Trumpism
PART VIII
September 25, 2025
Trump Signs EO to Eliminate
Radical Left Political Terrorism
Trump Calls for Arrests After U.N. Escalatorgate
By Miranda Jeyaretnam / September 25, 2025
Donald Trump said he was the victim of “sabotage” after an escalator at the United Nations stopped working the moment that he and his wife Melania stepped on, forcing the President to walk up one flight of steps.
“Not one, not two, but three very sinister events” occurred at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday, Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday, also referencing an apparent issue with his teleprompter and the sound system when he spoke before the body. Footage of the escalator incident, which quickly circulated online, showed Trump looking around in confusion after the moving stairway jolted to a stop, before Melania in front of him walked up the escalator.
Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General, said that a White House videographer running backwards up the escalator ahead of Trump appeared to have “inadvertently triggered” the built-in stop safety mechanism at the top of the escalator. “The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing,” Dujarric said in a note to correspondents.
But the global body’s assurances have not been enough to quell conspiracy theories that sprung up on social media—and that have been perpetuated by the White House—that the malfunction was a deliberate attack by U.N. staffers on Trump.
Sept. 26, 2025
ICE Agents CAUGHT Attacking Legal,
Peaceful U.S. Residents
An Iowa City resident was tackled and handcuffed by plainclothes officers identifying themselves as “federal agents.” This is Trump’s America…
Christopher Hitchens Resurrected
September 27, 2027
Trump’s UN Speech Went Full DEMENTIA
What would Christopher Hitchens say about Donald Trump’s disastrous performance at the United Nations General Assembly? In this satirical reimagining, Hitchens unleashes a scathing critique of a speech so absurd it left world leaders in stunned silence.
September 27, 2025
“Separation of Church and Hate” by John Fugelsang
Comedian, actor and biblical scholar John Fugelsang has published a remarkable book that will make you learn and laugh all at the same time. John’s book, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds, has spent multiple weeks on the New York Times best sellers list.
John Fugelsang has been murdered on CSI and picketed by the Westborough Baptist Church. He’s a Drama League-nominated actor, comedian, and broadcaster who hosted many TV shows and podcasts, including the acclaimed, “Tell Me Everything” series on SiriusXM Progress. He’s gotten George Harrison to give his final performance on VH1, debated Jerry Falwell Sr. and David Duke, and made many appearances across all cable news networks.
His epic PBS Road trip film on the American Dream, Dream On, directed by Roger Weisberg, was named Best Documentary at the New York City Independent Film Festival. John lives in New York City with his family.
September 27, 2025
“Arrest the War Criminal”: Thousands Protest
Netanyahu in NYC as He Addresses U.N.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New York on Friday in solidarity with Palestinians and to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly.
Crowds marched from Times Square toward the U.N., chanting slogans demanding Netanyahu’s arrest for war crimes and an end to U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Meanwhile, inside the U.N., the Israeli leader addressed a largely empty room as many countries’ delegations walked out in protest.
Sept. 29, 2025
Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s invasion
of cities across the United States which was
all caught on tape.
DEADLINE | WHITE HOUSE
September 29, 2025
‘Acting like jack booted thugs’: Gov. JB Pritzker
slams Trump’s Chicago military deployment
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker speaks live on MSNBC to discuss the latest developments in the city of Chicago as the Trump Administration continues to inflict chaos and fear with the deployment of armed border patrol agents and other federal law enforcement agents on the streets of Chicago.
American Gulag – Photo by Victor J. Blue
Sept. 29, 2025
Trump Sued By US State Over
‘Military Takeover’ | Deportation War Explodes
The state of Oregon has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, accusing him of abusing federal power and violating constitutional rights. The legal challenge follows tensions over federal agents’ actions and Trump’s broader approach to states’ authority.
Sept. 29, 2025
Trump Is About To Shut It All Down
Donald Trump is so determined to raise your health insurance costs, he’s willing to shut down the government to do it.
“Remote Control” by Barry Blitt
The LAST WORD
September 29, 2025
Lawrence on deranged, vile Trump posts as govt.
shutdown looms: How do you negotiate with that man?
