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…
This weekend, the right-wing Italian daily Libero, a major conservative newspaper that shares a fair amount of Donald Trump’s politics, ran a one-word verdict on the President of the United States across its front page. The Italian word is coglione. The polite translation is “idiot.” The translation…
Former GOP U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Penn.) lamented before a CNN panel at how eagerly President Donald Trump appears to be trying to ruin Republicans’ chances in November, even when he’s allegedly campaigning on their behalf.Dent was responding to a recent comment about Trump from U.S. Sen. Bill Ca…
The Baton Rouge Advocate reports a Southern minister with ties to president Donald Trump has been hit with second degree battery charges and a $25k bond after marching across a four-lane highway to assault a neighbor’s kid.“The Rev. Tony Spell stood on the steps of his church in Central on Wednesday…
More than 10,000 lawyers, many of them from the U.S. Department of Justice, have left the federal government during the second Trump administration. “Their departures show how rapidly the president has eroded the image of the federal government as the gold standard for lawyers seeking public service…