Month: September 2025

King Charles III hosts the president this week with a lavish, multiday ceremony aimed at diplomacy. The right, meanwhile, is grappling with Kirk’s murder.

There is an old saying that politics is the opposite of violence. But warnings keep coming about President Trump’s political motives in sending armed troops into American cities. And more alarms are sounding as he threatens to go beyond Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. by putting military boots on the ground in Memphis, Chicago and…
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President Trump on Monday suggested public companies should report their earnings on a six-month basis, rather than quarterly. “This will save money, and allow managers to focus on properly running their companies,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Did you ever hear the statement that, ‘China has a 50 to 100 year view on management of…
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President Trump touted on Monday morning a potential deal with China over the future of TikTok. “A deal was also reached on a ‘certain’ company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save. They will be very happy!” Trump posted, noting he’d be speaking this week with China’s President Xi Jinping. In…
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“We hope it will remind viewers how disorientating and dangerous the world becomes when the most powerful man on earth shows little regard for the truth.”

President Trump sought to play cleanup amid backlash to an immigration raid at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, insisting in a post on social media that foreign experts would be welcomed to the U.S. for a “period of time” to train U.S. workers. “When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and…
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President Trump told reporters Sunday that he expects a “big cut” to interest rates the Federal Reserve meets this week. “It’s perfect for cutting,” he said. “We’re doing well and everything — energy is way down, groceries are down, everything, almost everything — is way down.” The Federal Reserve’s policy committee is scheduled to meet…
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) late Sunday criticized President Trump’s use of the word “scum” in his latest remarks criticizing left-wing groups and pushed back on the suggestion that political violence is a problem plaguing only one side. “No one party is immune from political violence,” Shapiro said in a post on the social platform…
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The president has urged NATO countries to take tougher action to pressure Russia to end the war.

The U.S. has been blessed with presidents who intervened when corporations gained too much power. Interventions are sometimes necessary when corporate interests conflict with the public interest. It happens because a corporation’s primary mission is to keep shareholders happy, not the public.   Unfortunately, corporate consolidations and profiteering can jeopardize public health and welfare. Several…
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President Trump threatened to call a national emergency early Monday after Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said she expects local police to stop cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts now that the president’s 30-day emergency authority has expired. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump lashed out at Bowser, saying…
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Illinois’ Jim Edgar had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Some Republicans now say privately that it’s inevitable that Congress will pass legislation directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump has repeatedly tried to wave aside calls from Republicans and MAGA activists to make all the Epstein files…
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Critics offered the president some glaring examples of his own rhetoric.

Windsor Castle staff are busy preparing for a grand event.

“What could possibly go wrong?” asked Ali Velshi.

The GOP “might regret the precedent the next time there’s a Democratic President,” warned the newspaper’s conservative editorial board.

From daylight saving time to eliminating a specific tax.

The president’s claim wasn’t even remotely close on this one.

Television Academy Chairman Cris Abrego criticized Congress for voting to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), in a speech paying tribute to the organization at the Emmy Awards on Sunday evening. “For more than 50 years, CPB has been the backbone of American Public Media, bringing us everything from ‘Sesame Street’ to ‘Mr. Rogers…
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President Trump on Sunday warned that left leaning groups will be investigated after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, though he offered no details. “If you look at the problem, the problem is on the left. It’s not on the right, like some people like to share the right, the problem we have is…
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Trump announced Friday that he plans to send troops to the Tennessee city next.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Sunday formally endorsed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, in the general election this November. She announced her endorsement in a New York Times op-ed Sunday evening, stressing the importance of working together with the city’s mayor. “The question of who will be the…
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President Trump said in a weekend interview that the White House ballroom will be a “little bigger” than initially planned. In a telephone interview Saturday with NBC News, Trump said the ballroom will have a capacity of 900 people, nearly 40 percent larger than the estimates provided in late July by the White House. “We’re…
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Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is provoking NATO with his recent actions. “We’re seeing incursions, possibly in Poland and Romania. He is sticking his thumb in the eye of NATO,” Crawford told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt on “The Hill Sunday.” “I don’t know if he is trying to invoke an…
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