Trump’s Recession Has Begun
I have a friend named Eric Redman. He’s a lawyer, climate change professional, and author (The Dance of Legislation, Bones of Hilo, Death in Hilo). Ric (his friends call him Ric) and his wife have a...
View Article“Just Say Yes”: Trump Demands Media Abandon Reality for His Version
It’s not often that an interview perfectly encapsulates a politician’s relationship with reality, but Donald Trump’s recent sit-down with ABC News’s Terry Moran gives us exactly that—a window into...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Fury Erupts in Crazed Rants over Shrinking Economy
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 1 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 ArticleRFK Jr. Unhingedly Claims Measles Vaccine Made With Aborted Fetuses
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have described the current measles outbreak in Texas as the worst uptick the agency has seen in measles cases in the last 25 years. But on...
View ArticleElon Musk Freaks Out Over Report Tesla Is Trying to Force Him Out
Elon Musk isn’t happy about a report that his own company is looking to replace him.The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Tesla’s board of directors had begun the process of finding a new CEO...
View ArticleRepublicans Kill Move to Stop ICE From Deporting U.S. Citizens
House Republicans on Wednesday killed a measure that would have stopped ICE from being able to deport or detain U.S. citizens. The measure was originally an amendment introduced by Representative...
View ArticleStephen Miller Crashes Out Defending Trump’s Weird Dolls Comment
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is doubling down on Donald Trump’s ridiculous way of dismissing the rising prices of consumer goods. During a White House press briefing Thursday...
View ArticleTrump Town Hall Erupts in Laughter as He Claims He’s Made No Mistakes
Donald Trump doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong in his second term as president. On a NewsNation town hall with Chris Cuomo, Stephen A. Smith, and Bill O’Reilly, Trump, who phoned in to the event,...
View ArticleTrump Adviser Behind Train-Wreck Signalgate Chat Is on His Way Out
Multiple Trumpworld officials involved in the Defense Department’s Signalgate scandal are leaving their posts.National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, are exiting the...
View ArticleGM Pours Cold Water Over Trump’s Tariff Claims With New Prediction
The sweeping car and auto part tariffs that President Trump claims will revitalize the domestic industry will cost one of its biggest companies millions of dollars. General Motors CEO Mary Barra...
View ArticleTrump Officials Are Now Hoarding Supplies Thanks to Their Boss
Trump administration officials are stockpiling basic supplies in anticipation of skyrocketing prices from the president’s ill-advised tariffs.Rolling Stone reports that at least three administration...
View ArticleCognitive Decline? Trump Invents Protest Supporting His War on Harvard
Donald Trump gave a completely incoherent response to a question about his crackdown on Harvard University and ended up ranting about fictional riots. During a phone interview with NewsNation...
View ArticleStephen Miller Has Full-Blown Temper Tantrum Over Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The White House’s closest link to the white nationalist agenda had a full-blown meltdown Thursday over reports that the administration had been spurned by El Salvador over the requested release of...
View ArticleShame: Bukele Cares More About Abrego Garcia’s Rights than Trump Does
Turns out that El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, the self-styled “world’s coolest dictator,” had some basic lessons in dictatorship to learn at the feet of top banana Donald Trump.Lessons such as:...
View ArticleMike Waltz Was Sucking Up to Trump All Day Before News of His Firing
Mike Waltz spent his last moments as national security adviser publicly singing the praises of the man who decided to fire him. Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong will both be leaving the Trump...
View ArticleTrump-Appointed Judge Strikes Down Move Crucial to Deportations
A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting immigrants on the basis of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, ruling Thursday that the use of the World War II-era policy to banish...
View ArticleOne Trump Nominee Faces Massive Opposition—From Republicans
Donald Trump’s pick to head the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., is running into roadblocks in the Senate.Ed Martin’s confirmation vote won’t be taking place Thursday, with Democratic...
View ArticleDid This Far-Right Troll Convince Trump to Fire His Security Adviser?
Laura Loomer sowed doubts about Mike Waltz, Donald Trump’s departing national security adviser, during a meeting in the Oval Office last month that resulted in the dismissal of multiple staffers on the...
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Mike Waltz Fails Up Into New Job After Signal Group Chat Disaster
Looks like Mike Waltz will land on his feet after being pushed out as national security adviser. President Trump announced on Truth Social Thursday afternoon that he will be appointing Waltz as U.S....
View ArticleTrump’s Corruption Hits Next Level With Shady $2 Billion Crypto Deal
The Trump family’s cryptocurrency business just got a $2 billion investment from a firm backed by the United Arab Emirates government. The deal is rife with conflicts of interest. Zach Witkoff—son of...
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Mike Waltz Caught Checking Signal on His Phone in Cabinet Meeting
Mike Waltz, the Trump adviser who accidentally invited a journalist to a war plans group chat on Signal, was caught casually scrolling through his Signal messages during a Cabinet meeting Thursday....
View ArticleTrump Gave Marco Rubio Another Job—but Doesn’t Seem to Have Told Him
Donald Trump’s announcement Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would replace Mike Waltz to serve as the interim national security adviser appears to have taken the State Department completely...
View ArticleTrump Kills “DEI” Program Stopping Human Waste From Flooding in Homes
The Trump administration has shut down a Biden-era program to end sewage backups into central Alabama homes, labeling the whole thing “illegal DEI.”NBC News reports that Trump ended the $26 million...
