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As corrupt Trump ratcheted up his threats to seize Greenland, billionaire Ron Lauder acquired commercial holdings there.
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U.S. Military Strikes a Boat in the Caribbean, Killing 3 The latest attack raised the death toll to at least 180 in the campaign by the United States against people it accuses of smuggling drugs at sea.

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Democrats Eye a Broader Battlefield to Capture Congress in November Weighed down by President Trump’s approval ratings, some Republican incumbents are struggling to raise money while Democrats look for targets like a Tennessee seat south of Nashville.

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Trump fought to block student debt relief. Biden fought to deliver it.

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Behind Donald Trump's bizarre obsession with a 19th century world leader President Donald Trump frequently professes admiration for a different Republican commander in chief, William McKinley, who served from 1897 to 1901. According to a columnist who has studied 19th century America, this fixation reveals a great deal about Trump’s personality and values — none of it encouraging. “At the beginning of 2025, he expressed admiration for William McKinley, the 25th president,” Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times wrote on Sunday. “McKinley had, in Trump’s view, made America great with tariffs and aggressive imperial expansion, including a war with Spain, a war in the Philippines, and the annexation of Guam, Hawaii and Puerto Rico as territories.” Indeed, Bouie pointed out that in his second inaugural address Trump claimed that “President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.” From there the columnist observed that “it is clear that Trump has modeled aspects of his presidency on McKinley. There was the enthusiasm for tariffs that marked his first year, and there is his current enthusiasm for foreign wars and interventions — first Venezuela, then Iran and soon, it seems, Cuba.” Regarding the latter, Bouie quoted Trump saying on Monday that “we may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this.” McKinley, who was elected in a milestone presidential election in 1896, caused a generational realignment for the Republican Party that lasted until Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt prevailed in the 1932 presidential election. He is best known for ushering in the age of American imperialism through the Spanish-American War and imposing high tariffs to reverse the low tariff policies of his predecessor Democrat Grover Cleveland. He also operated at a time when anti-Catholic prejudice was rampant in America, and while McKinley himself was not bigoted against Catholics, Bouie argued that Trump’s rhetoric attacking the Pope is reminiscent of that time period. “What we have, then, are politically powerful American nationalists feuding with and denouncing the pope for any involvement in American politics,” Bouie argued. “Is that you, Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph and noted author of ‘Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States,’ an 1835 text that warned of the political influence of Catholicism? ‘What, then, is the duty of all Americans, all who really love their own free system of government?’ asked Morse. ‘Patriotism equally demands the discouragement, in every lawful way, of the further introduction of popery and popish influence into the country.’” He added, “Even more resonant to our moment is the time, in 1893, when anti-Catholic agitators circulated, in the words of historian John Higham, ‘a bogus encyclical addressed to American Catholics by Pope Leo XIII’ that ‘absolved them of any oaths of loyalty to the United States and instructed them to ‘exterminate all heretics’ on a certain date in September.’” Bouie concluded, “It is darkly funny to see just how much this administration has resurrected the ideas, tropes and preoccupations of an earlier age. If it weren’t so destructive, I would be tempted to laugh.” Speaking to AlterNet last week about Trump’s anti-Pope statements, Christendom College associate professor of history argued the president is playing into a larger history of anti-Catholic sentiment. “Anti-Catholicism is baked into Anglo-American political culture,” Shannon told AlterNet. “During the Revolution, patriot leaders from [future president] John Adams to Thomas Paine repeatedly denounced British oppression in language drawn directly from earlier denunciations of the Catholic Church. For example, in Common Sense, Paine likened monarchy to ‘popery.’”

Behind Donald Trump's bizarre obsession with a 19th century world leader

Harry Keyishian, Lead Plaintiff in Academic Freedom Case, Dies at 92 He was one of 5 University of Buffalo faculty members fired for not signing loyalty oaths. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

