Stable Genius Trump Just Put Tariffs on a U.S. Military Base
Donald Trump announced a range of tariffs on nearly every country in the world—including, inexplicably, some practically uninhabited islands, one of which is home to a U.S. military base. The British...
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Here’s How Trump Calculated His Tariffs—and It’s Ridiculous
The Trump administration seems to have destroyed global economies overnight while misunderstanding basic economics.In the wake of Donald Trump’s tariff announcement Wednesday, former New Yorker...
View ArticleSurprise, Surprise: Trump Left Key Country Off His Tariff List
In the scores of countries hit by Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced Wednesday, one was mysteriously—but not surprisingly—absent: Russia. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration is Gaslighting Us About the Tariff Apocalypse
The Trump administration is urging nervous voters to “trust” it in response to the impending economic fallout from the President’s tariffs on virtually all foreign imports.“To anyone on Wall Street...
View ArticlePoll: Americans Are Terrified About Social Security
A new Gallup poll shows that Americans are much more worried about Social Security and the economy. The poll, which measured opinions from March 3 to March 16, said that concern about the Social...
View ArticleDenmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed
Why is Denmark JD Vance’s white whale? In spinning up a diplomatic crisis with Denmark that recalls the geopolitical posturing that preceded World War I, the vice president is risking not just what’s...
View ArticlePeople Trying to Fight Trump’s Job Purges Told to Call Dead Woman
Got a problem with the Trump administration? Good luck.Recently laid-off employees from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were told to contact Anita Pinder, the former director at the...
View ArticleEgg Prices Are About to Get Even Higher
When Democrats attacked the Trump administration for the gargantuan price of eggs, the administration responded by importing vast quantities from Turkey and South Korea—two countries that were hit hard...
View ArticleTrump’s Deportations Hit Major Snag as Judge Orders Man Released
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to release a man whom it wrongly detained and planned to deport to El Salvador. In a brief one-page filing overnight Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Rolando...
View ArticlePaul, Weiss and Skadden: Capitulating Cowards of the Legal Profession
Donald Trump’s unconstitutional assault on the biggest law firms has roiled the entire legal industry. The news from just Wednesday has one more big firm, Milbank, caving to Trump’s nasty leverage...
View ArticleTrump Delusionally Brags About Tariffs as Stock Market Crashes
In the topsy-turvy world of the Trump administration, market panic and financial suffering are somehow good things.The president unveiled his economic agenda on Wednesday, revealing steep tariff hikes...
View ArticleFormer Trump Treasury Secretary Clearly Thinks Tariffs Are Stupid
Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary during Donald Trump’s first term, is worried about the president’s new tariffs and hoping to change them via the president’s favorite medium: television. On CNBC...
View ArticleTrump Just Let a Far-Right Troll Purge the National Security Council
Multiple National Security Council staffers have been fired at the behest of MAGA conspiracy theorist and Trump loyalist Laura Loomer, according to Axios and the Associated Press. The NSC, headed by...
View ArticleTrump’s Extreme Tariffs Have Already Hit the Auto Industry
American companies are not “leaping” to hire new employees, as the White House promised. Instead, they’re rapidly letting them go.Stellantis—one of the Big Three automakers in the U.S.—announced...
View ArticleWill Congress Stop Trump From Destroying the Economy?
Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are proposing a bipartisan bill to try and rein in President Trump’s crazy tariffs. Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley and Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell, both...
View ArticleElon Musk’s DOGE Defense Cuts Won’t Affect This Key Person
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to cut $580 million in “wasteful spending” at the Pentagon, but the major slashes to grants and contracts will spare Elon Musk’s SpaceX, The Intercept...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs Have Already Ripped a Gaping Hole in the Economy
As I write Thursday morning, the S&P 500 is down more than 4 percent. President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day liberated the stock market from nearly $3 trillion and me from $12,171 in my individual...
View ArticleCanadian Prime Minister Darkly Warns U.S. Economic Dominance Is Over
Canada has brutally dumped the United States over its tariffs … again.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a strong rebuke Thursday of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on nearly every country in...
View ArticleRepublicans Are in Denial About Trump’s Catastrophic Tariffs
President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have already resulted in even more GOP infighting, according to Punchbowl News.“There’s a massive disconnect between the White House and Capitol Hill...
View ArticleTrump: The Economy Crashing Is Good, Actually
Donald Trump thinks everything is going just fine with his insane tariffs.In his lone statement about the tariffs Thursday, Trump didn’t seem bothered when a reporter asked him, “The markets today are...
View ArticleJudge: Trump Administration Acted in “Bad Faith” on Deportations
Judge James Boasberg thinks Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and the rest of the Trump administration “acted in bad faith” when they invoked the Alien Enemies Act to extrajudicially deport 200 Venezuelan men...
View ArticleElon Musk Isn’t Going Anywhere
Elon Musk isn’t leaving politics anytime soon, if his X posts are to be believed. The tech mogul and fascism enthusiast posted “Fake news” Wednesday afternoon, in response to a Politico article saying...
View Article“Horrifying”: Trump’s Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked
After President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from all over the globe, prompting the markets to implode, he took a question about it on Thursday. He ranted and rambled delusionally about...
View ArticleWorried About the Climate? Get Off the Couch. The Data Supports It.
In the wake of the election, many discouraged leftists announced they were tuning out. Two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, however, the case for sitting on the sofa and drowning anxieties in...
View ArticleTrump Has Upended the Lives of Afghan Refugees
When Hasib Satary and his family arrived in the United States on August 27, 2021—less than two weeks after the fall of Kabul—he was in dire need of resettlement services. It had been a stressful 10-day...
