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President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner in April — but many of his own supporters seem unwilling to believe the official story.“It turns out that Trump supporters, already swimming in a sea of other conspiracy theories, don’t necessarily trust the WHCD shooting story presented by the feds, either,” wrote The Bulwark's Will Sommer on Monday, juxtaposing widespread liberal skepticism about the shooting attempt with the comparatively more surprising right-wing response. “That’s one of the big findings of a recent focus group conducted by Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell’s Longwell

President Donald Trump’s poll numbers are so low, only three out of eight Americans support him compared to five out of eight who oppose him — and that bodes poorly for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.“President Trump’s surging disapproval rating is threatening to become a liability for downballot Republicans as the party looks to keep its fragile GOP trifecta in November,” wrote The Hill's Julia Mueller and Caroline Vakil on Monday. “An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll released Sunday found the president at a new high in his disapproval — 62 pe

President Donald Trump has forfeited America’s longstanding stature as leader of the free world, a conservative commentator argued on Monday — but three non-American world leaders are stepping up to fill that void.“Under the Trump administration, we’re no longer the leader of the Free World,” The Bulwark’s William Kristol wrote on Monday. “Indeed we’re barely on the side of the Free World.” Citing the Trump administration’s human rights violations and isolationist foreign policy, Kristol claimed that Trump’s administration is not championing democracy and human rights, in stark contrast to every president before him since World War II. In lieu of Trump, Kristol p

The Supreme Court has been widely criticized for its perceived partisanship, with the six Republican judges (including three appointed by President Donald Trump) overturning precedents from Roe v. Wade to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Yet according to one of Trump’s judges, this is not a problem because being on America’s most powerful bench “isn’t a popularity contest.”“The judicial branch, it isn't a popularity contest, right?” Justice Neil Gorsuch told Reason’s Nick Gillespie in a podcast that dropped on Monday. Gillespie mentioned that Am

President Donald Trump has so far fired his first Homeland Security Secretary (Kristi Noem), attorney general (Pam Bondi) and Labor Secretary (Lori Chavez-DeRemer), but his Defense Secretary seems to be secure in his job — despite a former Republican presidential adviser recently describing him as “he Most Ignominious Military Leader of All Time.”Quoting Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, former President George W. Bush adviser Steve Schmidt observed that Pete Hegseth “is incompetent — but it's worse than that. He said that he's a d

What a happy coincidence for House Republicans that the Supreme Court's conservative bloc found an excuse to help preserve their party's congressional majority, just in time for the 2026 midterm elections. Without the timely intervention of the right-wing justices, a Democratic wave loomed over the White House and Capitol Hill — which threatened not only the plans of the Trump administration but the corrupt conduct of the high court itself.Masterminded by Chief Justice John Roberts and written by his ideological sidekick Justice Samuel Alito, last week's decision in

A former supporter of President Donald Trump argued on Monday that people who still back the Republican leader have done something both permanent and unforgivable.“Of everything that Trump's done, this is the one thing that I thought, when he did it, the American people would forever banish him to like Siberia,” former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) said during a podcast he posted on Monday. “It's the one thing that Trump did that I can't move past, because it's the one thing that the American people did that I can just never, ever, ever forgive.”Walsh then specified w

President Donald Trump is "incessant" when it comes to boasting about his allegedly perfect cognitive test result, but according to a new analysis from MS NOW, this is not having his desired effect in the slightest, as record numbers of the public begin to doubt his mental fitness for office.Steve Benen is a longtime contributor for MS NOW and a producer for host Rachel Maddow. On Monday, he published a piece analyzing Trump's obsessive compulsion to tout cognitive test

President Donald Trump is more ideological in his second term than his first term, a prominent conservative recently noted — and, as a result, he is turning against the interests of his own supporters.“One factor that explains what’s gone wrong with Donald Trump’s second term is the abandonment of pragmatism as a governing principle,” Gerard Baker, editor at large for The Wall Street Journal, wrote on Monday. “Mr. Trump’s successes have owed to an iconoclastic style and substance that eschewed ideology and embraced practical solutions to

President Donald Trump last week lashed out against a NATO ally, and according to a new piece from MS NOW, his latest military "tantrum" is worse than many might realize and is something that they should be paying attention to.The situation started last week when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz offered up some "candid assessments" about Trump's spiraling conflict with Iran, arguing that the U.S. was getting "humiliated" by Iran's leaders and had "absolutely no coherent strategy whatso