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes the unhinged, conspiracy theory-laden, cannabis-endorsing social media posts from the president of the United States as Democratic leaders in Congress push Republicans and the White House to reach a deal – that will preserve health care savings for millions of Americans – ahead of a looming government shutdown.
September 30, 2025
Sen. Whitehouse Questions Trump’s Mental Acuity
and the “Equal Parts Gangster and Gong Show” DOJ
September 29 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joins MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss President Trump’s push for a government shutdown and the weaponization of the Department of Justice.
Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate, where he champions policies to uphold American leadership in the world, protect our planet in a changing climate, and hold the powerful accountable.
October 2, 2025
Inside the religious MAGA sect that
believes Trump was anointed by God
“They would do a civil war if they could.”
Times Radio’s Jo Crawford traveled to Nebraska to investigate a fringe evangelical sect that believes the US is in the midst of a spiritual war and Donald Trump was anointed by God.
Times Radio has contacted FlashPoint and Lord of Hosts church for comment and is awaiting their response.
The Briefing
October 2, 2025
‘Unhinged and unwell’: Apparent degradation of
Trump’s mental state raises alarms
As public displays of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior seem to be increasing in frequency and intensity, and the stakes for the fate of the country seem increasingly dire, more public figures are speaking out about whether Trump is not well enough to serve.
Rep. Madeleine Dean, who was caught on camera confronting House Speaker Mike Johnson about Trump’s condition, talks with Jen Psaki about her concerns.
October 4, 2025
Norman Finkelstein: Trump plan has no
connection to reality in Gaza | UpFront
President Trump has released a Gaza “peace” plan that would put Gaza under a Trump-chaired “Board of Peace”. While some in the international community have welcomed the move, some question the fact that it bypasses Palestinians and offers no path to statehood. So, with Netanyahu pledging not to fully withdraw from Gaza, will this deal bring genuine peace or cement the status quo?
This week on an UpFront special, Marc Lamont Hill speaks with one of the world’s foremost experts on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Norman Finkelstein.
October 4, 2025
Ex-National Guard Major General Warns ‘We Are One Trigger Pull Away’ From Another Kent State Tragedy
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, former congressman and National Guard Major General, William Enyart criticized President Trump’s deployment of National Guard soldiers to major cities.
October 6, 2025
Mad King Donald reveals what’s driving
his Portland obsession — and it’s just insane
By Robert Reich – Commentary
When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “should be ashamed of herself” because “Portland is burning to the ground.”
Trump promptly ordered the California National Guard to Portland.
Apart from the obvious question of how Trump can so blatantly defy a federal judge, there’s a deeper puzzle here. Where did he get the idea Portland is burning to the ground?
Nine days ago, when Trump first threatened to send troops to Portland, Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, told him there was no reason.
“He thinks there are elements here creating an insurrection,” Kotek said after her call with Trump. “I told him there is no insurrection here and that we have this under control.”
Trump responded to Kotek this way:
“I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? … They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place … it looks like terrible.”
Why the factual discrepancy between what Governor Kotek told Trump about Portland and what he believed was happening there?
In the suit seeking an injunction to stop Trump from sending troops to Portland, which Judge Immergut granted, the state of Oregon alleged that Trump relied on video clips from Portland protests over the murder of George Floyd that took place in 2020.
Chapter
October 7, 2025
Epstein’s Elite Friends Are Way Sicker
Than We Thought [Full Overview]
When you zoom out on the Jeffrey Epstein story, it’s not just about him. It’s about the people around him — presidents, princes, billionaires, spies, girlfriends, enablers, and family members.
The scandals weren’t confined to a creepy townhouse or a private island. They stretched from Buckingham Palace to the White House, from Wall Street boardrooms to MI6 briefing rooms.
So today, we’re connecting the dots. From Trump to Clinton, Prince Andrew to Ghislaine, Wexner to mysterious girlfriends who vanished — this is the full cast of characters who made Epstein’s world possible, and in some cases, who paid the price.
October 9, 2025
Why the Founding Fathers’ Warnings Are Coming True
Today, with Atlantic EIC Jeffrey Goldberg
Our nation’s founders built a system to guard against human ego and corruption. In 2025, that system is under siege. I talked with Atlantic editor-in-chief (and SignalGate-veteran) Jeffrey Goldberg about the magazine’s monumental new issue, The Unfinished Revolution, which asks whether the American experiment can survive its latest stress test: Donald Trump.
