June 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM EDT
Sundowning Trump is suffering his 'Saddam statue' moment

President Donald Trump putting his face and name on coins and buildings is drawing comparisons to Saddam Hussein, all the way up to the painful, brutal end. In a panel discussion on Friday, host Antonia Hylton asked political strategist Basil Smikle if he thought Trump was embarrassed by his name coming down.

June 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM EDT
Officials 'surprised' to see this final floor collapse under Trump

They said they'd stick with President Donald Trump until the end -- but this appears to be the end. Over the course of his second term, President Donald Trump has repeatedly alienated the various voting blocs that carried him to office. Now, according to Foreign Policy , he's angered one of the last groups that overwhelmingly supported him but has recently soured as his policies have failed them: farmers.

June 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM EDT
'Low self-esteem' MAGA hammered by red-state critic

Port Charlotte, Florida, is part of Charlotte County -- which voted for President Donald Trump by a solid two-to-one margin in 2024. It was named one of the top ten places to retire in 2012. Still seen as a deeply red state, Democrats are making inroads into the Sunshine State. Ahead of the August primary, in the race for governor, Republican Byron Donalds often polls ahead of Democrat David Jolly but only by single digits, according to data from The New York Times. Donald Trump won the state by 13 points in 2024.

June 12, 2026 at 12:02 PM EDT
Conservative talk radio host's brutal new label for Trump

Prominent conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson has a new label for President Donald Trump: "clown." On his Substack newsletter, Erickson slams the president over his approach to the Iran war, for which, he notes, Trump has at least 39 times in the last 65 days "declared the United States and Iran were close to a deal only to have the Iranians openly mock him and deny it."

June 12, 2026 at 11:37 AM EDT
Legal scholar reveals how to get Supreme Court back in line using 'fear'

The Supreme Court has left a trail of legal "wreckage" over the course of its last few terms, but according to one legal scholar writing for The Hill, a "fundamental" fix to get them back in line will be making them "fear" again. Paul M. Collins Jr. is a professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who has written extensively about the Supreme Court and the issues pervading it. On Friday, The Hill published his latest piece, digging into the current situation surrounding it, with accusations of rampant political bias and disregard for clear legal precedents in order to aid President Donald Trump.

June 12, 2026 at 11:31 AM EDT
Trump's age isn't what really has medical experts sounding the alarm

This Sunday, June 14, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump will turn 80. Some of Trump's critics find it ironic that he is about to become an octogenarian in light of how badly he mocked former President Joe Biden as "Sleepy Joe," but according to medical experts interviewed by The Independent, Trump's age isn't a problem in itself. Those experts, however, laid out the things about Trump's health that do worry them. Independent reporter Rhian Lubin notes that Trump is "exhibiting visible symptoms typical for an octogenarian, including bruising on his hands, swollen ankles and legs and appearing to nod off during meetings and high-profile events."

June 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM EDT
Pilot offers snarky advice to lawmakers mid-flight after Trump UFC bash causes delay

The UFC fight President Donald Trump is hosting at the White House has caused no shortage of controversy and chaos, and on Thursday, it added a new headache to the affair: travel disruption, specifically for a bipartisan congressional delegation. According to reporting from Politico on Friday morning, "A delegation of prominent Republicans and Democrats from Michigan and the Midwest were delayed for more than an hour on a Delta flight from Washington to Detroit." These included Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Lisa McClain (R-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Bob Latta (R-OH), and Shri Thanedar (D-MI).

June 12, 2026 at 10:37 AM EDT
Ex-NSA official warns: Trump's meddling leaves US in 'pretty dangerous place'

President Donald Trump's rash decision-making caused a key bill to implode this week, and according to an ex-NSA official who spoke with The Hill, it has left the U.S. in a "pretty dangerous place" at a terrible time. With Trump's urging, Congress has been working for months on a long-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which would renew the federal government's authority to conduct surveillance on foreign individuals without first obtaining a warrant.

June 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM EDT
Whistleblower warns a devastating bubble is about to pop Trump's rotten economy

President Donald Trump has significantly boosted AI throughout his second term -- and a whistleblower confirms that major economic bubble is about to burst, and take many Americans' fortunes with it. "We've spent something like $1.4 trillion dollars building data centers in this country, and the revenues on AI are $600 billion," said Alexis Goldstein, a former financial regulatory expert for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Maryland Democratic congressional candidate to The Left Hook's Wajahat Ali on Thursday. "So the tech industry has earned not even half of what they've spent building these data centers."

June 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM EDT
Three-time Trump voters suffering 'panic attacks' over the economy: report

Ohio voter Annette Dombrowski is one of many swing state voters who picked President Donald Trump three times in a row, but now she's about to lose her job in a Trump economy where everything is only getting more expensive. "I actually have panic attacks," Dombrowski told MS NOW reporter Alex Hebit. "I've had a couple this past week and I get very emotional over it. I don't want to work anymore, but I can't afford to retire."

June 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM EDT
Republicans wince as Speaker Johnson grabs the third rail: report

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson may push a reform on a key issue that will put them even further on the bad side of the American public. "Mike Johnson did something very out of character Monday," wrote The Bulwark's Joe Perticone on Thursday. "Normally coy in public, the speaker of the House openly admitted to a radio interviewer that if Republicans retain their majority heading into next year, they are planning to flatten their palms against the hottest stove in politics -- and he broadcast this just months before an election in which many forecasters are already projecting a Democratic wave."

June 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM EDT
MAGA publication suggests Trump give honesty a try

A staunchly MAGA publication called out President Donald Trump on Thursday for his "obviously untrue" statements about the war in Iran. After reviewing how Trump told Fox News that the Iran war is over and blaming the media for claiming otherwise, The Federalist's Eddie Scarry wrote that "a lot of us who are rooting for a successful end to this conflict aren't so upset with the media. We know how they operate. What's frustrating us to the point of furious tears are the wildly inconsistent, contradictory and otherwise obviously untrue statements Trump is making about the war on a near-daily basis."