WATCH: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Brushes Off Reporter Asking Why He’s Walking Through House Side of Capitol
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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas brushed off a reporter asking why he was walking through the House side of the Capitol.
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White House staffer Margo Martin, whom President Donald Trump has called his "most beautiful" aide, faced mockery Monday over a video she posted on social media trying to flatter Trump.Martin recorded Trump walking through Lafayette Square on Sunday with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum as they discussed recent renovations tied to the president's "beautification" projects, according to The Daily Beast. The video generated unexpected responses from social media users who questioned Trump's health and commented on his movement through the Washington, D.C., park. Multiple social media users commented on Trump's appearance, particularly his walk. Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
President Donald Trump still won’t say whether he’ll sign a bipartisan housing bill that’s coming to his desk Monday, declaring it “a big yawn” compared to his voter suppression bill.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Monday, Trump brushed aside mention of the legislation, which aims to boost housing supply and address affordability issues.“Big deal. It’s a yawn,” Trump said. “Some people say it’s wonderful. To me, compared to the SAVE America Act, just about everything is a big yawn,” Trump said.Trump on Housing Bill: To me, compared to the Save America Act, everything is a big yawn! pic.twitter.com/Z49vLFK1WP— Acyn (@Acyn) June 29, 2026The SAVE America Act would require voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and a photo ID when voting. Citizenship is already a requirement to vote, and instances of noncitizens voting is incredibly rare. Plus, the bill as written doesn’t have enough support to pass the Senate; making it law before the housing bill, like Trump wants, is essentially impossible.“I think it’s so unimportant by compared to the SAVE America Act. I think the SAVE America Act is exactly what it says—it’s saving America from crooked elections. And the housing bill is a bill that can get approved, they worked on it long and hard. It’s very bipartisan—that means the Democrats like it,” Trump said, seemingly insinuating that the bipartisanship of the housing bill was a flaw.Reporter: What are your plans for the housing bill?Trump: I don’t know. I think it's so unimportant compared to the Save America Act. Democrats like it. They are getting things that I wouldn’t necessarily agree to. I made a lot of money with housing. pic.twitter.com/8aQYHfEPs0— Acyn (@Acyn) June 29, 2026“They’re getting things that I wouldn’t necessarily agree to,” he continued. “Nobody knows more than housing in the history of the presidency, nobody did well like me in housing. I made a lot of money with housing. But when I look at that bill, it’s a bill. But when I look at the SAVE America Act, it’s about saving America,” Trump said, demonstrating his ability to read.Republicans and Democrats alike are looking to the passage of the housing bill for a pre-midterm reputation boost. Republicans have a lot riding on this in particular. However, it seems like Trump would rather talk about his glory days as a slumlord than help out the vulnerable members of his own party—not to mention the millions of Americans who can’t afford homes.
It was a mixed bag for President Trump at the Supreme Court on Monday. The justices tightened the president’s grip on executive power in ruling independent agency leaders may be fired, while rejecting a key pillar of Trump’s political agenda aimed at restricting mail-in voting. They ruled he must give a Federal Reserve governor due…
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Monday that a second candidate named Dan Sullivan must be allowed to appear on the ballot in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, rejecting state election officials’ effort to disqualify him over concerns his candidacy was intended to confuse voters. The decision carries national implications as Republicans defend a narrow Senate majority, […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) finally found an issue he is willing to threaten President Donald Trump over.According to Politico's Meredith Lee Hill, Johnson "told Politico tonight the bipartisan, landmark housing bill will become law and President Trump will NOT veto it."This comes after Trump publicly trashed the bill, claiming it was "unimportant" next to the anti-voting rights bill known as the SAVE America Act — remarks that earned him fury and condemnation from observers of America's housing affordability crisis.For several days, Trump threatened not to sign the bill at all, leading to confusion over whether it would become law, the timeline for the bill to be presented to him, and the possibility of a "pocket veto" if Congress doesn't stay in session.Per the report, Johnson "said Trump is still 'deciding' whether he’ll sign the bill or just let it go into effect within 10 days while Congress is in session. That clock started today." Johnson told reporters, "He's not going to veto. We agreed to talk about it again tomorrow."According to Hill, "Privately, House GOP leadership has conveyed to the WH that Congress has the votes to overturn any Trump veto on the housing bill — and they would do it, per sources."The housing bill, crafted by key lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, includes a package of permitting reforms targeted to make it easier to build housing, ranging from dense infill in cities to manufactured and modular homes.
