President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to lash out at former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden amid widespread mockery of his Great American State Fair, an event he insisted was “packed with happy people” and loved by all – despite ample evidence to the contrary.“Do you think people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in building and operating the Great American State Fair at the National Mall, packed with happy people, and everybody loving it?” Trump asked on his social media platform Truth Social. “Ask yourself this simple question, ‘DO YOU THINK THAT OBUMA OR SLEEPY JOE BIDEN COULD HAVE DONE IT?’ THE ANSWER IS NO!”Organized by the Trump-linked group Freedom 250, the fair got off to a rough start last Thursday after most of the artists previously slated to perform at the event backed out after learning of its connections to Trump. The fair has also experienced power failures that melted perishable foods and stalled a Ferris wheel, and has been ridiculed over what appear to be near-empty fields and booths.
President Trump said talks with Iran would resume Tuesday in Qatar, despite the two sides trading attacks in the Gulf over the weekend. Iran did not confirm whether it will participate.
Republican leaders are facing an uncertain path forward for their legislative plans, according to The Hill, after a contingent of "conservative hard-liners" mounted a "rebellion" to try and push for President Donald Trump's doomed voting bill."Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has an ambitious legislative agenda this week, but it’s unclear whether he can move those priorities forward as a group of conservative hard-liners demand action on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act," the outlet reported on Monday morning."Trump has been pushing hard for the passage of the SAVE America Act, a bill that would implement sweeping voting law reforms if passed, notably requiring individuals to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote. His obsession with the bill stems from his long-debunked claims that widespread voter fraud is being committed by non-citizens in the U.S., with critics warning that the bill would potentially disenfranchise millions of lawful citizens who lack easy access to things like their passports or birth certificates.Despite GOP leaders in Congress stressing to Trump that the bill lacks the votes to overcome the filibuster in the Senate, he has remained adamant that it must be passed, recently refusing to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill until it was done. As The Hill noted in its report, he has been joined in this crusade by some of his more hard-line GOP supporters."President Trump urged House Republicans last week to fall in line after conservative rebels brought most House floor activity to a standstill by threatening to oppose procedural rules unless the Senate passed the SAVE America Act," the report continued. "Because the House must adopt a rule before debating and voting on final passage of most legislation, the tactic effectively ground the chamber to a halt."The outlet added: "Whether Trump’s appeal will be enough to sway the holdouts remains an open question. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna(R-Fla.) wrote on social media last week that she had submitted an amendment to the House Rules Committee to attach the SAVE America Act to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signaling she is unwilling to back down.""This amendment to attach the SAVE America Act to the NDAA was filed last week and is now sitting in the Rules Committee," Luna wrote. "This is how to get my vote on a rule. But I am one of MANY."GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas was also adamant about the bill, urging his colleagues to "immediately pass HR2 (promised) to codify border security, a congressional stock trading ban, get SAVE passed, & fully fund defense with real pay-fors."Given the razor-thin GOP majority in the House, Johnson cannot afford more than a few holdouts at any given time, putting the chances of his other priorities moving forward in jeopardy.
The Supreme Court is due to release orders and some of its final opinions on Monday morning, days after delivering wins for the Trump administration in major rulings on immigration. Follow along here for the latest rulings from the court, which should be released shortly after 10 a.m. President Trump said Monday on Truth Social…
A professor of political science weighed in Monday on the latest controversy surrounding President Donald Trump and his family, one that involves allegations of corruption so blatant, the professor said, that a graphic outlining the alleged corruption bore resemblance to “an inbred family tree.”According to an explosive report from The New York Times Sunday, the sons of both Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are expected to profit handsomely from a secretive deal signed off on by Trump last November. As revealed by the Times, the Trump administration approved “as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing” for a small American mining company in an arrangement to secure Kazakhstan’s tungsten reserves, a deal that both Trump and Lutnick’s sons are expected to financially benefit from.Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford, noted the unprecedented simplicity of the alleged corruption scandal, writing on social media that the graphic created by the Times to illustrate the key players in the arrangement was unlike any similar graphic he’d seen before.“Usually these political corruption maps have complicated plumbing,” he wrote in a social media post on Bluesky, a comment that was flagged by Zeteo on Monday. “You know it’s bad when it’s just a closed loop that looks like an inbred family tree.”Trump’s sons – Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump – took a 20% stake in an entity “related to the Kazakhstan project,” the Times reported, and Lutnick’s sons – Brandon and Kyle Lutnick – helped raise funds for the deal through their investment company Cantor Fitzgerald, something that “typically [nets] Cantor millions of dollars in fees.”Even Pini Althaus, the owner of the aforementioned mining company, Kaz Resources, admitted to the Times that the optics of the arrangement looked "disturbing."“I can see how the optics might be disturbing to some people,” Althaus told the Times.Usually these political corruption maps have complicated plumbing. You know it’s bad when it’s just a closed loop that looks like an inbred family tree.[image or embed]— Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social) June 28, 2026 at 11:54 AM
