Trump’s Wild New Excuse for Wanting Greenland Is His Flimsiest Yet
Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the fate of the world rested on the United States gaining control of Greenland. During a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump made...
View ArticleTrump’s Surprise Admission About Putin Wrecks “Great Dealmaker” Scam
President Donald Trump just made some bizarre new public statements about the Russia-Ukraine war. At one point, he seemed to get angry at Vladimir Putin over a massive new Russian attack on Ukraine,...
View ArticleDon’t Be Fooled. Elon Musk Isn’t Going Anywhere.
Elon Musk is finally leaving Washington, or so we’re told. Speaking to panicked Tesla investors on Tuesday, the electric car company’s CEO said the magic words that they—and countless millions across...
View ArticleCBS News Falls to Trump: The Shocking Resignation of Bill Owens
There comes a moment when journalistic integrity meets corporate reality. For Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, that moment arrived on Tuesday when he announced his resignation to a...
View ArticleNetflix’s Adolescence Speaks Directly to Parents’ Fears
There sure are a lot of TVs in the second episode of Netflix’s terrifying and terrified miniseries Adolescence. A teen girl, Katie, has been stabbed to death in a parking lot next to a playground. It’s...
View ArticleTrump’s Policies Are Bad News for His Favorite Industry
The Trump administration hasn’t been great for the oil industry. In its quest to “drill, baby, drill” and expand trade wars, the White House has also sent fuel prices tumbling and brought about what...
View ArticleTrump’s Feud With the Federal Reserve Will Hit Your Pocketbook
President Donald Trump may have temporarily walked back his recent disparagement of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, but the damage was done: The president spooked stock market investors, caused...
View ArticleTrump’s War on Immigrants Has Become an Attack on Us All
Mass deportations are difficult, and the White House knows it. President Donald Trump largely failed to carry out his far-reaching immigration enforcement plans during his first term. Some of his...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Ugly Admission about Putin Wrecks “Dealmaker” Scam
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 25 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleTrump Makes Alarming Confession on Wrongly Deported Immigrant
President Trump told Time magazine that he is essentially doing nothing to comply with the Supreme Court order to bring back wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the CECOT megaprison in...
View ArticleGuess How Much Elon Musk Actually Got Done Before His Surprise Exit?
In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, Elon Musk lost nearly twice as much money as he cut in government spending as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.Following a...
View ArticleTrump Ousts Key Tariffs Official Over Petty Need for Revenge
The White House fired an official because he knew the guy who criticized President Donald Trump in the famous “Anonymous” op-ed in The New York Times seven years ago, The Washington Post reported...
View ArticlePete Hegseth Seems to Be Losing His Mind as Leaks Keep Coming
The walls seem to be closing in on Pete Hegseth.The defense secretary—who has drawn ire for his Crusader-level white supremacy, his alcoholism, and his rank misogyny—appears to be losing it as his...
View ArticleTrump Is Privately Freaking Out About the Ukraine War
Donald Trump has made a new promise to end the Ukraine war by Wednesday.Trump repeatedly pledged on the campaign trail he’d end the war in Ukraine by the first day he returned to power. But as he fast...
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Trump’s FBI Just Arrested a Sitting Judge
FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday the agency has arrested a Wisconsin judge for “obstructing an immigration operation.”Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on charges of obstruction after she...
View ArticleTrump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
Imagine that Joe Biden, just as he was assuming office, had started a new company with Hunter Biden and used his main social media account to recruit financial backers, then promised that the most...
View ArticleMyPillow CEO in Hot Water for Disastrous AI-Generated Legal Filing
The only legal representation available to MyPillow CEO and ardent election-denier Mike Lindell is, apparently, completely fake.Attorneys for the longtime Donald Trump ally are facing possible...
View ArticleTrump Makes Bonkers Claim About All His Trade Deals
Donald Trump has made the outrageous claim that he’s struck a whopping 200 trade deals with foreign leaders during his 90-day pause on his “reciprocal tariff” policy. But when pressed, the president...
View ArticleGeorge Santos’s Many, Many Lies Finally Come to an End
Congress’s mouthiest liar will be spending the next seven years in prison.A federal judge sentenced former Representative George Santos to 87 months in the clink on Friday. The reputed hustler—who was...
View ArticleTrump Fails to Answer Easy Question on Payments to El Salvador
Donald Trump doesn’t know, or at least isn’t revealing, how much he’s paying Savaldoran President Nayib Bukele to detain immigrants deported from the United States without due process.After reaffirming...
View ArticleTrump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why.
Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency this time around on the most openly ethno-nationalist platform in memory, one he explicitly promised to implement with undisguised authoritarian measures....
View ArticleTrump Pulls Abrupt 180 on Foreign Students After Huge Blowback
Donald Trump’s administration will restore student visas that were terminated “solely based on” minor legal infractions.The Department of Justice announced in federal court Friday that Immigration and...
View ArticleTrump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant
The Justice Department quietly invoked the Alien Enemies act last month to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the power to conduct warrantless searches of people’s homes as long as they...
View ArticleDemocrats Erupt After Trump’s FBI Arrests Sitting Judge
The FBI arrested a sitting U.S. judge Friday for “obstructing an immigration arrest operation,” a jarring escalation in Donald Trump’s nationwide assault on immigrants, the judicial system, and anybody...
View ArticlePete Hegseth’s Signal Phone Number Can Be Found Everywhere
The phone number that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was using to discuss sensitive war plans on Signal was used on multiple other public platforms, according to The New York Times. Hegseth’s number...
