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Conservative political strategist and CNN pundit Scott Jennings failed to make his case for blaming President Donald Trump’s inflation problems on former president Biden — despite Biden leaving office more than a year ago.Jennings set himself up for trouble after former Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala identified inflation as one of Trump’s major obstacles threatening to destroy himself and his Republican Party in the November midterms.“We have an unpopular war, an unpopular president … It’s not just that his war is unpopular and fracturing his base more than I think even Iraq fractured President Bush's base, but it’s his in

How does President Donald Trump deal with the non-stop bad news and dreadful poll numbers assaulting the White House every day? One former Trump official delivered the answer after MS NOW host Michael Steele asked him “what all the little mice around him” are doing to blunt the ugly numbers.“Are they lying in his ear and telling him those aren't real polls? Or does he not really give a crap?” Steele demanded.“They're lying to him like there's no tomorrow because that's the team he wanted to have in the second term,” said Miles Taylor, who worked for Trump in his first term as a DHS deputy chief of staff. “[Trump] was so irked that he spent four y

Until fairly recently, President Donald Trump’s MAGA fold mostly united around a certain set of beliefs. But researchers have now confirmed that at least one of their founding principles is based on the complete absence of any hint of fact in their lives or in their circle.“Psychology researchers Christopher Stockus, now at Marietta College, and Ethan Zell of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro … designed a project to measure whether an objective gap in factual knowledge exists between [left-leaning and right-leaning] political groups,” reports PsyPost. “The rese

Intelligencer writer Matt Steib says when you’ve scaped down to the part of the barrel containing magicians you’re probably scraping down too far. But that’s where you’ll find President Donald Trump dredging for entertainers who won’t hurt his delicate feelings.The annual White House Correspondents’ dinner is a time for comedians and entertainer s to roast arguable the most powerful person in the nation. But rather than decline all invitations as he always has, Trump has instead decided to hire his own nice and safe entertainment. Trump is bringing i

Former White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews says nobody can escape Father Time, and right now Father Time is trampling boot marks all over President Donald Trump’s mind.Her opinion came after a painful series of photos of Trump appearing to nod off and go straight into REM sleep at an important Oval Office Thursday conference, augmented with citations of Trump’s more unnerving late-night posts.“I just think it's gotten even worse in the sense that it's a little bit more extreme. In the first administration, we didn't have him posting about wanting to

According to a new Harvard Youth poll, faith in the American government has sunk to a new low of just 15 percent among young Americans aged 18-29. A slim 13 percent think the country is on the right track, however only 33 percent say they trust the upcoming midterm elections will be fair. On Friday, Director of Polling at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, John Della Volpe, joined MSNOW to discuss the survey’s findings, saying he hasn’t seen anything like it in America over his 25 years as a pollster. According to Della Volpe, young voters are concerned about “a stack of issues.”“It's inflation, cost of living, housing, health care, paying more, getting less,” he explai

Since its inception, Newsmax has been known for its loyalty to President Donald Trump and his administration. Many were therefore surprised when on Friday, Newsmax host Greg Kelly delivered a no-holds-barred criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to fire John Phelan from his post as Naval Secretary, calling the Pentagon chief an “insecure FAKE.”“What a DESPICABLE guy Hegseth is,” posted Kelly. “Frustrated that he can’t remove his Real Nemesis, the Army Secretary, He Fires the NAVY Secretary, has him ‘walked out of the building’ by security. But this was NOT an Urg

President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that he was “never much in favor” of prediction markets. “I don’t like it conceptually. It is what it is. I’m not happy with any of that stuff.”“Well, you know, the whole world unfortunately has become somewhat of a casino,” Trump, a former casino owner, told reporters. “And you look at what’s going on all over the world, in Europe and every place they’re doing these betting things.”The Times reports federal prosecutors have indicted Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who was involved in the operation

President Donald Trump has had yet another falling-out with a contractor paid to buttress his 2020 election conspiracies. Writing for MS NOW, producer and editor Steve Benen recalled the Berkeley Research Group, which was hired by Trump in 2020 to find voter fraud that could prove he won. The Washington Post reported at the time, "Researchers paid by Trump’s team had 'high confidence' of only nine dead

With three pieces of controversial legislation on the docket while another congressional recess looms, Republicans are facing “hell week” as they attempt to overcome resistance both from the Democrats and within their own party. While House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has proven to be surprisingly adept at navigating internal GOP conflict, his colleagues are well aware that next week’s session will be an uphill battle due to party infighting. Next week, the House tackles three much-debated measures. First, a long-term extension of Section 702 FISA, a surveillance package that bipartisa