By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has blocked oil drilling planned in Wyoming because the government failed to adequately consider its impact on global warming – a decision that could complicate President Donald Trump‘s broader efforts to expand oil, gas and coal output on America’s public lands. The ruling, by Judge Rudolph Contreras…
Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update†hosts had some choice words concerning the “slap on the wrist sentence†given to President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. They said that Manafort being sent to a “white man’s prison†is about the same thing as being sent away to college for four years. “Weekend Update†co-host…
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning about Donald Trump’s new strategy for dealing with the many investigations he is facing from federal and state prosecutors, as well as from House Democrats. Apparently the president plans to keep fighting without realizing he has already lost the battle. According to the AP, Trump is beefing…
The anger of Republicans in Congress is reaching a boiling point at Donald Trump‘s plans to improperly divert billions of dollars from money that was earmarked by Congress for the military to build his border wall. Trump intends to divert the money using the authority of his questionable national emergency declaration. Trump and his administration…
There is more evidence this morning that both Donald Trump and his son in law Jared Kushner have used their government positions to sell out the United States to foreign dictators in order to make money from shady business deals. The Washington Post reported this morning: “President Trump early last year directed his then-chief of staff,…
Though the U.S. government has opened for business again, it is worthwhile to understand the anti-worker venom that perhaps motivated and certainly prolonged Trump’s Republican-backed government shutdown, which has the notoriety of being longest shutdown of the federal government in American history. Justifiably, the lion’s share of the media coverage and political debate around the…
The Chairman of the American Conservative Union, Matt Schlapp, went down in flames while appearing on CNN’s New Day on Monday. He first made the argument that Donald Trump’s loss to Nancy Pelosi was a win because he really got what he wanted. But after being challenged on that ridiculous statement he immediately backtracked and…
Pelosi’s office then was prepared to fly commercially – an idea Trump himself raised – but announced Friday morning the trip was being postponed because the administration had leaked details that could endanger the trip or the troops the speaker was to visit. A White House official denied this.
According to Donald Trump, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) may be running for the presidency in 2020, but only her psychiatrist would know whether she really believes she can win. The president called into Fox News on New Year’s Eve for a Q&A with anchor Pete Hegseth, and he wasted no time in bashing Warren shortly…
In 2013 Donald Trump said that if there is a government shutdown the president should be fired. And this is one of the few times he has ever told the truth. Tens of millions of Americans no doubt agree with this thought also, as the week-long “Trump Shutdown†of the U.S. government is still continuing….
Democratic leaders of Congress blasted President Donald Trump yesterday for “plunging the country into chaos.†Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) issued a statement expressing their concerns about Trump’s behavior that have caused a drop in the stock markets and a government shutdown. “It’s Christmas Eve and President…
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis was often referred to as ‘the adult in the room†in Donald Trump’s White House. With his abrupt resignation on Thursday many people in Washington are expressing alarm. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark R. Warner of Virginia called Mattis “an island of stability amid…
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) will deliver an assessment on election security to the White House on Friday, with two big questions surrounding it. One is obvious: what does the DNI assessment say about foreign interference in the November 6 midterm elections? The other question is less obvious but equally important:…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Putin also said that  the American presence in Syria is “illegitimate.†During his annual news conference with domestic and foreign media, Putin was asked by a U.S. reporter what he thought of the decision by Trump. “Donald is right…
Everyone knows that Donald Trump will try to blame Democrats if he shuts down the U.S. government. But Democratic leaders in Congress are having none of it. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement Monday letting the world know the truth. They wrote: “Republicans still control the…
Donald Trump’s buddy Vladimir Putin is not helping him out very much these days. Over the weekend the Russian president pointed out that Trump canceled their G-20 meeting due to his worsening “domestic†scandals. Trump had claimed that he cancelled the meeting because of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which is clearly not true. Putin could…
Lawmakers in the Ukraine on Monday are considering a request from their president for the introduction of martial law in the country. The request came after a disturbing incident in which Russian coast guard ships fired their weapons at  Ukrainian navy vessels. Ukraine’s president also on Monday told Russia that they should immediately release the…
