December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM EST
'We are facing almost certain defeat': Trump's hand-picked RNC chair fears midterm blowout

Diehard Donald Trump fan, Joe Gruters, is trying to set expectations very low for the 2026 midterm elections. The Bulwark's Andrew Egger captured Gruters on SiriusXM Patriot with Mike Slater, WBT Charlotte's Brett Winterble Show, Cats and Cosby on WABC in New York City, and the Chris Stigall Show this week. He's openly trying to convey the message that the people in power almost always lose the midterm elections.

December 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM EST
'This is a blacklist': White House posts -- and deletes -- 'Naughty List' of journalists

The White House appears to have tweeted then deleted a "Naughty List" of journalists, including top news reporters and outlets, in an act that is being described as "positively authoritarian" by one legal expert. The video was posted to X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and the White House's own website, which reads: "MEDIA OFFENDERS ON THE NAUGHTY LIST," and "Video unavailable. This video has been removed by the uploader."

December 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM EST
Condoms branded with Trump's face found in Jeffrey Epstein photos

A trove of photos was released by trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Friday showing the wealthy Wall Street influencer in photos with notable leaders. In one photo, however, CNN noticed that there was a box of prophylactics with President Donald Trump's face on them. The novelty condoms were being sold for $4.50, the sign said.

December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM EST
Newly released Epstein photos are 'a problem for Donald Trump': report

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee recently released new photos it received from convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein's estate, and may of them also show President Donald Trump. In a Friday segment on MS NOW, host Ana Cabrera observed that many of the estimated 95,000 new photos released by Oversight Committee Democrats show "high powered, certainly very recognizable faces," including Trump as well as former President Bill Clinton, Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz, Hollywood icon Woody Allen and former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, among others. Some of the photos of Trump show him with various women whose faces are blurred to protect the identity of Epstein's victims.

December 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM EST
"?How Trump's attempted 'power grab' ended in 'brutal and humiliating failure'

In the United States' 2024 presidential election, Indiana was an even better state for Donald Trump than Texas. Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by around 13.5 percent in Texas, but he carried Indiana by roughly 19 percent. Given how much of a red state it is, Trump zeroed in on Indiana for an aggressive gerrymandering push. But MS NOW's Steve Benen, in his December 12 column, argues that Trump's Indiana "power grab" turned out to be a "humiliating failure" rather than the slam dunk he was expecting.

December 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM EST
Indiana's rejection of 'ingrate president' proves Trump has lost Republicans: conservative

Jeffrey Blehar -- a staff writer for the conservative National Review -- praised Indiana Republicans for holding firm on Thursday and refusing President Donald Trump's mid-decade gerrymander that would have given Indiana Republicans a clean sweep of all nine of its seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. -- [A]s a conservative of the older school, I " want to salute the men and women of the Indiana State Senate for finding the steel in their spines today," said Blehar, adding that Republican's refusal did not come without cost and threat.

December 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM EST
Fact-checker says White House 'misleading the public' on inflation

President Donald Trump's administration is cherry-picking inflation data to paint a more flattering picture of the economic climate, according to new reporting from CNN. During the Thursday episode of her show "The Source," CNN host Kaitlan Collins took Trump's White House to task for falsely reporting the rate of inflation more than 10 months into Trump's second term. She began the segment by playing an exchange she had with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in which Leavitt insisted that the inflation rate was down to 2.5 percent from the three percent Trump inherited from former President Joe Biden.

December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM EST
More Republicans using 'rare' tool to 'undercut Johnson's leadership': NYT

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is being increasingly undermined by his own party as more lawmakers use a unique tool to circumvent him, according to the New York Times. The Times' Michael Gold reported Thursday that both Democrats and Republicans are resorting to discharge petitions as a means of passing legislation that Johnson wouldn't normally even consider bringing up for a vote. In one recent example, 20 Republicans joined all 211 Democrats in passing a discharge petition that would overturn one of President Donald Trump's executive orders stripping federal workers of collective bargaining rights.

December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM EST
'Apocalyptic headlines' of Trump era make 'war on Christmas' seem quaint: analysis

Barbed Wire senior editor Brian Gaar says he misses the good old days of the 'War on Christmas,' when Fox News ran segments arguing that "'Happy Holidays' was basically Sharia law in a festive font." "Honestly? I miss that absurd little era," said Gaar, even if it was the "soft-launching " of 'bathroom safety' panics and anti-DEI crusades and whatever fresh authoritarian nonsense they're road-testing this week."

December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM EST
Ex-RNC staffer slams 'gold-gilded president' for telling Americans to cut holiday spending

Former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller and MS NOW host Nicole Wallace say the voting public has good reason to be angry at President Donald Trump for asking Americans to tighten their belts for the holidays. While praising his tariffs, Trump recently suggested Americans surrender pencils from overseas and support domestic companies over foreign companies.

December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM EST
Trump gets 'wakeup call' after massive Democratic upset in his backyard: Washington Post

Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins' (D) surprise blowout win in Miami, Florida's mayoral runoff race this week is a "wakeup call for President Donald Trump," according to the Washington Post editorial board. The Post wrote Thursday that Higgins' victory -- in which she won 59 percent of the vote while Republican Emilio T. Gonza'lez won 41 percent -- came despite Miami electing Republican mayors for decades and Florida surging further rightward in recent elections. In 2024, Trump himself was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Miami-Dade County in nearly 40 years, and came within a point of winning Miami itself last year.

December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM EST
'I was an idiot': Trump 'in significant trouble' as his own supporters regret their vote

"Runaway Country" Host Alex Wagner said President Donald Trump's own voters are feeling increasingly betrayed as Trump's slumping economy continues to turn on them. Wagner offered her opinion following a clip of a U.S. veteran telling Congressional lawmakers of watching his wife, who had been in the U.S. for decades, get arrested by ICE months after he voted for Trump in this last election.