President Donald Trump's Medicare and Medicaid administrator Dr. Oz took the stage at the Great American State Fair on Monday to brag about the crowd size — but a TMZ reporter was on scene to pan the camera and reveal that, in fact, almost no one was there on the National Mall to watch the speech."There are tons of people here, it's a huge space, and it's going to get more and more crowded as the week goes on," said Oz, standing on the stage with right-wing actor Dean Cain.He went on to tout the guests at the event, including Pennsylvania state treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity.Meanwhile, the video posted to X showed the reporter, Charlie Cotton, scanning the crowd, showing only a small cluster of people near the stage and the rest of the Mall practically deserted.The picture, TMZ concluded, was "quite the opposite" of what Oz was boasting.The Great American State Fair is part of "Freedom 250," a series of explicitly partisan events the Trump administration organized by hijacking the originally nonpartisan America250 celebrations authorized by Congress.The whole series of events, leading up to the 250th anniversary of America's founding, has been plagued with issues from the start, including a promised list of celebrity performers who did not materialize, and air traffic shutdowns caused by Trump's plans for massive fireworks displays.Oz is not alone; Trump himself, who has throughout his time in politics embellished his own crowd sizes, claimed last week that the kickoff rally for the fair was "packed to the brim," even though it wasn't.
"Balance of Power: Late Edition" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On today's show, Natasha Sarin, Professor and Co-Founder of the Budget Lab at Yale University, and Jessica Roth, Professor at Cardozo Law School and a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, discuss the Supreme Court's rulings on President Trump's ability to fire agency heads and whether Lisa Cook can remain in her job at the Federal Reserve. Steven Cook, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says the US and Iran remain far apart on key issues - particularly, the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran’s nuclear program. (Source: Bloomberg)
President Donald Trump had a decidedly mixed day at the Supreme Court, suffering some major losses — and former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb thinks another huge one is coming down tomorrow on the last day of the court's term.Specifically, he told CNN's Erin Burnett that he believes the court is about to deliver a "rebuke" of Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, and possibly a unanimous one."The mail-in ballot case, that was significant ... he is really upset about that," said Burnett. "Then there's a Lisa Cook case, which he also took a hit in, from the Fed, she obviously was Fed governor. So do you read anything into these?" She added that Trump is furious because "This is a Supreme Court where he thinks he stacked it with people who were going to rule in his favor."Cobb agreed with this assessment. "Trump views this very transactionally — they're his people, they should vote his way. I mean that's his view of the world."However, he added, today Chief Justice John Roberts and some of his right-wing colleagues chose to "call balls and strikes," in the words Roberts famously gave at his confirmation hearing, and "hold the center" in both the Mississippi case and the Fed case.Meanwhile, he said, "Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the Mississippi ballot case, is a conservative; she is a strong conservative, but she's also an intellectually honest person. And she wrote the decision in the way that she actually believes. I know they're livid about that. I know Steve Bannon, one of Trump's advisers, a convicted felon and Epstein confidante, has trashed her today, and that Trump is livid. But the reality is she did her job, and she should be proud of that."As for what's coming next, said Cobb, "I would expect that Trump will be rebuked again on birthright citizenship.""It should be unanimous," he added, because it's an "obvious" case — though Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas might still be loyal to Trump here.The other outstanding cases, including on transgender athletes and campaign finance, could go Trump's way, said Cobb. Nonetheless, "On birthright citizenship, which I think is at the fundamental core of what it is to be an American, I think that the country will be proud tomorrow of the Supreme Court." - YouTube youtu.be
