August 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM EDT
South Park gives profane 5-word response to Trump administration after it embraces cartoon

President Donald Trump's administration is seizing on the upcoming episode of the hit cartoon series "South Park" to recruit new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The show's official social media account didn't allow the moment to pass without offering its input. Variety reported Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used a still from the newest South Park episode -- which is reportedly going to satirize the Trump administration's immigration raids -- to promote its ICE recruitment efforts. The South Park X account quote-posted the DHS' tweet with the text: "Wait, so we ARE relevant?" The show then added the hashtag "#eatabagofd----" to its post.

August 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM EDT
'Highly damaging': How Trump's latest firing is 'destructive' to his own administration

President Donald Trump's abrupt dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, immediately after the release of a weak July jobs report, has prompted fierce backlash from economists, former career civil servants and democracy advocates. In an editorial published Tuesday, The New York Times Editorial Board condemned Trump's actions as "highly damaging," arguing that firing the country's top labor statistician for issuing data that conflicted with his agenda undermines the integrity of federal information and fuels public distrust.

August 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM EDT
Trump threatens federal takeover of DC after DOGE staffer 'beat up by a bunch of thugs'

Claiming crime in Washington, D.C is "totally out of control," President Donald Trump threatened to bring the nation's capital city under federal control, and called for prosecuting minors fourteen and older as adults. Violent crime dropped last year by more than one third""hitting the lowest levels in decades""and this year violent crime is likewise down by double digits. Posting a photo of a nameless, bruised and bloodied young man who he suggested was "beaten mercilessly by local thugs," President Trump claimed local youths and gang members, "some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released."

August 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM EDT
'Major stress': One of my monthly bills is sending me into panic mode -- and I'm not alone

Recently, I overhauled my expenses. All that could be cut got cut. Car insurance, internet provider, phone service. Everything I could. But at the rate things are going, whatever savings I gain will be out the window soon enough, as the price of groceries keeps going up. I'm worried and apparently, I'm not alone.

August 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM EDT
'Weird moves': Nicolle Wallace blasts 'flailing' Trump

Despite his best efforts, President Donald Trump continues to be dogged by questions about his handling of the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files. And according to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, he's only digging himself into a deeper hole. On Tuesday, Wallace opened her "Deadline: White House" show with a segment explaining how Trump is "flailing" to swim out of the Epstein news cycle, saying his efforts are doing "precious little to paper over the gaping questions" about Epstein. She began by playing a clip of Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God shrugging off Trump's latest attack against him and urging listeners to remain focused on asking "two simple questions: What about the economy? What about the Epstein files?"

August 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM EDT
'Way out of line': Texas Republican slammed for 'racist' comment about Democratic lawmaker

A Republican Texas state senator is facing accusations of racism due to a social media remark about a colleague who left the state to foil Republican plans to redraw congressional districts before next year's midterm elections. State Sen. Mayes Middleton, a GOP senator from Galveston campaigning for Texas attorney general, posted on the social platform X on Monday: "Is Gene Wu back in China?"

August 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM EDT
'MAGA's culture of cruelty': Trump has a plan to 'cement' his 'rule forever'

According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures released on Friday, August 1, U.S. employment was at 4.2 percent in July. The U.S., according to economists, still isn't in a recession, but the BLS report was a disappointment in terms of job creation. According to BLS data, "Among the unemployed, the number of new entrants increased by 275,000 in July to 985,000. New entrants are unemployed people who are looking for their first job". In July, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased by 179,000 to 1.8 million. The long-term unemployed accounted for 24.9 percent of all unemployed people."

August 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM EDT
'Pure propaganda': Conservative warns 'whole government works for Donald Trump'

Neoconservative writer Bill Kristol says President Donald Trump's firing of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics over her department's accurately reported numbers was moving the U.S. into "third world" territory. "My alarm scale is pretty high," Kristol told podcaster Tim Miller. "It's been pretty high for quite a while, but it's ticking higher."

August 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM EDT
'Fire the facts': Ex-White House official details Trump's 'denial-and-deflect routine'

Although conservative Republican Olivia Troye served as a national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence during the first Trump Administration, she resigned from the Trump White House in August 2020 and became a full-fledged Never Trumper. And she was among the conservatives who -- along with then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham -- gave presidential nominee Kamala Harris an enthusiastic endorsement at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

August 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM EDT
Trump rages about 'rigged' 2020 election as CNBC host struggles to reel him in

President Donald Trump ranted and raged about the 2020 election he lost while discussing his Justice Department's new investigation into allegations -- dismissed by some experts -- that the Obama administration engaged in a "treasonous conspiracy" against him during the 2016 election. CNBC's Joe Kernen asked Trump on Tuesday if he had directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the 2016 election, and the President professed he had "nothing to do with it," before launching into a rant about the 2020 election.

August 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM EDT
'Uncle Sam owns it now': Michigan auto CEO says Trump 'roadblocks' could kill his company

Detroit Axle CEO Mike Musheinesh tells CNN he sees no way to survive President Donald Trump's most recent round of tariffs, and he warned that Trump has already run other car parts producers like him out of business. "The first Trump administration, he levied tariffs back then. If we were to receive $1 million in [imported] products, we would pay $25,000 in tariffs. And today, for that same million dollars in products, we're looking to pay $725,000 in tariffs to the federal government," said Musheinesh, warning that his company was considering laying off employees and closing a company warehouse.

August 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM EDT
'Why is this so hard for people?' Ex-RNC head tears into 'wholly incompetent' Trump admin

The latest move from President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) prompted a particularly strong reaction from former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele. During a Monday segment on MSNBC's "The Weeknight," co-host Alicia Melendez told viewers about Attorney General Pam Bondi's announcement that she would be convening a grand jury to investigate "unfounded accusations" that former President Barack Obama conspired to hurt Trump's chances of winning the 2016 election. She emphasized that there was "zero evidence to support those allegatons."