View ArticleTrump’s Attorney General Warns Arrested Judge Is Just the Beginning
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Friday that the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin was only the beginning of Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown on the judiciary.Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested...
View ArticleTrump’s Attack on ActBlue Just Blew Up in His Face
The Trump administration’s decision to target ActBlue has instead resulted in the left-leaning platform’s biggest fundraising day of the year.On Thursday, Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to...
View ArticleTrump Dodges Key Question on Team Tipping Off Wall Street Execs
President Donald Trump is refusing to promise that his staff didn’t engage in insider trading.While speaking with reporters on Air Force One Friday, Trump was asked about a report that people inside...
View ArticleRepublican Senator Warns Trump in Dire Message on Putin
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley begged Trump to impose more sanctions on Russia, something the president will almost certainly never do.“IVE SEEN ENOUGH KILLING OF INNOCENT UKRAINIAN women +...
View ArticleOfficials Prepared to Return Abrego Garcia—Until Trump Intervened
Some officials in the Trump administration tried to bring back Kilmar Abregoa Garcia just days after he was deported, but the president shut them down.Since Abrego Garcia was unlawfully deported last...
View ArticleThe Democratic Senator Who Silenced the Centrist Naysayers
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it—well, two or three other times, at least: Democrats have found themselves in a content-creation war with the Trumpian right. And this pitched battle isn’t being...
View ArticleThe Trump Team Wants to Boost Birth Rates While Poisoning Children
“I want a baby boom,” Trump has said. His administration is indeed exploring a range of approaches to boost the birth rate, including baby bonuses and classes on natural fertility. Yet his focus is...
View ArticleTrump’s Rage Over Abrego Garcia Case Darkens as Crushing New Polls Hit
Over the weekend, President Trump raged on Truth Social at judges who are ruling that Trump must follow the law in the case of wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others illegally deported to...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia’s Dreams of a Sustainable Economy Are Now Drowning in Oil
If you blinked, you may have missed the way Saudi Arabia’s utopian economic diversification program known as Saudi Vision 2030 has been unofficially rebranded “Vision 2034,” named for the year Saudi...
View ArticleIn 100 Days, Trump Has Invented Something New: Clown-Show Fascism
Remember how April 2 was “Liberation Day”? That was the day Donald Trump announced his tariff regime; it was, I think, the third grand announcement out of about six total. I know you remember it—the...
View ArticleThe Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts
A top Trump-aligned legal group filed a lawsuit last week that argued that two key components of the judicial branch are actually part of the executive branch—a novel legal theory that would radically...
View ArticleJD Vance Likes “Normal Gays.” Should We Count That as a Win?
In late March, a group of Republicans in California sparked controversy for their plan to host an event dubbed “A Normal Gay Social.” The party referenced something JD Vance said before the 2024...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Blurts Out Revealing Admission on Abrego Garcia Case
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleTrump Treasury Sec. Rushes to Explain How Many Trade Deals He’s Made
Donald Trump’s outlandish claim that he’d struck 200 trade deals was a complete fiction, according to members of his own Cabinet. During an appearance on ABC News’s This Week Sunday, Treasury Secretary...
View ArticleTrump Demands Criminal Probe After Most Brutal Poll Numbers Yet
President Trump woke up early and angry Monday morning after multiple polls showed he has the lowest first-100-days approval rating of any president in the last 80 years.“Great Pollster John...
View ArticleTrump Makes Chilling “Joke” About Third Term Rumors
Donald Trump can’t help speculating about serving a third term as president—even as he claims, “It’s not something that I’m looking to do. And I think it would be a very hard thing to do.”The president...
View ArticlePete Hegseth’s Group Chats Aren’t Only Ones Setting Trump Policy
A sprawling network of Signal group chats involving hundreds of top business executives, Silicon Valley leaders, and journalists, as well as legal and economic analysts, has massively reshaped national...
View ArticleKaroline Leavitt Refuses to Rule Out Arrest of Supreme Court Judges
The Trump administration is open to arresting Supreme Court judges, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told it on Monday morning.“You guys arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge for...
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Republican Representative’s Town Hall Blows up in His Face
Republican Representative Mike Lawler wanted to impose order during his town hall Sunday, but no amount of rule-setting could have spared him from the fury of his constituents. The New York Republican...
View ArticleTrump Turns Canadian Election Into Weird Plea for Control
On Canada’s Election Day, the leader of the United States urged the nation’s neighbors to vote for an especially odd third option: choosing Donald J. Trump as their leader.“Good luck to the Great...
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Elon Musk Joins MAGA Meltdown Over Democrat’s Call to Fight Trump
Trump supporters are freaking out after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called for mass mobilization to resist Donald Trump. Pritzker told guests at a New Hampshire dinner full of Democratic activists,...
View ArticleTrump Prepares to Sign Order Inspired by MAGA Conspiracy Theory
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order requiring all truck drivers to speak English, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “President Trump believes that English is...
View ArticleTrump’s Justice Department Just Ordered Terrifying Elections Overhaul
Donald Trump has completely gutted the Department of Justice section charged with securing elections, The Guardian reported Monday. In January, there were seven top career managers overseeing the...
View ArticleTrump Gets Dire Warning About Tanking Approval Poll Numbers
Top GOP pollsters are seeing the forest for the trees in Donald Trump’s tanking approval rating.Speaking with CNN on Sunday, Republican pollster and communications strategist Frank Luntz described the...
View ArticleTreasury Secretary Admits Trump Is Nowhere Close to China Trade Deal
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted that China isn’t budging in the face of President Trump’s ill-advised tariffs. On Fox News Monday morning, Brian Kilmeade asked Bessent about progress on talks...
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