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Former GOP strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt and podcaster Jim Acosta are no fans of President Donald Trump—but rarely are they surprised. Nevertheless, both expressed astonishment at the MAGA cult’s ability to delude itself and drag members of the Republican Party along with it on Schimdt’s “the Warning” podcast.“I mean one of the incredible aspects of all this isn't so much that Donald Trump is Jesus and he has people on his knees speaking in tongues at him as God. It's that to some degree an even larger cohort believes he is a symbol of virility of fitness of strength — It is extraordinary for this broken-down old man, whose ankle girth is the size of most people'

Left Hook host Wajahat Ali and podcaster Danielle Moodie say President Donald Trump’s people — and the media — is struggling to hide the president’s obvious decline before cameras as a startled nation looks on.“We recently witnessed a public official, Marco Rubio, testify before Congress that a prominent political figure ‘never sleeps’ and is a dynamo of nocturnal productivity,” said Ali. “Minutes later, he was confronted with video evidence from a cabinet meeting showing that very same figure slumped over, eyes tightly shut, completely asleep while Rubio himself w

Sources told Daily Mail on Friday that ‘Ice Maien’ Susie Wiles — President Donald Trump’s most loyal staff member — is finally melting, reports Daily Mail.“Donald Trump's White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is preparing to leave, five insiders have told the Daily Mail. Wiles, 69, has worked for the president since his first campaign in 2015 and, following his November 2024 second election victory, has held the top chief of staff role in his White House.”But now, repo

Former intelligence analyst and ex-FBI official Michael Feinberg said the spate of firings, dismissals and retirements in President Donald Trump’s second term is not so one-sided. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is “unnecessary and or too big,” and would “like to see it smaller”“I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, about those who worked in the Joe Biden and Barack Obama administrations. But Feinberg said serious e

A judge on Friday tossed out a lawsuit brought by the Kennedy Center against an artist who withdrew from a performance after the organization’s board voted to add President Donald Trump’s name to the venue, The Washington Post reports.The artist, jazz musician Chuck Redd, pulled out over what he called “the defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center,” according to the Post.But, as D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier found, Kennedy Center officials had not made a legally binding agreement with Redd, and t

Intelligencer writer Ed Kilgore says just being unpopular isn’t the thing that’s blowing up President Donald Trump’s approval and setting up Republicans for a mass ejection from the House and maybe the Senate in November. Trump made some very big boasts on his way to the 2024 election about how much winning was going to be underway when he stepped back into the White House. He made them loud — and now most every disgruntled voter remembers those broken promises. “The single most important measurable variable affecting the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections is likely the president’s job-approval ratings, which have been slowly but surely

President Donald Trump is desperate to maintain his hold on the Republican-dominated House, so he’s personally fighting for plenty of embattled seats. But some seats are going to be a much harder sell for him and his Republican Party."The Republicans are just in absolutely huge trouble in Wisconsin. I think that more so than any of the polls would say … the fact that all those Republicans are leaving the state Legislature, they're sort of telling us with their actions what they expect," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor o

CNN host Dana Bash on Friday mocked members of the MAGA movement who appear to assume California is taking a long time to count votes because political hijinks are afoot. Fox News host Jesse Waters explained, "I can't prove it — but everybody watching thinks there's shenanigans when it takes this long." Fox's Greg Gutfeld similarly proclaimed, "You know what that means," when he was told it would take a week or more to count the ballots. "These are baseless, fraud claims," Bash explained.California elections have always taken this long, largely due to the massive counties with populations of over 5 million people. Los Angeles County, for example, has a population of 9.6 to 9.8 million p

President Donald Trump said he would fund his lavish 90,000-square-foot ballroom with donations from corporations and individuals, and now they're getting their return on investment. The New Republic's Finn Hartnett cited a recent

Republicans in Congress have gotten plaudits for their recent opposition to President Donald Trump's DOJ "slush fund," which may be temporarily stalled now, but according to a new breakdown from MS NOW, the achievement reveals something more damning about the "feckless party."Last month, the Justice Department attempted to settle Trump's lawsuit against the IRS by pitching a nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, to be paid out to victims of so-called "lawfare" by the federal government for their political beliefs. The plan quickly stalled out in the face of