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President Donald Trump’s arrogance and braggadocio appear to be without bounds, but does he really believe his own claims of supreme power? That was the subject of debate on CNN’s “The Arena” Saturday morning.The panel consensus, however, could not confirm that he wasn’t nuts.Trump recently stated during an “Axios Show” interview that there are now "no limits" to his power sin

Mediaite reports Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hit President Donald Trump with a withering new Saturday rant attacking his waning popularity in the latest “salvo of a roiling feud over a selfie.”On Saturday afternoon, Italy time, Meloni posted a scathing Instagram message to Trump

The very next day after Alternet reported Israeli officials were scheming to destroy President Donald Trump’s unseemly Iran ceasefire deal the MoU collapsed, a victim of Israel's continued attacks in Lebanon."Iran dealt two quick blows to the interim agreement with the United States on Saturday, … saying it had closed the

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says there can be no more fitting metaphor of President Donald Trump’s second term than “trillions of microscopic organisms suck[ing] up all the oxygen and endanger[ing] life around them.”“A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence,” wrote Dowd. “… That essence is slimy, stinky and unrelenting, as reflected in the mass of algae that infests the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial

Bulwark founder Sarah Longwell conducts frequent surveys with Trump supporters. And her latest reveals many of Trump’s 2024 fans are now either having a difficult time supporting their Republican Party senatorial candidate or they’re outright voting for the Democrat.“I wasn't the biggest fan of [Texas senatorial GOP candidate] Ken Paxton and I know it's going to sound really feminine, I guess, because when the report started coming out of the affair

Trump’s loyal Republican lawmakers don’t often get corrected to their face when they play fast and loose with the facts, but CNN Saturday morning anchor Victor Blackwell had no such patience for MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.).Blackwell derailed Luna’s talking points at the start of the interview after watching her try to explain President Donald Trump calling his Iran Memorandum of Understanding a “win” despite it letting Iran keep missiles that Trump claimed he specifically invaded to remove.But Luna argued that Trump’s agre

Every election cycle sees its share of controversial, scandal-plagued candidates running for office. But the 2026 midterm elections will feature two such candidates – one from each party – in two of the highest-profile U.S. Senate races.In Texas, the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, recently secured the Republican Party’s nomination over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Cornyn and others have insisted that Paxton’s substantial legal and

To put it mildly, the Democrats have had a complicated relationship with the white working class at least since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But things are going to be simple in the run up to November's midterm elections. Democrats don't need to offer much. White working-class voters who supported Donald Trump are probably going to stay home. “I don’t even want to vote for anybody in the next election,” Annette Dombrowski tol

A report published Friday reveals how President Donald Trump’s policies have jacked up prices for a host of potential Father’s Day gifts this year.Overall, the analysis by Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive economic think tank and advocacy group, finds that prices for popular Father’s Day gifts have risen by nearly 19% on average over the last year, highlighted by a 30% increase in the price of Remington electric shavers, a 16% jump for Blackstone

Glenn Beck put up a long post Thursday justifying the ways of Donald Trump to men. He came to the conclusion that with the Iranians, the president had no choice but to play "the cards that were actually on the table." "He did exactly what a leader of a Republic should do: he listened to the people and found a way to end this. A dictator would have kept on going. At the end of the day, a president can only go as far as the people will carry him" (my italics).Sounds convincing, except for one thing: what he did is what a dictator would do. He