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Before President Donald Trump headed off to Washington, DC., on Saturday for the White House Correspondents Dinner he first had to face top investors in his Trump meme coin crypto scheme at Mar-a-Lago — just as his cryptocurrency is in freefall.But MS NEWS reporter Alex Tabet said the value and pay-off of the money purchase isn’t as important as the act of dumping money into a hole that apparently buys access to the president.“Let me break down how this Mar-a-Lago crypto conference works. So, the top 297 holders of this Trump Coin —

Zeteo editors made clear that they will not be attending the Saturday White House Correspondents’ Dinner. They were equally vocal about their reasons.“We will not join our media colleagues in partying with Donald Trump, an authoritarian who seeks to curtail the First Amendment and criminalize journalism, who puts masked agents on the street to racially profile and kidnap people and kill people, who jails foreign students for their pro-Palestine speech, who seeks to denaturalize US citizens, who has made it US policy to summarily execute people at sea, who is

New York Times columnists say President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed master of deal making, is struggling to deal with his Iran war. But contributing opinion writers E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel and opinion columnist Carlos Lozada say that deal-making talent was never a thing.“This whole notion of Trump as the master deal maker, as deal maker in chief, it’s all part of a long-running Trump mythology that was part of ‘The Art of the Deal,’ part of ‘The Apprentice.’ I think that what we’re seein

Democratic strategist and author Jessica Tarlov says liberals have bigger problems with President Donald Trump supporters than Trumpers have with liberals. But that higher standard is leaving MAGA out in the cold with old friends and relatives.“Trump himself is such a moral failing that it says something more definitive about you [as a Trumper],” Tarlov said, and this reality appears to be bearing out in survey interviews of both

NPR reports the Trump effect on fertilizer and fuel prices is pushing President Donald Trump supporting farmers “to the brink,” despite Trump’s $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance Program, which delivers a one-time payment to offset farmers’ losses because of Trump’s tariff policies.“If somebody took $100 out of my pocket and then turned around and gave me $20 back, patted me on the back and said they were my friend, I'm not really sure I would agree," said Mississippi Delta corn grower Sledge Taylor, a lifelong Trump supporter.

MS NOW “The Weekend” Host Jonathan Capehart could not disguise his surprise at some very bad numbers for President Donald Trump coming from a very friendly place.“I just want to put up this Fox New poll about ‘who would do a better job on the economy,’” said Capehart.“—who's that from again?” interrupted “Weekend” co-host Eugene Daniels.“Fox News poll,” said Capehart. “Fox. News. Poll. Credible poll — and you know why we're showing this. And look at this number: 52 percent [of respondents] said Democrats would do a better job on the economy. Forty-eight percent said Repub

Interim attorney general Todd Blanche has “aggressively moved to deploy the department’s resources to please [president] Donald Trump,” reports the Guardian, “leaving little doubt about how the president’s former personal attorney would further politicize the department if his status atop US law enforcement becomes permanent.”But critics vying for the position are already training their barrels on Blanche’s behavior, the paper adds.“He’s attempting to show that with Pam Bondi gone, things are going to start happening. And that’s a lowlife tac

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will be arriving at the White House on Monday, and the Washington Post says President Donald Trump will be flaunting “his latest White House renovation: a new black granite path that the royals are expected to take to the Oval Office.”“… [T]he president [was] eager to replace decades-old beige Tennessee flagstone with his handpicked dark granite slabs before the royal visit,” two anonymous sources told the Post. This will add to gobs of gold lettering, new fixtures and lights — all lauded by signs installed specifically to praise Trump’s work.“‘Such attention to detail is rarely seen in the modern era!’ reads a plaque written by Trump, celebrating the

In a “highly unusual” move, the contractor behind the construction of President Donald Trump’s ballroom got a monetary boost from the National Park Service.The New York Times reports that Maryland-based Clark Construction not only nabbed a secret no-bid contract for a nearby job, but the National Park Service under Trump inflated the value of the contract several times over before awarding it to them. The additional work involves construction at the site of two ornamental fountains in Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington, DC.“The National Park Service wanted to repa

Lately, I have been thinking about the word “freedom” and how that word has been twisted into unrecognizable wreckage by a Republican Party that uses it as a sad excuse to brutally hammer tens of millions of Americans into submission, including themselves.America is supposed to be the land of the free, but try telling that to a pregnant woman who is faced with a crushing decision about what’s best for her, or Alex Pretti or Renee Good who were shot dead in the street by government thugs for freely standing up against violent authoritarianism. (Government thugs, incidentally, who are still free among us to kill again as I type this.)I was finally spurred to put words to my thoughts about freedom afte