Month: August 2025

On July 5, 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that he had “no idea who is behind Project 2025,” the nearly 900-page manifesto published in April 2023 by the conservative Heritage Foundation for use by “the next conservative president” to reshape the federal government. Trump went on to say that…
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President Trump argued Republicans are “entitled” to pick up five additional House seats in Texas as state GOP officials try to advance a new congressional district map ahead of next year’s midterms.  Trump said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Tuesday that other Democratic states like California, Illinois and Massachusetts are already significantly gerrymandered,…
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Ken Martin will give remarks to reporters Tuesday morning, as the redistricting fight in Texas shines light on Democrats’ efforts to expand the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The duo will be joined by a group of Texas Democrats that fled to Illinois as the…
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The ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is forcing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to transmit to Congress agreements reached with the governments of Costa Rica and Panama for accepting deported migrants, including asylum seekers, vulnerable women and children.  In a letter sent last week, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) invoked a 2023 federal law that…
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Super Bowl champion Saquon Barkley said Monday he would not join President Trump’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.  “A couple months ago, it was brought to my team about the council. So, I’m not really too familiar with it,” Barkley said during a press conference. “I felt like I am going to be super busy,…
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MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough tore into President Trump and his attorney general Pam Bondi over her opening of a grand jury investigation into how Obama administration officials handled intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election. “It’s extraordinarily stupid on so many counts,” Scarborough said. “If you look at the timeline, the timeline doesn’t add…
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The MSNBC host delivered an ominous monologue Monday about President Donald Trump’s administration.

President Trump attacked CBS News anchor Gayle King in a Truth Social post late Monday. “Gayle King’s career is over. She should have stayed with her belief in TRUMP. She never had the courage to do so,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. “No talent, no ratings, no strength.” The president shared a link…
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Monday evening pushed back on claims she is too combative to be a governor, just hours after the GOP lawmaker launched her gubernatorial campaign. “In fact, these fights are worth fighting for, whether we’re talking about illegal immigration or men in women’s spaces or, in my case, in the state…
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Attorneys for President Trump and Rupert Murdoch have agreed to delay a deposition Trump’s team wants the media mogul to sit for as part of the president’s lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal. Trump’s legal team last month asked for Murdoch, whose News Corp aquired the Journal in 2007, to sit for a speedy deposition…
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President Trump trails progressive stalwarts Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in favorability polling, according to a new survey conducted by Gallup.  The poll, which was released Tuesday morning, found that among 14 prominent figures, Trump’s net favorable rating was minus 16 points, with 41 percent of respondents having a favorable view…
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Trump last week reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children.

President Trump early Tuesday touted an appeals court ruling upholding Texas’s requirement that voters to provide a driver’s license or other identification number for their mail ballot to be counted. “THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!! Should be Nationwide!!! President DJT” Trump wrote on Truth Social.  A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) claimed on Monday that the Republican Party will “never have the White House again” if Democrats overtake the majority in the Lone Star State.  “I‘m here to speak for myself. And what I care about is working to make sure that the will, the interests, the desires and quite…
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The president sued the newspaper and its owners over an article detailing a lewd birthday message he allegedly wrote to the disgraced financier in 2003.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) said during a recent interview that President Trump is “demanding” allies to “rig” the 2026 midterms for him and argued that by redrawing the Congressional district in Austin, lawmakers are violating the Voting Rights Act.  “This is a five-alarm fire for our democracy. Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in…
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Texas Democrats who have taken refuge in blue states to protest GOP-led redistricting in the Lone Star State face civil arrest warrants after missing a legislative session on Monday. Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) signed the warrants, which allow for the Democrats’ arrests, as Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday called their protest “crazy bluster”…
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The statue of Confederate General Albert Pike will be reinstalled in Washington, the National Park Service said.

Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi said the U.S. economy is “on the precipice of recession,” citing indicators from last week’s economic data releases. In a social media post Monday, Zandi pointed to stagnant consumer spending, contracting construction and manufacturing sectors and projected employment declines. Rising inflation makes it difficult for the Federal Reserve to…
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The president’s latest plan for the White House received “The Tonight Show” treatment.

Their “career is over,” the president bombastically declared.

President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally nonpartisan commissioner role, usually held by career professionals who span multiple administrations, has given all presidents bad news in recent years. But Trump’s firing of Erika McEntarfer, a…
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“He calls me three or four times a week,” the Health and Human Services secretary said.

The Trump administration fiercely criticized the decision.

The GOP strategist said this move could cost the party during next year’s midterm elections.