View ArticleTrump’s Arrests Hit by Major Legal Setback as Stephen Miller Seethes
Big news: A federal judge just ruled that President Trump’s renditions under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act are illegal, a big blow to Trump’s lawlessness. Meanwhile, Stephen Miller ranted wildly at the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Is Declaring War on Secularism
The Supreme Court appears ready to approve the nation’s first religious charter school in Oklahoma, dealing a monumental blow to the separation of church and state by effectively writing the...
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Americans Really Dislike Trump. But They’re About to Truly Hate Him.
Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office may have been the longest, figuratively speaking, of any U.S. president in history. But we can also say definitively that they were the most disastrous, ever....
View ArticleInside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will
On a chilly February evening at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Victoria Canal, a 26-year-old singer-songwriter, was more nervous than usual before her...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Spirals as Judge He Picked Delivers Harsh New Rebuke
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 2 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 Announces Twisted Plan to Use the IRS to Punish Harvard
Donald Trump is trying to force Harvard University into subservience, and on Friday he announced that the institution will lose its tax-exempt status. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax...
View ArticleTrump’s War on “Woke” Finally Hits NPR and PBS
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that ends public government funding of NPR and PBS in yet another culturally polarized attack on anything deemed “woke.”“Unlike in 1967, when the...
View ArticleTrump’s Birthday Parade Now Includes Thousands of Soldiers and Tanks
Happy birthday, Mr. President—it looks like Donald Trump may be getting his wish of a massive parade in his honor.The Associated Press reported late Thursday that the Army’s most recent plans to...
View ArticleElon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too
When I was growing up in Morgantown, West Virginia, I remember very well when that new building went up at the end of Willowdale Road, near the West Virginia University Medical Center and not too far...
View ArticleCould Medicaid Cuts Lead Republicans to Break With Trump?
At least one Republican is thinking about the millions of Americans that depend on Medicaid.Representative David Valadao, a California dairy farmer, represents more Medicaid recipients in his district...
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Trump Official Caught Using App Even Less Secure Than Signal
The version of Signal that recently ousted national security adviser Mike Waltz was caught checking during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday is an unofficial edition of the app meant to archive messages,...
View ArticleEmail Mistake Exposes Trump’s Dark Agenda on Child Welfare Programs
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to end research into how to improve child welfare programs like Head Start, according to an email mistakenly sent by an HHS employee to grant...
View ArticleCan John Fetterman Continue in the Senate?
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a formerly progressive Democrat who has decidedly shifted right in recent years, delivered a hard-line—and honestly bloodthirsty—stance in opposition to a ceasefire...
View ArticleA Supreme Court Justice Finally Just Stood up to Trump
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has had enough of the Trump administration’s unchecked bullying of the nation’s judicial branch.The Supreme Court’s most junior justice condemned Donald Trump’s attacks on...
View ArticleJohn Fetterman Seems Like a Risk to Himself and Everyone Around Him
Senator John Fetterman isn’t in good shape—and could be a danger to himself and those around him. New York magazine reports that Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in 2022 one month before being elected...
View Article60 Minutes Isn’t Backing Down From Trump’s Threats
CBS’s flagship news magazine show 60 Minutes is upping the ante in its fight against Donald Trump. The show’s upcoming Sunday segment will focus on how the Trump administration has targeted law firms...
View ArticleShock Poll: Core Part of Trump’s Base is Abandoning Him
Donald Trump, who saw an increase in support from rural voters in the 2024 election, is now seeing huge defections, according to a new PBS/NPR/Marist poll. The poll taken last week found that only 40...
View ArticleAlarming Footage Shows Drone Attack on Gaza Aid Freedom Flotilla
Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla aid ship aiming to break Israel’s two-month siege on Gaza, was struck by drones off the coast of Malta in the early hours of Friday. There were no casualties as a nearby...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Forever War That Cost Mike Waltz His Job
When Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, was accidentally added to a group chat in March with the leaders of the national security Cabinet, the incompetence and sloppiness on display...
View ArticleTrump’s Next National Security Adviser Might Be His Worst Ally
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller may be up next for a new position in Donald Trump’s administration: Axios reported Friday that he’s a top candidate to replace Mike Waltz, Trump’s...
View ArticleTrump Threatens to Take Over Congress’s Powers in Budget War
Donald Trump has just sent Republicans in Congress a budget proposal that cuts nearly everything, and if they don’t like it, he says he’ll withhold cash that they approve, setting up a constitutional...
View ArticleJudges Who Rule Against Trump Become Target of New MAGA War
At least 11 federal judges and their families have been threatened and harassed since they ruled against President Trump on issues of deportations, federal funding, and his war on “wokeness.” The...
View ArticleCNN’s Resident Trump Defender Doesn’t Know How the Constitution Works
Republican strategist Scott Jennings had to be reminded how the U.S. Constitution works, during an explosive CNN roundtable debate Thursday night.Jennings, a senior political commentator at the...
View ArticleWhere the Hell Does Tommy Tuberville Actually Live?
Alabama’s “dumbest” senator appears to be running an especially stupid con at the moment.In a gambit for Alabama’s governorship, Senator Tommy Tuberville is in the midst of trying to prove he actually...
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Republican Congressman Has Full-Blown Meltdown Over Halal Restaurant
Republican Representative Mike Collins is freaking out over a halal restaurant coming to the cafeteria in the House’s Rayburn building.The skittish conservative complained on X Friday morning about CHA...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Poised to Get Another Huge Payday From the Government
The Trump administration did not rule out that its pitch to replace the nation’s space launch system could massively benefit Elon Musk.In an interview with Fox Business Friday, Office of Management and...
View ArticleHow Trump Accidentally Sabotaged His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia
He has now said it right out in the open—not once but twice. In two major interviews, President Donald Trump openly declared that he has the power to bring the wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia...
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