Month: August 2025

President Trump on Thursday slammed The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board for routinely criticizing his trade policy with “China-centric” rhetoric. “The reason that The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is always negative on ‘TRUMP,’ and the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars we’re bringing into our Country through Tariffs, numbers that the U.S.A. has never seen…
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The POTUS also attacked the “Crooked, Radical Left Judges” in his heated message.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he would not initiate trade talks with President Trump after U.S. tariffs on Brazilian goods spiked to 50 percent on Wednesday. “The day my intuition says Trump is ready to talk, I won’t hesitate to call him,” Lula told Reuters from his presidential residence.  “But today my…
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The president had special words for the trio of veterans who sent Trump their medals after the 2024 shooting in Butler. Trump said the trio, “showed me the same unbelievable gesture of kindness.”

In an executive order, the president told the Labor Department to loosen its guidance on putting crypto in workers’ retirement accounts.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday suggested Democrats should add two states to the country and expand the Supreme Court in order to “save democracy.” “They are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and District of Columbia as states… They’re just going to have to do it. And they may have…
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New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani heavily criticized reported moves by President Trump regarding the mayoral race. “Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on,”…
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The petition comes after an appeals court refused to lift the temporary restraining order restricting what factors authorities can use to make stops and arrests in Los Angeles.

The Supplemental Security Income program is stuck in a petty tug-of-war between administrations.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to lift a judge’s limits on “roving” immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.  A federal judge last month ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were conducting raids that likely ran afoul of constitutional protections against unreasonable seizures.  The limits prohibit ICE from relying on…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to begin using a Texas military base to detain individuals who immigrated to the U.S. illegally on Aug. 17. The El Paso area site, Fort Bliss, is still being developed and will initially receive 1,000 detainees, according to the Department of Defense.  Over the next two years, officials…
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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order tightening control of the federal grant funding process, requiring political appointees to sign off on each grant. The order directs each agency head to designate a senior appointee who will be responsible for creating a process to review grant opportunity announcements and to ensure any grants awarded…
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The refurbishment of a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will cost around $10 million over a roughly two-year period, according to an Army official.  The monument, which was taken down two years ago, will have a new base and panels that would share historical context, an Army official, speaking on condition of anonymity amid…
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President Trump signed Thursday an executive order taking aim at alleged discrimination against conservatives by large banks, directing regulators to investigate and punish financial institutions for “politicized or unlawful debanking.”  Conservatives have long complained that they have been unfairly treated by the banking system, a cause taken up by Trump in his second term.  “Financial…
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The Treasury Department sanctioned 18 entities and individuals tied to revenue generating efforts for Iran on Thursday in an effort to block the foreign government from evading previous economic restrictions implemented by the United States.   “These sanctions target how Iran has engineered banking schemes and alternate payment messaging systems specifically designed to bypass sanctions…
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Trump’s attempts to appease the public on the scandal around the Epstein files are coalescing into a strategy.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday apologized and said he’d pulled down pieces of a previous podcast tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s dealings after legal pushback from first lady Melania Trump.  “After the episode, we received a letter from Melania Trump’s lawyer. He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from…
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President Trump on Thursday afternoon is hosting an event at the White House to honor Purple Heart Day — a day dedicated to the memory of veterans who have been wounded or killed on the battlefield. “The Purple Heart is one of our nation’s highest, but most solemn military honors — recognizing those who have performed an act…
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People loved how the former transportation secretary trashed Donald Trump for “appointing incompetent people over very important things in our lives.”

A Texas Senate committee advanced a new GOP-friendly House map Thursday as Republicans look to quickly move forward in both chambers with passing new congressional lines that would give the Republicans several pickup opportunities ahead of 2026.  In a 6-1 vote, the Texas Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting advanced an identical set of congressional…
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Vice President JD Vance also denied reports of any Epstein strategy meeting.

The MSNBC host argued Wednesday’s announcement of new tariffs was, as “every Trump meeting” is now, a distraction from his ties to the late sex offender.

Texas State Rep. Gene Wu (D) on Thursday said Democratic lawmakers would return to the state when their GOP colleagues stop pushing a vote to gain five additional House seats before the 2026 midterm elections. “Our group is committed to ending this corrupt special session. Whether that’s a week, whether that’s two weeks, I don’t…
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Economist and Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Thursday noted how many of the most dire predictions about President Trump’s tariffs have not come to fruition, as new rates on dozens of countries took effect. “All the gloom and doom, tariff inflation, tariff recession, tariff catastrophe, none of that has happened, OK? And in fact,…
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Fox News has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the network by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over its coverage of a call President Trump said he had with the Democrat as the two politicians fought about immigration enforcement. Newsom’s suit, filed in June, alleges the network defamed him when prime-time host Jesse…
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