Online critics are laughing at Trump's convoluted plot to throw off the press by renaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).In a Saturday morning Truth Social post, Trump floated a plan to rename ICE to the "National Immigration and Customs Enforcement," or NICE. He wrote that it would "totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters and Journalists.""Fun fact: if you say 'an ICE facility' and 'a NICE facility' out loud, they sound exactly the same," quipped immigration policy analyst Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on X."Because Americans will feel much better watching 'NICE' agents execute their neighbours in broad daylight," joked Canadian political commentator and radio host Dean Blundell."Our president is laser focused on the important things," author Jennifer Erin Valent sarcastically wrote. "Like social media polls about his favorite acronyms and nasty nicknames.""Trump sure has a thing about particular LETTERS..." posted former pro Tennis player turned political commentator Martina Navratilova."His brain is 100 large curd cottage cheese," wrote GOP political strategist Jeff Timmer, using the emphatic, underlined "100" emoji.
President Donald Trump blamed ABC reporter Jonathan Karl and vandals for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s peeling seal and algae growth after the Trump administration’s $15 million renovation. The pool turned bright green from an algae bloom following the installation of “American flag blue” coating at the bottom of the pool. In an effort to […]
A three-time Olympic athlete was arrested for touching the detached paint of the renovated Reflecting Pool, according to the Washington Post.Olympian David Hearn, who competed three times in the canoe slalom, stopped by the Reflecting Pool on Friday after a bike ride to see how it looks since Trump's $14 million renovations, the Post reported. The Reflecting Pool is currently plagued with murky green algae blooms, and paint is coming off after workers dumped hydrogen peroxide in it to combat the algae.According to the Post, Hearn reached into the Reflecting Pool to feel a piece of partially detached paint from the bottom, and moments later, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on the misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property."I didn't vandalize anything," Hearn told the Post, adding that he just wanted to feel stripping paint. "I didn't destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs."Trump has already accused "Radical Left Lunatics" and ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl of trying to destroy the pool as reporting on the peeling paint emerged, MS Now reported.Hearn's arrest was recorded and posted on social media by conservative journalist Emily Miller. Three officers can be seen holding and handcuffing the 67-year-old Hearn.Miller described the scene as "Man arrested for vandalizing Lincoln Reflecting Pool. He grabbed the hose that female National Park Service workers were using to clear the algae." Meanwhile, in the comments, people described him as a "leftist boomer," and an "a—.""I didn't remove anything," Hearn reiterated to the Post. "I reached in there, and I was able to grab the end of that flapping piece, the already peeling piece. It was still attached to the bottom."Hearn is now due to appear in D.C. Superior Court on July 9, per the Post.
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll was published Saturday with fresh data on how Americans are feeling about President Donald Trump and his handling of the economy, and the survey’s findings left MS NOW’s Alex Witt floored.“The numbers for Trump's economy… they are not pretty,” Witt said.According to the poll, just 33% of Americans indicated they approved of Trump’s handling of the economy, with 60% disapproving. The poll, which surveyed 1,340 Americans and was conducted between June 8 and 11 – notably before the Trump administration reached its tentative peace deal with Iran, which now appears to be in jeopardy – represented the lowest rating for the president on the economy in its history.“New warning signs for the Trump administration as Americans struggle with expenses and have to alter summer plans,” Witt said. “A new poll shows only one-third of Americans approve of the president's handling of the economy – it is Trump's lowest rating ever on the economy in this poll.”Meghan Hays, who previously served as President Joe Biden’s special assistant, noted that Trump’s strategy on improving his standing with Americans – which she described as the “don’t-believe-your-lying-eyes strategy” – wasn’t working.“Gas prices are up over 80 cents, grocery prices are up, people can't afford their health care, the American people are really suffering and it doesn't seem like the Trump administration cares anything about that,” Hays said. “They care about ballrooms, reflecting pools and fake agreements with Iran that are just making the economy worse.”
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) invited President Trump to attend a Senate GOP luncheon on Wednesday at the Capitol to discuss the SAVE America Act.
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Former President Biden wins a three-week injunction blocking release of audio recordings from Special Counsel Hur's classified documents investigation.
Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio says President Donald Trump has plopped such a noxious odor on right-wing ideology that even ideological diehards are leaping out of windows to avoid him.“After 10 years of degrading bootlicking obeisance by the president’s many courtiers, it was startling to see someone who needs a relationship with Trump assert her dignity against his insults,” said Catoggio, speaking of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s epic takedown and denial of Trump’s claim that she “begged” him to “take a picture with him.”In reaction Meloni exploded onto the news cycle, declaring that neither she nor Italy begs for anything.Of course Trump said it, suspects Catoggio: “Casually demeaning someone because he bears them a grudge is as instinctive to Donald Trump as applying bronzer or bloviating about ‘strength.’”“But those who need to stay on his good side — like, say, every Republican official in the country — are doomed to follow the Ted Cruz career arc between 2016 and 2021, broadly speaking,” Catoggio added. “That is, if Trump insults your wife, you find a way to let it slide and salute when he asks you to help him stage a coup.”Additionally, if you’re a European leader trying to cobble NATO together and keep Trump from siding with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Catoggio said “the cowardice of the American leadership class” leaves you with few allies within the U.S. willing to support your resistance to Trump.“And so the prudent, if pathetic, thing to do when an imperious postliberal goblin insulted you was to bite your tongue,” said Catoggio. “Not Meloni, though. She’s had enough.”Still, Catoggio suspects Trump’s character and behavior on other matters is driving the Italian leader's anger. “She’s a right-wing nationalist, like the president himself. She promotes Christian values and the traditional family model, and presumably she’d like to see that vision make inroads across the continent,” Catoggio said. But “Trump is killing her chances.”“The more right-wing politics becomes associated with fat orange clownery, the less European voters will want any part of it,” said Catoggio — and she’s not the only right wing leader fearing for the stain Trump leaves on their argument.Far-right European leaders, he said, have been running away from the president for months, in fact. Anger at the Iran war’s global impact on energy costs is a start, but Trump’s behavior is also to blame. Jordan Bardella, the head of France’s leading nationalist party summed up Trump’s antics as, “not only erratic but also extremely unsteady and constantly shifting. … [We need to] allow powers that are a bit bewildered by the United States — and who no longer understand the comings and goings of the American president, particularly on defense — to be able to find in the French defense industry a backup option.”“The incident with Meloni is simply another bewildering episode involving the American president that can only hurt the United States and make the global right he unofficially leads look petty, tactless, impetuous, and stupid,” said Catoggio. “Maybe Meloni’s irritation is less a product of her pride being wounded than her resentment at being saddled with a prominent ideological ally who’s discrediting their mutual cause. She’s doing what she can to re-dignify it.”Catoggio added that congressional Republicans should meditate on Meloni’s streak of independence, but he added “we’re waaaaaaay past the point of salvaging the respectability of right-wing politics in the U.S.”“So enjoy the Giorgian rebellion abroad,” he concluded. “It’s the closest to dignity from a conservative official that you and I will witness in 2026.”
Mediaite reports Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hit President Donald Trump with a withering new Saturday rant attacking his waning popularity in the latest “salvo of a roiling feud over a selfie.”On Saturday afternoon, Italy time, Meloni posted a scathing Instagram message to Trump advising him to “focus” on his own popularity — or lack thereof, reported Mediaite.Apparently stung by Meloni’s long-distance slap for claiming she “begged” him for a selfie, Trump took to Truth Social early Saturday, repeating his allegation that she did indeed plead for a pose.“Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France,” said Trump, adding that “She is doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity, possibly because she turned down the United States of America, a Country that truly loves and protects Italy, when it came to denying Iran from obtaining or developing a Nuclear Weapon.”Trump went on to complain that the PM “wouldn’t even let us use Italy’s landing strips or runways [to attack Iran], a great logistical inconvenience.”“Now, after the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to be friends again in order to get her ‘numbers up.’ No thanks!” he added.But Meloni was apparently in no need of Trump’s finger-wagging and reminded him of his own collapsing poll numbers.“President Trump, these constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless. As for my popularity, being your friend certainly has not helped it, nor does it depend on my relationship with you.”Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio argues, however, that Trump’s relationship with Meloni may indeed have put a strain on her polling back home after Trump’s unilateral attacks on Iran resulted in the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and a dramatic increase in Italian fuel prices.“The more right-wing politics becomes associated with fat orange clownery, the less European voters will want any part of it,” argued Catoggio.But in her Instagram shout, Meloni claimed her popularity “depends on my ability to defend Italy’s national interest, and that is exactly what I have always done.”“That is also what I did regarding the American military bases in Italy. Their use is governed by agreements that we have always respected, and that cannot be violated as long as I am Prime Minister,” she continued. “Italy remains a sovereign nation. In any case, my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”
