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After tearing down the White House East Wing without the legal authority to do so, President Donald Trump is now acting in a way which suggests he may have designs on the building’s iconic Ionic columns.“President Donald Trump appeared absorbed by the White House’s columns on Monday, lingering for several minutes and running his hands along the stonework,” The Daily Beast's Erkki Forster reported on Monday night. “The row of columns framing the White House’s entrance seemed to arrest the 79-year-old president’s attention as he returned from Ar

President Donald Trump was the first reality TV star to become president, but when it comes to tabloid entertainment entering the White House, he may not be the last — at least according to one expert.After discussing how former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden recently appeared on Candace Owens' podcast to discuss the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, America’s relationship with Israel and the Charlie Kirk assassination, The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell, an expert on tracking voting patterns, argued

President Donald Trump is accused of having a conflict of interest in a Trump Tower he plans on building the capital city of a former Soviet republic.Planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, the potential Trump Tower is slated to be constructed on land currently part-owned by the son of a leader who was sanctioned by the United States, according to a Monday report by The Guardian. Specifically it is owned by the International Charity Fund Cartu, which is solely owned by Cartu Group JSC. That group is in turn mainly owned (with a 35 percent

President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" slush fund appears to be the straw that broke the camel's back for many Republicans in Congress, but as a Republican strategist wrote for MS NOW, this pushback might, in reality, be more self-serving than noble.Susan Del Percio is a GOP strategist who serves as a political analyst for MS NOW, and on Monday, she published a new piece for the network digging into the pushback Trump's fund is getting from his own party. While Republicans have largely gone along w

Amid reports that a new ceasefire deal was imminent, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board warned President Donald Trump to avoid a deal that functions as an economic bailout for Iran.Over the weekend, Trump claimed that the U.S. and Iran were close to reaching a deal for a 60-day ceasefire in the conflict that has ravaged the world economy and sent oil prices skyrocketing. Iranian officials confirmed that talks were progressing, but stressed

President Donald Trump’s ally in the Los Angeles mayoral race, reality TV star Spencer Pratt, was just denounced by one of pop culture’s most prominent libertarian celebrities.“Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Prattfall for Mayor of L.A. needs to get their head out of their a–,” Drew Carey, host of “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” and “The Price Is Right,” posted on Threads on Monday. “I understand being angry/unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and not some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass. F--- this guy already.”Pratt has repeatedly sided with Trump on key issues, and while

On Sunday, CNN pundit Scott Jennings posted a lengthy tweet in which he attempted to explain that President Donald Trump's deal to end the war with Iran is 95 percent "done," saying that he'd been told that the first phase was complete, but that a second phase still needed to address issues like the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian nuclear program. As anyone who has been following the war's events unfold knows, however, arguably no two sticking points are larger than Hormuz and the nuclear question, making Jennings' assertion appear somewhat ridiculous. "Insider reporting from an unnamed White House official s

President Donald Trump has been engaged in a historic and ruthless level of corruption since his return to the White House last year, and according to numerous ethics experts who spoke with The New Yorker, it will require a level of reform amounting to "radical surgery" in order to prevent future presidents from doing the same thing.In a piece published Monday, New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy laid out the ever-expanding scope of Trump's corruption in office, including his trading of stocks for companies with

President Donald Trump has seen no shortage of high-profile defections in recent months, and another came on Monday, this time from a former friend who referred to the Commander in Chief as a "mob boss."Media personality Geraldo Rivera spent decades as a close personal friend of Trump’s, having met him in the 1970s. While the two have had their ups and downs over the years, last week’s announcement that a “slush fund” would be created for the likely benefit of convicted J6 rioters seems to have been a bridge too far for Rivera, who has taken to social media to share his thoughts on the matter. “President Trump notoriously believes that what goes around comes around, or in his words, ‘When people treat me unfairly, I don't let th

President Donald Trump was reelected in 2024 in no small part to the support he received from so-called “manosphere” influencers like podcaster Theo Von — and now those same influencers are being put in the hot seat.“So I have a conversation with two different types of MAGA people,” journalist Van Lathan told conservative commentator Tim Miller during a talk that was posted on The Bulwark on Monday. “One is the people that are in that 35 percent. They gotta get f——. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm with you. But I'll tell you something that happened at Equinox, the gym up here.”Lathan proceeded to talk about how he ran into Theo Von at the gym and the two began talking about their shar