June 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM EDT
Ex-MAGA aide warns Trump is 'falling apart' in big ways

President Donald Trump's administration is "falling apart," a conservative wrote in the headline of his recent editorial -- and he is not the only expert to reach that conclusion. "President Trump seems poised to throw away the achievements he has made," wrote Elliott Abrams, a Republican foreign policy official who represented Trump in both Venezuela and Iran during his first term, in an editorial for National Review. He previously praised Trump for invading Iran to reduce their threat to global security, taking down the Venezuelan regime and increasing pressure on Cuba. Yet he added that Trump has also failed to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine or China's ongoing threat to Taiwan.

June 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM EDT
Trump's Supreme Court is coming for your job: analysis

In April, the Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision which critics say " eviscerated " the Voting Rights Act. Now, according to new reporting from Vox , the impact of this decision is about to spread from the voting box to the workplace. Per Vox, "President Donald Trump's Department of Justice released an opinion on Tuesday that, in the likely event it is embraced by a Republican-controlled federal judiciary, would make it significantly harder for plaintiffs who face employment discrimination to prevail in court." It was notable that the opinion was signed by T. Elliot Gaiser, head of the Office of Legal Counsel and a former law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito, author of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais , which gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

June 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM EDT
Ex-GOP slams 'decrepit' Trump as a 'human malignancy'

Political strategist Steve Schmidt, a Republican turned Democrat, is blasting President Donald Trump as "despised," "decrepit," "bitter," "angry," "old," "lonely," and "hated" -- while warning that "this week of desecration is only going to get worse from here." The co-founder of The Lincoln Project, Schmidt declared Trump's White House -- complete with a UFC cage match "Octagon" constructed to celebrate his 80th birthday and the start of the nation's 250th birthday celebrations -- a "symbol for the destruction of this era."

June 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM EDT
Republicans freak out over Trump's 'socialism push'

President Donald Trump has become increasingly vocal with his suggestions that the government buy substantial stakes in artificial intelligence companies, and according to NOTUS , a growing number of Republican lawmakers are worried about his "AI socialism push." "I don't think the federal government should be in the business of being an equity holder in private companies," said Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who chairs the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. And even Senator Josh Hawley (R-MS), who has advocated for the government to become more involved with AI, has expressed his hesitancy toward Trump's idea, saying, "I'm not a huge fan of the government owning industry, and I think with this you'd combine the worst of the big bureaucrats with the Big Tech monopolist."

June 10, 2026 at 11:55 AM EDT
PR expert reveals Team Trump's desperate move to save 'crumbling MAGA festival'

Although President Donald Trump has plenty of scathing critics in hip-hop -- from Ice-T to Jay-Z to Public Enemy's Chuck D -- he has an enthusiastic supporter in pop-rapper Nicki Minaj. And according to the Irish Star, Trump allies are hoping that Minaj can "save a crumbling MAGA festival." The troubled event is the Great American State Fair, where Trump will be the headliner.

June 10, 2026 at 11:45 AM EDT
Experts rip Trump as 'one of the worst negotiators in the world' over peace talks

Experts tore into President Donald Trump while discussing his botched handling of Iran peace talks with The Hill, with one lambasting him as "one of the worst negotiators in the world." In a Wednesday morning report, The Hill said that Trump's much-hyped brand as a "master negotiator" and "dealmaker-in-chief" is imperiled, as the Iran war plods along after recently hitting the 100-day mark and peace talks continue to sputter. While Trump and his allies claim that a meaningful deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz is right around the corner, one never materializes, with new hostilities appearing to set things back regularly. Most recently, the U.S. carried out a new round of strikes against Iran on Tuesday after it was reported that Iranian forces had shot down an American Apache helicopter.

June 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM EDT
Inside a right-wing party's push to purge itself of MAGA

When Donald Trump spoke at the 2024 Libertarian Party National Convention during his fourth presidential campaign, it was clear that LP members had a variety of views on the MAGA movement. The Libertarians who booed Trump loudly were obviously anti-MAGA, rejecting the MAGA-friendly views of a faction within their party that were being dubbed the "blood-and-soil Libertarians." As MAGA opponents in the Libertarian Party see it, Trumpism is diametrically opposed to many of the things the party has been preaching since its formation back in 1971.

June 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM EDT
Ex-national security official warns: Trump has already 'destroyed' NATO

President Donald Trump has "destroyed" the 77-year-old NATO alliance, "without tearing up the treaty or even firing a shot," argues former Trump Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor at Defiance.News. At the heart of NATO sits Article 5: the principle that an attack on one member is an attack on all, and the commitment that every member will come to the attacked nation's defense.

June 10, 2026 at 10:52 AM EDT
How to defuse the 'ticking time bomb' in the White House

"The president is bonkers," declared Contrarian editor in chief Jennifer Rubin on Wednesday. But while she asserts that President Donald Trump's increasingly erratic behavior poses risks to the country, she also thinks something can be done to defuse "the ticking time bomb in the White House." "We should not be surprised that Donald Trump is mentally and emotionally imploding under the cumulative effect of plunging poll numbers, his disastrous Iran war" and an increasingly irritable Senate Republican caucus," writes Rubin. As she explains, Trump has seen plunging support among his base, met several major legal setbacks, and encountered "multiple legislative losses unprecedented for a president with majorities in both houses." On top of that, he's watched his name get scraped off the Kennedy Center, had nearly all the performers for his birthday party cancel, and is met by a torrent of boos anytime he attends a sports event, resulting in "the pathological narcissist's worst nightmare: public humiliation ."

June 10, 2026 at 5:40 AM EDT
We've seen threats to Social Security before -- but it's different this time

Every year, the panel overseeing the trust fund for Social Security and Medicare publishes its annual financial report. And every year, its members make clear that the programs' reserves will be exhausted by the time Gen X retires - meaning they will no longer be able to pay full scheduled benefits by the mid-2030s. While many media outlets cover this news as a one-day story, this year's report should be seen as a much more ominous warning. The latest projection, released on June 9, 2026, is that the Social Security trust fund will be depleted by 2032, at which point incoming revenue can pay only about 78% of scheduled benefits. For the 1 in 5 Americans who receive Social Security, that means a potential across-the-board benefit cut of roughly 22% unless Congress acts.

June 10, 2026 at 5:22 AM EDT
Veteran reporter tells complicit media to stop enabling Trump or 'go to hell'

As the smoke finally started to clear following Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and Donald Trump's violent attack aimed at overthrowing our government just two months later, I wrote a piece castigating our disintegrating working press in the United States. The thrust of my write was this: If you were addressing ANY Republican about ANYTHING, your first question simply had to be, "Do you believe Donald Trump lost the 2020 election?"

June 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
MAGA erupts as Pope Leo meets with Bad Bunny

The Vatican has confirmed that Puerto Rican singer, Bad Bunny, held a private audience with Pope Leo on June 8 at the Santiago Bernabe'u stadium, and MAGA did not take the news well. Rich Raho Teacher-Theology Department at DePaul College Prep of the Lake Chicago, made the announcement on X, saying the meeting took place after the pontiff's gathering with the Madrid Archdiocesan community. The Catholic News Agency similarly confirmed the meeting. But before the end of the day on June 9, MAGA posters were already slamming the meeting.