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The White House has pushed back against architectural criticism of President Trump's planned ballroom expansion, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt attacking the credibility of those raising design concerns rather than addressing the specific issues they identified.Leavitt characterized critics as people with no construction experience, defending Trump's vision and the project's lead architect. The criticism stemmed from published analysis highlighting questionable design elements, including a prominent staircase that appears to serve primarily aesthetic purposes rather than functional ones.According to reporting on t

Rob Schneider, the 62-year-old former 'Saturday Night Live' star turned conservative activist, has become the latest public figure to advocate for mandatory military conscription—despite never serving in the armed forces himself.In a lengthy social media post, Schneider invoked President John F. Kennedy's famous words about

President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is hurting farm workers who are already vulnerable because of his tariffs — and a new report sketches out the details with vivid portraits of those suffering because of MAGA politics.“The vice president of operations at Sequoia Nut Co. had shipped 15 containers of almonds, walnuts and pistachios from the Port of Long Beach, and he wasn’t exactly sure where they were on the high seas,” wrote the Los Angeles Times’ Laurence Darmiento. “Their destination was Dubai’s Port of Jebel Ali, a major trading hub, but the jets, missiles and rockets crisscrossing Middle Eastern skies h

President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom was controversial from the moment it was announced, given that the president ignored the legal process for making historic building renovations and just destroyed the historic East Wing without permission. Yet a new report from The New York Times revealed that the ballroom is also being built ineptly.“The hurried reviews, with construction cranes already swiveling above the White House grounds, are an abrupt departure from how new monuments, museums and even modest renovations have been designed and refined in the capital for

President Donald Trump is increasingly unpopular, as the No Kings protests demonstrate — and this means that right now “the public is leading the elites” in standing up for democracy, at least according to one conservative commentator.“This all ends with enough of us saying no,” conservative commentator William Kristol said on his website The Bulwark on Sunday. “The bad news is that Trump is president for the next almost three years, and in the sense that we don't have a parliamentary system, his poll numbers could go down further and people could turn out even more.”Kristol

President Donald Trump’s tax policies are failing for a number of reasons, an expert argued on Sunday — and this expert, like so many others slamming Trump’s tax policies, is nonpartisan.“President Trump has spent much of his time in office boasting about new carveouts he's enacted, like new deductions for tips, overtime, auto loans and seniors,” wrote Garrett Watson, director of Policy Analysis at the Tax Foundation, for The Hill on Sunday. Wilson conceded that these benefit some Americans, but argued those benefits are offset by how the same policies “narrow the tax base in arbitrary ways and worsen the deficit.”Wilson added that these tax cuts cause ne

President Donald Trump’s proposed law to “crack down on rogue judges” and his rhetoric toward judges who rule against him — such as calling them “criminals” and “a disgrace to our nation” — is a “breathtaking” danger to the Constitution, according to an expert.“Demanding that the legislative branch enact laws that punish the judiciary is a breathtaking breach of the president’s oath to support and defend the Constitution, which creates our three separate — and coequal — branches of government,” lawyer and former US attorney Barbara McQuade wrote in a rec

President Donald Trump is “crashing out” in the polls, as well as in his willingness to accept their verdict, according to a former Republican strategist who advised President George W. Bush.“Donald Trump's approval rating is crashing out,” Steve Schmidt posted on the social media platform X on Sunday morning. The post included a video in which Schmidt analyzed news reports showing Trump’s popularity plummeting in the polls.“Everybody sees all of this,” Schmidt said. “Clearly, support for Donald Trump is hitting as low as 30% in some polls, and in this one at 36% approval, 62% of the country not approving. And yet Trump thinks he's more

For the first time in a decade, President Donald Trump did not attend the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), his absence apparently consumed by the ongoing war in Iran. Without the president to provide closing arguments, the annual gathering of MAGA faithful in Grapevine, Texas, became a stage for airing deep anxieties about the conflict and exposed significant fractures within Trump's movement.The central tension dominating CPAC discussions was how a president who campaigned on ending wars could find himself considering a ground invasion of Iran,

President Donald Trump is reportedly a big fan of Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy — even though Schlossberg is a staunchly anti-Trump Democrat.“He’s kinda enamored with this kid,” journalist Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast regarding his inside sources’ information about the Republican president’s attitudes toward the Democratic dynastic scion. “I’m sure the poor guy does not want a Trump endorsement, but it really sounds like Trump is tickled by this.”Wolff added that, even as Trump is souring on