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Kennedy Center official tells judge removing Trump's name would make them go broke

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A key official for the Kennedy Center argued to a federal judge this week that the famed venue would see a collapse in donation revenue if President Donald Trump's name were to be removed from the building.The filing, part of a lawsuit brought against Trump by Kennedy Center boardmember and Democratic congresswoman Joyce Beatty, was flagged on Wednesday morning by Lawfare senior editor Roger Parloff in a post to X."Should President Trump's name be removed from the Center, that vital fundraising connection will be severed, causing irreparable harm and fundamentally destabilizing the Center's development efforts, severely impairing its trust-funded artistic programming, and rendering the continuation of ongoing trust-funded operations financially nonviable," wrote Kennedy Center Chief Operating Officer Charles Matthew Floca.Since taking office, Trump has aggressively moved to bring control of the Kennedy Center under his thumb, appointing loyalists to the board overseeing it who proceeded to add Trump's name to the facility.Since then, the Kennedy Center has seen a catastrophic decline of sales, revenue, and performers unwilling to endorse the president's image. Officials have responded with a move to shut down the Kennedy Center for two years of renovation work, which critics have said is an effort to conceal how badly the institution's finances have been impacted.Beatty is not alone in her litigation, with historic preservation groups also filing suit against the changes to the Kennedy Center.

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Former Republican strategist claims Trump's health is hitting an all-time low

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Former Republican strategist claims Trump's health is hitting an all-time low

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump's health is declining and the White House is concealing the reality through a coordinated cover-up. In his Substack post, "Trump Is Dying," Wilson compared the deception to Edith Wilson forging her husband's signature in 1919, citing "memos," claims of "excellent health," and "careful staging" to obscure Trump's diminished condition. Wilson accused White House officials, including Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Cheung, of lying about Trump's condition without accountability. He also criticized media outlets for "flinching" from covering Trump's health with accuracy. Wilson noted Trump's appearance — a 79-year-old with swollen extremities and bruised hands — alongside his falling approval ratings and contentious base concerns about grocery prices."There is no third act," said Wilson."There is only the long, undignified, makeup-smeared decline of a man and a movement whose moment has passed, narrating itself ever more loudly into an ever emptier hall, a frowzy barfly of a man, replaying past glories that never happened and hoping you won’t notice the bad wig."Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

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Wall Street Journal decimates Donald Trump

What the Republican Party puts out publicly is far from who they really are privately when the political lights go out, and they find themselves in the dark. This is according to an article from Wall Street journal, which was released Friday evening. In the article, it said that the Republican party is breaking apart… The post Wall Street Journal decimates Donald Trump appeared first on Palmer Report.

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Trump's scorched-earth MAGA takedown jolts Republicans who fear November bloodbath: 'Rome is burning'

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Trump's scorched-earth MAGA takedown jolts Republicans who fear November bloodbath: 'Rome is burning'

President Donald Trump has officially sunk 'disloyal' Texas Senator John Cornyn, but this gambit to oust a the stalwart may cost Republicans down the line.

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Trump White House Advances Plan Requiring Federal Workers to Sign NDAs

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Trump White House Advances Plan Requiring Federal Workers to Sign NDAs

One critic of the policy said it would “kneecap whistleblower protections" and “undermine the First Amendment.”

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Trump says he’ll miss Al Green’s State of the Union antics after primary loss

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Trump says he’ll miss Al Green’s State of the Union antics after primary loss

President Donald Trump claimed in a new social media post that he will miss Rep. Al Green’s (D-TX) flair for dramatic protests at the State of the Union, less than one day after the Texas Democrat lost a primary runoff election. “Al Green, one of the most mentally deficient Congressmen in the history of our […]

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Trump appoints former Attorney General Pam Bondi to White House science panel

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Trump appoints former Attorney General Pam Bondi to White House science panel

President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to his panel on science and technology, nearly two months after he fired her as the head of the Department of Justice. Bondi will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), joining several business and technology leaders, a White House official confirmed. It…

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Trump official's 'actively insane' new plan to punish Dem cities flabbergasts experts

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Trump official's 'actively insane' new plan to punish Dem cities flabbergasts experts

