May 23, 2026 at 5:19 PM EDT
'Biggest wealth divide in modern history': Shocking graphic shows reality of US economy

Multiple polls and surveys released in recent days have shown US consumer sentiment cratering""and all the while, the US stock market keeps hitting record highs. The Kobeissi Letter, a financial newsletter, posted a graphic Saturday that matched consumer sentiment as measured by the University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers with the performance of the S&P 500 stock index over a 30-year span.

May 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM EDT
Trump's retribution tour has only just begun -- as loyal Republicans face a catch-22

At the White House congressional picnic on Tuesday evening, as Abba's "Dancing Queen" echoed across a lawn dotted with cornhole games, a ferris wheel, and food stations serving short ribs and apple pie, Donald Trump took time to celebrate a political scalp, according to a new story in The Guardian. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican and persistent critic of the president, had lost his primary race and was conspicuously absent from the festivities. "We won the Massie thing," Trump announced to picnic guests. "He was a bad guy. He deserves to lose."

May 23, 2026 at 3:44 PM EDT
The sleeping giant just woke up as angry nonvoters are about to rock midterms

This week, the president has hit the floor in his support. A new Reuters poll found that Donald Trump's approval is 35 percent. A new Q poll found that it's 33 percent. Nate Silver said it's lower than Joe Biden's was after the Disaster Debate. While there's hope his numbers will keep falling, they probably won't. A third of America is descended from the original confederates. Trump is burning up their lives and fortunes, but they're stand by their man.

May 23, 2026 at 3:27 PM EDT
Legal scholar warned for years that Trump would exploit this fund --and he was right

The creation of an "Anti-Weaponization Fund" at the Department of Justice may have shocked a lot of people, but not Paul Figley, a legal scholar and former DOJ staffer who has spent years warning that taxpayer money could be used by an administration for political ends in just this way. The fund, the result of a settlement of legal claims by Donald Trump and his family against the IRS, aims to compensate those who "suffered weaponization and lawfare" at the hands of the federal government. It has already been called a "slush fund" by the New York Times editorial board, which noted - as many have - that it's likely to pay much of its US$1.8 billion funding to Trump allies who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

May 23, 2026 at 2:08 PM EDT
LDS just launched he most 'quintessentially Mormon' rebuke of Trump

On May 17 thousands of President Donald Trump's faithful supporters (and many right-wing Christians), assembled in Washington, D.C. for "Rededicate 250"-- a celebration that some critics called a "taxpayer funded white Christian nationalist rally." But while some were celebrating the festivities, at least one conservative Christian voice was noticeably absent from the White House-backed "jubilee" to rededicate America to God and conservative Christian values.

May 23, 2026 at 11:22 AM EDT
Flailing Trump pleas for 'moms' to save his career -- they won't

Last week President Donald Trump issued a sop to mothers with a new website that purports to be a one-stop shop of useful information for mothers. Tressie McMillan Cottom called the website "underwhelming," but its existence "is a rare concession that Trump is very unpopular." And if Trump's looking for moms to save him and his party in November, it's looking like they won't.

May 23, 2026 at 10:09 AM EDT
'He was very involved': Sources call out Trump's big slush fund lie

President Donald Trump insists he was not involved with an IRS settlement that creates an unsupervised $1.8 billion fund that potentially hands out millions of dollars to people who attempted to overthrow the 2020 U.S. election. But Zeteo reports the president is lying about his lack of involvement. "After news broke this week that Donald Trump's administration had agreed to create a $1.776 billion slush fund for his allies, in order to settle the president's completely bogus lawsuit, Trump got busy telling a blatant lie," reports Zeteo writers Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng.

May 23, 2026 at 9:29 AM EDT
Columnist has 'no sympathy' for the 'terrible' choice Republicans left themselves

New York Times Columnist and attorney David French told fellow columnists that he has absolutely no compassion for the Republicans who nailed themselves to President Donald Trump's collapsing house. "We're seeing this combination of factors happening right now," said French speaking to a Saturday panel of Trump's attempt to create a wildly unpopular slush fund, under his exclusive control, to disburse money to people of his choosing. "Trump is [pushing the fund] at the same time that he has flexed an enormous amount of control over the G.O.P. at the grass-roots level, with defeating five Indiana senators who defied him on redistricting, getting rid of Congressman Thomas Massie, getting rid of Senator Bill Cassidy."

May 23, 2026 at 8:35 AM EDT
Entire CNN panel mobs right-wing podcaster defending Trump scheme

A CNN panel found itself in the uncommon position of ganging up on one of its own panelists after she defended the proposal of a slush fund entirely orchestrated by President Donald Trump's handpicked board members. "I mean, I would push back on that a little bit. What you call the slush fund I call the anti-weaponization fund," right-wing podcaster Emily Austin told the "Table for Five" panel. "I'm sure on both sides of the aisle, we all have friends whose lives have been absolutely ruined, whether they were innocent. And you said that this is going to people who assaulted police officers on January 6^th, But the truth is, we don't know where this money is going yet. " But I actually I view this as something very altruistic. Trump did not take the money and put it in his pocket like he could have."

May 23, 2026 at 7:48 AM EDT
Republicans terrified of Trump are abusing his toady instead

When you're a cultlike party leader with the power to cancel members of your own party, it's not often you get a face-full of wrath from your angry acolytes. Your butler, however, will catch the hard feelings. "That's how Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday described a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Trump administration's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund that's drawn bipartisan opposition," reports NBC News.

May 22, 2026 at 10:06 PM EDT
GOP strategist says Trump has hit the dreaded 'Velcro' phase

President Donald Trump's committed bloc of grievance voters has largely made him immune to his stumbles, snafus, overt displays of hate and his seemingly bottomless racism. But there is a limit to what even the most cultlike public is willing to tolerate, and Trump has staggered past it. Mike Murphy has served as a political strategist for the likes of John McCain, Mitt Romney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jeb Bush -- so he knows when a politician has hit a certain point where everything sticks, and Trump is in it neck deep.

May 22, 2026 at 9:22 PM EDT
Trump doesn't see the reckoning coming for him: analysis

Is there a greater pleasure than watching a thundering narcissist stride proudly into his own pit? Texas conservative Nick Catoggio says he can't wait to find out. "Specifically, I'm intrigued to see what happens to an unpopular president's support when he starts an unpopular war that no one saw coming while struggling to resolve another unpopular war he started that no one saw coming," Catoggio told the Dispatch.