President Donald Trump will virtually campaign on Monday night for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as the four-term senator looks to avoid a primary runoff in a crowded GOP field. South Carolina voters will take to the polls on Tuesday to cast their primary ballots in the state’s local, House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. Graham, who […]
President Donald Trump is still pursuing a long-term agreement to end the Iran war, even after Iran and Israel exchanged long-range missile strikes over the weekend for the first time in roughly two months, threatening to derail the process and drag the region back into war. Trump has repeatedly said Iran is ready to make […]
Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, revealed Monday that he had issued a threatening warning to New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul about an impending operation planned for her state.As reported by The Detroit News, Homan revealed on Fox News that the Trump administration had “drawn up a plan to surge” federal immigration enforcement agents to New York City in a continuation of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Homan claimed to have informed Hochul of the impending operation, albeit in a vague and threatening manner.“You’re going to see more [Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents] than you’ve ever seen in New York City, and it’s coming,” Homan said on Fox, the Detroit News reported. “I just reviewed an operational plan. I’m not going to tell you exactly when it’s going to happen, but it’s coming.”Homan’s remarks come shortly after Hochul signed a bill to “protect New Yorkers” against federal immigration enforcement agents. The bill-turned-law would prohibit local law enforcement from entering into specific agreements with federal immigration enforcement agencies, prohibit law enforcement officials from wearing face coverings, and establish an easier legal pathway for New Yorkers to sue immigration enforcement agents for unconstitutional activity.“With these measures, we are stepping up to protect our communities and the civil rights that generations have fought and died to establish,” Hochul said at the bill’s signing late last month. “New York's comprehensive plan will prevent local officials from carrying out federal immigration policy, protect schools and other sensitive locations, and give New Yorkers a meaningful remedy if government agents violate their rights.”
Did you land here looking for an account of the Republican Party’s latest angry crashouts and epic meltdowns? Well, you’ve come to the right place. From Truth Social to Capitol Hill, Donald Trump and his merry band of hangers-on are in incredible disarray. Led by a corrupt idiot, they are mired in a dumb war they can’t win, overseeing an economy that’s eating the livelihoods of ordinary Americans, and even facing some internal blowback as Trump’s demands for an increasingly varied array of vanity projects and a slush fund to reward his criminal goons are getting spiked by his GOP allies.Trump isn’t capable of sorting out any of the nation’s myriad problems—dilemmas mostly spawned by his relentless pressing of the “cause another problem” button. So he’s up late, whining to anyone who will listen that this is all everyone else’s fault. This week, he spent the wee hours angry at the Michael Smerconish podcast for hosting Trump’s former consigliere, Michael Cohen, who claimed he was “coerced into testifying against Trump.” The president made one of his trademark staggered-caps replies: “Michael Cohen has come out and unequivocally stated that the Radical Left Prosecutors, Tish James and Alvin Bragg, pressured and coerced him to testify against your favorite President, ME, when they made him the key player in their Political Witch Hunts.” Trump has also been monomaniacally preoccupied with the crashing and burning of the concert he’d planned for America’s semiquincentennial, a word that I’m looking forward to forgetting how to spell. Some weeks ago, it was announced that an array of aggressively tertiary-to-pop-culture performers had been lined up to play for the president’s pleasure. That bill has since dwindled to Vanilla Ice, who says that he would be willing to perform for Vladimir Putin and the Iranian mullahs, and Flo Rida, whose absolute commitment to getting that bag—any bag—would have a Saudi royal exclaiming, “Have some shame, habibi!”We know that this was a humiliating moment for Trump because he once again went on Truth Social to tell everyone about it. “We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain,” he wrote.That’s all pretty rich coming from someone whose every online utterance is a tantrum laced with either petty complaints or high-test AI slop. Past targets of his ire include “Dumocrats and RINOs” (with Thomas Massie, Thom Tillis, and Bill Cassidy coming in for specific scorn), the Supreme Court (this time spurning Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett), critics of his Iran war blundering, the judge who ordered his name be stricken from the Kennedy Center facade, and, of course, the Iranian people, against whom he routinely threatens war crimes. Pope Leo, in particular, seems to be living rent-free in Trump’s head at all times. The fact that Trump has chosen a midterm election year to become ungovernable is piling increasing pressure on those few Republicans who want to appear to be capable of governing. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who like Mitch McConnell before him seems to be hyperaware that allowing his GOP colleagues to go as feral as they’d like to would hurt their reelection chances—has reached a “breaking point” with Trump over several matters, including the nomination of Bill Pulte to be the director of national intelligence and the proposed “Anti-Weaponization Fund”—which seems to have been shoved back into some sort of procedural limbo after Democrats successfully raised a hue and cry over it.Republicans like Thune have a hard row to hoe right now. I’ve spent no small amount of time trying to figure out if there is any problem the GOP can solve in timely enough fashion to save their bacon for the midterms, and the conclusion I keep reaching is that this is simply a physiological impossibility for a party that seems to only have whining and trolling in its locker. This week, we saw some excellent examples of what Republicans are capable of doing: In Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee, in an effort to stick it to the LGBTQ community, declared it “Nuclear Family Month” (with no evident concern for the affordability crisis affecting those families). Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the state Republican Party made news for holding a moment of silence for the corrupt cop who killed George Floyd.Sorry to throw the thesaurus at this, but this is all stupid, puerile, insipid pissbaby nonsense. But it’s also the ne plus ultra of Republican ideas—right now and for the foreseeable future. Trump may still hold sway over his party, but the main evidence of his influence increasingly just seems like rot.
