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President Donald Trump was outraged at multiple Senate Republicans' public criticism of a video posted to his Truth Social account last week, according to a new report.CNN reported Friday that Trump privately erupted when hearing that Sens. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) went to social media to criticize the video, which at one point depicted former First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama as primates. Unnamed sources confided to the network that Trump felt Scott calling the video racist was "out of line," per CNN."The presiden

In an article for conservative outlet The Dispatch, author Kevin D. Williamson warns that President Donald Trump’s failures are strengthening what he characterized as the most embarrassing arguments from "lefty kooks."One example he referenced was Trump administration border advisor Tom Homan’s recent nnouncement that he was pulling Department of Homeland Security personnel out of Minnesota only because “

With Republicans having a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can only afford to lose one vote on any issue assuming all Democrats vote the same way. That's caused more than a few headaches for both Johnson and other House Republicans.Axios reported Friday that the small handful of Republicans who have held up procedural rules packages (which precede votes on actual bills) are aggravating their GOP colleagues. This includes Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has a

President Donald Trump is reportedly not above gossiping about members of his own Cabinet.That's according to a Friday report in the New York Post, which cited several unnamed sources close to the president who say Trump believes Department og Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her top advisor, Corey Lewandowski (who is also Trump's one-time campaign manager) are secretly dating. Whether the two are actually in a relationship has not been confirmed, and the two are currently married to other people.One of the Post's sources said Trump likes to "

Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan warned that the handling of the Epstein files “looks terrible” for President Donald Trump and his administration.“During Tuesday and Thursday’s episodes, Rogan criticized redactions the Department of Justice made from the files,” The Hill reported.“Who knows what f — — happens with all this Epstein files s — —,” he said, according to v

Earlier in February, a federal judge ended President Donald Trump’s attempted extortion of New York and New Jersey residents by demanding the Trump administration “unfreeze funding” for the sprawling $16 billion Gateway project. The White House had floated unlocking the Gateway money in exchange for Democrats’ agreeing to rename Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump. But U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas halted that effort after New York and New J

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt — a Republican who also serves as chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) — is losing the support of his fellow Oklahoma Republicans as they side with President Donald Trump in the president’s public feud with him. At issue: Stitt is fighting Trump over the president’s refusal to allow specific Democratic governors (Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado) to attend the NGA’s

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex trafficker best known for being the right-hand woman of fellow convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein, may have committed immigration fraud, according to a report by the news editor at Migrant Insider.“Newly-examined court documents published by the Department of Justice show that Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors, appears to have provided false answers on her U.S. citizenship application in 2002, potentially exposing her to immigration fraud charges,” wrote journalist Pablo Manriquez.Manr

Four conservative commentators are warning President Donald Trump and his supporters that the nation is starting to turn on them, meaning “a hard-earned awakening could lie ahead.”"The Trump years have been and remain all too real, and we're not going suddenly to wake up and discover that all is back to normal,” wrote William Kristol, Andrew Egger, Cathy Young and Jim Swift of The Bulwark. “But yesterday offered some promise that a hard-earned awakening could lie ahead."The “yesterday” in question is the

Wall Street Journal writer Josh Dawsey says the White House is growing increasingly frustrated with the antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, though he noted President Donald Trump is loathe to fire anyone in his second administration out of bitterness to his enemies.“The president has told senior officials in the administration he does not want to fire Cabinet secretaries at this time. And he wished that he wouldn't have had to fire so many people in the first time. And it led to leaks and drama and he doesn't want to give scalps to his critics or the media,”