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"Voters have turned against Donald Trump's crusade against Canada, rejecting his rebranding of Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' by more than two to one," wrote The Daily Mail's Phillip Nieto on Tuesday . "A new Daily Mail/JL Partners poll finds only 20 percent of Americans support the name change, while 46 percent oppose it. Even Americans who previously voted for Trump in 2024 only supported it by 33 percent, while 31 percent rejected the name change." Nieto added, "Trump first floated the name last week after trade negotiations between the two countries collapsed. He declared that the US did not expect to be 'doing much business with Ontario any longer.' He followed through two days later with an executive order directing the federal government to use 'Lake America.' Soon after, Washington slapped 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian goods and Ottawa announced retaliatory levies of its own." The journalist added, ...

President Donald Trump can brag all he wants about the economy and make the biggest boasts at campaign stops, but Bloomberg says Wall Street investors just aren’t buying it. “Traders are scrambling to shield their portfolios against further losses in Treasuries, as worries over the budget deficit and inflation push yields toward multiyear highs,” reports Bloomberg. “Right now, it’s difficult to see a change in fortune for bonds,” said David Roberts, head of fixed income at Nedgroup Investments. “Certainly, a long-term solution to the Iranian situation would help.” But that’s not coming, by the look of things , and investors are rushing to shore up what looks like a terrifying floor rattle involving U.S. treasury investments, prompted by Trump’s soaring debt and bad policies. “The rush to hedge comes on the back of a global slide in bond prices, which are being squeezed by a range of catalysts including ongoing fiscal challenges and a war-fueled oil price surge that has further stoked...

While First Lady Melania Trump has profited from her office — whether by releasing a documentary about her life or dumping a self-named memecoin onto the crypto market — she has been conspicuous in her absence from President Donald Trump's White House. Now a journalist who specializes in covering the Trumps explains why. "It took six months, in Trump’s first term, for his wife to relocate from New York to Washington D.C. — and then, even with separate bedrooms in the White House, she was hardly there," journalist Michael Wolff wrote on his Substack on Monday . "Their son, Barron, was virtually never there. Rather, they “often stayed with,” in White House parlance, her parents in a house in Maryland. Likewise, at Mar-a-Lago, Melania and Barron’s move was actually into a Palm Beach house with her parents — rather than into the country club quarters." Wolff added, "During the two active years of the 2024 campaign, her only appearances included the Republica...

President Donald Trump's Army Secretary just resigned, allegedly due to his ongoing feuds with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — and as a result, there are no Senate-confirmed Army leaders remaining in power. "Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Trump following months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the direction of the service and the ouster of numerous senior Army officers," reported The Wall Street Journal's Michael R. Gordon and Marcus Weisgerber on Monday . "He is expected to leave the Pentagon in coming days." The Journal added, "With Driscoll’s departure, the Army will lack any Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders. Gen. Christopher LaNeve has served as acting chief of the service since Hegseth fired his predecessor, Gen. Randy George." Trump has received repeated criticisms for purging the military , which is supposed to be apolitical, of generals and other officials who do not ...

President Donald Trump’s most potent political weapon has never been traditional policy or legislative maneuvering. Instead, it has been an unparalleled mastery of public attention—a signature skill that might best be called "the distraction." As a recent analysis from Slate points out, just as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar commanded the basketball court with the skyhook, Trump has historically commandeered the American media landscape by driving the conversation exactly where he wants it to go. Whether declaring premature victory, invoking the elusive rhetorical shield of "many people are saying," or plastering outrageous graphics across social media, Donald Trump's ability to hijack the mainstream media news cycle was once absolute. Central to President Trump's playbook has been an obsession with renaming things to trigger his opponents. This strategy peaked at the start of his term in 2025, when he decreed that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be known as the ...

I still come across people who believe Trump won the 2020 election, that the attack on the U.S Capitol on January 6, 2021, was an act of patriotism, that Trump’s subsequent indictments and felonies were Biden’s work, that most immigrants are criminals, that Democrats are evil, that Jews are trying to replace white Christians born in America, that Muslims can’t be trusted, that a significant amount of voting is fraudulent, that we’re winning the war against Iran, that the economy has never been as good, that climate change is a hoax, that Canada poses a threat to the United States and it’s only fair for Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America. To label these people “deluded” is to overlook an entire world created by Trump and his assistants, Cabinet secretaries, “spokespeople,” other political appointees, Republican enablers in Congress and state legislatures, and billionaire accomplices in the media (Musk, Murdoch, Pichai, Bezos, Zuckerberg, the Ellisons) — all of whom have reinforced...