Harry Keyishian, Lead Plaintiff in Academic Freedom Case, Dies at 92

Trump's latest scam stuns even his critics President Donald Trump claimed he would “drain the swamp” upon being elected, but a new report on a lavish party to be held at his Mar-a-Lago estate contradicts the promises of reform embedded in that claim: The top 297 investors in his meme coin $Trump will attend an April 25th “conference” at the swanky mansion. “According to the invitation, the top 29 holders of $TRUMP will have a ‘VIP Reception with YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT, and other Superstar guests!’” reported The Daily Beast's Mary Papenfuss on Sunday. “Join the ‘most exclusive crypto and business finance conference in the world,’ the announcement gushes.” Papenfuss added, “The last time the president mixed his crypto business with politics was at another highly controversial crypto fête a year ago at his Virginia golf club, where the top 220 $TRUMP investors gathered. Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren bashed the event as an ‘orgy of corruption.’ Guests spent an average of $1.37 million (in real dollars) purchasing $TRUMP, the Daily Beast reported at the time.” Notably the earlier dinner, which netted an average investment of $1.37 million per guest, had among its guests the crypto billionaire Justin Sun who has been accused of SEC market manipulation — allegations that were quietly dropped by the Trump administration shortly before he attended. Furthering accusations that Trump is providing favors to those who pay him or his administration, he launched one billion $TRUMP coins three days before his inauguration, collecting a transaction fee on every trade as well as on the coins he directly sells. “It is essential that Congress fully understand the extent to which President Trump and his family are profiting off of his cryptocurrency ventures," Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Adam Schiff of California. Indeed, Trump’s generosity to the crypto community has even been at the expense of other crime victims. Earlier this month, The Trace released a report which revealed that the Crime Victims Fund, which was created by the 1984 Crime Victims Act to fund "state and local programs including domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers and child abuse treatment programs,” has been effectively defunded by Trump. This is because the program is funded primarily by “criminal fines and penalties from convictions in federal cases, typically white-collar prosecutions." Yet his pardons have removed $113 million that would have gone to the fund, with most of the lost money occurring due to a single crypto pardon. "Most of that figure is from a single case," The Trace report explained. "Last year, Trump pardoned HDR Global Trading Limited, the owner and operator of the crypto exchange BitMEX, which had been ordered to pay $100m in fines for flouting anti-money laundering laws. Trump issued the pardon, the first for a corporation, just hours before the payment was due. Because the pardon calls for the 'remission of any and all fines, penalties, forfeitures, and restitution ordered by the Court,' that $100m will never make it to the Crime Victims Fund." Steve Derene, a co-founder of the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators who helped craft the original 1984 bill, told The Trace that “what really drives the fund are these very large, very few cases, which are all corporate cases. Just a couple settlements can really mean the difference in keeping this fund afloat.”

Trump's latest scam stuns even his critics

DOJ demands Detroit-area 2024 ballots, escalating election scrutiny DOJ official Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote that she is seeking ballots to investigate election law compliance. Democratic state officials call the request baseless.

DOJ demands Detroit-area 2024 ballots, escalating election scrutiny

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Trump screamed for hours after learning jet was shot down — fearing Jimmy Carter repeat President Donald Trump is desperate to avoid the historical fate of President Jimmy Carter, whose administration is remembered for struggling with a bad economy and a hostile Iran. “It was Good Friday afternoon in a nearly empty West Wing soon after the president learned that an American jet had been shot down in Iran, with two airmen missing. Trump screamed at aides for hours,” reported The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey. “The Europeans aren’t helping, he said repeatedly. Gas prices averaged $4.09. Images of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis—one of the biggest international policy failures of a presidency in recent times—had been looming large in his mind, people who have spoken to him said.” The reporters quoted Trump saying in March about Carter's Democratic Party that “if you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election. What a mess.” The current president was referring to how his predecessor was not able to free 52 Americans held as hostages by Iran until the very end of his administration, even losing US helicopters and servicemen during a failed rescue attempt. “Speaking to Republican lawmakers in Doral, Fla., a little over a week into the [Iran] war, Trump ticked through Democratic presidents who oversaw foreign policy debacles, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden,” The Wall Street Journal reported. He then dwelled on Carter’s failed attempt to rescue U.S. hostages held by the same Iranian regime he was bombing. Speaking with AlterNet, historian Rick Perlstein — whose 2020 book “Reaganland” chronicled Carter’s single term as president and how it laid the foundations for the empowerment of the far right through Ronald Reagan’s victory in the 1980 election — explained that to the extent Carter can be compared to Trump, the analogy consistently redounds to Carter’s favor… despite the Democrat’s shortcomings as a president. "Carter was very self-aware when it came to questions of humility,” Perlstein told AlterNet. I'm not saying he was humble—in fact, he had a very paradoxical relationship to humility—but he also understood his greatest flaw. He prayed for humility. He talks about how, when he prays, he prays for more humility. So I think that he had this kind of self-awareness that is 1000% different from Trump." Carter himself seemed to agree that Trump was an inferior president. Speaking to this author for Salon in 2018, Carter said that “I think that under Trump the government is worse than it has been before. This is the first time I remember when the truth is ignored, allies are deliberately aggravated, China, Europe, Mexico and Canada are hurt economically and have to hurt us in response, Americans see the future worse than the present, and immigrants are treated cruelly." After Carter died in late 2024, Trump refused to keep the flags at half-staff to honor his passing, as is traditional. Even though First Lady Melania Trump devoted part of her documentary to attending Carter’s memorial service, neither she nor the president discussed Carter’s legacy at all. When AlterNet reached out to the White House for comment on this story, they declined to reply.

