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Art of the Deal Co-author Tony Schwartz predicts Trump is destined to make history — just not the side of it he probably wants. MS NOW anchor Ari Melber asked Schwartz to comment on Trump’s most recent slate of gaffes, particularly his devastating claim that he “loves” the inflation currently racking voters and threatening to destroy his own Republican Party in the November midterms. “It's demented. I mean, it's so self-destructive,” said Schwartz, who described Trump as an addict who acts as a kind of “black hole.” “And you pour stuff into it. And he poured it in and maxed out when he was reelected president. And it looked fantastic. But it seeped out incredibly quickly. And then he has to keep upping the ante and chasing the high. And so now where he's at is there's no high to chase. So that's just that's just a piece of self-destructiveness. He's going to go down as the worst president in the history of this country,” said Schwartz, the founder of consu...

According to longtime Intelligencer political columnist Ed Kilgore , there are “alarming” signs that Republican lawmakers are “giving” up on winning the midterms in favor of jamming through as much of their agenda as possible before losing power. Evidence, he suggests, is in the fact that they are now focusing on passing unpopular safety net cuts to fund President Donald Trump’s unpopular war. As Kilgore explains, you can see this trend emerging in Trump and the Republicans’ multiple budget reconciliation bills. They’ve just passed their second, which was kept “skinny” compared to last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which itself was, asserts Kilgore, “a vast smorgasbord of conservative policy initiatives and attempted voter bribes.” Republicans managed to keep reconciliation 2.0 narrowed to a few key priorities and thereby ensured its passage by promising to tackle all the other wide-ranging concerns held by different factions in a third bill before the midterms. But while Kilgore say...

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President Donald Trump’s controversial America’s 250th anniversary includes a set of mobile museums carrying displays about the nation’s history and prominent figures. But one of the displays is angering the religious community because it falsely claims that Muhammad Ali disavowed Islam. “It is a stunning slight to the man — a beloved global icon, ambassador of peace, athletic legend, and cultural titan — and to Islam, a faith under siege by the Trump administration and others and for which Ali was a powerful envoy to mainstream America,” said former MS NOW analyst and producer Jonathan Larsen , describing the Freedom 250 organization’s so-called “Freedom Trucks.” “After converting to Islam, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali though he later disavowed the religion,” the Freedom 250 truck Muhammad Ali display claims. But Ali never disavowed, renounced, or converted from Islam, said Larsen. “He died a Muslim and reportedly had a Muslim funeral. Regardless, six of Trump’s trucks are c...

Hard-right groups have expanded their influence inside the Trump administration, a new report on hate and extremism by the Southern Poverty Law Center finds, according to The Guardian . A federal grand jury indicted the SPLC, a civil rights organization, on federal fraud charges earlier this year — months before the report’s publication. “2025 was a turbulent year marked by injustice, social upheaval and stark new threats from a hard-right movement rapidly establishing its power across institutions,” reads the director’s note to the SPLC’s “2025 Year in Hate and Extremism” series. “The hard right effectively seized the power of government as a messenger for extremist rhetoric and a tool to dictate policies affecting the everyday lives of millions of people.” The Trump administration “radically” shifted policy to favor hard-right and extremists, claims the report titled “ Empowering Extremists ,” which was published Tuesday as part of the series. The report found that the Trump admin...

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