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President Donald Trump is bragging about his corruption but the media is not reporting it, according to Trump’s former communications director.“Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught,” Anthony Scaramucci posted on X on Tuesday. “A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.”He then summarized Trump’s replies as being “1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care.”Scaramucci concluded, “That�

President Donald Trump keeps insisting that gas prices aren’t especially high. What many Americans see at the pump tells a different story, and CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale has the numbers to prove it.As recently as Tuesday, Trump claimed that the price of gas is “not very high, relatively speaking. I mean, it’s lower than during the Biden administration.”Trump was not especially specific, but Dale is.According to AAA, today’s average gas price is $4.16. That is lower than the peak number during the Biden administration, $5.02, which occurred after Russia attac

President Donald Trump's disastrous trip to the NBA Finals was not just a public humiliation for him, because according to one cognitive health expert, it also showed a dire sign of his potential "sundowning" cognitive decline for the entire world to see.Amid the New York Knicks' historic run, Trump opted to return to his hometown of New York City to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday evening. The decision turned into a nightmare for all involved: Trump was booed mercilessly when he was shown on the jumbotron during the national anthem; fans had to arrive ho

Congress has been locked in an ongoing battle over the reauthorization of a key national security tool that has been repeatedly frustrated by Republican infighting. Now with the extension deadline looming on Friday, Capitol Hill insiders say that President Donald Trump has tossed a “live hand grenade” into the process that threatens to blow it up altogether. “This is not a problem between Senate Democrats and Republicans,” declared Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) on Tuesday. “This was the administration throwing a live hand grenade into a critical reauthorization 10 days out.” Th

One point of contention between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was Powell's refusal to follow Trump's demands to lower interest rates. Now, Trump's replacement will be forced to tell him he will likely follow the same path. The Economist reported on Tuesday that unlucky chairman Kevin Warsh "has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate." The report called it "ironic" that Warsh's life is going to be miserable as Trump demands lower rates, even as annual inflation

In the face of rising gas prices caused by President Donald Trump’s decision to launch war with Iran, a sizeable majority of Americans expect that the problem will only continue to get worse. According to the Hill, a new poll shows that nearly two out of three U.S. voters think the cost of gas will continue to rise over the coming year. “The survey, released Monday by Reuters/Ipsos, found that 59 percent of 4,531 respondents said that gas prices wil

After President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, MAGA attorney Kurt Olsen was a prominent figure in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. Trump ultimately failed: Biden was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2021. But Olsen, 16 and one-half months into Trump's second presidency, is serving in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) via the Southern District of Florida. And according to NBC News reporter Ryan J. Reilly, MAGA critics are alarmed by Olsen's rapid advancement at DOJ."An election denier who tried to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss is facing scrutiny

President Donald Trump’s performance on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” — where he cut the interview short and blasted the moderator as “crooked” — was widely criticized, with many noticing his habit of attacking women reporters.Among those who noticed was a resident in deep red Trump country: Florida’s The Villages, known as the “largest retirement community in the world,” where nearly seven out of 10 county residents voted for Trump in 2024. One resident recently told

A lawyer who previously worked within President Donald Trump's business empire has gotten caught up in a massive new lawsuit, according to The Daily Beast, alleging that he was involved in a "bizarre international spying escapade."Breaking the story on Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that Ted Kittila, a "prominent Republican attorney" who previously worked for Trump's Truth Social company, has been hit with a $120 million lawsuit accusing him of "fraud, civil conspiracy, and extortion on behalf of agents of an abusive foreign regime."

After Venezuelan then-President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in Caracas and the Trump administration installed leftist Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, opposition leader María Corina Machado tried to curry favor with Trump by offering him her Nobel Peace Prize (which was merely symbolic, as it cannot be transferred under Peace Prize rules). But Machado wasn't the first person to offer Trump a symbolic "peace prize": before that, in December 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino offered Trump the inaugural "FIFA Peace Prize." In the Daily Beast, reporter Leigh Kimmins details