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President Donald Trump’s presence is becoming more and more of a liability in the state of Wisconsin, despite state voters choosing to send Trump to the White House in the last election. The president’s plummeting polls may have something to do with a Republican group having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in television ads in Milwaukee and Green Bay to salvage the campaign of Republican state attorney general candidate Eric Toney.“The Republican Attorney General Association will purchase $500,000 in ads in the coming months, targeting Attorney General Josh Kaul and what the organization says has been a weak-on-crime approach to his office over his last two terms,”

President Donald Trump appeared to thrill his supporters in New York on Friday as he shared how he came up with his latest nickname for Democrats — his explanation included a spelling lesson.“Blue means Dumocrat,” the president said, remixing a gag he shared with Fox entertainer Sean Hannity days ago. “That’s a new name I came up with.”“I was, I was thinking about this character we have in the House. His name is Hakeem Jeffries,” Trump said to boos from the audience.“And he’s a low IQ person, very low IQ.”“And I watched what he was saying, and what the horrible things he was

There’s stupid … and then there’s special stupid — and President Donald Trump’s spite is framing him up to be the latter, said former Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes.For example, with Trump’s razor-thin majority in the Senate and Democrats threatening to take both the Senate and House in November, you’d think Trump would do everything he could to keep his barely-majority gang happy and on his side. But that’s not what he did, said Sykes.“This week, Trump crossed an invisible line, and for the first time in the Trump Restoration, GOP senators and reps seem genu

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he would not be attending his first son's wedding to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson on an island in the Bahamas. Writing on Truth Social Trump said, “While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the newest member of the Trump Family, his soon to be wife, Bettina, circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so.”But the elderly Trump had previously announced he wou

Following the Friday news that consumer sentiment has dropped to its all-time low amid an economy roiled by the consequences of President Donald Trump’s tariff program and war on Iran, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warns that things are about to get “really, really ugly.”“The numbers are terrible, people,” he said. “We’re hitting a record low on consumer sentiment, which fits in with the general picture. We know that people are very upset about prices. They’re very upset about

A Republican voter slammed President Donald Trump for veering off the path of prioritizing voters on MS NOW this week with his proposed $1.8 billion slush fund for people allegedly weaponized by the government.“They're calling a slush fund for Republicans is, you know, people who have been in trouble before. I mean, I understand that, but sI till don't like the look of him taking public money to do that.”“We got enough going on with everything going on with the fraud in the country,” said the voter, who lives in Suffern, NY, territory manned by moderate Republican House Rep. Mike Lawler. “Do we really need to be wasting money like this in this way? It's just another way to waste money.

Bloomberg reports a senior Washington federal judge lobbed a rare rebuke condemning president by President Donald Trump’s “vitriolic attacks” against the judiciary have led to an increase in violent threats.“The President knows that mob mentality is a powerful force. And dog whistles count, too,” said Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the US District Court for the District of Columbia.Speaking to a crowd of lawyers and judges earlier this year, Friedman said Trump, since winning reelection in 2024, has “ratcheted up to a new level his personal, vitriolic attacks on judges who have ruled against him or with whom he disagrees,” said Friedman, adding that his attacks “have gotten more partisan, more

Donald Trump has never described himself so perfectly. At 10:52 last night, he posted this on his social media site: "Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he's finally gone!"He was talking about Stephen Colbert, of course. But allegations are confessions when they come out of Donald Trump's mouth.The celebrated comedian shuttered his show Thursday, a year after Paramount surrendered to the president's bullying. Trump got what he wanted from his corporate toadies, but unsurprisingly, that wasn't enough. No words are too shameful, or as screenwriter David Simon

While President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have been in freefall since January, according to former Jimmy Carter speechwriter James Fallows, the “real milestone” has only come in recent days as the very Republicans who enabled Trump have begun turning against him, having realized that “he won’t be here forever.” The public was way ahead of GOP lawmakers when it came to bailing on the president over war, the melting economy, and other issues, and now conservative lawmakers are beginning to respond to their angry constituents. Says Fallows, this is the dawn of the “post-Trump era.”“As everyo

President Donald Trump’s controversial Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is resigning.“Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026,” DNI Gabbard wrote to President Trump, Fox News reports. “My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”But President Trump wrote that Gabbard had done an “incredible job,” and “we will miss her,” but