View ArticleHere’s What Trump’s Tariffs Could Do to the U.S. Auto Industry
Announcing a barrage of new tariffs on the White House lawn yesterday, Donald Trump promised that jobs and factories “will come roaring back into our country.” He paid special attention to the 20 or so...
View ArticleMichelle Williams Blooms Late in Dying for Sex
It’s an uncanny experience, the moment you realize they’re making TV shows about you. It happens to everyone at some point: All of a sudden, the balance shifts, and the default “adult” character in a...
View ArticlePalestinians Are Invisible to Mike Huckabee. To Trump, He’s Perfect.
Last week’s Senate confirmation hearing for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel contained one astonishing moment that no one seems to have noticed....
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Tariff Madness Can Be Stopped. Here’s How.
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 4 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 ArticleDanish Prime Minister Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Greenland Dreams
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen slammed Donald Trump’s outlandish bid to acquire Greenland Thursday, saying that the U.S. “cannot annex another country.”During JD Vance’s own humiliating trip...
View ArticleTrump Already Hit With Lawsuit Over Tariffs—From Unexpected Group
A right-wing group with financial ties to Leonard Leo and the Koch network is aiming to halt Donald Trump’s tariff plan.The New Civil Liberties Alliance sued the president Thursday, claiming that...
View ArticleDonald Trump Really Is a Lot Dumber Than We Thought. Like, a Lot!
You remember the Brady Bunch movies of the 1990s, whose ingenious conceit was that television’s archetypal late-1960s sitcom family was transported to the ’90s but still lived in their oblivious 1969...
View ArticleDetained Tufts Student Suffering Serious Health Issues in DHS Custody
Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student brazenly abducted by masked immigration agents on a public street in Massachusetts, is suffering serious health issues in Homeland Security custody....
View ArticleTrump Tariffs Spark Terrifying Development for Recession Odds
Analysts at the world’s largest bank say that a recession is more likely to happen than not. Analysts at JP Morgan, the marketing side of JP Morgan Chase & Co., adjusted their prediction Thursday...
View ArticleTrump Administration Touts “Explosive” Jobs Report as Economy Implodes
The Trump administration is attempting to use the positive jobs report from March to assuage widespread economic panic over the unprecedented trade war the president launched on Wednesday. “Today’s...
View ArticleTrump Has Gross Plan for Ceremony for Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania
Donald Trump will be fine dining Friday, instead of attending a ceremony for four fallen U.S. soldiers.The commander in chief chose to attend the LIV Golf dinner reception in Florida Thursday night,...
View ArticleRon Johnson Panics on Air Over Trump’s Disastrous Tariffs
Republicans aren’t happy about Donald Trump’s tariffs tanking the stock market. In an appearance on Fox Business Friday, Senator Ron Johnson said he was worried about the direction the market was...
View ArticleSurprising GOP Senator Breaks With Trump Over Tariffs
Senator Ted Cruz apparently has a limit on what he will tolerate from President Trump, and tariffs cross it. The Trump sycophant told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow Thursday that he didn’t think the...
View ArticleShock Poll: Chuck Schumer is in Big, Big Trouble
A new poll has Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handily beating Senator Chuck Schumer head-to-head in the 2028 New York primary. Fifty-five percent of likely Democratic voters preferred...
View ArticleTrump’s New Fight With Fed Exposes Just How Clueless He Is
Donald Trump is looking for a scapegoat to redirect America’s tariff fury.The president attempted to influence Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ahead of the head banker’s remarks Friday,...
View ArticleTop Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be planning to cut and run after Donald Trump’s disastrous “reciprocal tariff” announcement earlier this week. During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday,...
View ArticleTrump Is Openly Bragging About Crashing the Stock Market
Donald Trump is defending his tariff plan with poorly sourced hype videos. The president shared an X video, a copy of a TikTok post, to his Truth Social account Friday morning calling his economic...
View ArticleObama’s Blistering New Takedown of Trump Gives Dems a Way Forward
For months now, Democrats have been eating themselves alive with an internal argument over how aggressively to criticize Trump’s destruction of the rule of law and constitutional order. Some Democrats...
View ArticleRFK Jr. Reveals DOGE Fired Some People by Mistake
A fifth of the jobs slashed at the Department of Health and Human Services were actually a mistake, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.Under the direction of Elon Musk’s Department of...
View ArticleThe Latest Victims of Trump’s Tariffs: Gamers
Then they came for the gamers: Nintendo is delaying preorders of the Switch 2 in the wake of Trump’s sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on the entire world. Experts, meanwhile, think the device’s high...
View ArticleTrump Has Bonkers Theory for How Tariffs Will Save TikTok
President Donald Trump has once again swooped in to save TikTok, after the president’s sweeping tariffs undermined a deal with China. “My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariff War Tanks Stock Market Even Further
The Dow Jones plunged more than 2,000 points, or 5.1 percent, Friday as investors reacted to China’s retaliatory tariffs. The drop-off followed a 1,679-point decline the day before.Beijing’s Commerce...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order
A federal judge ruled Friday that the president violated a court order to stop freezing federal funds by withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency relief to at least 19 states. The judge said...
View ArticleJudge Orders Trump Administration to Return Wrongly Deported Man
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return an Salvadoran man who was deported to El Salvador back to the United States by midnight Monday. Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was...
View ArticleThe Fight for the Post-Trump Future Has Already Begun
Is it too soon for any of us to start thinking about the post-Trump future? There are many reasons why the obvious answer is yes. The GOP has spent approximately a billion dollars on voter suppression...
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