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Recently, Trump’s right hand has managed to upstage two separate White House appearances, regardless of what he was actually there to announce. The South Lawn stop came first. Trump walked press through his latest construction project, a new presidential helipad, and spent more than 20 minutes covering everything from granite driveways to refurbished columns. He also defended his controversial…
Under oath in 2019, Michael Cohen told Congress he’d never ask Trump for a pardon. He’s since told CNN he’d already sent one, with a receipt to prove it. “I have not received an acknowledgement that they have the application, which is on my to-do list, which I intend to call tomorrow to find out what happened,” Cohen said Thursday , ahead of a radio interview marking his first public conversation…
Donald Trump’s ubiquitous but mysterious aide, Natalie Harp, has been the center of attention for the last week after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) mentioned her name in a speech, and Trump supporters freaked out that Ossoff was implying something more than he said. Now, however, reporters have been finding more information about Harp. Now, some letters Harp wrote to the president have surfaced,…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published on August 13, 2026 There’s a theory forming online that links a decoy flight out of Turkey last month to a resignation letter that went out Wednesday morning. Start with Turkey. Reporting confirmed by the Washington Post , New York Times and CNN revealed that Trump slipped out of the NATO summit in Ankara through a catering vehicle after intelligence…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published on August 14, 2026 On Friday morning, Karoline Leavitt boarded Air Force One for what may be one of her final trips as White House press secretary. She stood on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews , watched Trump field questions from reporters, and then made her way up the stairs to Air Force One. Just before she reached the top, she turned and looked…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published on August 12, 2026 Every viral moment has an origin story, and this one starts on a California highway overpass with some zip ties and a very specific poultry joke. Someone climbed behind the chain link fence and put up a message that gave passing drivers something more interesting to look at than traffic: “TRUMP CHICKENED OUT OF TURKEY,” spelled out…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in October 2025 Recently, Donald Trump told reporters, “We’re way ahead of China militarily… I rebuilt the military four years ago.” He made the remark during a live appearance at the White House alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese . The line came out strong, but the timeline didn’t match. Four years ago, it was Joe Biden in charge, not…
On Wednesday, Trump gathered his crypto business partners in the Roosevelt Room to push a stalled regulatory bill through Congress. The room included SEC Chair Paul Atkins, CFTC Chair Michael Selig, and executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Robinhood, Gemini, Kraken, Nasdaq and the NYSE, several with financial ties to World Liberty Financial , the crypto venture Trump built with his sons. He arrived…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in December 2025 Donald Trump was hit with another dose of unwanted drama on Friday when Julianne Murray, his handpicked U.S. attorney for Delaware, abruptly stepped down. Her resignation added yet another crack to an already shaky effort by the Trump administration to fill key legal posts with loyalists. And this time, the embarrassment was impossible…
Amid the recent controversy about the ever-present White House aide Natalie Harp, another subplot has been ever-present: First Lady Melania Trump hasn’t been around the White House much. That changed on Thursday, when Melania appeared and joked about it. “Good afternoon, I heard you missed me,” the First Lady said. “Here I am.” Melania Trump: “Good afternoon. I heard you missed me.” ???…
Is Donald Trump’s decade-long grip on the Republican base beginning to loosen? That seems to be the case, at least according to a recent focus group. Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark, who regularly runs focus groups with voters, found this trend in a recent analysis. “Often the most interesting grades come from Republicans. Those who give him an A or a B are probably among the roughly one-third of…
Since Trump returned to office, Democrats have flipped 31 state legislative seats, while Republicans have yet to flip one in the opposite direction. The latest came Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 12th House District, a seat Trump carried by 18 points less than two years ago. Brandon Dukes , a loan administrator from Butler County, edged Republican Scott Timko by 8,434 votes to 8,346, winning by just 88…
Ivanka Trump chose Miami-Dade for her back-to-school charity drive this week, the same district that just ended universal free lunch. Her company, Planet Harvest , teamed up with the nonprofit Style Saves to help more than 25,000 Miami families get ready for the year ahead, handing out backpacks, uniforms, sneakers, haircuts and boxes of produce. She described the effort on Instagram. “Planet…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in January 2026 President Donald Trump had his eyes on Minnesota on Thursday morning. Not because of the shooting, by an ICE agent, of Renee Nicole Good, on Wednesday. Rather, he was calling to “arrest them all,” in reference to Minnesota’s Somali-American community. Trump was linking to a news story from the right-wing site Just the News, by notably…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in June 2026 During his G7 closing press conference in Evian on Wednesday, Donald Trump was talking about the 2020 election being rigged when the microphone picked up an unusual sound. Those around him stayed quiet as Trump carried on with his speech. Journalist Aaron Rupar shared the clip with the caption: “Trump’s body makes some sort of horrible…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in June 2026 There is a certain courtroom scene that lawyers dread. A government attorney assures a judge that something is no longer happening, only to be asked a simple follow-up question: if that is true, why has nobody put it in writing? That question hovered over Friday’s hearing on Trump’s $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, creating a difficult…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in April 2026 When two American airmen went missing after their F-15E was shot down over Iran, the people managing the crisis made a decision. They kept the commander-in-chief out of the room and briefed him by phone at key intervals instead. According to the Wall Street Journal , they did this because they believed his presence would not be helpful.…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in April 2026 For years, Donald Trump’s rallies were events that people planned their weekends around, camping outside venues overnight and lining up hours before doors opened. On Friday in Phoenix, a retired dental hygienist named Diane Niemann said she only showed up because she saw there was barely a line to get in. That detail tells the story more…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in June 2026 A lot of attention has been paid over the years to notable weight loss among politicians and other world leaders. For many years, any weight loss by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was seen as a hint that Christie was planning to run for president. A few years ago, a major weight loss by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was seen as a…
DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in February 2026 Recently, former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shook up the political scene by openly criticizing President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement she once supported. In a fiery interview with political commentator Kim Iversen, Greene made a claim few expected. She called the core of MAGA, the movement that rallied Trump’s base, a…
Barron Trump turned 20 this year, and according to Forbes, that also makes him richer than his mother. The $150 million figure traces back to World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture Barron co-founded in 2024 with his father and brothers Eric and Don Jr. Forbes estimates the company has added more than $1.5 billion to the family’s combined wealth. Barron’s share lands around 10%, pulled from an…
Amid reports about horrible conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln during its long deployment in the Middle East, a group of military families has been heavily critical of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for dismissing their concerns. Earlier this week, when asked whether families were worried about conditions aboard, Trump replied, “No, they’re not.” When asked if the…
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump posted a map of the Strait of Hormuz on Truth Social and declared it a “new U.S. territory.” President Donald J. Trump has posted a new image to his Truth Social feed declaring the Strait of Hormuz as a “NEW U.S. Territory”. pic.twitter.com/1j9bxJk5N2 — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 18, 2026 This was mostly mocked, since the Strait of Hormuz is…