The evidence is now clear that Donald Trump has lost whatever mental capacities he had. It is no longer correct to say he is “losing it†because he has already “lost it.†The evidence came out when he told reporters that he has already shut down the border with Mexico. He also said that he…
President Donald Trump made a bold prediction on Saturday morning. He said that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, leader of the House Democrats, would once again be elected as Speaker of the House. According to Trump, Pelosi “deserves” the position of Speaker. The president tweeted: “I can get Nancy Pelosi as many votes as she wants in…
The walls are closing in on President Donald Trump, and he knows it. Increasingly he is acting like a desperate man facing difficult situations that he can’t win. And according to The Los Angles Times, life for his staffers inside the White House is growing intolerable. They said that the president’s closest aides are all…
Frank Figliuzzi, the former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said he thinks special counsel Robert Mueller is “ready to indict some folks.†Figliuzzi, who worked with Mueller at the FBI, said he believes Mueller is soon going to make public more of his findings from the investigation into Russian interference…
Former President Obama accused President Trump of engaging in a “political stunt†by threatening to send troops to the Mexican border to prevent an “invasion†by a migrant caravan of Central American refugees. Obama spoke at a packed Friday evening rally in Atlanta as he campaigned for Democratic Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams. The former…
A heckler interrupted Obama who was campaigning for Democrats in Florida, so the former president responded by the destroyed the mentality and anger incited by Trump.
Two days after people walked out on Trump while he was still talking, Obama came to Florida and drew a crowd of 4,000 who waited for hours to hear him speak.
Trump on Friday accused Twitter Inc of targeting his account on the social media network but did not offer any evidence, and suggested that the company’s actions could be a sign of bias.
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) said that instead of bringing the country together as a bomber was on the loose, Trump chose to scapegoat the media.
Recent polls show that Democrat Andrew Gillum has maintained a lead over Trump-endorsed rival Ron DeSantis in the race to become Florida’s next governor. As a result, President Donald Trump and his aides in the White House are getting very, very worried. According to POLITICO, President Trump plans to barnstorm Florida over the next ten…
President Trump tweeted Thursday that the “mainstream media†is to blame for the anger and incivility in the country’s political discourse. As his words were posted on social media, packages sent by a likely serial bomber continued to target Trump’s critics. “A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is…
After years of politically violent rhetoric that appears to have inspired the bombs that have been sent to Democrats and CNN, Trump now wants national unity.
Even though Congress is not session, Trump promised a new middle-class tax cut before the midterm election to which Republicans in Congress said no.
A combination of the overturning of the Republican gerrymander and Trump’s unpopularity could flip up to 4 House seats to Democrats in North Carolina. The Princeton Election Consortium found some interesting data in North Carolina: Disapproval of Trump has hit North Carolina particularly hard. In four Congressional districts where polls are available – the 2nd,…
The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender by genitalia, which would eliminate civil rights protections for transgendered persons.
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke had the perfect answer to Trump’s trolling and shut the president down in less than half a minute.
The Russians used Donald Trump’s talking points on Robert Mueller as part of their effort to interfere in the 2018 midterm election.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell discussed how Trump committed an impeachable felony by refusing to let the FBI move out of a building that is across the street from his Washington DC hotel.
A woman pointed to the older and apparently mostly retired all-white crowd shown waiting in line for Trump’s rally and Montana and used the line as evidence that Trump is bringing people together.
Trump is demanding a 5% budget cut from all of his cabinet secretaries, and claiming that Democrats are wasting money after his tax cuts for the rich massively backfire.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) tried to defend Trump’s cover-up of the Jamal Khashoggi murder only to end up contradicting and tying himself into knots on CNN.
Nicolle Wallace pointed out that every single Republican candidate who links themselves to Trump now tied to his misogyny, which will be all over the ballot.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said that Republican Sens. Graham (SC) and Rubio (FL) talk a big game, but they have never stood up to Trump on a moral issue.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is calling for an investigation into Trump’s claim that “rogue killers” may have been behind the murder of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump tried to blame Obama and then claimed that China meddled in the election when he was asked about Russia during the 60 Minutes interview.
