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President Donald Trump’s media ecosystem for a long time depended on major online brands like The Daily Wire and Blaze Media, but as one of their fellow conservative publications pointed out, Trump’s coalition is dissolving — and with it, the base of support upon which many of these media outlets once stood firm.“Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is in trouble on YouTube, losing significant numbers of subscribers—with Shapiro himself down a whopping 80,000 in the first quarter of the year, according to a new survey of political channels by researcher Kyle Tharp,”

President Donald Trump’s profane public statements about the Iran war are unprecedented, according to a top presidential historian.“Trump’s Easter Sunday blast at the Iranians thus offered a stark contrast with even his most profane predecessors,” wrote top presidential historian Barbara A. Perry in The Atlantic on Monday. Perry specifically denounced Trump’s Easter post on his social media platform, Truth Social, in which he wrote that “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are in roughly the same territory as President Joe Biden’s when he was defeated in the 2024 election, a conservative columnist wrote on Monday — and Trump is at least partially to blame for that."So far, it's worked out well on immigration and sex, although neither the method of implementation nor the president's affect has been normal,” wrote Gerard Baker of The Wall Street Journal regarding Trump’s second term agenda and its popularity. Although Baker agreed with Trump’s anti-transgender and anti-immigrant policies, he arg

Pam Bondi has been booted out of the Justice Department and Kristi Noem is gone from the Department of Homeland Security. Who’s next?It’s not unusual for a president to shake up the Cabinet ahead of crucial elections, and Trump especially needs to look like he’s shaking things up. His approval ratings are in the cellar, he can’t find an exit strategy for his unpopular war, the prices of gas is soaring, and other prices are rising. Worse yet for him, the midterm elections are on the horizon, and Republicans now have the slimmest of majorities in the House and Senate. “He’s very angry and he’s going to be moving people,” an official familiar with potential personnel changes

President Donald Trump’s decision to destroy the White House East Wing to build a ballroom displayed a “disregard for the rule of law,” declared the editor of a prominent right-leaning publication.“That decision, which the Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to pause in an emergency motion filed late on Friday, reflects Trump's tendency to do whatever he wants, regardless of what the law says,” wrote Jacob Sullum, senior editor at Reason Magazine, in a Monday editorial about the recent court ruling. He proceeded

I’ve heard more than enough from people who are attributing Donald Trump’s hourly low-grade filth and evil to some alleged bout with dementia, or any of the other terrible effects from Alzheimer’s disease. I’m not sure why so many feel the need to ascribe dementia to a lifetime malignant narcissist, who has tragically lived his entire nearly 80 years on this planet serving exactly one person: HIMSELF.I think it is important to be precise about what this repellent man is, and what he isn’t.What he is:A racist, a woman-abuser, a convicted felon, a serial liar, a thief, a huckster, a user, a cheater, a phony, a complete moron, and a deviant, all of which have congealed

While many aspects of the Jeffrey Epstein case have been scrutinized over the years, one sticking point that many keep returning to involves the notorious criminal’s 2008 plea agreement, which has been criticized as an overly “sweetheart deal” considering the severity of his crimes. Facing dozens of accusations of underage sex trafficking that should have been prosecuted on a federal level, Epstein instead had the most egregious charges shelved in favor of lesser state charges in exchange for pleading guilty. As a result, Epstein served fewer than four months in jail before he was given a unique arrangement in which he was allowed to leave prison for 16 hours a day, six days a week under a work release program.

President Donald Trump’s former White House communications director has a warning for the American people: He is preparing to send ground troops into Iran.In response to Trump declaring on Monday that he is going to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age,” Anthony Scaramucci warned on the social media platform X that the president is using bombastic rhetoric to tenderize public sensibilities for his actual war plans.“He's softening the public up for ground troops,” Scaramucci wrote. “That's the tell. You don't talk like that unless you're preparing people psychologically for what comes next. And w

President Donald Trump vowed that in his second term, he would go after the foes that he claimed "weaponized" the government against him. In a deep dive on the failed effort, New York Magazine writer Andrew Rice explained that little has come from it. Writing Monday, Rice described the story of Jan. 6 attacker Jared Wise, the FBI agent who egged on pro-Trump rioters at the U.S. Capitol as they assaulted Capitol Police officers. While Wise recently resigned, he was a key player in the so-called "weaponization working group" within the Justice Department.

Jennifer Rubin anticipates that the person taking over the Justice Department won't just face the same barriers former Attorney General Pam Bondi did, but will likely be even worse. Writing for The Contrarian on Monday, Rubin walked through the legacy Bondi left, which was one of turning the Justice Department from an independent agency into a reputation-ruiner across the federal court system. It's just one of the many problems that include firing hundreds of people who had important institutional knowledge and expertise. "It will take decades to undo t