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Miami New Times reports that an insensitive president is coming to town at the worst of times, and Magic City drivers will be furious.“If you think traffic is bad enough during Miami Music Week and Ultra Music Festival, just wait: it is going to get a lot worse,” wrote Miami New Times reporter Naomi Feinstein.The first day of Ultra is kicking off on Friday at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami and

Trump regret is unquestionably on the rise, but one pollster did not expect it to be so far-reaching that it could have handed the White House to Kamala Harris.G. Elliot Morris, the organizer behind the March 2026 monthly Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, discovered that one out of every eight Trump voters from 2024 has buyer’s remorse. And w

Republicans rode President Donald Trump’s coattails to victory in the House and Senate in 2024, and with control of all three federal elective branches Dispatch Senior Editor Michael Warren says they should’ve owned the place.The southern border is closed, said Warren, and Republicans had big plans under Trump, but nothing they’ve produced since 2024 is going to last, and now the party is virtually circling the drain.“What, exactly, has all of this been for?” asked Warren, a former senior writer with the Weekly Standard. “That question looms over not just the

Former George Bush speechwriter Tim Miller said President Donald Trump has spent his last two terms basking in two very powerful superpowers that have saved him from his every mistake. But Miller told “Jim Acosta Sow” host Jim Acosta Friday that Trump has singlehandedly deep-sixed his own magic within the span of a month.“Trump's superpower through two terms has always been that if something's go

Politicos are quick to point out President Donald Trump’s unpredictability. But what if his randomness isn’t as erratic as believed?“One of the most boring, aggrandizing cliches of our age is that Donald Trump is unpredictable. That, like Cato Fong – the chandelier-swinging martial arts manservant in the Pink Panther movies – Trump can ambush his unsuspecting opponents with a swift karate chop to the nether regions. A perpetual reflex test on the entire world,” said Ipaper writer Emily Maitlis. “But what if Trump is less Cato, more Clouseau? The fumbling French inspector who leaves a

GOP influencer lieutenants are watching the young ground troops that catapulted them to political power evaporate, and they are horrified. However, there appears to be no going back, according to social media posts.Social media’s MAGA-verse is largely comprised of two groups that helped put President Donald Trump back in the White House for his second term in 2024: professional-grade MAGA influencers (some paid by Kremlin sources), and the far larger legion of uninformed low-level grunts who overwhelm media with professional influencers’ talking points.But as Trump betrays the younger MAGA masses’ to-do list — whi

An election expert told a federal judge that the witnesses the FBI relied on during its investigation that led to the seizure of ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, misunderstood elections.Former U.S. Election Assistance Commission official Ryan Macias, “testified that the list of irregularities the FBI identified didn’t represent a crime and that the witnesses the government based their investigation on appeared misinformed,” NBC News reported.The witnesses the FBI cited “use contradictory terminolog

Over the past decade, Joe Rogan has become one of the key media figureheads of the Trump movement. But while he may be hailed by a multitude of Trump supporters, yesterday he had a blunt message for them: MAGA is full of “weird” “dorks.”Rogan’s platform, The Joe Rogan Experience, is the most popular podcast in the world, boasting some 14.5 million followers on Spotify and holding top slots on Apple and Youtube. All told, its massive audience is purported to be 28 times la

At a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, President Donald Trump told a lengthy story about negotiating the creation of a personalized Sharpie pen. The only problem: the company that produces Sharpies denies it ever happened.Theoretically, Trump’s tall tale was an attempt to prove his skill at saving money. It started with complaints about cost overruns tied to the renovation of the Federal Reserve building, but then the pen

The House could vote, and likely pass, the Senate bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but on Friday afternoon, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made it clear he's not going to.Johnson said in a press release that his members won't vote on the bill in its current form. He trashed the Senate for accepting a "radical, crazy agenda." The bill fully funds all of DHS except Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Both of those were already heavily funded through the "Big Beautiful Bill" in 2025.But in a fact-check, CNN made it clear, Johnson has the votes because Democrats are willing to support the Senate bill if they were to vote on it. There are enough Democrats and Republicans willing to sup