Trump screamed for hours after learning jet was shot down — fearing Jimmy Carter repeat

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Liar Trump claims there was “no inflation” during his first term.

Reality check: consumer prices rose about 8% from the first day of his term to the last day, with an inflation rate of 2.46%.

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Trump's "Big Ugly Bill" benefits the rich & powerful at the expense of working families.

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The dirty secret Europe's far right doesn't want Trump to know President Donald Trump has done his best to curry the favor of Europe’s far right, but after seeing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán go down to humiliating defeat despite Trump’s support, the far right now wants to put daylight between itself and America’s leader. “President Donald Trump’s offensive behavior toward Christians and his unnecessary and unpopular war in Iran isn’t just splitting his political base at home — it’s also alienating his allies abroad,” wrote MS NOW’s Zeeshan Aleem on Sunday. “Right-wing nationalists in Europe are becoming more and more wary of association with Trump and growing inclined to keep him at a distance to protect their own political projects. The trend marks a blow to Trump’s aspirations of creating an international bloc of right-wing nationalist states that work in concert to quash the left.” Aleem ticked off a number of prominent Italian conservatives who are denouncing Trump including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a number of German lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany party, Romania’s European Parliament member Diana Sosoaca and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Their criticisms have ranged from his meddling in European domestic politics, his invasion of Iran and his attacks on Pope Leo XIV. “Those bold criticisms speak to how incredibly damaging Trump’s war on Iran has been for his standing within his movement,” Aleem observed. “The surge in global oil prices is politically radioactive; far-right leaders and parties in Europe affiliated with Trump risk becoming associated with the energy crisis unless they take steps to create distance from him.” Indeed, as recently as last week, the United Kingdom’s Brexit champion Nigel Farage downplayed his relationship with Trump, who he once said was ushering in “the beginning of a golden age,” by instead saying “I happen to know him, but that’s by the by.” Overall, this pattern speaks to how Trump’s brash approach to governance has alienated America’s European allies. “Trump, for so many people, epitomizes the ugly American — somebody who is bumptious and vulgar and ignorant about foreign cultures,” former Time Magazine editor Rick Stengel said in a recent podcast appearance on The Bulwark with former Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon on Sunday. “So I think people sort of have come to the end of their patience with America.” Ironically, Trump has aggressively courted the European far right as his natural ideological allies. Trump appointee Susan B. Rogers was selected as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in large part to ingratiate herself to the far right, such as by describing German migrants as “barbarian rapist hordes,” falsely claiming Sweden’s immigration policy has caused sexual violence (“If your government cared about ‘women’s safety,’ it would have a different migration policy”) and incorrectly stating that “advocates of unlimited third world immigration have long controlled a disproportionate share of official knowledge production.” Rogers even met with members of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party, which espouses an ideology widely perceived as neo-Nazi.

