April 25, 2026 at 12:35 PM EDT
Reality check: Angry voters face the consequences of buying the Trump 'myth'

New York Times columnists say President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed master of deal making, is struggling to deal with his Iran war. But contributing opinion writers E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel and opinion columnist Carlos Lozada say that deal-making talent was never a thing. "This whole notion of Trump as the master deal maker, as deal maker in chief, it's all part of a long-running Trump mythology that was part of 'The Art of the Deal,' part of 'The Apprentice.' I think that what we're seeing now, very clearly, in the second term is the limits to his deal-making prowess, especially internationally," said Lozada. "So, you see the president making threats with timelines and cease-fires that come and go, and get extended till the schedule, the time frame, is sort of meaningless. He's not really trying to manage a war; he's trying to manage the news cycle, manage the markets, and hold on to his fracturing coalition."

April 25, 2026 at 11:42 AM EDT
Dems are cutting ties with Trump supporters --and MAGA is paying the price

Democratic strategist and author Jessica Tarlov says liberals have bigger problems with President Donald Trump supporters than Trumpers have with liberals. But that higher standard is leaving MAGA out in the cold with old friends and relatives. "Trump himself is such a moral failing that it says something more definitive about you [as a Trumper]," Tarlov said, and this reality appears to be bearing out in survey interviews of both Republicans and Democrats.

April 25, 2026 at 10:43 AM EDT
'Lifelong Republican' losing patience with Trump in deep red state

NPR reports the Trump effect on fertilizer and fuel prices is pushing President Donald Trump supporting farmers "to the brink," despite Trump's $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, which delivers a one-time payment to offset farmers' losses because of Trump's tariff policies. "If somebody took $100 out of my pocket and then turned around and gave me $20 back, patted me on the back and said they were my friend, I'm not really sure I would agree," said Mississippi Delta corn grower Sledge Taylor, a lifelong Trump supporter.

April 25, 2026 at 10:41 AM EDT
News anchor floored as Fox News delivers bad news to Trump

MS NOW "The Weekend" Host Jonathan Capehart could not disguise his surprise at some very bad numbers for President Donald Trump coming from a very friendly place. "I just want to put up this Fox New poll about 'who would do a better job on the economy,'" said Capehart.

April 25, 2026 at 8:55 AM EDT
Trump's 'lowlife' personal attorney is sliding the DOJ further into Trump's pocket

Interim attorney general Todd Blanche has "aggressively moved to deploy the department's resources to please [president] Donald Trump," reports the Guardian, "leaving little doubt about how the president's former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent." But critics vying for the position are already training their barrels on Blanche's behavior, the paper adds.

April 25, 2026 at 8:12 AM EDT
"?Trump fawns over 'tacky' marble floors as problems mount and his popularity plummets

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will be arriving at the White House on Monday, and the Washington Post says President Donald Trump will be flaunting "his latest White House renovation: a new black granite path that the royals are expected to take to the Oval Office." -- [T]he president [was] eager to replace decades-old beige Tennessee flagstone with his handpicked dark granite slabs before the royal visit," two anonymous sources told the Post. This will add to gobs of gold lettering, new fixtures and lights -- all lauded by signs installed specifically to praise Trump's work.

April 25, 2026 at 5:56 AM EDT
Inside the hypocrisy killing Republicans

Lately, I have been thinking about the word " freedom " and how that word has been twisted into unrecognizable wreckage by a Republican Party that uses it as a sad excuse to brutally hammer tens of millions of Americans into submission, including themselves. America is supposed to be the land of the free, but try telling that to a pregnant woman who is faced with a crushing decision about what's best for her, or Alex Pretti or Renee Good who were shot dead in the street by government thugs for freely standing up against violent authoritarianism. (Government thugs, incidentally, who are still free among us to kill again as I type this.)

April 25, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
Trump's inner circle weaponizes chaos for profit --while the president flails: former aide

Trump's former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci laid bare a disturbing truth about the current administration on Wednesday: the president's erratic behavior isn't a bug in the system""it's a feature that insiders are actively exploiting for personal gain. Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast , Scaramucci described an administration where Trump functions as what he called "an empty vessel"""a tool for opportunists looking to advance their own agendas while profiting from the chaos.

April 25, 2026 at 5:11 AM EDT
Trump's $4 billion empire could evaporate -- thanks to one judge's ruling

With all the ruin emanating from the Oval Office on a daily basis, it's easy to fall into quiet despair. Following the news feels like monitoring a malignant tumor as it spreads outward from the epicenter of the free world, jumping oceans, URLs, and psyches, threatening the globe on macro and micro levels simultaneously. Only this sickness , this decidedly opportunistic cancer , has never been seen before. Certainly this level of rot has not been diagnosed in our 250 year history.

April 24, 2026 at 10:09 PM EDT
Republican flames out on-air after blaming Biden for Trump's inflation

Conservative political strategist and CNN pundit Scott Jennings failed to make his case for blaming President Donald Trump's inflation problems on former president Biden -- despite Biden leaving office more than a year ago. Jennings set himself up for trouble after former Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala identified inflation as one of Trump's major obstacles threatening to destroy himself and his Republican Party in the November midterms.

April 24, 2026 at 9:15 PM EDT
Dangerous Trump is getting lied to 'like there's no tomorrow': ex-official

How does President Donald Trump deal with the non-stop bad news and dreadful poll numbers assaulting the White House every day? One former Trump official delivered the answer after MS NOW host Michael Steele asked him "what all the little mice around him" are doing to blunt the ugly numbers. "Are they lying in his ear and telling him those aren't real polls? Or does he not really give a crap?" Steele demanded.

April 24, 2026 at 8:25 PM EDT
MAGA gullibility explains this one delusion they share: report

Until fairly recently, President Donald Trump's MAGA fold mostly united around a certain set of beliefs. But researchers have now confirmed that at least one of their founding principles is based on the complete absence of any hint of fact in their lives or in their circle. "Psychology researchers Christopher Stockus, now at Marietta College, and Ethan Zell of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro " designed a project to measure whether an objective gap in factual knowledge exists between [left-leaning and right-leaning] political groups," reports PsyPost. "The researchers wanted to investigate if this knowledge gap might explain the differences in how each group views the necessity of environmental policies.