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A former adviser to the last Republican president, George W. Bush, argued on Wednesday that the current Republican president, Donald Trump, has become politically toxic to one of his potential successors, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.“Marco Rubio will never, ever be the President of the United States, but because of the terribleness of [Vice President] JD Vance, he has become sort of a flavor of the month,” Steve Schmidt said in a Substack post. “And because of the corruption of the corporate media, Marco Rubio is taken and treated seriously. He's treated like a statesman.�

Former Republican activist Josh Duggar, who was found guilty of “possessing and receiving” child sexual abuse material, is apparently living a cushy life in prison, where he is serving a 12-year sentence.After previously being held at the low-security Dallas prison known as FCI Seagoville, Duggar was recently transferred to a Fort Worth facility known as the Federal Medical Center, according to a report by Radar Online. The website went on to explain that the Federal Medical Center “boasts an extensive list of wellness programs and other initiatives.”These initiatives include access to exercise equipment, fitness programs, nutrition prescriptions, health edu

Republican strategist Rina Shah says there are very clear reasons President Donald Trump got dunked by his own party on Wednesday, and he has no one to blame but himself.House Republicans, for the first time in months, failed to block a Democratic effort to halt the Iran war. The four Republican defectors who joined Democrats in tanking the GOP shutout are the latest sign that members of the president’s own party are willing to buck him on key policies.The Wednesday loss, the latest in Trump’s recent losing streak, was made possible by swing district Re

During a Wednesday press conference, President Donald Trump could not wait to announce that crews will begin refilling the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after spending over a month resurfacing it with "American flag blue" sealant.But what caught hecklers was the moment Trump pulled out a poster in the Oval Office comparing the size of the reflecting pool to that of some of the largest buildings in the U.S., as if the investment he put on U.S. taxpayers’ had done anything to extend the length of the pool—or that a rectangular water-filled hole could compare to the girders, architecture and design tha

President Donald Trump told a reporter on Wednesday that the January 6th insurrection, which Trump instigated to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, was conducted by people who “went there with love.”After CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump to confirm that his $1.8 billion slush fund to insurrectionists is indeed dead, Trump said he’d need to check with his lawyers before attacking the people behind the fund.“As far as I'm concerned, it was a beautiful thing,” Trump told Collins. “It was something I was — I didn't make it, but I was — I heard that — I thought that was the greatest thing, because people like you have abused our people so badly. The fake news, li

According to distinguished security scholar Phillips P. O’Brien, the leadership of President Donald Trump has set the United States on a downward spiral in which it is “weaker every day.” Perhaps even more alarming, the US “may never come back” from the diminished state Trump will leave it in.O’Brien — whose book War and Power is widely cited by strategy experts — asserts that there are several factors driving the country’s decline under Trump, but the most looming is the president’s decision to launch war with Iran. “The US does not control its own destiny at this point in the w

President Donald Trump has close ties to Silicon Valley billionaires, relying on them to shape policy on everything from waging war against Iran and deregulating cryptocurrency to paving the way for rampant AI in American society.“Multiple candidates backed heavily by Big Tech executives floundered in Tuesday’s primary elections, as concerns about the corrosive effects of new technologies such as artificial intelligence tools continue to mount,” reported MS NOW’s Ja’han Jones on Wednesday. “The clearest examples came in California, where tech executives spent ungodly amounts o

The Democratic base is split on where they want the party to go — left, center, or stay put — but the majority can agree on their dissatisfaction with the party’s direction, says CNN data guru Harry Enten.Fewer Democrats are currently satisfied with their party than they were after President Joe Biden’s debate performance that led to him dropping his reelection bid, Enten noted.Democratic voters’ “p—— offness” Enten added on social media, “has never been higher with their own party in Congress.”Noting that 46 percent of Democratic voters currently are satisfied with the Democratic Party, Enten reiterated that the majority are dissatisfied.Looking specifically at Democrats’ net approval of congressional Democrats, Enten

Opinion contributor Max Burns tells the Hill that America’s 250th birthday should have been “a celebration to end all celebrations.” But in its place comes a frayed presentation of one injured man’s delicate feelings.“The nation’s biggest birthday yet could have been an opportunity for both commemoration and recommitment, a festival marking a quarter millennium of democracy and a challenge to envision a bolder, better, brighter America for the generations to come,” writes Burns. “Instead, we got a canceled Vanilla Ice concert, a half-painted Lincoln Memorial reflecting

One of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics, Rep. Al Green (R-TX), triggered Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin in a heated exchange on Wednesday about the Trump administration’s racist policies.“Racists take offense at peaceful protests,” Green told Mullin, referring to the administration’s policy of targeting immigrants from racial minority backgrounds. “A racist, Mr. Secretary, would do what happened to Ruby—”Mullin shot back, “Are you calling me a racist?”As Green attempted t