The dirty secret Europe's far right doesn't want Trump to know

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Europe is doing something Trump’s angry rhetoric didn’t account for: report President Donald Trump’s belligerent rhetoric toward America’s allies may please his domestic political base, but it is harming America’s international standing — perhaps permanently. “Trump, for so many people, epitomizes the ugly American — somebody who is bumptious and vulgar and ignorant about foreign cultures,” former Time Magazine editor Rick Stengel said in a recent podcast appearance on The Bulwark with former Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon. “So I think people sort of have come to the end of their patience with America.” Avlon replied to Stengel by noting that polls found presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who engaged in positive diplomatic relationships with other countries, were far more popular than the bellicose Trump. Indeed, Stengel noted that America’s foreign standing has “plummeted” during Trump’s two terms. “It always seemed absurd to me when Trumpists would say that we need to be respected on the world stage, when you could see in the data that America was not respected — was held in worse regard when Trump was president, even than Chinese president-for-life Xi,” Avlon told Stengel. “So I wonder now with Iran, though — we seem to have crossed a Rubicon, because it was a war of choice, because our allies are not with us. And tell me about the downstream effect of that as you see it.” Stengel added that, even though Joe Biden tried to reverse the damage to America’s reputation caused by Trump’s first term, America’s allies were not convinced that Biden would remain in power long enough to keep those policies in place. Trump’s reelection in 2024 confirmed their fears. “This seesaw in presidential politics is something that people don't really understand,” Stengel told Avlon. “And then this Iran thing — by the way, what was probably most popular about Trump on the world stage was his sort of isolationism: that this isn't about America invading foreign countries and this world of endless wars, that America would retrench globally in terms of militaries but increase their presence globally in terms of trade and globalization. In some ways, it's the exact opposite. The alliances are also part of this idea of soft power, because — and I hate that phrase we used to use — we're not the world's policemen. We weren't the world's policemen, but we were the kind of foundation of the global world order, that people could trust America to abide by the rule of law, to be a pretty fairly honest broker. Not to say we wouldn't do bad things, but that is completely out the window.” He concluded, “And the kind of ‘America First’ which has now actually caused it to get into a war is something that makes us much more isolated and much less popular, to an extraordinary extent.” In February the New York Times reported that Trump’s imperialist rhetoric toward Denmark about acquiring Greenland and his conquest of Venezuela had convinced America’s European allies to decouple their most valuable financial and digital assets from American corporations. His tariffs have similarly prompted talk among Europeans of a permanent “divorce” from the US, with a senior European official telling Politico that “there is a shift in U.S. policy and in many ways it is permanent. Waiting it out is not a solution. What needs to be done is an orderly and coordinated movement to a new reality.”

Europe is doing something Trump’s angry rhetoric didn’t account for: report

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term.

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

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The corrupt Trump regime uses political violence to try to force states to hand over state voter ID rolls & drop legal challenges.

The regime needs elections that still look real, but are a rigged farce. The outcome already decided before anyone votes.

Charlie Kirk’s murder has changed how your campaign donations are spent When conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated last year, President Donald Trump and his supporters vowed that his death would change things. In at least one tragic sense, this has been true — politicians are now spending campaign money on personal security. “Since the assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, more than 15 states have passed laws or approved rule changes allowing lawmakers to access campaign funds for personal security, a sign of growing concern about political violence in America,” Politico’s Natalie Fertig reported on Sunday. Since the start of 2026 Alabama, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota and Utah altered their policies so that state lawmakers can use campaign funds for personal security, while states like Tennessee are discussing similar laws. “The suspect in Hortman’s killing, Vance Boelter, is facing federal murder charges, and authorities said he allegedly confessed in a letter in which he recounted a confusing and convoluted scheme to punish Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz,” Fertig wrote. “Boelter has pleaded not guilty. In Kirk’s killing, the suspect, Tyler Robinson, allegedly inscribed bullet casings with anti-fascist phrases and meme-culture phrases. A preliminary hearing in his case is scheduled to start this month.” The newfound vigilance is not limited to politicians; even political activists have to be on their guard. Turning Point USA head Erika Kirk pulled out of a University of Georgia speaking event, where she would have been joined by Vice President JD Vance, because of “serious threats.” “I take my security team’s recommendations extremely seriously,” Kirk explained in a post on X, with Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet adding the threats against Kirk were “a terrible reflection on the state of reality and the state of our country.” Trump himself has been accused of inciting violence against politicians who disagree with him. When he accused Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of “domestic terrorism” for disagreeing with him, former Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division attorney Julia Gegenheimer told Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern that Trump’s rhetoric is designed to harm the Minnesota Democrats. "It is profoundly disturbing. And the reason why this feels different to you is that it is a bit of a different flavor," Gegenheimer said. "It’s pitting the federal government against the states and creating tension where it doesn’t need to be. And frankly, it’s implicitly encouraging acts of political violence against these elected officials by turning them into the enemy." Indeed, Trump has issued subpoenas against Walz, Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. "We’ve seen this throughout history, even recent history: When you put people in opposition like that — when you portray them as the enemy, when you describe them as kind of threatening a person’s way of life or things that they hold dear — that creates the conditions under which people are more likely to resort to political violence, and it becomes more and more the norm," Gegenheimer explained. Speaking with this journalist for Salon in 2024, New School for Social Research history department chair and author of "A Brief History of Fascist Lies" Federico Finchelstein explained that Trump and his supporters engage in a "kind of dissonance between what Trump is saying and what is going on. And this has been the case with totalitarians and fascists for decades, that they say stuff that doesn't connect to reality." He described as “shocking” "the idea that the person that has promoted violence through rhetoric, and even sometimes the glorification of that violence, the idea that that person can complain about the 'rhetorical violence' of his enemies.” Finchelstein then added that Trump "does this kind of thing again and again, and that's why he reminds us of [Nazi Germany dictator Adolf] Hitler." The former and possibly future president "follows Hitler's playbook in projecting onto his enemies all his desires, fantasies, and aspirations. This includes, of course, as he said, 'retribution' and violence." In response to Finchelstein’s comment to Salon, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Salon that "it's been less 72 hours since the second assassination attempt [by Ryan Wesley Routh] on President Trump's life and the media is already back to comparing President Trump to Hitler. It's disgusting. This is why Americans have zero trust in the liberal mainstream media."

