May 22, 2026 at 8:14 PM EDT
Conservative tears into all the 'bananas' in Trump's 'Banana Republic'

Former National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson says there just aren't enough corruption counters to count all the corruption leeching out of the Trump White House these days. "To recap: Donald Trump has sued the Donald Trump administration over alleged wrongdoing by the Donald Trump administration, and an out-of-court settlement between Donald Trump and the Donald Trump administration will have Donald Trump's DOJ ponying up the better part of $2 billion to be put into a fund controlled by Donald Trump and used for the benefit of -- let's check in here with dead-eyed White House trash panda J.D. Vance -- "people who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6th protests," Williamson writes in the Dispatch.

May 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM EDT
Defiant former Republican says losing 'still feels better' than serving Trump

A disenchanted Ex-GOP party-switcher clearly had no patience for President Donald Trump's opportunistic jab after losing his Democratic bid for governor. Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan lost behind former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Trump could not wait to take to social media and kick Duncan when he was down.

May 22, 2026 at 6:06 PM EDT
Republicans spend big to bury Trump's specter in this red state

President Donald Trump's presence is becoming more and more of a liability in the state of Wisconsin, despite state voters choosing to send Trump to the White House in the last election. The president's plummeting polls may have something to do with a Republican group having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in television ads in Milwaukee and Green Bay to salvage the campaign of Republican state attorney general candidate Eric Toney.

May 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM EDT
Critics pounce as Trump delights himself with 'dumb' gag

President Donald Trump appeared to thrill his supporters in New York on Friday as he shared how he came up with his latest nickname for Democrats -- his explanation included a spelling lesson. "Blue means Dumocrat," the president said, remixing a gag he shared with Fox entertainer Sean Hannity days ago. "That's a new name I came up with."

May 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM EDT
'Unchained' Republicans brace to derail Trump until Dems take over: report

There's stupid " and then there's special stupid -- and President Donald Trump's spite is framing him up to be the latter, said former Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes. For example, with Trump's razor-thin majority in the Senate and Democrats threatening to take both the Senate and House in November, you'd think Trump would do everything he could to keep his barely-majority gang happy and on his side. But that's not what he did, said Sykes.

May 22, 2026 at 4:21 PM EDT
Trump launches deluge of conspiracy theories with mere schedule change

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he would not be attending his first son's wedding to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson on an island in the Bahamas. Writing on Truth Social Trump said, "While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the newest member of the Trump Family, his soon to be wife, Bettina, circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so."

May 22, 2026 at 4:02 PM EDT
Top economist issues warning: The economy is about to get 'really ugly'

Following the Friday news that consumer sentiment has dropped to its all-time low amid an economy roiled by the consequences of President Donald Trump's tariff program and war on Iran, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warns that things are about to get "really, really ugly." "The numbers are terrible, people," he said. "We're hitting a record low on consumer sentiment, which fits in with the general picture. We know that people are very upset about prices. They're very upset about economic management. They just don't feel that there's anyone making any sense who's in charge of things. Which is all true."

May 22, 2026 at 12:03 PM EDT
'President under siege': Trump revelation proves he's retreating to his 'bunker phase'

Authoritarians and their bunkers have a long and storied history. Probably the most well-known was Adolf Hitler, who spent his ignominious final hours holed up in a bunker in Berlin. And in recent weeks, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has been hiding out from a rumored incipient coup in a palatial bunker of his own. Now, wonders i Paper contributor Sarah Baxter, has President Donald Trump "entered the bunker phase of his presidency?" Maybe or maybe not, but two things are certain: he is building a bunker, and he "knows" his presidency is failing.

May 22, 2026 at 11:57 AM EDT
America's closest allies see 'no point' in negotiating with Trump

During his second presidency, Donald Trump's foreign and economic policies have been a frequent source of frustration not only for Democrats and Never Trump conservatives, but also, for leaders of democratic countries that have long enjoyed a close relationship with the United States -- from Canada to the European Union (EU). And according to journalist Matt Gurney in the conservative website The Bulwark, many democratic leaders see no "real value" in negotiating with Trump.

May 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM EDT
Consumer confidence hits grim milestone that sank Trump's predecessor

Consumer confidence in the U.S. has continued to plunge under President Donald Trump's watch, and according to a new report from The Hill, it has now reached a grim milestone that once poisoned the presidency of the predecessor that Trump despises. On Friday, Gallup released the latest edition of its Economic Confidence Index, a widely cited measure of the American public's sense of how well the economy is going. The news could hardly have been worse for the president: consumer confidence cratered to negative 45 points in May, a drop of 7 points since the last index report in April.

May 22, 2026 at 11:49 AM EDT
Trump forced to correct his own Cabinet official who messed up troop movements

President Donald Trump's administration withdrew troops from Germany this month, raising concerns among supporters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth then announced the decision to cancel the deployment of 5,000 U.S. troops to a base in Poland. Trump, however,then shot down the plan, however. The Independent noticed that Trump's Truth Social post claimed he was "pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki."

May 22, 2026 at 11:04 AM EDT
Todd Blanche's DOJ reign 'going to end with his disbarment': journalist

American outrage continues to grow as President Donald Trump's administration moves forward with its nearly $1.8 billion fund that aims to compensate Americans who feel they've been wronged by the government. Speaking on CNN this week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he thinks taxpayers "do want their tax dollars spent on things like that."