August 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM EDT
Tipping point: Analysts say Trump 'panicked' as he 'keeps a death grip on the government'

New York Times columnist say President Donald Trump may be about to lose the only advantage keeping his administration afloat. Investment expert Steven Rattner said economic numbers released before Trump angrily fired his Bureau of Labor chief showed "substantial deceleration" in job growth, not just for the last month, but revised down for the two prior months.

August 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM EDT
'He gets mixed up': Former Ambassador worries 'erratic' Trump unprepared for Putin meetings

Former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul tells MSNBC he's alarmed by how quickly President Donald Trump keeps changing his mind about Russian leader Vladimir Putin as he prepares to negotiate an end to war in Ukraine. "I'm surprised by [his recent criticism of Putin] because if there's been one thing that Trump has been consistent with over the decades, really, it's been his admiration for Vladimir Putin," McFaul told the crew of MSNBC's 'The Weekend'. "The whole first term was all about how great Putin was. But I'm also worried about the erratic nature of the president of the United States today."

August 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM EDT
'Human wrecking ball' Trump wrecking more than White House scenery: critic

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says Trump is imposing his "garish" rococo gold tastes upon more than just the local de'cor. "Trump has long been a human wrecking ball, but now his chaos has splattered onto the usually serene White House," said Dowd. "He's obsessively terraforming the place to be an extension of his attention-crazed id."

August 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM EDT
Trump's all in on new rage baiting""there's just one big problem

It appears that I must have missed a memo recently from Woke"'Liberal Headquarters. If I understand correctly, I was supposed to have melted down by now over an American Eagle ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. Something about my outrage over a beautiful woman with blonde hair and blue eyes making a joke about having "good jeans" -- a play on "good genes."

August 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM EDT
'Best thing that's happened to us': How Trump 'turbocharged' extremists in the midwest

The Oklahoman reports the Aryan Freedom Network and other neo-Nazi groups may sit "on the outermost edges of American politics," but "several trends have converged since Trump's re-election". "[Trump] awakened a lot of people to the issues we've been raising for years," said Oklahoma resident and neo-Nazi Dalton Henry Stout. "He's the best thing that's happened to us."

August 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM EDT
'Really big bomb': Dems giddy as ugly Republican brawl threatens GOP massacre

WASHINGTON -- Elon Musk may have packed up and gone home weeks ago, but he's still got a grip on Washington's political class. While Republicans cling to the coattails of the world's wealthiest man -- whether or not he's tweet-shaming the GOP agenda on his social media platform, X -- many Democrats are cheering the Tesla CEO's latest foray into politics, with the soft launch of his "America Party."

August 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM EDT
This MAGA hero may be the one to bring Trump's reckoning

Joe Rogan built an empire on being the guy who asked the questions nobody else would. That's why millions of Americans -- especially younger men -- trust him more than they trust the nation's media, Congress, or the Supreme Court. They believe he sees through the spin. He talks to conspiracy theorists and scientists alike, grills politicians, mocks the media, and makes it all feel like truth-telling. But now, Rogan is at a crossroads. The question isn't whether Joe Rogan will change the country. The question is whether power is changing Joe Rogan.

August 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM EDT
'Gigantic red flag': Jen Psaki reveals how new Epstein lawsuit is 'huge problem for Trump'

On Friday, legal group Democracy Forward filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to compel President Donald Trump's administration to release the remaining evidence it has on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And MSNBC host Jen Psaki pointed out one particular element of the lawsuit that could prove to be a significant obstacle for Trump. During the latest episode of her show "The Briefing," Psaki delved into the group's lawsuit, which it filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Democracy Forward explained on its website that the suit is asking the court to order the release of the Epstein files "in an expedited manner," in accordance with federal public records laws.

August 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM EDT
Red state governor shuts down Trump's push to redraw congressional maps

Several Republican governors of states with GOP majorities in their respective legislatures are heeding President Donald Trump's call to redraw their congressional districts just five years after the last U.S. Census. However, at least one of those Republican trifecta states won't be joining them. Politico reported Friday that New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte (R) rejected Trump's push to squeeze more Republican seats out of deep-red states, even though she has (slim) Republican majorities in both chambers of the Granite State's legislature. She told Manchester, New Hampshire-based ABC affiliate WMUR: "The timing is off for this, because we are literally in the middle of the census period."

August 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM EDT
5 ways 'parasite-in-chief' Trump is turning America into a 'pale lifeless husk': analyst

According to one analyst, President Donald Trump is using the presidency as a vehicle to rapidly enrich both himself and his family at the expense of both tax dollars and the efficacy of federal agencies in five particular ways. In a Friday op-ed for the Daily Beast, columnist Michael Rothkopf likened Trump to a "vampire." He argued that world leaders like Trump are in office not to serve the public but to "suck that strength out of the institutions, economies and resources they have been entrusted with protecting and cultivating -- and take the wealth, status and influence for themselves."

August 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT
'Walking a tightrope': Here's what the Smithsonian now says about Trump's 2nd impeachment

The Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History has now officially updated its presidential impeachment exhibit, and the language about President Donald Trump's second impeachment is noticeably cagey. That's according to a Friday article by the New York Times' Graham Bowley, who reported that the exhibit's new description of Trump's role on the day of the January 6, 2021 insurrection takes a more careful tone. Previously, the exhibit said Trump gave "repeated false statements" about the 2020 election, and that his speech that day "encouraged -- and foreseeably resulted in -- imminent lawless action at the Capitol."

August 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM EDT
'Stop the steal!' MAGA rep files bill for citizens-only Census following Trump's demand

A freshman Republican has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to mandate a citizens-only U.S. census, following a demand from President Donald Trump. But legal scholars say the Constitution is clear: it requires counting all persons, including U.S. citizens, legal residents, and undocumented immigrants. U.S. Rep. Randy Fine filed the "Correct the Count Act" without any co-sponsors.