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For years, President Donald Trump got no end of pleasure from using former president Jimmy Carter’s perceived economic failures as a cudgel to beat the Democratic president. But these days Trump has a much smaller stick to swing.The latest poll conglomerate delivered no good news for President Donald Trump or his Republican Party, and CNN Harry Enten could not stop being shocked by how drastic Trump’s numbers have fallen.“This trend line is atrocious,” Enten said, pointing to a string of ominously red numbers with Trump’s photo next to it.“… [D]own

Politico reports that President Donald Trump’s desire to oust eight Indiana Republican state senators who opposed his harsh mid-decade gerrymander is running into some messaging problems.Their removal in the GOP primaries was “supposed to be a major show of force,” reports Politico. “But after millions of dollars spent and weeks of intense campaigning, his allies are still struggling to deliver a clear, consistent message” to Republican voters for why they should replace the lawmakers. Just a few dozen people showed up to a Turning Point USA rally hosted by conservative activist Scott Pressler this past weekend. And when

Trump and “War” Secretary Pete Hegseth say Operation Epic Fury has destroyed Iran’s military capacity.“We’ve taken out their navy, we’ve taken out their air force, we’ve taken out their leaders,” Trump said Tuesday.At a Pentagon briefing on April 8, shortly after Trump declared a ceasefire with Iran, Hegseth

President Donald Trump was “desperate” for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2025, noted a prominent right-leaning commentator on Thursday — but now he has proved just how unworthy of that honor he truly was.“With the Middle East in flames, President Donald Trump’s desperate lobbying campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize looks ever more bizarre,” wrote Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the right-leaning think tank the Cato Institute, for The American Conservative. “Of course, his claim to have ended and prevented numerous wars is more fantasy than reality.”Bandow pointed out that Trump’s

MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace did not mince words while discussing the number of MAGA influencers and podcasters abandoning ship on President Donald Trump as his popularity tanks.“They knew Trump was all of the [terrible] things they were saying now to their followers for years,” said Wallace. “Tucker Carlson called him a ‘demonic force.’ But we covered them here on this show because they are political bellwethers more than most, and they are attacking Donald Trump right now because they can.”“These are not people who do the right thing when it's hard. These are people who do and say the thing that sells their st

President Donald Trump’s policies are so unpopular, many Americans are considering fleeing to their northern neighbor — and it appears a new Canadian policy intended to help them is so popular, one lawyer’s office is inundated with calls.“Nicholas Berning, an immigration attorney at Boundary Bay Law in Bellingham, Washington, said his practice is ‘pretty much flooded with this,’” reported The Associated Press' Sarah Raza on Thursday. Berning was referring to Americans who believe that, because Canada will now extend citizenship to anyone who can prove

President Donald Trump won the White House in 2024 by bashing down the “blue-state firewall” that frequently falls into Democrats’ corner. And Wisconsin voters were among those swing-state voters who definitely swung to Trump that November.But the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports voters who helped give Trump a second term have had it with him.“Love him or hate him. That has been a truism for years about President Donald Trump – that America is roughly divided between a big bloc of Trump lover

Few if any administrations have had such an adversarial relationship with the press as that of President Donald Trump, whose longstanding disdain for journalists is well documented. Now, according to former Obama and Biden United Nations appointee Andrew Weinstein, the president’s attacks on the media have become so “dangerous” that they put the nation at risk.“The most dangerous thing in Washington right now isn't just the corruption,” wrote Weinstein on X. “It's the retaliation against the people who expose it. When government power is used in ways that appear designed to intimidate a journ

President Donald Trump is losing his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) supporters, the health-conscious predominantly female coalition that backed the 2024 third-party presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) before Kennedy endorsed Trump. But that was before Trump turned on issues like banning dangerous pesticides.“Tricia Busch, a former elementary schoolteacher in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, is among the MAHA voters who say they will vote for the person, not the party,” reported The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who specializes in Health and Human Services Secret

Critics on social media were not buying Lara Trump’s pity party for President Donald Trump. They particularly did not care for her claim that Trump would have an easier time of things were he not president.“Lara Trump was slammed for claiming her father-in-law’s life would be better if he weren't President of the United States,” reported RadarOnline.com. “Lara, 43, who is married to Donald Trump's son Eric, said in a recent interview that the business mogul has been punished financially by getting into politics – even though his net worth has climbed to $6.5billion from $2.6 billion in litt