Trump’s national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard resigns
Gabbard is the fourth cabinet member to leave under Trump's second term

A bizarre brag by President Donald Trump suggested he has lost track of what month it is.The 79-year-old posted a three-month-old New York Post front page to Truth Social early Friday, captioning it with the barely coherent "Have it!!! Great. President DJT." But the cover he shared, headlined "Trump wins gold," praised him for his "'winning' economic message in State of the Union" — a speech that took place back in February.That State of the Union ran a record-breaking 107 minutes, during which Trump declared the economy was "roaring like never before," blamed Democrats for the affordability crisis, and boasted that he had made America the "hottest" nation on Earth.A lot has changed since then.Trump is now staring down a midterm catastrophe, with a New York Times/Siena poll putting his approval rating at just 37 percent — down from 41 percent in January. Pollster Nate Silver's compiled average painted an even bleaker picture, putting his disapproval at 58.6 percent, surpassing his own first-term worst of 57.9 percent and Joe Biden's worst of 58.3 percent. It is the worst presidential polling average since George W. Bush left office.A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday found just one in three Americans — 33 percent — approve of his handling of the economy, down five points from 38 percent in mid-April. It marks the lowest economic approval rating of either of his terms.The State of the Union also came just three days before Trump launched a war with Iran, a conflict that has since claimed 13 American lives and triggered the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — the chokepoint through which roughly one-fifth of the world's oil flows in peacetime. The closure has sparked a global energy crisis and pushed gas prices toward $5 a gallon, deepening the affordability crunch Trump once promised to fix.A Daily Beast analysis of Trump's posting habits found that in April alone, he posted on 80 percent of nights — leaving just five nights in which he could theoretically have gotten a full night's sleep. He has also repeatedly appeared to doze off during Oval Office appointments.
Gabbard is the fourth cabinet member to leave under Trump's second term
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigned Friday, citing her husband’s battle with a rare form of bone cancer. “My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to…
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, whose anti-war views spurred tension with the White House, said she was resigning from the post to help her husband confront a bone-cancer diagnosis.
Critics were left dumbstruck on Friday after President Donald Trump characterized a taxpayer-funded settlement he reached as an act of selflessness, a remark that some noted had also severely undercut his own past remarks.On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump complained Friday morning that he “gave up a lot of money” after agreeing to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a nearly $1.8 billion settlement, with the funds earmarked for payouts to those who allege to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department.Trump said that in lieu of a personal payout that could have been an “absolute fortune,” he instead opted to “help others” who were “badly abused by an evil, corrupt and weaponized Biden administration.” His remarks also come after he previously claimed to not be “involved” in the creation of the fund.Trump’s framing of securing a nearly $1.8 billion payout from taxpayers to potentially secure payments for the president’s donors or violent Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, critics argued, was stunning.“Not content to just rip us all off, he expects praise for it,” noted author Jennifer Erin Valent in a social media post on X.Others, like podcast host “Hal for NY,” whose videos on YouTube have amassed more than 71 million views, pointed to what appeared to be a glaring contradiction Trump made in his remarks.“Funny, because he told us he had nothing to do with it. Now he wants a thank you?” they wrote in a social media post on X to their nearly 18,000 followers.And Joanne Carducci, a prominent Democratic political commentator, wrote to her more than 1 million followers on X: “I thought he said he had nothing to do with the slush fund?”I thought he said he had nothing to do with the slush fund? 🧐— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 22, 2026
'Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage — standing steadfast'
Tulsi Gabbard notified President Trump she is resigning as DNI, citing her husband Abraham's diagnosis with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.
President Donald Trump urged Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on Friday to ignore public musings about fiscal policy — even from the commander in chief himself — and operate “independently.” “Honestly, I really mean this. This is not said in any other way. I want Kevin to be totally independent,” he told the East Room […]