Trump tantrumed that he is not a baby when he was challenged on his claim that he loves brutal North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
Trump tried to deny climate change, without denying climate change, but 60 Minutes called Trump’s favorite technique of attributing his opinions to masses by claiming “they say.”
John Brennan laid the blame for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the feet of Donald Trump because the president has enabled and encouraged authoritarian regimes with his rhetoric.
Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow said that the Fed is not out of control as he disagreed with Trump’s effort to blame them for his latest failure.
Trump had to turn a moment of prayer into a political stunt when had to ask Pastor Brunson who was in prison during the 2016 election which he voted for.
A tent city in the west Texas desert set up to hold immigrant children has expanded its capacity by nearly 10 times to 3,800 beds since it opened in June, officials said on Friday.
Saudi Arabia, where Trump last year announced a $110 billion arms package, has been a centerpiece of his overhaul of weapons export policy in which he has gone further than any of his predecessors in acting as a weapons salesman. However, critics say the new approach gives too much weight to business interests versus human rights concerns.
Sears Holdings Corp is planning to close up to 150 of its department and discount stores and keep at least another 300 open as part of a plan to restructure under U.S. bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the matter said Friday.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi put Trump’s recent statements about healthcare under the fact check microscope and found the truth about that Trump is doing to the health care system in the United States.
Kanye West claimed that Donald Trump is a superhero and that wearing a red MAGA hat turns you into a Superman.
Fox News has stopped covering Trump’s rallies live because they were drawing lower rating than their regular primetime programming. Politico reported, “During three Trump rallies last week, Fox News showed clips and highlights from his speeches but stuck largely with its normal weekday prime-time programming. On Saturday, when “Fox Report Weekend†and “Justice with Judge…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that any effort by a Democratic House majority to investigate Trump would be presidential harassment and warned Democrats not to harass Trump by holding him accountable.
An out of control Trump declared Iowa and Nebraska to be their own countries in a moment that showed how far the President Of The United States is slipping.
Trump has cooked up a fantasy where Democrats who have been counting down the days until they can vote against him and his party are going to vote Republican on election day.
Trump told reporters before boarding Marine One that the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are a hoax that was made up by the Democrats.
Yesterday the New York Times dropped a bombshell on the political world when it published a lengthy article about Donald Trump’s finances, including how he inherited hundreds of millions of dollars and committed massive amounts of tax fraud. As the article said: “The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times…
During comments in the Rose Garden, Trump claimed that Brett Kavanaugh said that he struggled with alcohol, but Kavanaugh never said that.
Trump used his perch as chairman of the UN Security Council meeting to accuse China, not Russia, of election meddling because Trump claimed that he is “winning” on trade.
Trump thinks that by making a move on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein he will be able to save his Supreme Court nominee by getting him out of the news.
Nobody expected Donald Trump to give in easily. Despite new allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh the president remains defiant and combative and has no intentions of withdrawing Kavanaugh’s nomination. The Los Angeles Times reported: “The White House and Brett Kavanaugh issued swift denials Sunday night after an explosive new account…
Trump responded to more sexual assault allegations against his Supreme Court nominee by telling his staff that this is why they should have been fighting the Christine Blasey Ford allegations sooner.
Donald Trump’s politics of racism and division are backfiring as a new poll of Latino voters found that Trump has a 26% approval rating and that Latino voters want a Democratic Congress by a more than 3-1 margin.
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Saturday said that U.S. sanctions on Iran are leading to economic pain that could lead to a “successful revolution,” contrasting with administration comments that government change in Tehran is not U.S. policy.
The threat of being impeached stopped Trump dead in his tracks after he planned to declassify several important documents related to the Russia investigation.
Trump had another one of his “moments,” when announced that the flood water in North Carolina will be moving to South Carolina.
The White House let Trump speak to reporters for an eight and a half minutes and the result was a portrait of a president who is untethered from reality.
