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Conservative website Townhall and the MAGA community are exploding over American athletes “going viral” for “choosing to diss the country that they were sent to represent at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.”The MAGA community and its entertainers take as fact that President Donald Trump and America are one and the same, despite one being a 250-year-old nation and the other being a 79-year-old man in

New York Times Columnist Jamelle Bouie says the easiest way to read the motivations of an insincere person like President Donald Trump is to see him “at his most unfiltered.”That involves his late-night posts on social media, far away from the eyes of handlers.It was late Thursday night when Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account depicting President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. It’s a post Bouie described as “the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” in the White House

A whistleblower tells the Gurdian that National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard blocked the publication of an intelligence report concerning an “unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump.”The details of the communication are not known, but the

In Washington this week, at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president actually took credit for the Bible being a bestseller. “In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Donald Trump said. In and of itself, this is not amazing. I remember as a child watching a commercial on Sunday afternoon TV about how “The Good Book” sold more copies than any book in human history. What is amazing is Trump taking credit when that credit would traditionally be given to the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, especially

Forbes Magazine reports Turning Point USA’s choice of country-rapper Kid Rock to perform at an alternative halftime show during the Super Bowl was two decades too late.Conservative organization Turning Point is looking to build a halftime home for frustrated Trump voters riled at the idea of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizen Bad Bunny headlining the NFL show. But Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, isn’t likely to hit with many people under the age of 40.“Bad Bunny has far more career s

Aging President Donald Trump with his cankles, slurred speech, drooping face and reports of a collapsing circulatory system is not the threat to democracy it once was, say a panel of New York Times columnist. The real threat, they say, is the power structure that put him in place — and could soon install another Trumpy president.

Bulwark White House Correspondent Andrew Egger admits the U.S. Capitol is “starting to see some Republicans run for the hills” as mounting frustration under the rule of President Donald Trump mingles with the likelihood of an encroaching midterm bushwhacking by Democrats.“Republican Congressman Mark Amadai announced he'd be retiring from Congress at the end of this term,” said Egger, while adding that the retirement should be puzzling because the congressman “just won reelection in 2024 by a lot, almost 19 points.”“So, it's not like it's not a very red district,” said Egger

New Republic Senior Editor Alex Shephard says President Donald Trump regularly flies across the world “on a taxpayer-funded plane that solely exists to take him wherever he wants, whenever he wants.” But now he’s claiming the Super Bowl is just “too far away,” to attend.Of course it’s not about inconvenience, said Shephard, who penned the “Hilarious Decline of MAGA’s Brief Cultural Relevance. It’s about fear of what was once Trump’s bel

Under Republican control, the aims of the House Oversight Committee are to promote partisan narratives rather than to reveal facts and advance public understanding of national issues. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), its chairman, has displayed that routinely self-serving approach in the committee's "investigation" of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal -- and especially in his zeal to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton.Comer was never among the tiny handful of Republicans who demanded that the Trump administration release the government's files on the deceased sex predator. Instead, the leaden Comer dutifully followed Pr

As President Trump suggests the federal government should “nationalize” and take over the elections process from the states, we speak with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. He is the former county recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona, and oversaw elections there in 2020. The Justice Department has sued Arizona and over 20 other states for their full voter registration lists. “No means no,” Fontes says in response to the Trump administration’s encroachment on state authority. “We should not be handing over any of our personal identifying information to the president. Not only should we not be doing it, but it’s against the law for me to fulfill the request from the Department of Justice.”