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President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday — and, according to a prominent columnist, Attorney General Pam Bondi ought to be next.“Back in Trump 1.0, Noem’s firing would have been just another Thursday,” wrote The Guardian’s Arwa Mahdawi on Saturday, pointing out that Trump frequently fired advisers and cabinet secretaries during that administration. Yet Mahdawi argued Noem’s firing may indicate a reversal of that trend, given that there is “currently a target on attorney general Pam Bondi’s back.” Five

President Donald Trump is trying to alter how college sports are played — and is being called out for what one columnist called a “dog and pony show.”In an editorial headlined “Trump college sports meeting turns into dog and pony show with no real answers, Matt Hayes from USA Today argued that “if universities receive the antitrust exemption, the first thing implemented is a return to restricting player movement. (That voice you just heard was Trump announcing, ‘Go back to the wonderful system.’)” This would make it difficult for pla

A scholar from a right-leaning think tank argued in a Saturday editorial that President Donald Trump’s latest anti-immigrant policy will turn banks into a “citizenship police.”“President Trump is reportedly considering an order requiring financial institutions to check customers’ citizenship, a curious departure from the administration’s professed concerns about the burden of bureaucracy and debanking,” wrote the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Solveig Singleton for The Hill. Although they say this is being done to remove people illegally residing in the United

President Donald Trump’s war in Iran may put US and Israeli lives in jeopardy as Iran vows to treat locations in those two nations as “primary targets” in its military response.President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran announced on Saturday that he is suspending Iran’s attacks on other Middle Eastern countries except those that have been belligerent toward Iran. In this context, he also mentioned that Iran will target US and Israeli locations."I should apologize to the neighboring countries that were attacked by Iran, on my own behalf," Pezeshkian explained in a prerecord

American Conservative writer Jason Lewis says it’s all but certain that President Donald Trump has blown it for Republicans in November.“Oh what a difference a week makes,” said Lewis. “Way back then, we were talking about the State of the Union. You know, a unique set of domestic problems that America First solutions were going to fix: Replacing income taxes with tariffs, reducing a Democrat-driven cost of living, combating fraud and urban crime, ending ‘identity politics,’ acknowledging biological reality, voter ID, and secure ballots.”Lewis points out that Trump even deftly challenged “his radical opposition (Democrats)” to reaffirm that “the first duty of the Amer

President Donald Trump is displaying a “shruggy nihilism” toward the mass deaths caused by his policies, a major editor wrote on Friday — and it’s only getting worse.Trump has so far killed 787 Iranians, including at least 175 children at an elementary school near a naval base, and at least six American service members, wrote Inae Oh, senior news and engagement editor at Mother Jones. She added that as of Friday more than 120 people in Lebanon have been killed as the war expands into the Middle East.Despite the mounting death toll, Oh noted that Defense Secretary

President Donald Trump entered his second term with significant political advantages but, according to a former Washington Post political journalist, a “trifecta” of political blunders has put his presidency into “freefall.”“Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now,” Greg Sargent wrote for The New Republic. “We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And r

President Donald Trump is pandering to young men in his latest attempt to promote his war against Iran — and yet commenters perceive his efforts as “Operation Epstein Distraction.”Comments like “Operation Epstein Distraction” and “GI Joke” appeared on X under the propaganda videos, according to The Guardian. One video captioned “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY” mixes footage from “Braveheart,” “Gladiator” and “Iron Man” with seemingly real footage of American strikes against Iran.“It is unclear if the White House obtained permissions for the film and m

President Donald Trump is a “practical primitive” as he wages war against Iran, a veteran journalist warned on Saturday — and the world is not catching up to that fact.“All of the many textbook reasons for war—historical, military, political, economic, defensive or aggressive—are less than relevant because he has only limited awareness of them,” journalist Michael Wolff wrote in The Daily Beast regarding Trump’s foreign policy. “What any world leader, ally, enemy, diplomatic expert, pundit, or political pro thinks about war is absent—because it’

Late night talk show host Bill Maher argued that President Donald Trump suffers from “Bill Maher Derangement Syndrome” after repeatedly attacking him on social media.“Someone has to help Donald Trump understand that I don’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, he suffers from Bill Maher Derangement Syndrome,” Maher said on Friday night. He then added that — contrary to Trump claiming his famous-dinner with Maher was quick and Maher was anxious — in fact the dinner was lengthy and he drank casually.“I wasn’t nervous and s