Month: July 2025

One professor of American studies breaks down the president’s “crude” comments about women.

President Trump is facing his most challenging political moment of his second term, with rough poll numbers and growing furor over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.  Trump saw some of his lowest approval ratings of his second term over the past week, with his net approval in the Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ)…
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House Democrats are ramping up their town-hall blitz in GOP-held districts over the long summer recess. The strategy is not new, but this time they’re armed with a powerful new talking point: President Trump’s refusal to release the federal files related to Jeffrey Epstein.  The Epstein case has rattled Republicans in the White House and…
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The Democratic Party is viewed negatively by 63 percent of American voters — the lowest approval rating of the party in more than 30 years of The Wall Street Journal’s surveys — according to a new poll from the newspaper. The survey found that while voters disapproved of President Trump’s handling of a variety of…
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Terry Moran broke down exactly what’s “deeply wrong” about President Donald Trump’s senior White House aide.

A federal judge on Friday threw out a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to block sanctuary laws in Illinois that limit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. In her ruling, Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins said that the Tenth Amendment, which protects people from federal government overreach, shielded the decision of local law enforcement…
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he was pleased with the decision and the city is safer when police focus on the needs of Chicagoans.

Harry Enten said the president is now “falling through” the “floor” he once set with a key demographic.

Podcaster Andrew Schulz slammed President Trump during a Thursday episode of the Flagrant podcast, criticizing Trump for his handling of multiple controversies. Earlier this week, the president accused former President Obama of influencing the findings in Russiagate while distancing himself from the public’s push for more information on Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal dealings.  “He is rebuking the…
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Eyes were closed, heads were shaking and backs were slapped. The nonverbal cues at the president’s visit to the Federal Reserve are worth another look.

Former Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.), who launched his campaign for Senate in April, is now mulling whether to suspend his campaign and instead enter the race for an open district attorney position in Wake County, two local stations and Semafor reported Friday. A shift from Nickel would open up the Senate field for former Gov.…
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President Trump has called his base “stupid” and “foolish” for inquiring about the Epstein sex trafficking investigation. People still want answers.

The Trump administration has placed two high-ranking officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on leave amid a series of efforts to make cuts at the agency. NOAA spokesperson Kim Doster confirmed in an email that Jeff Dillen, deputy general counsel, and Stephen Volz, acting assistant secretary and assistant administrator for NOAA’s Satellite…
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“Moving people from one street to the next or from the street to jail and back again will not solve this problem,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said.

The new head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in an interview with The New York Times Thursday that the Trump administration will make changes to the visa system for skilled workers and look to make the test for U.S. citizenship more difficult. “The test as it’s laid out right now, it’s not very…
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President Donald Trump drew on a map of a forecast for Hurricane Dorian in 2019. He did it to indicate the storm would go over Alabama. It didn’t.

A third court ruled Friday that President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order cannot go into effect across the country, following the Supreme Court’s decision last month clawing back nationwide injunctions.  U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, an appointee of former President Obama, found that the nationwide injunction he granted to more than a dozen states remains in…
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The president has turned his eyes towards the biggest platform for criticism: the media.

Financial markets finished the week on a high note after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stood his ground against President Trump in a rare joint appearance by the two men Thursday. The S&P 500 finished 0.4 percent up, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 208 points or 0.47 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite…
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.

An attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender and associate of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, said he has not talked to President Trump’s team about a potential pardon for his client. “We’re going to take one day at a time. I know that’s very cliche, but it’s true, because things are happening so…
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Another Trump ally elevated to power, another court order ignored.

“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had a simple response to the furor the often-controversial show stoked this week with an episode showing President Trump in bed with Satan and making fun of what they depicted as the president’s small genitals. “We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said Thursday, holding a deadpan stare as the…
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South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman (R) is expected to file is candidacy Friday to become his state’s next governor. “America has a businessman in the White House, and I believe we need a businessman as Governor of South Carolina,” a statement on Norman’s campaign website reads. “I have a vision for South Carolina – one…
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The singer felt he “had to do something” after this moment hit a nerve.