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Zeteo writers Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker say Trump is so desperate to finally be rid of the war he unilaterally began in February that he is wandering around the White House, bawling in panic that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is scheming to drag him back in.“He’s swearing a lot about it,” one close Trump adviser told Zeteo. Another Trump administration official said: “[R]ight now, he’s definitely madder at the Israelis than the Iranians.”The sources who’ve spoken to Trump over the past several days say Israel’s “continued attacks in Lebanon and Israeli leaders’

Excerpts from Regime Change, a book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, reveal President Donald Trump’s private residence is filled with damp carpets and junk food trash, reports Jezebel writer Wren Woodson.Donald and Melania Trump famously maintain separate bedrooms, but Trump’s quarters are exactly the mold-threatened mess-pile some critics might expect from a man who stays up all night snacking and posting demented rants on the social media.“As if the mold hazard weren’t enough, staffers also had to babysit the president’s late-night snacking habits,” wrote Woodson.Tr

Law and Crime reports the top contender in the field to win the Republican primary for Minnesota governor is currently fleeing his court costs."Four years have passed since this Court determined Lindell owes monetary sanctions to Smartmatic," claim lawyers for Smartmatic, but the candidate "has yet to make any payment […] pursuant to the sanction order."That candidate is none other than MAGA maven and President Donald Trump ally Mike Lindell, who a

President Donald Trump was lauding his newly renovated but controversial luxury plane gifted him by the Qatari royal family on Friday. The president presented the plane as the new Air Force One, despite allegations of corruption surrounding the gift, and the fact that Trump treats the plane as a personal gift and has no plan to leave it in the possession of the president who replaces him. But he added that he intends to paint all of the planes in the fleet air force to look just like the new Qatari donation, making this just one more attempt by Trump to mark everything around him with his personal stamp or influence.However, John Heilemann, Chief Political Columnist for the media company Puck

The Trump White House is attacking one of its loyal media figures after she berated Vice President JD Vance over President Donald Trump’s Iran deal.“The problem is, that it’s an absolutely disastrous deal that has brought us to our knees, weeks before our 250th birthday,” NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon said in a clip she posted to social media, which Mediaite reported.“This is an utter humiliation of the United States, and everybody knows it,” she continued. “Everybody knows it, but especially Iran knows

According to new reporting from NOTUS, frustrations are growing between the White House and Senate Republicans, who accuse President Donald Trump of blowing up their agenda with his relentless policy “landmines.”“Trump has torpedoed what appeared to be nearly done deals, including most recently yanking his director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton from a fast-tracked confirmation hearing and hobbling an extension of a foreign intelligence gathering tool,” explains NOTUS. “And the president has primaried sitting senators he viewed as disloyal.”

Former MAGA congressman Joe Walsh spun abruptly from President Donald Trump and his MAGA crew years ago after seeing Trump’s damage, and now he is surprised the rest of the nation hasn’t managed to catch on and throw out the Trump poison. Walsh expressed even more surprise at the nation’s failure to wise up after 10 years of Trump’s toxin, particularly after former president Obama’s eloquent speech in Chicago at the opening of his presidential library and community learning center.“People have been telling me, ‘Oh my god, Joe, how the heck did we g

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other members of President Donald Trump's administration have refused to file the statement Judge Leonie M. Brinkema demanded in her judicial order last week. AlterNet reported that last Friday, Judge Brinkema said she wanted to "avoid any further litigation in this civil action," and asked Blanche along with Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, Jr. and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to submit a declaration they wouldn't take any further action to create Trump's slush fund. The deadline for that was June 19. Judge Brinkema had demanded that the filing be submitted

The "madman theory" of politics argues that when a leader comes across as unhinged and volatile, adversaries will back down — as they don't know what the person will do. That theory was applied to U.S. President Donald Trump during the Iran war, with some of his supporters arguing that he would come out on top because Iranian leaders would be genuinely afraid of him. But according to NOTUS reporters Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Jasmine Wright, Trump's ceasefire agreement with Iran underscores the fatal flaws of the "madman theory."

Veteran journalist Jonathan Alter has published a fictitious yet “all-too-plausible” scenario whereby President Donald Trump attempts to overturn the results of the 2026 election — especially in the Senate — which could narrowly move to Democratic control in November. He suggests that it will take two sets of citizens: the general public and former U.S. presidents, among others, to defeat what he sees as the current president’s “slow-motion rolling coup attempt,” which he says is “already underway.”Writing at Washington Monthly, Alter acknowledges that Democr