President Donald Trump has boasted about the crowds flocking to the Great American State Fair, but photos show the semiquincentennial celebration has been thinly attended.The 80-year-old president claimed last week that 45,000 people attended the fair's kickoff celebration, although independent reporting estimated a far smaller crowd, and MS NOW's Mika Brzezinski mocked the misleading coverage over the weekend on Fox News."President Trump is touting crowd size at the American State Fair, claiming at least 45,000 people attended his speech kicking off America's 250th anniversary festivities. In Washington, D.C.," Brzezinski said. "But reports from the ground tell a different story. NBC News puts the crowd closer to 1,000 people, writing, quote, 'based on,' there you go, 'estimates by our team on the ground, nowhere near. 45,000 people were present.' The Washington Post reports, quote, 'the crowd thinly covered an area about the length of the National Museum of American History, smaller than some summer outdoor movie screenings,' and the New Republic writes, quote, 'dozens of attendees Wednesday were seen flocking toward the exits in the middle of Trump's address,' which was meant to kick-start the two-week event.""Despite the paltry crowd size, one news station insisted that there were more people attending that event than met the eye," she added.Producers played a clip of Fox News hosts covering the event live insisting there were more attendees than what appeared to be dozens of people milling around behind them on the National Mall, with one broadcaster claiming "a wash of people" were present – presumably just out of frame."Oh my God," Brzezinski said, cringing. "Ouch." - YouTube youtu.be
Disgraced former President Joe Biden raged and mumbled his way through a ten-minute diatribe attacking his successor, at one point hypocritically accusing President Donald J. Trump of […]
JERUSALEM — The United States and Iran will hold new talks on Tuesday in Qatar, President Donald Trump said Monday, after the two sides appeared to step back from a wave of attacks that threatened to derail peace efforts.“IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING.
Bill Maher challenged Vice President JD Vance on President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, and a well-connected Washington, D.C., reporter flagged a sneaky maneuver the V.P. used to avoid heckling from the talk show's live audience.The vice president agreed that candidates should not refuse to concede elections but claimed that technology companies had interfered in the 2020 election by censoring political narratives to favor Democratic candidates, but Jonathan Martin, Politico's politics bureau chief and senior political columnist, told MS NOW's "Morning Joe" that Vance had sidestepped Trump's actual claims."I want to go back to that clip you played at the start of this segment," Martin said. "I think it's really important for your viewers to see what Vance was doing, because it's a really slick slight of hand what Vance was doing. He has a studio audience, a studio audience there in Hollywood that skews liberal. He's got a host who definitely skews liberal in Bill Maher.""Vance does not have the courage to sit there and echo Trump saying 2020 was stolen and Democrats literally stole the election because he knows that can't play with that audience and that he's going to be laughed at and mocked if he says it out loud," Martin added, "so he doesn't echo what Trump actually said, he just argues something else entirely."Martin said the game Vance was playing on Maher's show is the same balance that all Republicans are forced to strike with Trump looming over the party."He won't carry Trump's water there because he'll be laughed at it before a studio audience," Martin said. "But he also won't alienate Trump or disagree with Trump, so he argues something else entirely from the question that was posed, which is talking about what social media companies did on speech in the lead up to '20. But that was never Trump's argument. Trump wasn't talking about that, Trump said, 'No, it was literally stolen from me, they literally stole the election from me.' But Vance won't litigate that, so instead he talked about something else and hopes that Trump won't notice, and this is a standard for the entire game for the last decade. What Vance was doing there is what the party does writ large, which is you just try to make this as least humiliating as possible – change the argument: 'Well, I'm talking about the broader case, the broader case, because if you litigate what Trump is actually saying...""It's embarrassing and obviously it doesn't stand up on the facts, either, and what Vance was doing there is that game they play every time – it's a high-brow Trumpism, it's an uptown version of Trumpism," Martin added. "He won't say they stole the election directly, I'll just say say something else that won't piss Trump off. He won't notice that I'm actually walking away from his craziness and I can just live for one more day. Boy, that is the order of the decade for the GOP." - YouTube youtu.be