Month: November 2025

The president’s rambling appearance on the CBS News program was mostly standard Trump fare. Except when it wasn’t.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jacqueline Chapman is a retired school aide who relies on a $630 monthly Social Security check to get by. She was navigating the loss of her federal food aid benefits when she learned the assistance she receives for heating her Philadelphia apartment may also be at risk. “I feel like I’m living in…
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The president’s evasion reinforced the probability that the GOP has no idea about a solution.

President Trump criticized late-night comic Seth Meyers after the host mocked him for criticizing the way aircraft carriers are built during a speech to members of the military last week. During NBC’s “The Late Show” on Friday, Meyers played for his audience a clip of Trump talking about “catapults,” and asking: “Which is better, the…
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President Trump praised changes Paramount has made to the leadership at CBS News, including the implementation of a controversial journalist as its editor-in-chief following Skydance’s acquisition of the sprawling media company this summer. “And actually ’60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money,” Trump said of his lawsuit against CBS during an extended interview on the network’s Sunday…
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President Trump’s approval hit a record low for his second term in the latest CNN/SSRS survey released Monday. The poll, conducted in late October, shows 37 percent of surveyed Americans approved of the president’s handling of his post, compared to 63 percent who say they disapproved. That represents a sizable shift from the last CNN…
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Democrats are up 8 points over Republicans on a generic congressional ballot, according to new polling. In the NBC News survey released Sunday, 50 percent of respondents said they wanted “a Congress controlled by Democrats” after the 2026 midterm elections, while 42 percent said they wanted “a Congress controlled by Republicans.” Eight percent in the…
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Last week, on his way to Asia, President Trump said he “would love” to run for a third presidential term. He added, “Am I not ruling it out? You’ll have to tell me. All I can tell you is that we have a great, a great group of people, which [the Democrats] don’t.”   That followed…
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A federal judge on Sunday blocked President Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland until the judge issues her final ruling later this week.  U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut expects to issue that ruling by Friday evening, after holding a trial last week on whether the deployment was legal.  In the meantime, the judge ruled…
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President Trump said Sunday he knows “nothing” about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao despite pardoning the convicted crypto billionaire.  Trump’s decision to pardon Zhao, who pleaded guilty in 2023 to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering regime, has drawn scrutiny in recent weeks given the Trump family’s business dealings with the crypto exchange.   “I…
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The Senate on Monday will return to Washington, where it will convene this afternoon on Day 34 of the government shutdown. Both Democrats and Republicans are looking for an off-ramp as the government’s closure inches toward the longest in U.S. history. A group of moderate Senate Democrats have even been quietly gathering to plot how…
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Last week, as world leaders prepared to attend the COP-30 climate talks, Bill Gates dropped a bomb, saying they are paying too much attention to reducing climate-altering pollution and too little attention to reducing human suffering.  Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he wrote. “Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly…
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President Trump said he’s “not really” considering providing Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, after reports indicated the Pentagon gave the White House its approval to send the weapons. “No, not really,” Trump told reporters Sunday on Air Force One, when asked if he’s considering sending the missiles. “Could happen,” he added. “I could change, but at…
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The president said he didn’t want to embarrass the correspondent but…

Florida’s announcement that it would scrap public school vaccine mandates next year hit Elizabeth particularly hard. Her 11-year-old daughter suffers from a rare immunodeficiency disorder that requires biweekly plasma infusions to provide some protection against disease.  But she can still be out of school for 50 days during the school year — and Elizabeth is…
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President Donald Trump is predicting Democrats will capitulate to Republicans, as his administration faces a major test this week.

The president tore into Seth Meyers in a weekend social media post.

The president also made a backhanded endorsement in the race for New York City mayor.

The president’s attack on Biden comes back to haunt him.

Two-thirds of the American public say the country has gotten off on the wrong track, according to a new poll from ABC News, The Washington Post and Ipsos. The survey, conducted last week, shows 67 percent of respondents say the country has “gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track” while 32 percent say things…
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The president expressed no concern with the brutal tactics federal agents have employed.

President Trump returned to “60 Minutes” on Sunday for his first sit-down interview with the program and with CBS News since its parent company earlier this year settled a lawsuit with the president. Correspondent Norah O’Donnell sat down with Trump on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago estate, where there was a passing mention of the contentious history between…
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday that the weapons testing that President Trump ordered last week will not include nuclear explosions. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests. These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call noncritical explosions,” Wright said on Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing.” “So…
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President Trump in a new interview aggressively defended his Justice Department’s indictments of some of his political rivals, dismissing questions about whether it amounted to retribution. “No, it’s the opposite. I think I’ve been very mild-mannered,” Trump said in an interview with Norah O’Donnell on CBS News’s “60 Minutes.” “You’re looking at a man who…
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It’s steadily grown as voters express concerns with his use of executive power and deployment of the National Guard.