Charlie Kirk’s murder has changed how your campaign donations are spent

The 'wild card': Trump may have a good reason to fear Melania President Donald Trump may fear his own wife, First Lady Melania Trump, as she navigates the fallout of her longtime friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein. “Why had the presser been called?” wrote The Independent’s Sarah Beth Spraggins about the first lady’s surprising April 9th press conference. “There have been growing rumors that Paolo Zampolli – the modeling agent Melania credits with encouraging her to move to the United States – may have used his ties to the Trumps to have his ex-partner Amanda Ungaro deported.” If true, this detail would fill in a lot of blanks in a life that has remained mysterious. Melania Trump is widely known to spend most of her time in New York City despite listing her legal residence as Palm Beach, Florida, and she has deliberately avoided providing details about her childhood or career. Even her documentary “Melania,” released earlier this year (and directed by Epstein associate Brett Ratner), avoided any of those subjects. “She is the First Lady of the United States and nobody knows anything about her,” Michael Wolff, the journalist engaged in a lawsuit with Melania Trump that may have inspired the April 9th press conference, told The Independent. He also expressed doubt that Melania Trump has any empathy for Epstein’s victims. “Zero, zero! My God!” Wolff replied. “I mean, you know, she has never shown an ounce of empathy toward anyone, ever. That is a cold, calculating, hollow person. That is the portrait.” At the same time, because of the increasing attention on the Epstein files (and her litigation against those who attempt to shed light on her involvement with him), Melania Trump clearly feels a need to protect herself. With that in mind, Spraggins asked Wolff if the president is afraid of his own first lady. “Well, I would be,” Wolff replied. “So who knows what he is. But I certainly would be. I think that she’s a wild card, if not, to switch metaphors, a loose cannon.” Melania Trump is accused of using her influence with the White House to help Zampolli get Ungaro deported to Brazil so he could prevail in a custody dispute. As former President George W. Bush aide Steve Schmidt recently pointed out, “Melania claims it was Zampolli who introduced her to her soulmate at the Kit Kat Klub in Manhattan in 1998. That’s the story at least. Ungaro came to the United States via airplane at age 16 or 17 from Brazil. She arrived via private jet.” In addition to the Ungaro theory, Wolff speculated at the time of the press conference that the first lady was reacting to an upcoming book linking the Trumps to the former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor by historian Andrew Lownie. “A new book was published yesterday in the US and UK, entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of The House of York,’” Wolff posted on X. “It's by a British journalist by the name of Andrew Lownie, and it's about the life of Prince Andrew. But it is also about his connection to Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Melania Trump.” Wolff added, “In fact, it contains a passage in which Epstein is quoted — apparently from a 2007 interview — where he says that he had sex with Melania a full year before Donald Trump commenced his relationship with her.” In addition to his wife’s links to Epstein, Trump himself was close friends with Epstein from the 1980s through the 2000s, when their friendship fell apart due to an unsuccessful business deal.

