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While certain President Donald Trump policies have loomed large in his second term, from tariffs to the war against Iran, taking near-equal billing at times are his elaborate construction and vanity projects. From the triumphal arc he wants looming over the Capitol Mall, to his desire for a 90,000 square foot White House ballroom, to putting his face on currency and passports, Trump wants his name and visage plastered everywhere possible. And he’s not coy about his goals with such efforts. The proposed 250-foot-tall arc in D.C., for example, would not be a memorial to national glory or soldiers lost in battle as with the French arcs that inspired it, but a monument to, as he said himself, “Me.”According to Financial T

The second administration of President Donald Trump has been wracked with scandals and crises, many of which have had a profoundly negative impact on the country, from the spiraling economy to the shattered global alliances to reduced trust in government. But according to leading risk analyst Brett Erickson, Trump’s "rapidly disintegrating legacy" will be defined by two failures in particular. As Erickson points out, Trump’s 2024 campaign boiled down to several key points, among which were the release of the Epstein files, no new wars and the general Make America Great Again ethos. But over the fi

Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Az.) filed a court document in the case involving her affair with a former security guard, claiming the law doesn't apply to her because she has no ties to the state in which she is being charged. An obscure North Carolina "homewrecker" law is being used to allege that Sinema broke up the couple's 14-year marriage, reported The Arizona Republic. Heather Ammel, the ex-wife of Matthew Ammel, has argued that North Carolina’s law doesn't require

President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom started last summer as a $200 million project that he repeatedly promised would be paid by private donations. The project has now grown, as has the price tag — to at least $1 billion — and Republicans are pushing hard to get the taxpayers to foot the bill.“In case this isn’t obvious,” MS NOW reported on Tuesday, “the White House boasted last summer that the price tag for the ballroom would be $200 million, and every penny would come from private donations. By October, the price tag had grown

President Donald Trump is in freefall and, if his Truth Social posts are any indication, in six months he will know what Americans really think of his second term. That could ultimately mean a premature end to his second presidential stint, turning him into a "lame duck." Former BBC World News America host Laura Trevelyan wrote for The iPaper on Tuesday that few things in the world are certain, but one of those is that Trump will spend part of his day rage-posting on social media."Republicans control both right now, but

After 37-year-old Alex Pretti — an intensive care nurse for the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) — was fatally shot by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Minneapolis on January 24, protests were held not only in that city, but in many other U.S. cities as well. One of them was Augusta, Georgia, where VA recreational therapist Becky Halioua was among the demonstrators.Now, CNN's Brian Todd is reporting that Halioua was the subject of a VA internal investigation because of her

In the wake of the U.S. incursion into Venezuela to capture the country’s then-president Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump made it no secret that oil extraction was part of his intention. The United States, he claimed, would “run” the Venezuelan oil industry, and that within 18 months, “Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil,” and that "This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!" But while it is true that oil exports f

President Donald Trump loves to brag about how many cognitive tests he has taken recently and how much he has, allegedly, aced them. Now, however, one very important person has spoken out about why those are not the achievements Trump thinks they are: the doctor who designed the test.In a report published Tuesday, Australia's 9News spoke with Canadian neurologist Ziad Nasreddine, creator of the Montreal Cognitive Test, which Trump has been taking multiple times throughout his second term. As

With his war against Iran now in its third month, President Donald Trump is desperate for a way out, as the consequences have not only been military, economic, and political, but have ramped up a new conflict as a result of the oil crisis: the fight for green energy dominance. And according to economist Paul Krugman — who was given a Nobel prize specifically for his insights into international trade — not only is Trump currently losing that fight, but he’s positioning the United States for failure in the future. “The global energy transition — the shift from fossil fuels to electrotech, which uses solar, wind and batteries to power an e

When Donald Trump narrowly won the 2024 election, one of the things that frustrated Democratic strategists was the inroads he made with Generation Z. Many of those Gen-Z supporters were male, including avid consumers of Manosphere content. But Trump had female Gen-Z allies as well, including Ashley St. Clair.Now 27, St. Clair was a brand ambassador for the late Charlie Kirk's MAGA youth group Turning Point USA, and she was known her attacks on transgendered Americans.In an