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President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" is getting its own hefty cash infusion from the United States.CNN reported Thursday that Trump announced the U.S. will contribute $10 billion to the board. Trump will remain president of the board indefinitely, it appears, ABC News reported at the time of the announcement. “I want to let you know that the United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace,” Trump said.

On Thursday morning, February 19 in Washington, D.C.., U.S. President Donald Trump held the first meeting of his Board of Peace — which he is promoting as a MAGA alternative to the United Nations (UN). And he was joined by members of his administration, including Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, along with diplomats from Argentina, Hungary, Pakistan, Vietnam and other countries. Vance, during his speech, told a joke mocking progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York). But the joke didn't receive any laughter from attendees.Referenc

After just one year of President Donald Trump’s second term, Canada’s view of the United States has flipped — from trusted neighbor to the world’s greatest threat to peace.“New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest a lasting chill has settled over the world’s former bosom buddies. Americans are rosy as ever about their northern neighbors, but Canadians don’t share the love,” according to

President Donald Trump is fighting “patterns of history” in the upcoming midterm elections, and even his own aides recognize he could be his own worst enemy in trying to counter them.Halperin referred to a Tuesday evening working dinner at the Capitol Hill Club, near the House office buildings, with 75 to 100 attendees, all focused on strategizing ahead of the midterm elections.“The mood, according to one attendee, was not panicked,” veteran political journalist Mark Halperin reported for Fox News. The “focused

President Donald Trump is causing headaches for Republicans in 2026, and it'll only get worse, one CNN report said. Trump heads to Georgia on Thursday to deliver another economic speech amid an ongoing affordability crisis, which he has previously labelled a "hoax" and a "fake narrative" invented by Democrats. AlterNet reported on Wednesday that insiders were revealing details about a political meeting at the White House among House members. As part of the discussion, Trump's so-called "political czar," James Blair, shared data showing that the president's party always loses seats in the midterms, suggesting he believes th

President Donald Trump’s foreign policies are costing Americans their jobs at home and their security overseas, according to a recent expert analysis.Although at the start of his second term Trump levied the highest tariffs America has seen since the 1930s, they have harmed the economy instead of helping it, reported the liberal-leaning think tank Center for American Progress.“Far from the manufacturing sector ‘roaring back’ as Trump promised, the United States has lost more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs over the past year,” wro

A former Republican congressman blasted President Donald Trump’s supporters on Thursday, claiming they act like members of a cult by flip-flopping on issues of war and peace because Trump did so.“This is what America looks like when one of our two major political parties has become an authoritarian-embracing cult,” former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) wrote on his Substack. “And I’ll throw in for good measure — hey, MAGA, MAGA — this is what America looks like when the people who voted for Donald Trump don’t get what Donald Trump said he would give them, but they still pr

When Joe Biden was president and Democrats still controlled the U.S. Senate under Chuck Schumer's leadership, some liberals and progressives argued that Justice Sonia Sotomayor (who is now 71) should retire. The idea was to nominate a Generation X or Millennial liberal who could serve on the High Court for 25 or 30 years. But now that Donald Trump is back in the White House and Republicans have a Senate majority, the justice who is facing retirement arguments is 75-year-old George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito. In an article published on February 19, Salon's David Daley examines the possibility of a "well-timed" or "strategic" Alito retirement that would give

With the 2026 midterms roughly eight and one-half months away, GOP and Democratic strategists are paying very close attention to President Donald Trump's approval ratings — which are weak in a long list of polls released in February. A YouGov/Economist poll, for example, found that only 39 percent of Americans "strongly or somewhat approve of how Trump is handling his job as

Donald Trump's mounting attacks on U.S. elections are a sure sign he knows that he and the GOP are "going to lose" in future races, veteran political commentator and analyst David Rothkopf argued, and because of this desperation, his threats must be taken "seriously."Late last month, he directed the FBI to raid an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, where agents took possession of ballots from 2020. Trump maintains the false claim that the 2020 race was stolen from him due to election fraud, with the seized ballots playing a part in his administration's