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President Donald Trump’s counter-terrorism “czar,” Sebastian Gorka, has predetermined that critics of the administration’s war in Iran are “testicularly challenged.” But the Guardian reports the Trump administration’s Wednesday release of its ‘bizarre’

While Republican donors have contributed huge sums of money to President Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. political machine, Politico reports that “mild panic” is beginning to take hold as they wonder how and if it will be spent in the midterms. According to the latest reports, “There is mounting anxiety among party donors about when and how Trump will deploy his $300 million war chest, and concern that the White House is missing an opportunity to reinforce the party now when it is facing electoral threats on all sides.

Trump’s iron grip on his Republican Party remains unbroken, but some elements are starting to feel public fury at President Donald Trump’s $1 billion bunker, particularly as voters pay more at the pump and grocery stores.“Republicans tell Punchbowl that the ballroom funding faces obstacles in the House, in part because it’s a tough vote for vulnerable House Republicans,” reports New Republic staff writer Greg Sargent. “As one put it: ‘A first-year poli-sci major would know

A White House Cabinet position is a high-pressure job no matter the administration, but perhaps especially so when it comes to President Donald Trump's administration. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing a spiraling economy while testifying before Congress about his Epstein ties. FBI Director Kash Patel is getting hammered by the press for reports of his excessive drinking. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is quagmired in Iran while battling the media. And Vice President JD Vance is being sent to the other side of the world to handle dubious negotiations while the Secretary of State — who would usually be tasked with such diplomatic missions — is hanging out with the president at UFC fights and jetting off

Voters delivered harsh news to President Donald Trump and his handling of the U.S. economy following his painful war on Iran.When asked if there was “any way in which your life has gotten better during this second trump administration” one voter speaking with MS NOW in Minnesota said “F——, no. Not at all.”“I don't think anyone's doing good right now. I don't know why people thought the economy was going to get better and stuff, and I don't see that happening at all,” Alaina Franczak added.“Is like all prices, all prices for living and a lot of things, to buy groceries — all that's more expensiv

Journalist David Wallace-Wells says Americans are going to be flabbergasted by just how thoroughly President Donald Trump’s blundering war in the Middle East is going to touch everything in our lives, and the lives of the world.“[W]e spent much of the last decade telling ourselves that the era of globalization was over,” Wallace-Wells told a New York Times panel of writers in a recent podcast. “Covid-19 was supposedly pushing us toward more supply chain resilience. And here we f

Trump’s war in Iran has created the biggest energy crisis in modern history. The International Energy Agency describes the current shock as “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.”The crisis can’t be spun, no matter how hard Trump

Republicans are sitting on a $300 million war chest but facing growing anxiety about how and when that money will be deployed ahead of the critical midterm elections, according to a new report from Politico.GOP donors and operatives are growing increasingly restless as Trump's team remains tight-lipped about its overall campaign strategy and spending allocation. Michigan GOP Chair Jim Runestad expressed the sentiment shared across the party: while state officials want resources deployed sooner, they acknowledge that "the resources are just going to

Newsweek reports President Donald Trump is desperately flailing to connect with working-class voters with extravagant new policies that he thinks will speak to middle-income families, but his tactics don’t appear to be connecting.“According to a CNN/SSRS poll from late March, Trump’s approval among white non-college graduates has dipped into negative territory — with 49 percent supporting and 51 percent disapproving of his presidency,” reports Newsweek. “A separate survey of nearly 2,000 Trump voters found that one in five do not plan to support a Republican candidate in 2028, a departure that the pollsters said was “concentrated among his working-class voters.”With so many voters souring on h

It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that cont