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President Donald Trump is being criticized for his latest Truth Social post in which he describes himself as an “extraordinarily brilliant person,” yet admits he cannot understand the language in Virginia’s redistricting referendum — which more than 1.5 million voters passed Tuesday night.The president also claimed the election was “rigged,” while offering no evidence, and was frustrated because ballot counting went more heavily in Dem

Editor's Note: This story and it's headline have been updated. A previous version presented Larry Johnson's claim without adequate verification. Independent fact-checkers at Snopes have found no evidence to support the claim. AlterNet regrets the error.During an appearance on libertarian legal analyst Andrew Napolitano's podcast, former CIA counterterrorism official Larry Johnson alleged U.S. President Donald Trump asked "to use the nuclear codes," but was refused by officials. Others who took part in the April 18 conversation, according to Johnson, included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine."Citing unspecified reports of

Over the past year, a number of issues have angered voters, from brutal ICE tactics to the mishandling of the Epstein investigation to President Donald Trump’s beef with the Pope. But now with gas prices skyrocketing due to the unpopular war with Iran, writes Politico, “GOP campaign veterans say time is running out if the party is going to avoid a disaster at the ballot box in November.”While the White House has done everything it can think of to bring oil prices down, costs at the pump have shot up by over a third in less than two months, with further increases forecasted ev

President Donald Trump and his administration talk a big game about their devotion to and support for religion, but in practice, their "high-octane condescension" exposes their "contempt toward Christianity," according to a new analysis from The Bulwark.Mona Charen is a veteran writer and journalist who previously worked as a staffer for former President Ronald Reagan and as a speechwriter for First Lady Nancy Reagan. She is now

During his war against Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump is not only clashing with Democrats, liberals, progressives and Never Trump conservatives — he is also clashing with some MAGA Republicans who aggressively supported him in the past, including Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia). Another far-right critic of the Iran war is former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who views Trump's military operation against Iran as a total betrayal of the "America First" agenda he campaign

President Donald Trump’s job approval stands at its lowest point of his second term, and since he won’t be on the ballot in November or in 2028, Republicans will have to ask themselves at what point do they accept “reality-based data” and distance themselves from him?So asks Steve Benen at MS NOW, where he notes that the latest

When Republicans doubled down on their gerrymandering plans for Texas and other red states, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded with an aggressive redistricting push of his own and maintained that members of his party needed to fight fire with fire. Meanwhile, in an April 21 special election 3000 miles to the east in Virginia, voters approved a new congressional map that, according to the New York Times, could "shift four Republican-held seats to Democratic control" in the U.S. House of Representatives this midt

Calls for President Donald Trump's impeachment are nothing new, but more and more, the calls are coming from inside the house, as it were.On Thursday, Strength in Numbers, a data-driven news outlet, released a new poll conducted throughout April in conjunction with VeraSight. According to its findings, support for impeaching Trump is nearing historic thresholds, "in the neighborhood" of the numbers for Richard Nixon in the wak

Two months into President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, one of the key characteristics of the conflict has been a general lack of clarity about its status. From one day to the next, and sometimes within hours, the public is told one thing, which is then quickly contradicted by emerging facts. According to a retired U.S. admiral, it is all part of Trump’s “lie about everything” strategy.“We were told Iran's navy was sunk, their air force, destroyed,” posted former Admiral Mike Franken on Wednesday. “Their fissile material blown up. Their leadership, killed. Yet, they magically seized two

After delivering dozens of Truth Social posts in a 24-hour period, President Donald Trump is now lashing out at the conservative justices on the Supreme Court — again.The president appeared to suggest that the conservative jurists should be loyal to his positions, and lamented that liberal justices “stick together like glue, NEVER failing to wander from the warped and perverse policies, ideas, and cases put before them.” He also attacked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, although not by name but by calling her “that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the bench (Sleep