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President Donald Trump is showing signs of serious decline as he approaches his 80th birthday, according to a former presidential aide.“Vice President Harry Truman was an honest man, but he deceived the country after he had his one and only visit with the 32nd President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” Steve Schmidt, who advised President George W. Bush,

President Donald Trump will not serve out his full second term in office, argues political strategist James Carville, but rather, he will resign and “walk away.”Carville points to two major reasons looming over Trump as to why he believes the 47th president will exit the office.“I want to be very clear on something,” says Carville. “I’m not doing this as a crazy a—— prediction. I’m doing it because I genuinely think that he will resign next spring.” “He’s going to walk away because the pain that is coming for him, both the emotional pain and the physical deterioration, you watch it right in front of your eyes,” said Carville. “I don’t have to be a doctor to see this guy c

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) is being hammered over his residency again, but those arguments are being taken to a whole new level. In a lawsuit from "Brooke Lynn Dorgan and Justin Jude Le Blanc, as Realtors," sued Tuberville on behalf of the state of Alabama, challenging the eligibility of his candidacy to run for governor. The suit, which was posted by former Alabama prosecutor and MS NOW legal analyst Joyce Vance, alleges that Tuberville admitted to a group that he wasn't an "everyday resident." According to the suit, “At a meeting of the Shoals Republican Club on August 3, 2019, Tuberville candidly conceded that he ‘has property’ in Alabama but is not an ‘everyday resident of Alabama,’ describing himself as a ‘carpetbagger.'"The challeng

President Donald Trump continues to catch heat from Republicans who lost their reelection bids as part of his personal revenge tour, with The Hill reporting on comments from one such lawmaker slamming his Iran deal as a "tremendous foreign policy blunder."Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, recently lost the GOP primary for his reelection campaign, as part of the all-important 2026 midterms, to a Trump-endorsed challenger. The president has endorsed numerous challengers against Republicans, like Cassidy, whom he deemed to be insufficiently loyal. While Cassidy caught considerable flak from the anti-Trump

Republican National Committee leadership is staring at a “five-alarm fire bell,” conservative analyst Henry Olsen warns, as President Donald Trump’s sinking poll numbers put the GOP’s Senate majority at risk in November.“The Republicans’ Senate fortunes,” Olsen writes at The Washington Post, “are tied to the man in the Oval Office. If the president can recover his standing even a few points, the GOP will probably retain Senate control. But all bets are off if he remains as unpopular as he is now.”Olsen, a longtime

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) called lawmakers back to the Capitol to attempt to redraw the congressional districts, a plot that Republican states have used over the past several months to try to stack the deck for the GOP in the midterm elections. But lawmakers in Georgia simply gave up. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported on Wednesday that they will not redraw the lines after all, "retreating from a proposal that had threatened to ignite one of the state’s most explosive political fights ahead of the November election."There has been pressure from Democr

Michael Scott, the hapless regional manager at the center of the American version of “The Office” played by Steve Carell, believed he was the world’s best boss. He even had the mug to prove it.Meanwhile, for most of the show’s 2005-2013 run, his employees endured pointless meetings, cringed through his speeches and quietly counted the hours until they could leave. The joke worked because so many viewers recognized something universal: the gap between how bosses sees themselves and how workers actually experience them.That gap is no longer just a sitcom premise. It may be the central reason American workplaces are in trouble.In the U.S., only about

When U.S. President Donald Trump launched a war with Iran in late February, he insisted that doing so was a matter of national security and that his goal was to prevent the Iranian regime from developing a nuclear weapon. But according to The Atlantic's Jonathan Lemire, the war ended up hurting the United States and Trump much more than it hurt Iran."President Trump lost," Lemire writes in The Atlantic. "The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a ceasefire agreement later this wee

On Wednesday at the G7 summit, President Donald Trump raised eyebrows while talking to reporters about his peace deal with Iran when he made a strongly-worded claim about his presidential predecessor, asserting, “You know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a b——." Even many of Obama’s opponents on the right knew this was untrue, as one top Republican declared on no uncertain terms. “No. The Iranians did not,” responded former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele over a video of Trump’s comments. “But they clearly said

On Wednesday at a press conference during the G7 summit in France, President Donald Trump’s hypocrisy was laid bare when Fox News reporter Peter Doocy quoted Trump's own previous statement regarding Iran, resulting in an embarrassing exchange. “A wise man once said in January of 2020,” said Doocy, “Iran never won a war but never lost a negotiation.”“Who said that?” asked the president.“Donald Trump,” Doocy revealed. “That's what I thought you were going to say,” said Trump. Doocy continued: “So how do you go back to the United States and convince a skeptical American public that this deal is a win here?”From there, Trump launched into a solid two-minute-long rant t