Americans are increasingly turning against the war in Iran and the president that launched it. According to a survey conducted in April by US-based pollster, Pew International, 61% of people in the US disapprove of the war while only 37% approve. The US president’s overall approval rating, meanwhile…
Some progressives believe “the people” don’t know the truth. Since 2000, a Democratic president has handed off a pretty good or very good economy to a Republican, and that Republican has ruined it. It was a lie that Donald Trump was a successful businessman. It was a lie that tax cuts spur investmen…
Things are so bad for President Donald Trump that even former President Herbert Hoover, who was in office as the stock market crashed in 1929, did better than Trump is doing today. A Fox News poll is so bad that it’s sending Trump into a panic spiral, according to MS Now opinion editor James Downie,…
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is desperate to land the job permanently, and according to a new report from Politico, to do so, he has launched his “most audacious move yet” in a bid to cement the Justice Department as President Donald Trump’s personal law firm.Blanche, who previously served a…
The terms “toxic empathy” and “suicidal empathy” have become a popular insult in the MAGA movement, from evangelical Christian nationalists to Tesla/SpaceX leader Elon Musk. The idea is that “empathy” is a sign of weakness and is harmful to Christianity. But not everyone on the right embraces the “t…
Sen. Mitch McConnell on Monday wrote a new op-ed for Fox News, blasting President Donald Trump and others in the GOP for their admiration of outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, with one journalist calling the piece his “victory lap.”Orbán has served as the prime minister of Hungary since…
President Donald Trump once tweeted that President Barack Obama should resign because his predecessor allowed a doctor who treated Ebola patients to return to New York City. As an Ebola outbreak in Africa threatens the United States, that tweet has come back to haunt him.“In 2014 Trump said Obama sh…
President Donald Trump was just harshly criticized by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has served the president faithfully as his Senate Majority Leader.“McConnell bringing the heat after Blanche meeting with Senate GOP today,” Burgess Everett, Semafor congressional bureau chief, reported Thursday …
President Donald Trump’s favorite shoes, Florsheim shoes, are suffering because of the tariffs that the president himself imposed.“Our products are made in China, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, and India,” Tom Florsheim, the creator of the shoes, told The Bulwark’s Catherine Rampell on T…
Few actions on the part of the Trump administration have drawn as much bipartisan scorn as the DOJ-IRS settlement that aims to create a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which critics say amounts to a “slush fund” for January 6 rioters. Now a legal expert has laid bare the “shameful spin” unde…