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E.J. Dionne Jr. tells the New York Times that if Trump has proven anything since he returned to office it’s that he “can win when he’s not the incumbent and can go on the attack (2016, 2024), but he leads his party to defeat when he has to govern and fails to deliver (2018, 2020).”This is a message that many voters who voted for Trump in 2024 will be taking back to the polls in November when they vote for Democrats,” said Dionne. And between now and November, Democrats can safely hit the formerly invulnerable Trump’s on the issues that once elected him: The economy and immi

President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under fire for allegedly allowing a major security failure under her watch — and a conservative media outlet broke the big story.“Noem for months failed to appropriately respond to the findings of an internal watchdog that one of her biggest changes to airport security—allowing passengers to pass through screening checkpoints with their shoes on—is creating ‘significant’ security risks, according to a letter from the inspector general” reported by The Wall Street Journal.The Department of Homeland Security all

Former assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig burst Republicans’ bubble regarding their claim that President Donald Trump is exonerated from crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein.“The … claim that U.S. Rep. [James] Comer (R-Kent.) is making is that Bill Clinton somehow exonerated Donald Trump in his testimony today. Again, we'll have to see that transcript. But people are misusing and overusing this phrase ‘exonerate,’” said Honig to CNN anchor Jake Tapper, speaking of claims from the former president that he did not know Epstein was involved in sex-trafficking underage victims. “I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,�

Dispatch senior editor Michale Warren says Trump isn’t hearing much bad news inside that thick White House bubble of his, and that’s too bad for him.“Trump likely isn’t hearing much about [his] disappointing poll numbers at his periodic Cabinet meetings, during which his top advisers sit around the table, taking turns praising the president for his greatness while the cameras roll,” said Warren. “There is the introduction of more pro-Trump media outlets to prominent placements in the White House press corps, most of whom are less interested than the rest of the news media

CNN analyst Harry Enten said President Donald Trump hit a career hallmark today, but it’s not the anniversary most people would prefer.“I'm just not quite sure how an administration can be politically alive when you have numbers that are that poor,” Enten told CNN anchor Boris Sanchez.“[Trump's net approval rating] has been negative in recent polling, but it just hasn't been the recent polling. We're talking over 345 days in the red. And with Independents, it's even been worse,” said Enten. “I mean, overall approval rating has been between -10 and -20 points. … But if you look among independents, he's been floa

President Donald Trump reportedly played a key role in guaranteeing Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) was sold to the pro-Trump Ellison family rather than Netflix — yet some conservatives think Trump overestimates what he won in that bargain.“Trump’s head is stuck in the 80s so he may not have noticed that cable is dying,” conservative commentators Tim Miller and Amanda Carpenter wrote in their Friday podcast episode for The Bulwark. “All he can think about is getting his greedy little hands on CNN so he can make them say nice things about him. But independent outlets—like The Bulwark— are changing the media spac

Long-term Trump advisor Steve Bannon is worried that President Donald Trump’s trip to Corpus Christi, Texas will bungle the Republican Senate primary between incumbent John Cornyn, state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt. Politico reports that Bannon’s big fear is that Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign team’s involvement with Cornyn’s reelection is aggravating the rift between the pro-Paxton MAGA faction and the rest of Republican voters.“My belief is the Trump team should have stayed out of this race, absolutely,” Bannon told POLITICO from the set of h

President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he does not like seeing former President Bill Clinton deposed over his connection with Jeffrey Epstein — and people are not impressed.“I don’t like seeing him deposed, but they certainly went after me a lot more than that,” Trump said at the White House prior to leaving on a trip to Texas. He then added, “Look, I like him, and I don’t like seeing him deposed.”Social media users on X, the social media platform owned by the pro-Trump billionaire Elon Musk, blasted Trump for his comment.“Don't be jealous Trump,”

With President Donald Trump it’s a never-ending cycle of “provocation, reaction, normalization, and forgetting,” but Fulcrum publisher David Nevins said the public and the media can end the cycle.Between outrageous statements to “suspend elections,” and claiming his “own morality” is the sole limit to his power, Trump likes to make random outbursts. But are these remarks just random outbursts, “or are they part of a deliberate str

Actor Robert De Niro keeps criticizing President Donald Trump — and now pro-Trump commentator Bill O’Reilly wants Trump to “make an example” of the two-time Oscar-winning thespian.In response to De Niro telling MS NOW’s Nicole Wallace that if Trump refuses to leave office after the end of his term “we have to make him leave,” O’Reilly insisted without evidence in his podcast that De Niro was actually threatening the president’s life.“What do you mean by that?” O’Reilly asked. “He’s elected. Seventy-seven million people voted for him. What’s ‘we got to get rid of him’? Are you talking about impeachme