November 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM EST
True taxpayer cost of Trump's golf obsession may be even worse than reported $71 million

During former President Barack Obama's eight years in the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked him for spending too much time playing golf. Trump, in 2016, claimed that if he won the presidential election and defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, he would be too busy helping the American people to play golf. But according to a 2020 fact-check from CNN, Trump spent a lot more time playing golf than Obama -- 266 days playing golf by May 2020 compared to Obama playing 98 rounds by May 2012.

November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM EST
Legal experts accuse Trump official of 'murder' after new reporting

Former top military lawyers on Saturday said that new reporting on orders personally given by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in early September, when the military struck the first of nearly two dozen boats in the Caribbean, suggests Hegseth has committed "war crimes, murder, or both." The Former Judge Advocates General (JAGs) Working Group, which includes former officials who served as legal advisers for the military, issued a statement in response to the Washington Post 's reporting on the September 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean""the first strike on a vessel in an ongoing operation that the Trump administration has claimed is aimed at stopping drug trafficking.

November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM EST
Companies promoting controversial Trump policy facing angry 'consumer revolt'

Although MS NOW host, Never Trump conservative and ex-GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough often says that the United States' immigration laws must be obeyed and enforced, he is vehemently critical of the way in which President Donald Trump's United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids are being carried out. Scarborough considers the raids reckless and blatantly cruel.

November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM EST
'Rumors were true' as another Republican quits Congress after Greene

The suspicion that other Republican lawmakers might follow MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene out of Congress appears to have some foundation. U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced on Saturday that he is retiring from Congress roughly one week after Greene's own announcement that she was abandoning her seat in January. "Before making this decision, I called President Trump personally to let him know of my plans. President Trump has always been a strong ally for our district and a true friend, and I wanted him to hear it from me first," Nehls posted on X.

November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM EST
GOP insiders hoping for 'ceasefire' in MAGA's 'burgeoning civil war'

Although President Donald Trump demands total, unquestioning loyalty from his MAGA allies, there is no shortage of infighting within the MAGA movement. There are considerable tensions between Tesla/SpaceX/X.com head Elon Musk and Steve Bannon, host of the "War Room" vodcast and former White House chief strategist in the first Trump Administration.

November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM EST
Prosecutor warns Trump 'handing Democrats' his articles of impeachment

Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has no love for the "craven video" Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and five Democrats released to the public advising military members to ignore illegal orders. But he said President Donald Trump's executive power abuses in reacting to it represent a whole "new level" of threat. McCarthy tells the National Review that he partially blames Democrats for Trump ordering the Pentagon to demote Kelly and cut his benefits because "Kelly knows, when Democrats poke another hole in another norm, the president's MO is to drive a truck through it."

November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM EST
'Just nonsense': Economist dismantles core Trump claim

President Donald Trump repeatedly claims that he inherited a troubled, dysfunctional economy from his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, and quickly turned it around. In fact, the United States enjoyed record-low unemployment during Biden's presidency, but widespread frustration over inflation helped Trump pull off a narrow victory of roughly 1.5 percent on Election Night 2024. Economist Justin Wolfers, who teaches at the University of Michigan but is originally from Sydney, Australia, tore apart Trump's claims about the economy -- from tariffs to the stock market -- during a Saturday, November 29 appearance on MS NOW's "The Weekend."

November 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM EST
Critics troubled by Trump allies who tried to overturn 2020 election -- here's why

When President Donald Trump tried to overturn the United States' 2020 election results, the pushback came not only from Democrats, but also, from some right-wing Republicans -- including then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), then-Vice President Mike Pence, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr resigned, refusing to go along with Trump. Hardcore MAGA election deniers, however, promoted the repeatedly debunked claim that the election was stolen from Trump -- a group ranging from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to attorney Sidney Powell.

November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM EST
George Conway: MAGA's 'hardcore base' growing even more 'rabid'

After Democrats enjoyed a wide range of victories in 2025's off-year elections -- from double-digit gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia to three landslide Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention votes -- many political voices argued that they offer a glimpse into what lies ahead in the 2026 midterms and may foreshadow a major blue wave. Conservative attorney George Conway examined the state of the Republican Party""including House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) small majority -- during a Saturday, November 29 appearance on MS NOW's "The Weekend." And he stressed that the GOP now finds itself dominated by MAGA and even more "rabid" MAGA.

November 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM EST
Data shows Trump is 'funneling' donor money into his bank account

Newsbreak reports that millionaire President Donald Trump is diverting donor money straight into his pocket. "Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Donald Trump is also funneling Republican donor money into his own cash registers through the political committees he controls," said Newsbreak writer S.V. Date.

November 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM EST
Republican doesn't understand 'deranged' reaction to James Carville

Podcaster Tim Miller said every time Democratic strategist James Carville does a New York Times column, there is "a deranged reaction to it," but what Carville says is often prescient. This includes his early warning that Biden was too old to represent the party, and the way the party had leaned too far to the left, culturally, while neglecting economic issues culturally in the run up to the 2024 election. "Once again, he's always a lightning rod," said Miller, referring to Carville's recent article "Out with Woke: in With Rage."

November 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM EST
Sports expert torches Trump's wildly exaggerated golf claims

Now 79, President Donald Trump continues to feel highly competitive with a wide range of people, from former President Barack Obama to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) to fellow real estate developers. Trump will insist that he has a higher IQ than past Republican presidents, and he repeatedly brags about how well he thinks he plays golf. But according to sports journalist/author Rick Reilly (of Sports Illustrated and ESPN fame), Trump's claims about his golfing record are wildly exaggerated.