On Wednesday, representatives of NATO met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in an effort to bolster his reluctant commitment to the alliance. According to reporting by the iPaper, they brought “visual aids” that had less to do with pleading their case than with stoking “Trump’s ego.” As…
On Wednesday, a statement by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy prompted a prominent retired military prosecutor to reveal his unvarnished thoughts about what he called the “vulgar” “MAGA cult.”This criticism flared after Duffy spoke at the National Mall as part of the country’s 250th birthday cele…
After Box Elder County Commissioner Lee Perry lost a GOP primary race in Utah on Tuesday, he blamed a vote in favor of a data center for the loss. Perry’s “yes” vote, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, cleared the way for a massive data center in the area. Perry, in his concession, said, “Do I thin…
When Donald Trump declared, during his 2016 campaign, “I love the poorly educated,” that line underscored his claim to represent working-class voters. And a decade later, Trump — despite being a billionaire — and his allies continue to depict MAGA as a movement designed to make the working class mor…
A Colorado-based storm chaser was visited by the FBI after cracking a joke about introducing algae spores into the “paint” a Virginia company used on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Patrick Pineda, a photographer of severe weather, motion designer and video game developer, cracked a joke on so…
The president contaminated the Reflecting Pool that’s in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Donald Trump had the bottom of it painted blue in celebration of himself, er, America’s 250th anniversary. The $14-million paint job is now peeling. Algae is blooming. Efforts to kill it with hydrogen peroxide ha…
The housing bill that sailed through the US Congress this week is going to become law no matter what the president decides to do. On Monday, it passed the Senate by a vote of 85-5. On Tuesday, it passed the House by a vote of 358-32. Even if Donald Trump were to veto it, those numbers suggest the wi…
On Wednesday night, June 24, President Donald Trump briefly spoke at the Great American State Fair on Washington DC’s National Mall. The ongoing event, which continues through July 10, is being billed as a celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary. But Never Trump conservative Tom Nichols …
President Donald Trump is struggling to keep even his own supporters on board with his war despite his flailing, according to a political scientist.“The American public doesn’t like losing a war, doesn’t like backing a loser in a war, doesn’t want to throw good money after bad,” international relati…
President Donald Trump claims that his Reflecting Pool renovations failed because third-parties vandalized the institution — but a new story based on internal documents provides a different version of events.“President Trump says the peeling blue coating and algae blooms that mar his $16.4 million r…