This Sunday, June 14, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump will turn 80. Some of Trump’s critics find it ironic that he is about to become an octogenarian in light of how badly he mocked former President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” but according to medical experts interviewed by The Independent, Trump’s…
The UFC fight President Donald Trump is hosting at the White House has caused no shortage of controversy and chaos, and on Thursday, it added a new headache to the affair: travel disruption, specifically for a bipartisan congressional delegation.According to reporting from Politico on Friday morning…
President Donald Trump’s rash decision-making caused a key bill to implode this week, and according to an ex-NSA official who spoke with The Hill, it has left the U.S. in a “pretty dangerous place” at a terrible time.With Trump’s urging, Congress has been working for months on a long-term extension …
President Donald Trump is not only underwater with Democrats and Independents, but now he’s losing young Republicans. CNN data analyst Harry Enten revealed that when it comes to the Iran war and foreign policy in general, Trump has lost his own base. “Trump [has a] historically strong performance wi…
President Donald Trump’s poll numbers are so bad that Republicans are facing one of the toughest elections in years. But outside of those poll numbers, Republicans face a deeper problem than the president’s coattails: a president who desperately needs public credit for every success and won’t let th…
This Sunday, June 14, U.S. President Donald Trump will celebrate his 80th birthday by turning the White House’s South Lawn into a cage-fighting arena that is being dubbed “The Claw.” Critics of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event are warning that it will cost taxpayers a fortune, and form…
Melissa Hortman often told me things she probably shouldn’t have.One time when I was a Capitol reporter with the Star Tribune, she expressed displeasure with a profile I’d written about a Republican operative.“The journalistic equivalent of a b—job,” she told me with that grin of hers, which shone…
Today’s South Lawn of the White House features a huge, brightly lit metal cage called “the Claw.” It is a stage erected to showcase men beating each other bloody, Caligula style, to entertain a wannabe Roman Emperor on his 80th birthday. After musical performers refused to sing at the nation’s 250th…
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he will nominate federal prosecutor Jay Clayton for director of national intelligence (DNI). Presently, Clayton is a U.S. attorney for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Southern District of New York (SDNY). And according to Politico, SDNY insiders a…
President Donald Trump is obsessed with undoing two of the biggest public humiliations that still haunt him from his first term and is demanding Congress act on it, but according to one political expert who spoke with The i Paper, it will be a pointless win if successful.Trump is the only president …