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In a recent conversation with The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger, conservative commentator and fellow Bulwark contributor Bill Kristol gleefully listed President Donald Trump’s numerous humiliations.“The ballroom is twice as expensive, contrary to his statements,” Kristol told Egger. “It turns out ... The Washington Post reports it's much more expensive than he said, and we're already spending taxpayer money on it.” After repeating Trump’s claim that no taxpayer money would be spent on the ballroom, Kristol added that “they've already spent tens of billions, I think, on this ballroom,

One poll question has predicted all but one election since 1948, and it now forecasts President Donald Trump and his Republican Party will virtually be boiling in oil by the end of the year.“Every month in our Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, we ask our sample of U.S. adults two important questions back-to-back,” writes analyst G. Elliot Morris. “First we ask which problem facing the country — such as inflation, immigration, health care, crime, the state of democracy itself, etc. — matters most to them today. Then, we ask each respondent which party would do a better job h

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), a far right candidate running for the Republican's Georgia Senate nomination, just defeated a more moderate alternative — and making it easier for Democrats to retain that seat.Collins defeated football coach Derek Dooley in a primary in which President Donald Trump endorsed Collins at the last second. Republicans reportedly urged Trump to either stay out of the race or support Dooley, who is viewed as more electable, but refused to placate Trump's lie that he had won Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.Prior to picking Collins, Republicans hopes that Dooley would prevail because h

President Donald Trump has been racking up a painful slew of losses, according to a former Republican who has founded an anti-Trump group.“Now, back to the loser-in-chief,” Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project wrote on Tuesday, referencing the Iran war. WIlson quickly noted that that Egypt, Qatar and the UAE have been far more influential in shaping its resolution than Trump himself.“We are a peripheral player at the table we built,” Wilson said. “Trump didn’t turn a page. He transformed America into a footnote in the global power structure we should steer. Odd how abandoning every value will do th

Three alleged planners of Donald Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme pleaded not guilty Tuesday to eleven forgery-related criminal charges in a Wisconsin’s County court — but they might be walking into a toothy maw of legal pain.The Milwaukee Journal Constitution reports “Jim Troupis, a former Wisconsin campaign attorney for President Donald Trump, Michael Roman, a former Trump aide, and Kenneth Chesebro, a Wisconsin-born former Trump attorney, appeared in Dane County Circuit Court for arraignment on 11 counts of felony c

President Donald Trump is hoping that his recent memorandum of understanding with Iran will end his voluntary war and allow prices to go down — but one political analyst says he should not get his hopes up.After noting that Trump's seeming end to the war in Iran could help gas prices gradually go down, “part of Trump’s problem is that in 2024 he promised not just relief from inflation but lower living costs in absolute terms,”

Former MS NOW analyst David Shuster said Trump’s “word salad and cognitive confusion” was undeniably on display at this week’s G7 summit in France.Shuster had plenty of fodder to choose from at the event. While speaking with the Emir of Qatar Trump launched into a rambling geography lesson that would fail most any 7th Grader.“Working with Qatar and the people of Qatar was really a pleasure,” Trump told Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. “They were tough and strong. They are the closest to Iran, physically. With other countries I’ve noticed they’ve got to travel a

President Donald Trump’s economic policies are not just as bad as the Gilded Age, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist. They surpass them.The Gilded Age was a period in American history from the late-19th century to the early-20th century marked by severe income inequality and political corruption. It also preceded one of the worst economic meltdowns in U.S. history. Yet this economist says the seeds of the Trump era are already worse.“Forbes did compile a list of the richest Americans,” economist Dr. Paul Krugman told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur on Tuesday. Going back to 1918, Krugman noted that “if you look at the five richest Americans then versus the 15 richest now, in both cases, that's about 1/100,000 of a perce

When pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio throws a birthday bash, the Phoenix New Times says it will be attended by precisely the oily kind of assembly you could expect.“Highlights of the evening included an Elvis impersonator … ,” reports Phoenix New Times writer Stephen Lemons. “There was also an appearance by wizened mob enforcer and serial killer Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano, who gifted Arpaio a bronze bull statuette and made the sheriff an honorary member of th

According to an ex-presidential aide, President Donald Trump’s fishing expedition against one of the Democrats’ presumed 2028 election front-runners, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, proves “no one is safe” from the Republican president and his politicized DOJ.“Federal agents abusing the powers that they had when surveilling civil rights leaders have taken off after the governor of California, which means, unless you're not too bright, if they can do it to Gavin Newsom, they can do it to anybody,” warned Steve Schmidt, who advised Republican president, George W. Bush. “And thinking about that, how cl