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If you claim to love or otherwise care about the health and future of the United States, you have a civic and moral obligation to read President Trump’s full 75-minute, 11,000-word interview with Time magazine journalists Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs, published last Thursday. Do not rely on a summary, something paraphrased or translated by the media — or even the account of a trusted journalist or other public voice. Do not assume that you have heard this all before. “What is new about this? I know exactly what Trump is going to say because I have been hearing it for years….” is neither adequate nor reasonable. And please do not surrender to the excuse: “I am burned out, exhausted, and just want the midterms to get here so that Trump will be a lame duck in a few weeks.” To do any of this is to abdicate your responsibilities. Read Trump’s interview in its entirety . Sit with it. Process it. Then consider what you are really seeing and what it all means . Here is a window into the ...
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'The unmanly truth' about Trump revealed

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Voters from many different walks of life took a chance on President Donald Trump in 2024, and according to a new piece from MS NOW , his second presidency has badly failed one key group that put "the greatest hope" for their future in him. Writing for the network on Monday morning, author and reporter Paul Waldman exposed "the unmanly truth" about the Trump administration, citing the most recent federal jobs report as proof that "Americans continue to fall behind on affording the necessities of life." He further suggested that the almost apocalyptically bad poll numbers for Trump and the GOP might be explained by the acute disappointment of one particular group that broke for him in a big way in 2024. "To look at President Donald Trump’s poll ratings, one would think we’re in the middle of an outright depression, not just a mediocre economy that isn’t providing the kind of security and opportunity people want," Waldman wrote. "That may be...
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Trump judge slams federal agents for falsifying records in stunning rebuke

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President Donald Trump's immigration policies have often found themselves in the crosshairs of America's legal system . Now a judge appointed by Trump himself has blasted federal agents for arresting people even when they are not undocumented immigrants and then claiming to have misidentified them. "Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming 'mistaken identity,'" reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Monday on X . He quoted Brown as saying, "ICE agents falsified official records." In his decision, Brown condemned ICE's overall approach to enforcing the law. "In countless ICE habeas petitions involving individuals detained for civil — not criminal — proceedings, respondents advised judges of this court that various petitioners had been jailed due to misidentification: officers erroneously identified the petitioner as a 'target' of...
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Trump mixes up countries in late-night election meltdown

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President Donald Trump, 80. had another late-night accident after referring to Brazil as India. According to Trump, he believes that American elections are fraudulent because Brazil can get results faster than the U.S. First, Trump flubbed his own data point, claiming that India had an election with 125 million people. It has since been deleted after Indian news sites caught the flub, the Daily Beast observed . India is a country of nearly 1.5 billion people. If only 125 million people voted in India, that would be a shockingly low number as they typically have about 900 million to 1 billion voters cast a ballot, France 24 reported after their previous election . "Trump's reference appeared to be to Brazil, which held the first round of its presidential election on Sunday. Brazil recorded more than 125 million valid votes, according to the country's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), and the results were released progressively after voting ended at 5 pm," wrote The New...
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'They can’t be that stupid': Famed lawmaker torches Trump's new fixation

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President Donald Trump and his administration have a renewed obsession with changing the official story on Richard Nixon , prompting a fierce rebuke from one of the first members of Congress to back his impeachment over Watergate, saying in a recent appearance on MS NOW , "They can’t be that stupid." Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's Justice Department was pursuing a new effort to prove that the Watergate scandal investigation that led to Nixon's infamous resignation was the result of prosecutorial "misconduct." Sources close to the investigation within the administration have reportedly argued that Nixon — who directed operatives to spy on the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972 — was forced out of office by a "coup" from the "deep state." Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman previously served in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981, and gained notoriety as one of the first members of Congress to b...
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'Kitchen-table economics' just upended a safe Senate seat

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The last time Kansas elected a Democrat to the Senate was 1932. Yet on Friday, Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton received his second endorsement from a Republican former Kansas governor in less than a month, in his race against Republican incumbent Senator Roger Marshall. The top Senate Republican super PAC is so concerned that Marshall could lose the race that it’s diverting funds to Kansas from North Carolina, where it’s canceled its remaining ads against Democrat Roy Cooper — basically conceding North Carolina (by the way, a Democrat hasn’t won statewide federal office in North Carolina in nearly two decades). To say it’s not looking good for Republicans is an understatement. Trump is an albatross around the necks of every Republican running for Congress or governor. He’s also posing problems for plenty of Republican candidates for state office. Why? It’s not that Americans have suddenly discovered that Trump is a despicable human being. His personality has been on national...
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GOP pollster exposes why Trump's 'shock value' strategy is falling flat

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President Donald Trump frequently rails about “communists” and “socialists,” and the GOP has increasingly leaned into such attacks as it has grown more desperate in the face of an uphill midterm battle . But according to a longtime GOP pollster, accusations of “ socialist ” don’t have the “shock value” they once had. As Politico explains, Republicans have struggled to define an opponent during this midterm cycle, though “Trump has frequently sought to blame Biden for high prices and other challenges that his administration has faced. Even so, the former president has become a far less useful punching bag for Republicans since leaving office and remaining largely out of the spotlight.” The same goes for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. No other Democrats have managed to elicit the same level of conservative anger, so Trump and the GOP have turned to the classic red baiting. Besides peppering speeches with accusations of communism and socialism, “the GOP has run ads seeking to tie Democrat...
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