Here's a headline at Zeteo: Trump Advisers Worry He Could ‘Sink to the High 20s’ Asawin Suebsaeng writes: I have seen a lot of you making the same complaint, and it goes something like this: Donald Trump is such a horrendous U.S. president on so many different personal and policy fronts; I know his poll numbers are garbage right now, but how is it even possible that he’s consistently clinging to…
Most people were paying attention to other stories early this week and missed this : Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday is traveling to Iowa in his “personal capacity,” the Pentagon said in a statement, further fueling speculation that the former Fox News personality is mulling a run for president at some point. The visit ... comes five months after Hegseth was scheduled to appear at a…
I've been thinking about the Natalie Harp story and the possibility that it's not doing as much damage to Donald Trump as we're all hoping it is. The main problem with the story is that it suggests two possible realities, which point to two very different views of Trump. One is that Trump is having an affair with a young blonde who's less than half his age. The other is that he's a weak, doddering…
Running for reelection in Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff drew blood with this : Ossoff says that Trump doesn’t want to do his job but wants to “travel with Natalie” [image or embed] - Aaron Rupar ( @atrupar.com ) August 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM “While the sailors on the [USS Abraham Lincoln] fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his…
A new Axios story suggests that mainstream Democrats are starting to understand why so many of the party's voters are choosing progessives and democratic socialists rather than centrists: The Democratic establishment's ideas deficit The centrist Democratic group Third Way recently declared "war" on democratic socialists to head off what they fear could be a far-left hijacking of the party ahead of…
In The New York Times , Lisa Lerer and Katie Glueck have a dark warning for Democrats : Is the Democratic Party Facing Its Own Tea Party Moment? A movement of young, progressive outsiders has stormed Democratic politics this year, sparking a wave of contentious primary contests across the country and fueling a fraught debate over whether these new, left-wing candidates are remaking the party in…
Yesterday, Media Matters posted this clip from the Wednesday edition of Rudy Giuliani's podcast: Rudy Giuliani: Young people struggling economically are “privileged little shits” who need “somebody like my father to kick the shit out of them” TED GOODMAN (PRODUCER): Look, some folks in this country of the younger generations are feeling the squeeze a little bit economically. RUDY GIULIANI (HOST):…
The federal government will spends billions of tax dollars on President Trump's orders so the U.S. Navy can live in the past : President Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead go back to using steam catapults, a move Navy officials have fought for years and will likely cost billions of dollars. U.S. officials say…
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro recently dropped the felony case against David Hearn, the ex-Olympian falsely accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool in Washington. President Trump threw a fit in response to Pirro's decision, and now Pirro is trying to save her job. Maybe this will work: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has convened a special grand jury in Washington, D.C., amid a clash with President…
Francesca Hong was expected to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin yesterday. That anticipated victory, along with last week's win by Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary and other recent triumphs by left-leaning Democrats, was giving mainstream journalists a story they liked: The Democratic Party is being taken over by radicals who are very, very scary. You'd…
Today's Michelle Goldberg column is about a proud Republican asshole named Brandon Herrera, who's running for a House seat with the support of prayerful invertebrate Mike Johnson: Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the piquant term that Brandon Herrera, a Republican House candidate in Texas, used to refer to children in a 2023 video. I can only report that he called them “trophies”…
