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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.

President Trump said Tuesday that the name for his “big, beautiful” megabill, which he signed in July, is “not good for explaining to people what it’s all about.” “So the bill that — I’m not going to use the term, ‘great, big, beautiful,’ that was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for…
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An unnamed editor at the magazine told the Daily Mail they “will walk out the motherf**king door” if the first lady is featured.

The famously superficial president insisted he doesn’t like commenting on appearances… right after mocking a top Democrat’s looks.

Cracker Barrel is reversing course, announcing Tuesday that it would scrap the new logo it introduced after facing backlash over the rebrand.  “We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain,” the…
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The president signed an order potentially expanding the National Guard’s role in domestic law enforcement.

“We said we would listen, and we have,” the restaurant chain said in a statement Tuesday. “Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain.”

“We’re seeing the arson of our government,” warned Max Stier of Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking people’s lost jobs since January.

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“So the line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime,” the president said Tuesday. “So a lot of people say, you know, ‘If that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.’”

The POTUS’s comments came after he publicly railed at the pop star on many occasions.

President Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve board of governors member Lisa Cook raised a host of questions over the unprecedented nature of his decision. Chief among them is whether the allegations he cited reach the standard of cause needed to oust her — and to win that fight legally. The president alleged Cook committed…
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Trump’s move prompted some of his most loyal supporters to question his decision.

Longtime Republican operative Karl Rove said on Tuesday that crime is a “big problem” for the Democratic Party and warned that some within the party, including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, don’t understand how their posture on the issue hurts the party’s “label.”  “This is a big problem for the Democrats. The Democrats…
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