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Congressional lawmakers and Trump’s own former lawyer are panicking over how racked President Donald Trump’s mind appears to be with illness.“I don't know how anyone can see what he posts or watch him in any meeting and think that he's fit for office,” said one lawmaker speaking to reporters.Another lawmaker said: “We have strategic ambiguity. But [Trump] is just … He’s confrontational, inconsistent, erratic,” said another congressman, who then fluttered his tongue in a demonstration of Trump’s lucidity.“I don't trust that man to be able to cognitively make a complete sentence, let alone negoti

A caller had no patience for Republican talking points on a Friday C-SPAN show.Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-Fla.) joined C-SPAN’s “Congressional News of the Day” show to share Republican talking points paying down the damage of President Donald’s war on Iran and the subsequent rise in gas prices and inflation at grocery stores and other consumer items.But C-SPAN is an older format show that still fields calls from commenters, and Haridopolos found himself catching the bad end of one man’s vocal beat-down.Haridopolos had just finished advocating for U.S. intervention in Cuba, saying “the people of Cuba are suffering,” when “Independent” voter “Roger” in Lawrenceville, Ga., phon

During President Donald Trump’s second term, one of his key goals has involved reshaping U.S. cultural institutions to suit his ideological project, and the Smithsonian in particular has become a target of his culture war against diversity and historical narratives that he perceives to be “woke.” Shortly after he entered office, he signed an executive order calling for the museum to remove “anti-American” narratives, which took special aim at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, arguing that aspects of it p

Reason Magazine reports President Donald Trump's tariffs and his war with Iran appears to have personally played a role in killing a profitable North Carolina tire factory.“The Goodyear Rubber and Tire Co. announced this week that it would be shuttering its Fayetteville, North Carolina, plant that currently employs more than 1,700 workers,” reports Reason, before analyzing company reports to sort through the reasons.“Translating … P.R.-speak a bit easier when you look at what company executives have been telling i

President Donald Trump reportedly may drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in a settlement handing him control of a $1.7 billion “MAGA slush fund” to compensate victims of government abuse, according to The New Republic‘s Greg Sargent, who calls it a “shakedown.”Citing an ABC News report, Sargent explains that the proposed settlement “would create a ‘commission’ with ‘total authority’ to settle ‘claims’ brought by those who allege such weaponization. Per ABC, this not only includes the insurrectionists; it could even settle purported claims by ‘entities assoc

On Friday following reports that the Trump administration had “blindsided” American allies in Europe by announcing the cancellation of troops slated for deployment to Poland, several high-ranking Republican congressional leaders have expressed outrage, promising to oppose the effort and hold the Pentagon accountable.During a session of the House Armed Services Committee, Chair Mike Rogers (R-AL) declared, “We are going to mandate that the department follow the statutory minimums that are set in statute on force postur

Former South Carolina congressman Joe Cunningham showed little patience for podcaster and former National Republican Senatorial Committee senior advisor Matt Whitlock at a CNN panel discussion on Republican’s mid-decade gerrymandering slaughter.The argument began after Cunnigham blamed President Donald Trump for the frenetic redistricting scrum, which kicked off in Texas after Trump demanded Republicans wrest out new districts by drowning Democratic voters in neighboring majority-Republican territory.Whitlock took issue with who started the fight: “One thing that the congressman said that I would just challenge is [his claim] that this began with Texas. This began with New Yo

CNN analyst Harry Enten was dumbfounded at how deeply President Donald Trump’s approval rating has collapsed, especially among Latino voters.“The bottom has completely fallen out when it comes to Donald Trump and Latino voters,” Enten said on Friday.“What a different world,” he exclaimed. “Oy vey, if I’m the president of the United States, because just take a look here.”Trump won a “record share” of Latino voters for a “Republican presidential nominee, 46 percent of the vote,” Enten said, “going all the way back since we had the advent of exit polls back in 1972.”Trump’s job approval rating, in an average of CNN polls, is 28 percent — “an 18 point drop,” E

Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell says President Donald Trump’s shady $1.7b fund proposal is so obviously corrupt that voters should demand a new word for Trump-brand political sleaze.“I keep sitting here being like, is there a different word that means more than corruption at this point?” Longwell demanded of Bulwark editor Jonathan V. Last.Trump is now commanding the creation of a new taxpayer-funded fund to dole out money to friends and allies, but with minimal oversight.“Under the term

Xi scolded Trump on Taiwan, while Trump got no help on Iran or anything else after gushing over the Chinese president repeatedly.You know Donald Trump is feeling very small when he goes on a tirade against a reporter.Afraid to stand up to President Xi, who warned him during their China summit that Trump had better tread carefully on U.S. ally Taiwan or there could be "conflict," Trump later let loose on New York Times reporter David Sanger on the way back from China, calling him "treasonous" for his reporting on Iran.Trump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the