President Donald Trump has reached a critical juncture, writes geopolitical analyst and expert Trista Parsi, one that could result in either some de-escalation in the Middle East or an unprecedented disruption to global trade that could send oil prices to “well above $200 per barrel.”Parsi’s analysis, detailed in a report published on his Substack Sunday night, comes after Iran and Israel exchanged strikes earlier that same day. On Monday, Trump publicly pleaded with Israel and Iran to stop fighting as his administration continues working toward a negotiated settlement with Tehran, though both nations have frequently defied the president’s wishes.As such, Parsi argued, “the most likely scenario” in the days or weeks ahead is that Israel and Iran will continue to exchange fire. The “key question” then becomes, Parsi wrote, “whether Trump will eventually enter the conflict – or be pulled into it.”“The Iranians appear prepared for either outcome,” Parsi wrote. “If Trump re-enters the war, Tehran may employ options it withheld during the previous conflict, including disrupting Red Sea shipping and targeting GCC oil infrastructure in an effort to drive oil prices well above $200 per barrel. If Trump stays out, such horizontal escalation may be deemed unnecessary.”As of Monday, the price per barrel of oil sits at just over $97, a dramatic increase from the $72 seen one day before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury. Trump’s favorability has suffered as a result, with the average cost per gallon of gas reaching $4.24 last week, up significantly from the $2.98 recorded prior to the war.
Tom Homan says he made Kathy Hochul promise after governor signed bill protecting New Yorkers against ICEDonald Trump’s hardline border czar has again threatened to dispatch a surge of immigration agents to New York City, as the administration vows to press ahead with its controversial crackdown.Tom Homan said on Monday that he has reviewed a plan to expand Immigration Enforcement and Customs (ICE) operations in New York and deploy “more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen” in the city. Continue reading...
The Atlantic writer and former New York Times columnist unloaded on Platner during Friday's PBS NewsHour roundtable.
Six people were injured in a stabbing spree at New York's Penn Station on Sunday evening ahead of President Trump's attendance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, which is attached to Penn Station. What a way to welcome the President to the once great city? The post JUST IN: Six Injured in Stabbing Spree at New York Penn Station Ahead of Trump NBA Finals Attendance – Mamdani Responds (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Reese Gorman's new report for NOTUS centers discusses Speaker Mike Johnson ceding his job to President Donald Trump. According to the piece, posted Monday, Johnson relies so much on Trump that the president is the one who actually runs the House. Trump is in on the joke, too. “I have two jobs: being president and being speaker,” Trump once teased Johnson in front of other members of Congress. Trump's mockery stems from Johnson's failure to control his caucus and his desperate search for help from the president. The House is narrowly divided between the two parties, but Johnson has also faced members who are further to the right than the president and those with a more libertarian slant. Instead of working with Democrats for legislation, Johnson has called on Trump to twist arms. It usually involves Trump berating them. Typically, the House whip is responsible for that job. The job is currently held by Tom Emmer (R-Minn.). Last year, Trump on one of his calls with Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), who was in the cloakroom. Spartz was crying on the phone and as she walked away, two sources told NOTUS. Trump was on speakerphone, evidently still talking to other Republicans. “I have no f—— idea what she just said," Trump said to the other members. Puck News reported on the incident in February 2025, saying that Trump was screaming that Spartz was a "fake Republican." But Spartz said that Trump had promised to "save healthcare." Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) also got a call from the president after indicating he was a "no" vote. In the end, legislation passed by the GOP in the past year hasn't garnered much public support, according to Pew Research. The report cited two sources who said they were told to check with the White House before proposing legislation. One House Republican blasted it when speaking to NOTUS as "a total shirking of responsibilities to the White House. Everything has to be preordained and pre-blessed, and there’s very little that we’re able to have our own will on. We should be empowered to pass our own priorities, not just follow what the mandate of the day is.”One GOP aide thinks it's fine to rely on Trump. “Given that the president has to sign the bills that Congress passes for them to become law, it stands to reason that the White House would have input into and help pass the legislative agenda that Republican House Members and the President ran on and that 77.3 million Americans voted for,” the aide said.The 119th Congress is coming close to setting a record for the most "do-nothing Congress" in over 150 years. While previous congresses have been mocked as "do-nothing Congress," under a unified GOP government, legislation has come to a crawl. In the 118th Congress, which had Republicans in Congress and Democrats in the U.S. Senate and the White House, they only passed 158 bills in two years. Typically, there are 300 to 600. To find less, one would have to go back 150 years, according to reports.The 119th Congress has enacted 95 public laws and two private laws. The White House told NOTUS that its overly-involved influence has ensured things stay on the right track. This as a record number of incumbents announced their retirement. “Speaker Johnson is proud to have a strong and productive working relationship with the President that has delivered countless positive legislative results for the American people, in spite of the razor-thin margin of the House majority — including lower taxes, secure borders, reduced crime, a return to American energy dominance, massive reductions in burdensome regulations, fraud, waste and abuse, and so much more,” Johnson's spokesperson said.When Johnson or the White House tried to block bills from the floor that were unflattering to the president, GOP members joined with Democrats to force a vote. “The speaker has felt like, since they’re from the same party, there’s not a need for checks and balances. I disagree,” complained Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon (R), who is leaving Congress at the end of the year. “I think we could have provided more feedback on tariffs, Ukraine and other things, like the ballroom.”Other members told NOTUS don't know of anyone else who could do much better than Johnson.