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President Donald Trump wants to use the assassination attempt against him to incentivize the building a White House ballroom — but at least one possible route for achieving this may be closed off to him.“Senate Majority Leader John Thune was noncommittal Monday over whether Congress could greenlight construction of the White House ballroom as part of the GOP’s party-line immigration enforcement bill,” Politico reported on Monday, quoting him as saying “I don’t know. We’ll see what’s achievable.”In the aftermath of the a

Some conservatives are blaming the Secret Service for the seeming attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on Saturday — but one Wall Street Journal columnist is not having any of it.“One conservative called the Secret Service’s handling of security an ‘unmitigated failure,’” wrote The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn on Monday, who also reported on how mainstream media outlets like The Washington Post covered the story. “Others complain about ‘lax security.’ The Washington Post reported that ‘the Trump administration provided a lower l

President Donald Trump is at risk of violating the Constitution through his Cabinet picks, a Libertarian scholar recently warned — although right now he appears to be on the right side of the law.Describing Trump’s decision to keep Todd Blanche as acting attorney general and Keith Sonderling as acting labor secretary, in lieu of Pam Bondi and Lori Chavez-DeRemer respectively, a scholar from the prestigious Cato Institute warned that the president is walking a very fine line.“Almost all vacancies in the executive branch are governed by the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) of 1998, which sets uniform rules of who can be an acting officer and how long they can serve,”

Rumors and controversy have flared in the wake of the firing of now-former Naval Secretary John Phelan. The White House offered no explanation, and while many have been proposed, one of the key reasons may have involved the difficulties of delivering on President Donald Trump’s demand for two new “Trump-class” battleships to be designed and built by 2029. According to military historian and expert Max Boot, such an undertaking is not only an impossible “waste of time and money,” but serves no purpose other than to satisfy “the president’s insatiable ego.”

Donald Trump commands the U.S. less like a president and more like Julius Caesar, one conservative legal scholar wrote for The Atlantic, with his unhinged leadership being the result of a decades-long plot by the right that has backfired severely and threatens to fully erode Democracy.Gregg Nunziata is the executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law and previously worked as legal counsel for Senate Republicans. On Monday, he published an extensive new piece for The Atlantic, decrying Trump's new brand of "American Caesarism in nearly full bloom," emulating the rule of the Roman emperor who destroy

President Donald Trump was seemingly the target of an assassination attempt on Saturday — yet millions of Americans believe the event was “staged.”“Trump’s focus on his planned redecoration in the face of an apparent attempt on his life – the third in less than two years — has provoked a barrage of conspiracy theories,” wrote The Telegraph's Ed Cumming on Monday. Mere hours after Cole Thomas Allen allegedly tried to storm the White House Correspondents Dinner to shoot Trump, Trump called a press conference to demand completed construction of his propos

When Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a U.S. senator, he was like a hero to one diplomat who was struck with Havana Syndrome while serving the U.S. in China back in 2018. The New York Post spoke with Mark Lenzi, who has become one of the most prominent victims, saying that he was targeted when he blew the whistle on those who continue to suffer the effects. He said that he faced “negative rumors about his management,” which led to being ostracized at work and made his health problem worse. “As senator,

Todd Blanche, a staunch loyalist to President Donald Trump, could remain in his spot at the head of the Department of Justice without being appointed by Congress, according to Politico, thanks to one sneaky "loophole."Previously serving as Trump's personal lawyer prior to his White House return, Todd Blanche currently serves as the acting Attorney General following the ouster of Pam Bondi earlier in April. Numerous names have been floated as a full-time replacement for Bondi in t

Musician Kid Rock scored a ride at Fort Belvoi,r Virginia on Monday when Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave him a trip on an Apache Helicopters, Army sources told investigative reporter Ryan Grim, who posted about it on X. It has been less than a month since an investigation was launched into military crew members who conducted a low-altitude flyby at Kid Rock's ranch in Nashville. Rock bragged about it on social media, prompting questions about federal resources being allocated for personal use. Grim explained, "Apaches typically have two pilots, but they went up with one so the boys could each ride shotgun, I'm told. Apache helicopters are not stationed at Ft. B

Twelve hours after a gunman tried to attack Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, President Donald Trump used the incident as justification to build his $400 million, 90,000 square-foot ballroom.“What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,” Trump wrote on Sunday.