Month: August 2025

NewsNation’s Leland Vittert and pundit Medhi Hasan sparred on Monday night after the progressive commentator mentioned the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack during a debate on President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington. “Trump cares about crime in D.C.? Really?” Hasan asked while appearing on NewsNation’s “On Balance, adding, “Because I remember Donald Trump on…
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UFC chief Dana White said the league is planning a cage fight, which will likely be broadcast on CBS, on the White House grounds. “That is going to happen,” White told a columnist for the Wall Street Journal when asked about the prospect of a UFC fight at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. His comment came just hours…
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The bill, first obtained by HuffPost, takes aim at a law allowing visa holders and legal residents to be deported if the secretary of state thinks they’re a foreign policy threat.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday said former President Clinton’s alleged ties to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein should be uncovered during his testimony before members of Congress. “Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island and we’ve all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent…
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President Trump is touting the “great nominees” who are poised to be announced for what he’s dubbing the “Kennedy Center Awards,” teasing that his name could possibly replace that of the 35th president on the historic institution. “GREAT Nominees for the TRUMP/KENNEDY CENTER, whoops, I mean, KENNEDY CENTER, AWARDS,” Trump wrote in a Tuesday post on Truth…
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European Union (EU) leaders are urging President Trump to defend their security interests while insisting that a ceasefire in Eastern Europe cannot be struck without Ukraine’s involvement. The pressure comes ahead of the highly anticipated summit between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska later this week. Leaders of all EU nations, apart from…
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Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are planning to bring survivors of abuse by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to the Capitol. Khanna and Massie announced that the survivors will join them at a press conference the morning of Sept. 3, the day that the House…
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Democrat Pete Buttigieg accused President Trump of using his sweeping anti-crime crusade in the nation’s capital as a distraction from other issues he has faced early in his second White House term. “The president is doing this not in order to make the city safer — that’s the job of local law enforcement — but…
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Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Monday that President Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops in the nation’s capital could backfire, citing the soldiers’ lack of experience with community policing.  “Even the most tactically astute, highly trained FBI agents, those who serve on swat teams. I know this as a former swat team…
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The GOP House Oversight chairman might want to take back a few words he said about the former president.

Former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin weighed in on President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington to help curb crime rates, suggesting that he is trying to “goad Democrats.” “He thinks the nation‘s capital should represent the best of America. But I think he‘s also doing something that Trump is very good…
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President Trump reoriented the full force of the federal government to focus on fighting crime and beautifying Washington, D.C., putting the city on edge as it waits to see how that plays out and putting other Democratic cities on notice. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called his actions “unprecedented.” “We have other cities also that are…
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Monday evening that President Trump’s unusual agreement with major chipmakers Nvidia and AMD to share some of their revenue from chip sales in China is “not a good deal.”  “We’ve got to realize we’re in an intellectual war, a technology war with China, and we’re in an AI [artificial intelligence]…
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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro warned Monday night that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in the Washington was “just the beginning,” characterizing the crime rates in the nation’s capital as “horrific.” “President Trump has rightfully declared an emergency crisis of crime and deployed the National Guard, the ATF, the…
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Social Security is a vital source of income for millions of Americans, but after 90 years, the program faces significant financial challenges that could reshape it for future generations. If Congress fails to act, retirees could see their monthly checks cut by 23 percent in less than a decade — slashing thousands of dollars from…
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In today’s issue: ▪ Trump: Cities beyond DC could see federal policing  ▪ US extends China tariff deadline ▪ Democrats allege DOJ, FBI weaponization ▪  Zelensky vies for influence at Trump-Putin summit  Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Close Thank you for signing up!…
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Disdain for Washington is the birthright of every American, indeed the entire English-speaking world.  In his two-volume travelogue, “North America,” English novelist Anthony Trollope described the still-incomplete city he found in 1861 “as melancholy and miserable a town as the mind of man can conceive.” He paints a picture of a transient, small city with…
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The Trump administration is working overtime to pressure people into abandoning their legal rights and leaving the United States on their own.

“The Tonight Show” host zinged hard at the president after the comedian endured his own controversy recently.

The comedian spotted exactly how the president has “got a point” about crime in the nation’s capital.

The “Late Night” host mocked the president for having no shame in rolling out “made-up numbers.”

President Trump has endorsed Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R) in the Peach State’s gubernatorial race. “Highly Respected and very popular Lieutenant Governor, Burt Jones, is running to be the next Governor of the Great State of Georgia, a very special place to me in that we had a BIG Presidential Election Win just eight…
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E.J. Antoni, economist at the Heritage Foundation, has been critical of how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects data.

The European Union, Japan and other trading partners have agreed to lopsided trade deals with Trump, accepting once unthinkably U.S. high tariffs.

Harry Enten flagged how the saga has become “something of a nothingburger” among Americans.