have to help everyone.' It was kind of like the Janis Joplin song, 'lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?'"

August 29, 2026 at 8:19 AM EDT
Lindsey Graham's final warning reveals something dark about Trump's America

The lesson we damn well better learn from this disgraceful moment in American history is that millions and millions of Republicans will go along with ANY heinous thing -- poisoning our air, water and animals, incinerating our voting rights, employing masked men to slaughter and cage people, and the rape of our children -- just as long as it doesn't cost too much to gas up their clattering pickup trucks, and thirsty SUVs. THAT is the deal-breaker for these people, and more than anything I can think of illustrates the decline in America, or maybe even more sadly, reveals what this country has always been about at its cold, diseased heart.

August 28, 2026 at 9:35 PM EDT
Frenzied conservative unloads on 'impotent' White House 'man-baby'

Conservative Dispatch writer Nick Catoggio is no fan of President Donald Trump. But some rants go further than others, and Trump's recent behavior clearly sent Catoggio into a frenzy. Trump fired Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George earlier this year, in part because he refused to rescind the recommendations for promotion he had made on behalf of several officers, two of them Black and two of them women -- which Catoggio said in Pete Hegseth's "anti-DEI" military made them "presumptively unqualified."

August 28, 2026 at 8:39 PM EDT
Trump ally confesses 'Trump fatigue' gloom in brutal leaked audio

A House Republican from one of America's reddest states privately confessed that President Donald Trump's unpopularity and pointless executive actions were hurting the party and endangering safe Republican seats like hers in the upcoming midterms. "The challenge that we have is that we have to get over the narrative that 'I don't like this guy, so I'm going to vote for the Democrat,'" said Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), according to audio obtained by The Bulwark. "Because I'm telling you right now, I'm hearing it already."

August 28, 2026 at 7:58 PM EDT
Tea partier warns Republicans catching 'all the Trump' they never wanted

A former supporter of President Donald Trump argued on Friday that Republicans have worked hard to hop into bed with Trump and now they're going to have to sleep with him. "I know, all of this could and will tighten up after Labor Day. Sure. And Republicans have God's money right now. But how funny, Trump is holding all of his money and Trump wants to make the midterms a referendum on him. So you're gonna get all of him," said former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a reformed MAGA lawmaker from Illinois on his Friday podcast.

August 28, 2026 at 6:33 PM EDT
Sources say Trump begging Russia to make nice as punishing midterms loom

Sources tell MS NOW that President Donald Trump appears to be trying a less blowhard tactic for dealing with Russia as the U.S. enters the 70-day stretch before the November midterms. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is making an already difficult midterm race for Trump and Republicans even harder by escalating his war with Ukraine and making Trump look weak. Putin is also supplying weapons to Iran to help the Iranian military kill U.S. soldiers in Trump's unilateral war on that nation. And Russia is threatening to ratchet up tension with NATO nations.

August 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM EDT
Conservatives bushwhack Speaker Johnson's 'weird' midterm message for GOP

Republicans are facing a hard uphill battle in their fight to retain the House and Senate majority, but critics on social media say the party appears to be toiling up the wrong hill entirely. Conservative X account Republicans against Trump appeared to roll its eyes as they reposted Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to get Republicans re-elected this midterm""plaster them with President Donald Trump's face.

August 28, 2026 at 4:23 PM EDT
Biographer says '300lb' Trump quaking in boots after celebrity deaths

President Donald Trump's doctors and the White House might try to sell the argument that the president's is at the peak of health and freshness, but the human eyes tells a different story. And however loud Trump may make his staff shout his vitality to the heavens, the president himself knows he just had a birthday, says Trump veteran biographer Michael Wolff. And that birthday did not come with a small number. In the latest episode of his podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," Wolff and co-host Joanna Coles discussed the shadow of death Trump inevitably feels creeping closer after the spate of recent celebrity deaths.

August 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM EDT
WaPo catches Trump red-handed: White House faked ballroom progress

While the Trump administration told the Supreme Court that construction on President Donald Trump's much-demanded White House ballroom was already "65 percent finished," a new analysis of government documents by the Washington Post has revealed that number is far higher than the reality. "By the White House's own standard for measuring the project's progress, established in a confidential agreement with contractor Clark Construction," reports the Post, "work on the controversial project was far less complete."