Trump, who has been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault by dozens of women is standing behind his potentially sexually assaulting Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
Trump is expected to attack the woman who is accusing his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault as Republicans in the Senate are showing signs of nervousness about the nomination.
Rep, Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Trump and his lawyers are terrified that Paul Manafort is cooperating with Robert Mueller.
Robert Mueller’s top two star witnesses —Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen — have pleaded guilty and are working with him. And, as it turns out, both of them have a history of very close connections with not only the president but also Donald Trump’s friend and supporter Sean Hannity. This means that not only are…
Trump’s own family is warning that he is paranoid and not sleeping in the surest signal yet that the president is mentally declining fast.
The people of Puerto Rico are responding to Trump’s claims that 3,000 people didn’t die in Hurricane Maria by calling the president worthless and crazy.
Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear” has become Trump and the Republican Party’s worst nightmare by selling faster than any book since Harper Lee’s sequel to “To Kill A Mockingbird.” CNN reported: “Fear” came out on Tuesday. And it is already one of the top selling books of the year — not just on the politics…
Rachel Maddow and Bob Woodward discussed Trump’s fatal flaw of being closed minded to new information and refusing to accept anything that differs with his views.
Trump had a message for the millions of people who are in the path of Hurricane Florence. Trump warned the American people that the hurricane is in fact, wet.
Trump is postponing his trip to Ireland as massive protests were being planned and Irish officials say they weren’t looking forward to his visit.
As Trump rants and raves, the White House is telling reporters that there is no broad effort to find the person who wrote the anonymous op-ed about the inside the administration resistance against Trump.
The reason why Republicans are facing a landslide defeat in November is that 55% of voters believe that Donald Trump is not fit to be president.
Omarosa released a new tape of Trump wandering into a White House meeting and babbling a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton colluding with Russia.
Bob Woodward took apart Trump and called the president at war with the truth and detached from what is going on. Trump responded with an epic gasket blowing tantrum.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, urged George Papadopoulos to cooperate with both Mueller and the congressional investigations after he gets out of prison in two weeks.
Trump’s response to President Obama’s call to action against his agenda and behavior was pathetic and a strong signal that Republicans are heading for a slaughter in November.
Trump made a government photographer doctor his inauguration photos to make his crowd look bigger than what it was.
Trump wouldn’t understand why the US couldn’t abandon important ally South Korea a year into his presidency.
Bob Woodward’s new book on Trump contains an account of Trump mocking Southern accents and referring to Attorney General Jeff Sessions as “mentally retarded.”
Trump has been stomping his feet and holding his breath on Twitter in a bid to upstage the funeral of Sen. John McCain.
Republicans are in such a panic over Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s Senate run that they are sending Trump to Texas to campaign against him.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll is in line with other recent polling that shows Trump‘s attacks on Mueller are backfiring. The Washington Post reported: 63 percent of Americans support Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe. Opinions on Mueller’s…
Trump didn’t try to deny that he lied to and insulted Canada. Instead, he attacked the press and said that now Canada knows where he stands.
Rev. Al Sharpton got a standing ovation at Aretha Franklin’s funeral when he called out Trump’s disrespect for the Queen of Soul.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s eulogy of John McCain never mentioned Trump’s name, but still contained a stinging indictment of Trump’s character and the kinds of politics that he practices.
Trump has been getting mad at his advisers anytime they mention impeachment, or as he calls it the “I-word” in the White House.
A new Suffolk University poll has found 55% of Americans trust Robert Mueller’s investigation and just 35% trust Trump’s claims of a witch hunt.
Trump is defending his administration’s response as “fantastic,” after the death toll in Puerto Rico from last year’s hurricanes was increased to nearly 3,000.
A day after Trump attacked Google, Google Maps changed the name of the Senate office building to honor the late Sen. John McCain.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced legislation that would require the Trump administration to release wage growth data with quarterly GDP numbers.
The White House tried to invite Donald Trump’s New York friends to hold an intervention because they are worried about the out of control president destroying himself.
Trump got the idea that Google search results are rigged against him from some fake news that was spread by Fox.
