May 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM EDT
Scholar reveals key driver behind 'thin-skinned' Trump's 'cognitive disconnect'

U.S. President Donald Trump isn't shy about posting scathing attacks on his opponents, both liberals and conservatives. But Trump often erupts in fury whenever he is the target of criticism. Mark Shanahan, a political professor at the University of Surrey in England, highlighted this pattern in an interview with the UK-based i Paper.

May 8, 2026 at 11:33 AM EDT
Experts reveal Trump's economic 'Achilles Heel'

In recent years, there has been much discussion of the United States' floundering wage growth, with the numbers slumping steadily since 2023. But April brought a brief if notable uptick in growth, increasing by .2 percent to a growth rate of 3.6 percent. While that's not exactly skyrocketing, it could theoretically be viewed as a positive economic marker, were it not for the fact that inflation is "wiping out" the gains. As Navy Federal Chief Economist Heather Long pointed out, in April, wage growth crept up to 3.6 percent, but inflation over the same period is projected to be 4 percent.

May 8, 2026 at 11:28 AM EDT
Motive behind Trump chief's claim 'he actually did win' states he lost in 2020 revealed

President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, announced that she believes the outcome of the 2020 election could change after their investigations. She recalled Trump calling her to come down to Mar-a-Lago and that they discussed why he won Florida but failed in so many other states.

May 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM EDT
Judge deals another blow to the Trump admin

President Donald Trump's attempt to cancel more than $100 million in humanities grants was just overturned in court. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild over the government in determining that Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) engaged in "viewpoint discrimination" when they targeted those institutions, according to the Associated Press. By targeting a number of arts and humanities programs on the grounds that they promoted "DEI," McMahon ruled that they behaved illegally.

May 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM EDT
Vance torn apart for insulting his own wife -- and a billion other people

An anti-woke WSJ columnist is taking issue with President Donald Trump's vice president, JD Vance's demeaning attacks on his own wife Usha Vance and roughly a billion other Hindus all over the world. "Vice President JD Vance caused an uproar this past fall when he expressed his wish that his wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, would one day follow his spiritual path," Avatans Kumar, president and trustee of the nonprofit INDICA, wrote Thursday. "Many in the billion-strong global Hindu community were outraged at his declared hope that Mrs. Vance would convert to Catholicism."

May 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM EDT
Trump's gone Caesar: 'Is he focused on you or is he focusing on himself?'

During the second administration of President Donald Trump, he's made it abundantly clear that elaborate "vanity projects" are among his key priorities. From a 250-foot arch that will loom over Arlington National Cemetery, to applying his face to passports and coins, to his hotly debated ballroom, "he's really interested in the bragging rights of the moment," says Michael Scherer of the Atlantic. Speaking with Slate, Scherer explored the matter of Trump's flurry of construction and naming projects, and why they suggest that his true desire is to be remembered as an American Caesar.

May 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM EDT
Trump's swing state problems mount as inflation panic conquers all

Once a reliable red state, the state of Georgia is falling under the fear of rising inflation and fuel costs as President Donald Trump's policies continue to punch family budgets. This could spell big trouble that Republicans need to win to maintain slim majorities in the House and Senate. "Though Republican and Democratic voters in Georgia have vastly different opinions on most topics, they do agree on at least one thing: Inflation is the single most important issue facing the state today," reports The Atlanta Journal Constitution Trursday.

May 7, 2026 at 9:10 PM EDT
Debt hawk to GOP: You're deliberately making this worse

President Donald Trump is worsening America's ballooning debt with his proposed $1 billion ballroom, according to a recent account by a debt hawk. "Senate Republicans have unveiled their plan to fund immigration enforcement and President Donald Trump's ballroom, and the proposal might take fiscal irresponsibility to a new record high," wrote Reason reporter Eric Boehm on Wednesday. "The two bills included in the package call for spending nearly $72 billion. Remarkably, every single dollar would be borrowed."

May 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT
Stubborn GOP voters still back Trump despite his polling collapse

President Donald Trump's hold on independent and non-affiliated voters keeps shrinking, but CNN analyst Harry Enten says Trump is as popular and powerful as ever among Republican voters. Enten looked at this week's results in the Indiana primaries, where a majority of Republican state lawmakers who opposed the president's push for redistricting were voted out of office.

May 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM EDT
Editors marvel as Trump lieutenants slog through their own 'fog of bull'

Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller joined Tangled News creator Isaac Saul in hashing through the unfathomable mound of nonsense that comprises the Trump administration's account of his Iran war. "We have this total fog of bulls"-- that's happening out there right now about the war. And it makes your job really almost impossible to try to tell it from truth," said Miller. "Axios has predicted 13 of the last zero agreements and they have a report coming out every morning at eight o'clock saying 'we got a source telling us that that a deal's right around the corner,' and then, you know, somebody from Iran " posts on X 'this is not true. The American Satan is going to lose.'"

May 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM EDT
Ambition drove Trump prosecutor's raid on political opponent: Report

President Donald Trump's Justice Department recently targeted a powerful Virginia Democrat -- but one expert worries that the Democratic Party will not be the primary casualty of this prosecution. "[MS NOW's Carol] Leonnig also reports that Lindsey Halligan, a former insurance lawyer who Trump illegally attempted to install as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia, pressured prosecutors to bring charges against Lucas prior to the midterm elections, believing that 'it would be good for the White House to be able, before the midterms, to accuse a prominent state Democrat in Virginia with bribery,'" wrote Vox's legal reporter Ian Millhiser on Thursday. Millhiser, who noted that the Justice Department claims to have been investigating Lucas for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes since President Joe Biden's administration, added that the charges against her may have at least some merit.

May 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM EDT
Trump's 'bullying' could kill off the very trade deal he created

In 2018, the Trump administration spearheaded the formation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to supplant the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with the former officially replacing the latter in 2020. At the time, President Donald Trump hailed it as a major trade victory, even though the new agreement wasn't radically different from the old one, with arguably the most notable change being the inclusion of a "sunset" provision requiring a formal review in six years.