December 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM EST
Supreme Court case could bring 'dramatic change' in how the government works: analysis

During Donald Trump's second presidency, many of his critics, both left and right, are warning that he is failing to respect Congress as a "coequal branch of government." But New York Times columnist David French, a Never Trump conservative and scathing Trump critic on the right, dislikes that phrase -- arguing that the U.S. Constitution gives Congress even more power than it gives presidents in the United States' system of checks and balances.

December 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM EST
Report of possible Noem firing ignites fears Trump will pick someone even worse

On Saturday afternoon, December 6, The Bulwark's Adrian Carrasquillo reported that President Donald Trump, according to three sources, is considering replacing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. "For weeks," Carrasquillo explained, "a rumor has been circulating in political circles that Noem may soon be on the outs. It briefly surfaced in a CNN report a few weeks back that listed her first among the Cabinet officials who could be caught in a year-end turnover, noting that while Trump himself has been happy with Noem, top White House officials have grown frustrated with her tenure -- specifically, her employment of her divisive and combustible chief adviser, Corey Lewandowski. Noem has downplayed any tensions or concerns. And in a text to me, Lewandowski called b------ on any talk of turnover. 'None of that is true,' he said Thursday evening."

December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM EST
The Ukraine 'peace plan' clearly points to Trump family corruption

=I don't know why this wasn't above-the-fold news all across the country over the past few days as the details of the "peace plan" Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff took to Vladimir Putin this week came out. Kushner, it appears, had added in a provision that would have forced both Ukraine and Russia to take actions that would specifically benefit Saudi Arabia, a country that is paying the presidential son-in-law at least $25 million a year.

December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM EST
President explodes at 'Trump hating loser' calling out his economy on Fox

President Donald Trump did not take kindly to the critique of a financial guru roasting his economy on Fox News. The New Republic reports Trump's cherished Fox & Friends show on Saturday hosted Peter Schiff, a stockbroker and financial commentator who took Trump to task over the economy that is putting Republicans on edge and threatening their grip on the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms.

December 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM EST
Supreme Court is giving 'capricious' Trump a pass they would never give a Democrat: NYT

The New York Times says the Roberts court is giving their favorite president passes he doesn't deserve. "The justices " seem friendlier to claims of executive power under [President Donald] Trump than they were under President Joe Biden. They blocked Mr. Biden's efforts to use his authority to forgive student loans and manage the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, they are enabling a Republican president as he goes much further while relying on weaker rationales," argued the Times.

December 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM EST
Security expert blasts Trump's 'cabinet of dunces' for posting on Twitter 'like you're 12'

National Security attorney Bradley Moss and international affairs specialist Tom Nichols took turns dumping on the mounting idiocy of officials working under President Donald Trump as the administration closes out its first year in office. Moss was particularly furious that the administration was dumb enough to order a second strike on an upturned boat of noncombatants in the Caribbean, claiming -- without evidence -- that they were transporting drugs to the U.S., which is not an act of war.

December 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM EST
Conservative suggests backup plan to keep Trump 'successfully flattered'

Columnist David Mastio can't gauge the specific inflation at your local grocery store, but he is confident President Donald Trump's "flattery inflation is on the rise." On Friday, FIFA president Gianni Infantino designated Donald Trump the orgaization's inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize" winner on stage with a gold medal "for Trump to don and a trophy of golden hands holding up the world for his Oval Office mantel," Mastio told the Kansas City Star. Fox hosts remain sensitive to the suggestion that the organization created the prize to look like Trump's ever-coveted Nobel Peace Prize on purpose.

December 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM EST
Conservative says Trump needs more 'Christian' in his 'Christian Nationalism'

The Trump administration and its agents with their crusader tattoos, and its supporters, adore the idea of Christian nationalism. It's a pity they're short on the 'Christian' part, says columnist Ross Douthat. "Christian nationalism" can be understood in two ways, Douthat tells the New York Times. The first emphasizes the "Christian" aspect and imagines nationalism as the vehicle through which conservative believers impose their doctrines on a pluralist society. Think inquisitions, witch trials, and the Republic of Gilead.

December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM EST
Trump family is inflicting a new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts

The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe -- a kind of American "neoroyalism," Joshua Keating tells Vox. "Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy," said Keating. It's also clear in Trump's habit of handling negotiations through family members and old business partners rather than the traditional bureaucracy.

December 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM EST
This terrifying crisis was manufactured to distract from a massive new Trump scandal

Mark Twain allegedly quipped, "God created war so Americans would learn geography." Whether or not he actually said that, might it not be a good test, that the world's most mighty military power be prevented from waging war if a majority of Americans failed to find the alleged enemy on a world map? Frivolity aside, this should not need to be said, but the United States has no legal authority to attack Venezuela (nor Iran, Sudan, Somalia, or any other country), nor engage in covert action to overthrow its government. Should the US do so, it will be opposed by everyone south of the Rio Grande, and rightly be seen as a racist resumption of the Monroe Doctrine. Whatever one thinks of the current government, nearly 30 million people live in Venezuela, and they don't deserve to be demonized or threatened for the policies of their president, as Venezuela poses no threat to the United States.

December 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM EST
A very good chance the worst is yet to come -- and Democrats are to blame

Somalis are garbage! Deport a college student during a trip home for Thanksgiving! Pardon the Honduran ex-president convicted of drug peddling! Kill survivors from an unarmed boat the Navy has bombed in the Caribbean! Turn against Canada, our number one ally! Threaten to take over Greenland! Sell out the Ukrainians to the Russian invaders! And there's a good chance, a very good chance, the worst is yet to come.

December 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM EST
Anger as National Parks grant free access on Trump's birthday --and end it for MLK day

"Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?" That's what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE , which reported Thursday on the National Park Service's recently announced free admission days for 2026.