A Trump administration official's proposal to punish Democratic-led cities was met with harsh criticism.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin appeared on Fox News late Tuesday to discuss plans to stop processing international travelers and cargo at U.S. airports in cities that refused to cooperate with the administration's immigration crackdown."We are currently drawing up plans to say, listen, in these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren't allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws," Mullin told host Sean Hannity, "then we shouldn't be processing international flights into their cities."Critics pounced on the proposal as impractical and likely unconstitutional."Of all the bad ideas floated by this Administration, this one ranks," said CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem. "It has got to be real; Mullin wouldn't waste time like this unless it is a serious distraction plan. Planes don't divert to other airports. The flights will be cancelled, disrupting blue and red voters, impacting the airlines, and having no impact on immigration policy. They are going to do it.""This plan is actively *insane,*" warned Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, of the American Immigration Council. "Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they'd just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.""'Attention, passengers. We've been advised our landing has been rerouted from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana,'" predicted journalist Nancy Nall Derringer."'No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another'" U.S. Const. Art 1, s. 9, cl. 6," quoted the widely followed Questionable Authority account."When radical, extremist, conservative, right wing, Neo-Confederate, Republican fascist / gangster voters and their fascist / gangster party make war on US cities," grumbled economist Hansel Krankepantzen."Kinda curious what the actual plan, if any, is," wondered Lawfare's Eric Columbus. "Even this crew isn’t that stupid.""This may actually be the stupidest proposal that I have heard from a Trump cabinet secretary in 5+ years of Trump cabinet secretaries and the combined suit from blue states and airlines will be good reading," marveled podcaster Matt Cameron.

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Trump throwing 'loyal MAGA foot soldiers' under the bus — to his own peril

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Trump throwing 'loyal MAGA foot soldiers' under the bus — to his own peril

During the GOP's 2026 U.S. Senate primary in Texas, incumbent Sen. John Cornyn went out of his way to win President Donald Trump's support — from wanting to rename a highway after Trump to posting a photo of him reading "The Art of the Deal." But Trump endorsed Cornyn's challenger: far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who defeated him by roughly 27 percent in a Tuesday runoff. According to Salon's Amanda Marcotte, Trump's treatment of Cornyn is a prime example of his willingness to throw a "loyal MAGA foot solider" under the bus — and do so at his own peril."Trump is already paying for his choice to endorse Paxton over Cornyn," Marcotte observes in Salon. "Senate Majority Leader John Thune has barely hidden his exasperation, complaining to reporters, 'None of us control what the president does.' Multiple Republican senators have refused to answer questions or expressed displeasure at the prospect of losing Cornyn, a fundraising powerhouse for the party…. Now, they have one more reason to resist Trump: He has proved he will not return any loyalty shown to him by legislators. Cornyn has been a loyal MAGA foot soldier, voting with Trump 99 percent of the time. His only real resistance has been in refusing to agree to the Big Lie that Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election, but even then, he still refused to vote for Trump;s impeachment over the January 6 riot."Marcotte continues, "Trump keeps the Republican caucus in line with fear he will endorse their primary opponents, and his endorsement of Paxton over Cornyn is that anxiety made manifest. But showing that even fierce loyalty to Trump won't guarantee Republicans safety also removes much of the incentive to stick by him."In Salon, Marcotte has written extensively about Republicans going to great lengths to please Trump only to get thrown under the bus in the end — for example, the firings of former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, both MAGA loyalists. Now, Marcotte argues, Trump has made Cornyn part of the "YOLO (You Only Live Once) caucus," meaning GOP lawmakers who won't be in Congress after January 2027 and will be more likely to speak their minds about the president. Senate Republicans often described as "YOLO" include North Carolina's Thom Tillis and Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, neither of whom is seeking reelection."Trump's inadvertent creation of a YOLO (You Only Live Once) caucus is looking to be a poor decision on his part," the Salon journalist observes. "Free from having to placate the infamous bully in chief, these Republicans are causing far more problems for him than they ever did when they were trying to stay in his good graces. They are trying to derail his slush fund, attacking and helping push out members of his Cabinet — and it looks like they may even kill the ballroom funding."Marcotte adds, "With only 53 senators in the caucus, adding one more Republican to the list of people who are angry at Trump could make it very hard for the president to will a majority on anything he wants to do, especially if it's already unpopular."

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