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President Donald Trump’s recent decision to scale down American military exercises in South Korea , which he said is linked to that nation’s refusal to help in the US-Israel war against Iran, was just met with scathing criticism by a foreign policy expert. “Thanks to @realDailyWire for publishing my commentary about President Trump’s order to scale down military exercises with South Korea,” Michael Sobolik , a Senior Fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), posted on X. In the attached article, he warned that “confusing adversaries and allies is a basic foreign policy mistake. Leveraging enemies to attack friends is a deeper failure. President Trump committed both errors on Sunday when he announced that he was ordering the Pentagon to ‘substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises’ with South Korea.” Noting that Trump earlier claimed America didn’t need South Korea in its effort against Iran, Sobolik added that even though Seoul has given Trump...
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Robert Reich fires back at Trump admin —exposing huge flaw in the economy

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Dear Scott (if I may). I’ve argued that the K-shaped economy — a term used to describe growing inequality between high- and low-income households — can be seen in sales of McDonald’s burgers, whose lower- and middle-income customers fell by double digits in the first quarter of 2025 as they struggled with affordability. Last Monday, you criticized me, arguing that McDonald’s problems are instead due to competition from rivals like Burger King. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent McDonald's problem is called Burger King, Professor. No wonder Bill Clinton fired you. UC Berkeley should too, if that’s what passes for “research.” Robert Reich (By the way, Scott, Bill Clinton didn’t fire me and Berkeley won’t, either. But your boss has a well-recorded tendency to fire his Cabinet secretaries, so I’d be careful if I were you.) In a recent interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” you even declared that the U.S. economy is no longer in a K shape: “I got sick of hearing about this K-s...
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Trump is trashing a national treasure for donors —and Texans can't stop it

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On August 6, a date that’s been called ‘ a day of infamy ,’ construction began on Trump’s border wall through Big Bend National Park. Under a $1.7 billion federal contract strongly opposed by Texas locals regardless of party affiliation, Southwest Valley started bulldozing for profit at 8 a.m., razing habitats of threatened species and destroying native vegetation. Running along parts of the Rio Grande, the project threatens mountain lions, black bears, and desert bighorn sheep that need back and forth access to habitat routes on both sides of the river . Conservationists have made clear that Trump’s 30-foot tall steel wall will sever and permanently destroy those routes . Nearly as bad as the senseless destruction of habitat(s) is the expense. The project will cost two thirds of the entire , chronically underfunded National Park Service’s annual budget. And for what? The area sees almost no illicit cross-border traffic, accounts for only 1 % of annual U.S.-Mexico border crossing...
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Trump is sweating over a law that could finally put him in jail

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Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives. This month, we learned that Capital One Bank closed more than 300 Trump Organization accounts back in 2021 because, they said, their internal fraud department had flagged illegal money-laundering activity. But on who’s behalf? We know from the Mueller Report and public reporting that Putin spent millions and did his best via social media and hacking the DNC to get Donald Trump into the White House in 2016, and was probably doing the same in 2020 and 2024. But what if there was a way for him to simply drop, say, $100 million right into political campaigns here in America that would back up or benefit Trump and his notorious crime family? Or simply give the money to Trump himself as thanks for screwing Ukraine and destroying America? While federal law prohibits foreign governments, citizens, and corporations f...
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Todd Blanche just let the mask slip as experts recoil at the new reality

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Todd Blanche just let the mask slip in real time, and the thud of post-Watergate norms hitting the floor should echo straight through the halls of Congress. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Donald Trump's former personal defense attorney-turned-Attorney General didn’t bother with the traditional, polite fiction of an isolated, impartial Department of Justice. Instead, he stared down the camera lens and openly declared that absolute independence is a bad idea, telling the country point-blank: "No, I'm not going to pledge that, and no attorney general should ever pledge that." The Impartiality Illusion Goes Up in Smoke For fifty years, the unwritten covenant of the nation's top law enforcement post was that the Attorney General operates as a constitutional firewall against West Wing vengeance. Blanche didn’t just tear down that wall; he ground it to dust. Cornered on whether he would factor Donald Trump's personal feelings into revivi...
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The dark truth behind Trump's treacherous new fabrications

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Trump claimed this past week that his job approval ratings are “fabulous” — they’re “above 60%.” He also asserted that the United States is enjoying “the greatest economy we’ve ever had.” And that the U.S. has “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz. “I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. Trump’s braggadocio doesn’t just mask his failures. His statements wildly contradict the calamities he’s created for America and the world. To be sure, since he first entered American politics, we’ve been shocked and outraged by his lack of morality, scruple, or shame. It’s been difficult to conceive of such a person because we’ve always been taught to distinguish right from wrong and to do the right thing. Yet Trump has no conception of right and wrong. He isn’t unethical. He’s non-ethical . He isn’t immoral. He’s amoral. But his latest fabrications are so contrary to the realities of his monumental failures — his losing war with Iran, the near-collapsing U.S. economy, ...
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NYT torches Trump for dismantling one of 'great achievements this century'

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President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress are determined to "dismantle" one of the "federal government's great achievements this century," with the latest piece from the New York Times Editorial Board tearing into them for the situation as it is primed to get worse. "One of the federal government’s great achievements this century was making health insurance affordable to millions more Americans," the board explained in the Saturday piece. "In 2010, nearly 18 percent of people under 65 lacked insurance. By 2024, the rate had fallen below 10 percent , thanks to the Affordable Care Act and later legislation that built on it. President Trump and congressional Republicans are working to dismantle that achievement. They have effectively cut subsidies for the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, making it harder for people who do not receive insurance through work to afford a plan. This year, the subsidy cuts led three million people to lose...
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