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CNN reports President Donald Trump may be predicting high gas prices to drop as soon as he pulls out of Iran, but right now the numbers are destroying him.Trump’s self-imposed war triggered the largest four week increases in gas prices since 1991,” said CNN Analyst Hary Enten, and nobody in Trump’s administration should be looing forward to the midterms right now.“If I was in the White House, I'd be shaking,” said Enten. “I'd be shaking in place because there'd be nowhere to hide. And of course, if I was in Congress running at the end of this year, I'd be shaking as well.”Only one in five independents, approve of Trump’s handlin

American Conservative Managing Editor Jude Russo has no patience for President Donald Trump or his lieutenants proposing endless U.S. intervention in Iran for the foreseeable future. He also has no love for their deft use of labels to deny the obvious.“Let’s all give a hand for Marco Rubio, secretary of state, favored champion of the White House, and all-around cretinous worm,” said Russo. “The Amazing Plastic Man — the adjective refers to his flexible principles, not his incre

Semafor reports Texas plastic surgeon Keith Rose was “patient zero” for one of the worst conspiracy theories chewing MAGA to pieces in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.“In the hours after Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10, his executive producer Andrew Kolvet took a call in the hospital where Kirk’s body still lay,” reports Semafor writers Ben Smith and Shelby Scott. “On the other end of the line was an occasional guest on the Charlie Kirk Show, Keith Rose, a Texas plastic surgeon and former militar

President Donald Trump waging war against Iran is a “man-child playing with matches,” warned a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign policy analyst in a recent editorial — and therefore he has only one clear off-ramp to quickly and effectively end the conflict.“President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel started a war with Iran assuming that they would trigger quick and easy regime change,” The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman wrote on Tuesday. “They vastly underestimated the staying power of Iran’s surviving leadership and its military capacity not only to inflict damag

President Donald Trump is in a state of political “free fall,” argued an expert on Tuesday, but that does not mean Democrats are poised to capitalize on it.“Donald Trump is in trouble,” wrote Time Magazine senior correspondent Philip Elliott. “Poll after poll show him posting his worst numbers yet. Record crowds took to the streets this weekend in the single largest day of political protest in the nation’s 250-year history. His Department of Homeland Security remains shuttered because his allies in the Republican-led Congress cannot sort out a spending plan. Construction

According to former congressman Matt Gaetz, the United States Army is crossbreeding aliens with humans. Appearing on the show of far-right podcaster Benny Johnson, Gaetz claimed he was approached by a senior enlisted Army officer with some unbelievable revelations to share.“I had someone come and brief me,” said Gaetz, “who was in a military uniform and works in the United States army…on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication.”As a shocked Johnson looks on, Gaetz

Pope Leo chronicler Christopher Hale says JD Vance is putting out a new book on Catholicism. But judging by how many Catholic popes have lined up to slam him for being wrong it might be best not to let the vice president lead your personal congregation.Vance’s 304-page Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, sounds like a diary of Vance’s conversion to Roman Catholicism during his ride from Appalachian poverty to the second-highest office in the country. But critics are already chewing it up as blatant opportunism, said Hale, with one critic demanding how Vance managed to w

Legal analysts are trying to figure out a way to stop the Justice Department from giving millions in cash to Jan. 6 attackers who got pardons thanks to President Donald Trump. After hundreds of protesters beat police officers and reporters, it's the J6 attackers who are now alleging "excessive force” in a $18.4 million class action lawsuit, reported "All Rise News" reporter Adam Klasfeld on Monday. He also noted that while the class-action suit includes only some of the attackers, the DOJ may decide to compensate all of those arrested and charged. Speaking to former federal prosecutor

President Donald Trump must stop demolishing the White House’s East Wing in his effort to build a ballroom, ordered a judge appointed by one of Trump’s fellow Republican presidents.“The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!” Judge Richard Leon, who had been appointed by President George W. Bush, said in his decision. Denying Trump’s assertion to preexisting authority to destroy parts of the White House and pay for the new construction with private funds

President Donald Trump’s “increasingly weird glorification campaign” has become a “ridiculous crusade” that does nothing to flatter the Republican leader.Quoting The Washington Post, MS NOW’s Steve Benen wrote on Tuesday that the “increasingly ridiculous crusade” reached its recent apex after Trump “shared the first images of his planned presidential library in downtown Miami, posting a short video Monday night that depicts a skyscraper that appears to be about 50 stories tall and filled with reconstructions