June 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM EDT
Final straw: Insiders say 'drained' Susie Wiles finally jumping Trump's ship

Sources told Daily Mail on Friday that 'Ice Maien' Susie Wiles -- President Donald Trump's most loyal staff member -- is finally melting, reports Daily Mail. "Donald Trump's White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is preparing to leave, five insiders have told the Daily Mail. Wiles, 69, has worked for the president since his first campaign in 2015 and, following his November 2024 second election victory, has held the top chief of staff role in his White House."

June 5, 2026 at 6:16 PM EDT
Ex-FBI official says agents are abandoning Trump's 'partisan idiots'

Former intelligence analyst and ex-FBI official Michael Feinberg said the spate of firings, dismissals and retirements in President Donald Trump's second term is not so one-sided. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is "unnecessary and or too big," and would "like to see it smaller"

June 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM EDT
Judge tosses Kennedy Center lawsuit against artist who canceled over Trump's name

A judge on Friday tossed out a lawsuit brought by the Kennedy Center against an artist who withdrew from a performance after the organization's board voted to add President Donald Trump's name to the venue, The Washington Post reports. The artist, jazz musician Chuck Redd, pulled out over what he called "the defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center," according to the Post.

June 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM EDT
Trump lied his way into his own 'doom': report

Intelligencer writer Ed Kilgore says just being unpopular isn't the thing that's blowing up President Donald Trump's approval and setting up Republicans for a mass ejection from the House and maybe the Senate in November. Trump made some very big boasts on his way to the 2024 election about how much winning was going to be underway when he stepped back into the White House. He made them loud -- and now most every disgruntled voter remembers those broken promises.

June 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM EDT
GOP 'in absolutely huge trouble' in swing state as Trump plans visit

President Donald Trump is desperate to maintain his hold on the Republican-dominated House, so he's personally fighting for plenty of embattled seats. But some seats are going to be a much harder sell for him and his Republican Party. "The Republicans are just in absolutely huge trouble in Wisconsin. I think that more so than any of the polls would say " the fact that all those Republicans are leaving the state Legislature, they're sort of telling us with their actions what they expect," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political newsletter at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.

June 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM EDT
CNN debunks supercut of MAGA meltdown over California vote

CNN host Dana Bash on Friday mocked members of the MAGA movement who appear to assume California is taking a long time to count votes because political hijinks are afoot. Fox News host Jesse Waters explained, "I can't prove it -- but everybody watching thinks there's shenanigans when it takes this long."

June 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM EDT
Trump's ballroom investors score big returns on their investment

President Donald Trump said he would fund his lavish 90,000-square-foot ballroom with donations from corporations and individuals, and now they're getting their return on investment. The New Republic's Finn Hartnett cited a recent report from the nonprofit government watchdog group, Public Citizen, that showed 14 donors to Trump's ballroom have received more than $50 billion in government contracts in the past six months. The combined total

June 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM EDT
GOP's latest blow to Trump reveals the truth about their 'feckless party': analysis

Republicans in Congress have gotten plaudits for their recent opposition to President Donald Trump's DOJ "slush fund," which may be temporarily stalled now, but according to a new breakdown from MS NOW, the achievement reveals something more damning about the "feckless party." Last month, the Justice Department attempted to settle Trump's lawsuit against the IRS by pitching a nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, to be paid out to victims of so-called "lawfare" by the federal government for their political beliefs. The plan quickly stalled out in the face of bipartisan backlash in Congress, particularly over the possibility that Jan. 6 participants might be among its beneficiaries, though all but a few Republicans have been hesitant to block it outright.

June 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM EDT
Trump has a new GOP loyalty test -- but voters might actually like it this time

President Donald Trump is cooking up a new loyalty test for GOP lawmakers, this time driven by clocks, according to Politico, and while the rest of his agenda might be increasingly toxic with voters, this one might actually prove to be fairly popular. As Politico revealed in a Friday morning report, Trump "is lobbying GOP lawmakers on a plan to make daylight saving time permanent, meaning more daylight in the evening hours and an end to the twice-yearly clock-resetting ritual observed in most states." In fact, he has already notched one small victory on this count.

June 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM EDT
Scorned Republican goes scorched earth against Trump's slush fund

A Republican senator recently scorned by Donald Trump and denied reelection is going scorched earth to definitively kill the president's "slush fund," according to The Hill, to the point that his defiance is causing delays and headaches for his colleagues. Sen. Bill Cassidy is a Louisiana Republican who, after initially being supportive and approving various controversial nominees, emerged as a vocal conservative critic of Trump and his conduct in office. As has become reflexive for the president, he lashed out against Cassidy and successfully endorsed a challenger in his 2026 midterms primary race, ultimately costing him reelection.

June 5, 2026 at 11:55 AM EDT
Trump's 'ridiculous' next DC takeover target has been exposed

President Donald Trump is obsessed with imposing his will and image on as much of Washington, D.C., as he can, and now, per a report from NOTUS, his next potential target has been revealed, with one expert calling the plot "ridiculous." In a piece published Friday morning, NOTUS reported that the Office of Management and Budget is prepping a scheme to force the Smithsonian Museum -- the largest museum complex in the U.S. -- to conform to Trump's priorities and political agenda, by attempting to withhold funding allocated to it by Congress if it does not comply. This marks not just another example of Trump's desire to control as much of the nation's capital as possible, but also of his administration's unconstitutional hijacking of Congress's power of the purse.

June 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM EDT
Trump ambassador to the EU tells Europe not to focus on Trump's own words

Relations between the United States and its European allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have deteriorated considerably during Donald Trump's second presidency, with strong disagreements over everything from the Iran war to tariffs to Greenland. Trump's push for U.S. annexation of Greenland, a Danish colony, drew vehement criticism from European NATO countries. But Andrew Puzder, Trump's ambassador to the European Union (EU), is claiming that the U.S. president's remarks were misinterpreted.