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President Donald Trump has frequently had to answer for one of his top advisors, who has angered everyone from ordinary Americans, to Republican senators and even CEOs of public traded corporations. However, the president has yet to take any concrete action to limit his influence and power.The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller – who has been a key member of Trump's inner circle since his first administration – is an increasingly divisive figure in the president's second term. Trump's hardline immigration enforcement tactics seen in Min

After putting his name on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, President Donald Trump is closing it. National Review writer Jeffrey Blehar argues that Trump's stated reason of conducting repairs and maintenance is simply window dressing masking the real reason for the facility's sudden closure. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was shuttering the Kennedy

Despite Pope Leo XIV repeatedly calling on Christians to honor the Bible's multiple instructions to care for and welcome immigrants and refugees, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is insisting that the scripture says otherwise.The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Johnson was confronted in a Capitol Hill hallway by a reporter who asked him about the pontiff's words on providing a safe haven to immigrants fleeing oppression. Pablo Manriquez — a reporter with liberal outlet MeidasTouch — asked the speaker: "Pope Leo has cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. How would you

American Conservative writer Spencer Neale says “you would be forgiven for wondering from time to time if Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is still alive,” but he adds that Trump is only four years McConnell’s junior — yet MAGA won’t admit it.“McConnell’s declining health (he has been spotted falling on multiple occasions) and his accelerating age are not uncommon sights in Washington DC, where Congress has become fertile ground for boomers who re

President Donald Trump won't be in attendance at the biggest sporting event in the United States this year. And according to a new report, he's skipping out over fears that he may be booed by tens of thousands of people.On Tuesday, Zeteo's Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez reported that one unnamed White House official feared Trump would get booed "big league" at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California (the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers). Suebsaeng and Perez wrote that Trump's advisors feared a wave of boos at the Super Bowl "would instantly create a wealth of viral video clips and media coverage that administration officials would prefe

Former GOP consultant Steve Schmidt pledged his Save America Movement would be flooding conservative news sites and MAGA websites during the upcoming midterms and the national election, reminding Second Amendment voters that President Donald Trump is no friend of gun enthusiasts.“I want to tell you what Save America is going to do about this,” said Schmidt, speaking with The Jim Acosta Show host Jim Acosta. “We're going to have ads around the NRA convention, and we're going to put these ads up on Fox and Newsmax and OAN. And what the ads are going to show is ‘Drunk Jeanine’ talk

After Sen. Mark Kelly (R-Ariz.) called on troops to remember their oath to disobey illegal orders, President Donald Trump's Department of Defense (DoD) made moves to cut his military pension. Now, a judge is likely to rule that move illegal.That's according to a Tuesday article in CNN, which reported that U.S. District judge Richard Leon (an appointee of former President George W. Bush) scoffed at the DoD's argument for punishing the Arizona senator and retired U.S. Navy captain. According to CNN, Leon took issue with Pentagon lawyers' justification of including military retirees in its loophole

The New York Times reports a band of cryptocurrency investors benefiting from President Donald Trump’s lax crypto trading laws have built a 15-foot tall, gold-covered statue of President Trump.“It’s known as ‘Don Colossus,’ reports the New York Times. “… Mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf.”The group of cryptocurrency investors paid a sculptor $300,000 to create it as a tribute to Trump. Then they used it to promote a memecoin called $PATRIOT,” reports the

President Donald Trump spent part of a recent press conference in the Oval Office admonishing a female reporter who asked him about convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.During a Tuesday bill-signing event in the Oval Office, Trump took questions from journalists in an impromptu press conference. At one point, CNN host Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about two of his associates – Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Tesla CEO Elon Musk – being mentioned in the latest batch of Epstein files. Trump shrugged off those two names, saying "I'm sure they're fine. Otherwise there would have been major headlines."Collins then followed

The New Republic reports a federal agent likely used his cellphone to nab a “trophy” photo of Chicago resident and U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez after Border Patrol agents shot her five times in Chicago.Martinez, who said the memory haunts her to this day, testified before Congress Tuesday about how she was shot while monitoring agent’s activities from her car in Chicago and warning her neighbors. The New Republic reports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initially