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…
President Donald Trump is dragging down his fellow Republicans and heightening their risk of losing control of the Senate, the House of Representatives and/or both in the upcoming midterm elections.Despite the president claiming on Wednesday that his poll numbers “are the highest they have ever been…
A new study reveals that supporters of President Donald Trump, and of conservative politics more generally, tend to interpret the act of smiling differently than people who are not right-leaning.A recent study in the journal Animal Behavioral Scientist surveyed 1,385 American adults shortly before t…
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include a statement from the White House.A conservative commentator blasted President Donald Trump on Wednesday, alleging that he did not remember the name of Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), a swing state House member running in a highly competitive race a…
A Republican congressional candidate in Florida who openly embraces President Donald Trump’s agenda is calling for a Democratic ex-president to be deported.In a 30-second video, Belinda Kesier promoted her candidacy for Florida’s 22nd congressional district by arguing that she would not only deport …
A conservative commentator says President Donald Trump’s algae-green renovations of the Reflecting Pool offer a slew of metaphors to define his entire presidency.“The reflecting pool is a microcosm of nearly everything that vexes people about the second Trump term,” wrote The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldbe…