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President Donald Trump’s economy is “lousy” and could be improved if he removes his tariffs, a newspaper that normally supports Trump wrote on Friday.“There’s no denying the February report was lousy,” The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote on Friday. “The U.S. shed 92,000 jobs and revised down gains for January and December by a combined 69,000. The question is what to make of the declines.”After arguing that the jobs report is not related to Trump’s invasion of Iran, the Journal nevertheless predicted “a temporary

Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell says first-time Trump voters voted Trump in 2024 for one reason over all others—and Trump failed to deliver the goods.“When you have a Biden to Trump voter, they tend to have voted for Donald Trump for one specific reason, which is that he promised he was going to lower prices and make America more affordable. That's what they heard. That's what they believed,” Longwell told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace. “… [T]he way these voters process anything that Trump is doing is they just ask ‘is what he is doing making my life more affordable? Because that's what I hired him to do.’ And s

President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser is channeling a Shakespearean character, argues a prominent columnist — and this is not a good thing.Steve Benen of MS NOW compared Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller to Dick the Butcher, an evil henchman from William Shakespeare’s 1591 play “Henry VI, Part II.” In a key scene _ when Dick the Butcher schemes to help unprincipled pretenders solidify their seizure of power from the legitimate English royals — Dick the Butcher infamously suggests, “The first thing we do, let’

History doesn’t repeat, as Mark Twain allegedly said, but it sure does seem to rhyme. And right now, the rhyme between the first year of the George W. Bush presidency and the first year of Donald Trump’s second term is staring us in the face and it’s getting scary.After “Poppy” George H.W. Bush finished his 1991 “little war” against Iraq, he left American troops stationed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Those soldiers on what Osama bin Laden considered sacred Muslim soil — the home to Mecca — became his primary grievance against America.He said so publicly, raving at the New York Time

Reporters noted former George W. Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice entering the White House on Friday, giving conservatives a chance on social media to wail at the alleged embrace of Bush-era neoconservatives.NewsWire reported CNN as a source for the appearance of the former secretary, who cultivated a 20-year career as a policy expert on the Soviet Union before becoming an architect and advocate of the 2003 Iraq War. Under Bush, Rice argued for the removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for the sake of U.S. security. And she maintained that stance even after inspectors discovered no weapons of mass destruction inside Iraq’s b

President Donald Trump’s former Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, made a “startling confession,” according to a conservative writer, and the mainstream media is not focusing on it.The “confession” in question involved Noem admitting to a Senate investigative committee that “her department had arrested and deported DACA recipients—the ‘Dreamers’ who are shielded from deportation and have had work authorization since 2012—at unacceptable levels,” wrote Adrian Carrasquillo for The Bulwark. He shared the story of a Motel 6 hospitality area manager, Maria, who wa

A conservative writer, while celebrating the firing of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, added that her hiring is symptomatic of the “sycophantic and rubber-spined people” currently destroying America.“Trump’s pick to replace her, Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, is a MAGA meathead of the highest order, but I’d hesitate to predict confidently that he’ll be any worse—at any rate, he’ll have his work cut out for him if he hopes to be,” wrote The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger. “And this isn’t nothing:

Economist Catherine Rampell said the nation’s terrible jobs report would likely be much better right now if Trump had entered the White House more than a year ago and just went to bed and stayed there.Experts were stunned after the latest report found the Trump economy losing 92,000 jobs in February instead of the 50,000 job increase it expected. Numbers revealed unemployment rising to 4.4 percent, driving the Washington Post to

Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is embroiled in a scandal involving public contracts for the millions she spent on ads for recruitment videos for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It has now been revealed that the staffer whom Noem tapped to her former political director, Madison Sheahan, to handle funding.NBC News reported on Thursday that the sum she managed was $100 million, but Washington Examiner reporter Anna Giaritelli noted on Friday th

Republicans are attempting to rewrite the narrative of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but Virginia is not letting that narrative permeate public classrooms.The Washington Post reported Friday that the Virginia state governor will likely sign a measure that was passed by the state House of Delegates and Senate that bars any public schools from teaching that the attack was a "peaceful" protest. President Donald Trump has long maintained that the violence was peaceful. Other Republicans have referred to it as nothing more than a "tourist visit." One lawmaker complained that the