Month: August 2025

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday said the Trump administration is attempting to damage public perceptions of the Federal Reserve by blaming it for price increases in recent months. “Donald Trump has a really serious economic problem. And the economic problem he faces is not the Fed. The economic problem he faces is that he…
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President Trump late Tuesday criticized Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker (Ill.), pointing to crime statistics in Chicago days after the president threatened to send National Guard troops to the city. “A really DEADLY weekend in Chicago. 6 DEAD, 27 HURT IN CRIME SPREES ALLOVER THE CITY. Panic stricken Governor Pritzker says that crime is under control,…
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The podcast giant just gave MAGA a wakeup slap.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro late Tuesday said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is gravitating “to the idea” he shouldn’t keep interest rates at current levels due to President Trump’s tariffs. “Powell should see the tea leaves here,” Navarro said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “The Hill.” “I mean, interestingly enough, he’s beginning, grudgingly,…
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President Trump’s 50 percent tariff on imports from India went into effect Wednesday morning, weeks after the president threatened “severe consequences” on trading partners that purchase Russian oil and gas. The steep import tax comes as Trump continues to push Russia and Ukraine to come to a ceasefire agreement after meeting with the leaders of…
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On Aug. 8, a man fired 500 rounds into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, killing a responding officer and targeting public health workers, reportedly because of his views on vaccines. It was a brazen act of political violence. Unfortunately, our leaders’ silence will only encourage more of the same.  Gun violence…
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The U.S. Transportation Department said on Wednesday it planned to reclaim management of Washington Union Station, one of the country’s biggest rail hubs.

The Danish foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the top U.S. diplomat positioned in the country over reports that at least three individuals connected to President Trump sought to carry out a covert influence campaign in Greenland. Trump has repeatedly said that he’s interested in acquiring Greenland, though Denmark has pushed back on the idea of…
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President Trump has almost always made governing decisions with his MAGA base in mind. If the president’s mindset on always playing to his base does not change soon, Republican hopes for 2026 will take a dive. I know MAGA diehards want to dismiss the polls as inherently anti-Trump. They can certainly point to a single…
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President Trump’s steep tariffs on India as a penalty for buying Russian oil took effect on Wednesday, bringing the import tax imposed on the trading partner to 50 percent. Trump said he would hit India with a 25 percent penalty for the oil purchases that he argued are helping fuel Moscow’s war efforts in Ukraine, on top of a…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned this week that if President Trump and his GOP allies expand their gerrymandering efforts beyond Texas, Democrats will respond in kind. Democratic legislators in California have already advanced new House maps designed to nullify the GOP’s new advantage in Texas, where Republicans, at Trump’s request, redrew their lines…
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President Trump said that he plans to look into NBC’s decision to extend “Late Night” host Seth Meyers’ contract, slamming the comedian as a “dope.” “There is a sick rumor going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented Late Night television hosts out there, Seth Meyers,” Trump wrote…
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Miles Taylor talked of Donald Trump’s jealousy.

President Trump said he raised $1.5 billion since he was elected in November, hitting a milestone in contributions. “I am pleased to report that I have raised, since the Great Presidential Election of 2024, in various forms and political entities, in excess of 1.5 Billion Dollars. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” he wrote early Wednesday on…
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The MAGA movement has its sights set on expanding into governors’ mansions around the country. A handful of prominent allies of President Trump are pursuing gubernatorial bids, viewing it as a way to expand the MAGA agenda beyond Washington and set themselves up for potential future bids for higher office.  That means looking beyond 2028,…
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The Clinton-era Cabinet secretary predicted how it “surely will” backfire on the president.

President Trump said he is working on a crime bill with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), amid his federal law enforcement crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C. “Speaker Mike Johnson, and Leader John Thune, are working with me, and other Republicans, on a Comprehensive Crime Bill. It’s what our…
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The president’s Cabinet went full “Dear Leader.”

The president had a meltdown over Seth Meyers just before 2 a.m.

The New York Times journalist flagged the main takeaway from the lengthy session, and it wasn’t policy.

Steve Witkoff took his praise for Trump to the next level during this week’s Cabinet meeting.

Donald Trump’s 2016 rival dropped a damning question about his trade policies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put forward a peace proposal to end the war that involves the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, an offer that Ukraine is unlikely to accept, according to President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff.  “The Russians have put a peace proposal on the table. It involves Donetsk. It may not be,…
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Paul Krugman spelled out how the president is taking a page out of the “authoritarian playbook.”

The pair were previously embroiled in a feud that kicked up when Rubio ran against Trump for the Republican nomination in 2016.