The 'wild card': Trump may have a good reason to fear Melania

Trump won't shut up about his ballroom — even when it's wildly inappropriate President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is unpopular with voters, but despite their opposition, Trump has mentioned it more than supposed policy priorities like health care, cheaper prescription drugs and affordability. “Trump has invoked the ballroom on about a third of the days this year, according to a Washington Post analysis of his public remarks and social media posts, a pace that rivals and even exceeds his mentions of some major policy priorities,” wrote Clara Ence Morse and Dan Diamond on Monday. “He has mentioned the project on fewer days this year than topics such as tariffs and Iran but on about as many days as he has mentioned health insurance and ‘affordability.’” They added that Trump has mentioned the ballroom “significantly” more often than his TrumpRx website, “which his administration introduced to help Americans shop for cheaper prescription drugs.” Morse and Diamond add that Trump has paid more attention to public statements about the ballroom as 2026 has dragged on, particularly as various legal challenges have impeded its progress. “In April, for instance, the president has issued more posts about the ballroom on his Truth Social platform than about tariffs — Trump’s signature economic policy,” Morse and Diamond explained. “On Thursday, the president took to Truth Social to complain about the federal judge who ordered a stop to the project until Trump receives congressional authorization, complain again about the judge, complain about the plaintiff, and then complain about the judge one more time — yielding nearly 800 words of invective, all told. Then, within minutes, Trump shared all four posts again.” While one might assume that a politician would lean into an issue like the White House ballroom because it redounds to their political credit, The Washington Post noted that this is hardly the case here. “The project is broadly unpopular,” Morse and Diamond explained. “Fifty-eight percent of Americans said they opposed tearing down the East Wing to build the ballroom, according to an Economist-YouGov poll in February. Trump’s political advisers have encouraged him to focus on topics such as lowering the cost of health care ahead of this year’s midterms.” Indeed, when the White House compiled a 9,000-page book of public comments about the ballroom, they were almost unanimously negative. The complaints included "complete DISASTER,” an “eyesore,” an “abomination,” "NO GAUDY FAKE GOLD STUFF ALL OVER THE PLACE,” “no one wants to be in an adjunct building in a large crowd with lengthened security protocols” and “appalling.” When denying the White House’s desire to build the ballroom, Judge Richard Leon (who was appointed by Trump’s fellow Republican president, George W. Bush) declared that “the President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!” Rejecting Trump’s claim to preexisting authority to destroy parts of the White House, Leon sided with the National Trust for Historic Preservation that there is almost certainly “no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have. As such, I must therefore GRANT the National Trust's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, and the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.” Leon added, “unless and until Congress blesses this project through statutory authorization, construction has to stop!" The ballroom is being constructed over the ruins of the White House East Wing, which Trump destroyed without permission. The Republican also announced he would rip out the Thomas Jefferson-installed Tennessee Flagstone pavers with black granite.

Trump won't shut up about his ballroom — even when it's wildly inappropriate

Trump celebrates poll win over critics — but the numbers tell a different story Massachusetts local news Mass Live reports President Donald Trump is taking a victory lap over a state poll showing respondents approve of him more than one of his latest critics, MAGA podcaster Tucker Carlson. “Only 31 percent of Republicans had a favorable view of the former Fox News host in the UMass Lowell poll, compared to 24 percent who viewed him unfavorably,” reports Mass Live. That same poll showed 77 percent of Republicans and 3 percent of Democrats indicating a favorable view of Trump. Trump was quick to suggest why. “It’s easy! Tucker is a Low IQ person - Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!! So are Megyn Kelly,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “‘Candace’(Really Dumb and mentally ill!), and Bankrupt Alex Jones, who is completely ‘fried.’” “There are others, also!” Trump added. “Then we have some that are VERY GOOD, true MAGA all the way, and smart. I should do a list of good, bad, and somewhere in the middle. Wouldn’t that be fascinating???” Trump’s targets in the rent also included MAGA blogger Candace Owens, who responded to his taunting saying: “It may be time to put Grandpa up in a home.” Another Trump MAGA target, Alex Jones responded by calling Trump “a rotting husk” of his former self. The number of exclamation points in Trump’s post suggest the president considered the poll results a much welcomed boost after all the bad surveys dogging him and showing him underwater with nearly every demographic, except for a shrinking pool of dedicated Republican loyalists. But even that poll was far from good news for Trump, reports Mass Live. Just 39 percent of 1,000 respondents said they approved of the president’s job performance. And 57 percent said they believed their lives had become somewhat or much more difficult over the past six months. Additionally, that same poll identified that 65 percent of respondents believed the U.S. is spending too much on Trump’s war with Iran, and an overwhelming majority — 87 percent — support pursuing criminal investigations of American individuals named in the Epstein files. Trump’s name peppers the Epstein files, with more than 38,000 total references through the documents.

Trump celebrates poll win over critics — but the numbers tell a different story

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term.

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

We analyzed Trump’s public remarks. His White House ballroom is a top priority. The president has publicly highlighted his White House ballroom project on roughly a third of the days this year, a Washington Post analysis found.

We analyzed Trump’s public remarks. His White House ballroom is a top priority.

In Angola, love for an American pope but not for an American president In Luanda, Catholics expressed love and admiration for Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, but not so much for President Trump because of the war in Iran.

In Angola, love for an American pope but not for an American president