Month: August 2025

President Trump said Tuesday that the name for his “big, beautiful” megabill, which he signed in July, is “not good for explaining to people what it’s all about.” “So the bill that — I’m not going to use the term, ‘great, big, beautiful,’ that was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for…
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An unnamed editor at the magazine told the Daily Mail they “will walk out the motherf**king door” if the first lady is featured.

The famously superficial president insisted he doesn’t like commenting on appearances… right after mocking a top Democrat’s looks.

Cracker Barrel is reversing course, announcing Tuesday that it would scrap the new logo it introduced after facing backlash over the rebrand.  “We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain,” the…
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The president signed an order potentially expanding the National Guard’s role in domestic law enforcement.

“We said we would listen, and we have,” the restaurant chain said in a statement Tuesday. “Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain.”

“We’re seeing the arson of our government,” warned Max Stier of Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking people’s lost jobs since January.

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“So the line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime,” the president said Tuesday. “So a lot of people say, you know, ‘If that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.’”

The POTUS’s comments came after he publicly railed at the pop star on many occasions.

President Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook raised a host of questions over the unprecedented nature of his decision. Chief among them is whether the allegations he cited reach the standard of cause needed to oust her — and to win that fight legally. The president alleged Cook committed…
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Trump’s move prompted some of his most loyal supporters to question his decision.

Longtime Republican operative Karl Rove said on Tuesday that crime is a “big problem” for the Democratic Party and warned that some within the party, including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, don’t understand how their posture on the issue hurts the party’s “label.”  “This is a big problem for the Democrats. The Democrats…
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President Trump has threatened to send National Guard troops into more American cities after deploying soldiers in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles this year.  He’s highlighted Baltimore and Chicago as cities in particular need of help fighting crime, though Monday he appeared to back off his threat to unilaterally deploy the National Guard into cities…
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Former national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday he will not be intimidated by the withdrawal of his security detail, which was revoked by President Trump in January.  The measure followed an Iranian plot on his life uncovered by federal officials.  “I feel … concerned about that, more than anything else,” Bolton said of losing…
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Alaska Archbishop Alexei said he was sorry to “those who have experienced pain, suffering, or confusion because of my actions.”

A majority of Americans said in a new survey that tariffs and inflation are erasing their hard work.  WalletHub’s poll, which was released on Tuesday, found that 55 percent of U.S. adults think that inflation and tariffs are negating their work.  President Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners went into effect earlier…
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(NEXSTAR) — An executive order signed Monday calls for the Justice Department to “vigorously prosecute those who desecrate” the American flag, sparking bipartisan pushback. It has also led to questions about what consequences you may face if you’ve been found to have “desecrated” the flag. Within hours of President Donald Trump signing the order, a…
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Her hiring at the Department of Homeland Security comes amid reports that Trump’s administration has met with several other election conspiracy theorists in recent months.

A former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who served in the first Trump administration recalled private conversations in which President Trump admired the ability of foreign dictators to “exert total control” over their constituents. Miles Taylor, the former DHS deputy chief of staff who criticized Trump in his first term, said in a Tuesday…
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s on track to identify “interventions” that are “certainly causing autism” and possible ways of addressing them by September. In April, Kennedy vowed to find the cause of growing rates of autism, calling it an “epidemic” that “dwarfs the COVID epidemic.” President Trump asked…
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President Trump on Tuesday said Russian officials questioning the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were just “posturing” as part of peace negotiations. “It doesn’t matter what they say,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting. “Everybody’s posturing. It’s all bulls‑‑‑-.” Asked for his assessment, special envoy Steve Witkoff, who has met with Russian President Vladimir…
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The exemption allowing some low-value imports to enter the U.S. duty-free is set to expire on Friday.  President Trump penned an executive order last month suspending the so-called de minimis tax exemption rule for goods coming into the country that are worth $800 or less.  The executive order has resulted in national postal services from…
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Top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden (Ore.) blasted the DOGE cost-cutting panel following a whistleblower report that alleged Americans’ financial and personal information was put on an unsecured cloud server. He called it “a clear example of how the Trump administration is playing fast and loose with Americans’ most sensitive personal information.” …
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) knocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday over his recent social media trolling of President Trump, saying the Democrat should focus on solving problems back at home rather than being “cheeky” with the president. During an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity,” host Sean Hannity asked DeSantis whether he’d be…
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