It’s a conversation about history repeating itself, the precious fragility of democracy, and why the people who established this nation might be horrified by where it’s headed.
October 9, 2025
Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says
the Quiet Part Out Loud
Senator Bernie Sanders joins Trevor to discuss what the heck is going on in America right now (hint: it’s oligarchy).
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Pete Seeger: Which Side Are You On? (Live in Sweden 1968)
ALL IN with Chris Hayes
October 10, 2025
Dangerous new MAGA lie: Republicans
SMEAR peaceful protesters as ‘terrorists’
“Trump and the MAGA cronies know there are likely to be millions of people in the streets on October 18th for the No Kings protests. And so their strategy is to preemptively paint patriotic, dissenting Americans as literal terrorists,” says Chris Hayes.
October 10, 2025
Kristi Noem and Trump Compare Non-Violent ‘Antifa’ to ISIS and Hamas in New Crackdown on Opponents.
The Trump regime is intensifying its campaign against left-wing activism that opposes its own rhetoric. At a White House roundtable, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to ISIS, Hamas, and Hezbollah—calling them “just as dangerous.”
Days earlier, President Trump signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” despite experts saying the non-violent movement has no central leadership or structure.
DEADLINE | WHITE HOUSE
October 10, 2025
Religious leaders speak out about being attacked
while protesting ICE in their communities
Reverend David Black, Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago who was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility and Reverend Quincy Worthington, Pastor of Highland Park Presbyterian Church who has also been at the protests and endured pepper bullets and tear gas while there, join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss their experiences while protesting against ICE presences in their communities.
October 11, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel’s genocide
and Trump’s war on Venezuela
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump’s war on Venezuela, pushing for regime change against President Nicolás Maduro.
Ben Norton exposes the ugly truth.
October 11, 2025
If a President Goes Rogue, What Does the Military Do?
As President Trump orders the Texas National Guard into Chicago, America stands poised on the brink of a constitutional crisis. With troops already stationed in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., critics charge that the president is wielding the military as a political weapon.
At the same time, Trump is reshaping the upper ranks of the armed forces, sidelining those who have challenged his authority. Authoritarianism and democracy look more finely balanced than at any time in living memory.
So, how far does presidential power truly extend when it comes to deploying soldiers on home soil? And to whom do America’s generals ultimately answer?
Hosts: Tom Newton Dunn & General Sir Patrick Sanders
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October 11, 2025
“This Is How Democracies Die”: Sen Chris Murphy
Exposes Trump’s Authoritarian Plan for Dictatorship.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to lay out President Trump’s plan to convert the United States from a representative democracy into an authoritarian state.
October 12, 2025
Documentary argues George Orwell’s greatest fears are materializing
George Orwell’s writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term “Orwellian.” A new documentary called “Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell’s greatest fears are coming true.
William Brangham talked with director Raoul Peck about his new film, which is in theaters nationwide.
October 12, 2025
China hacking America’s critical infrastructure,
retired four-star general warns
Retired Gen. Tim Haugh, the former head of the NSA, warns that China is targeting the U.S. military, industry and also America’s critical infrastructure. He believes he knows why it’s happening.
October 13, 2025
Investigating how crypto is making the Trumps
hundreds of millions | Four Corners Documentary
US President Donald Trump has long boasted of his wealth. Is he now using his office to enrich himself and his family?
The vast network of foreign deals, hotels and cryptocurrency that is business as usual for the Trumps is unlike anything the US has ever seen from a president.
The White House says Trump is abiding by the rules and stepped back from his business ventures while in office. But critics argue the way the President mixes business and politics threatens the very foundations of American democracy.
This week on Four Corners, the ABC’s Americas Editor John Lyons and a team of journalists interrogate just how this plethora of business activities have opened Trump up to accusations of profiting from the presidency, and conflicts of interest.
Lyons’ questions to Trump about his business deals were met with a rebuke that made headlines around the world. “Your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I’m going to tell him about you,” Trump warned Lyons.
The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps
I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.
By Nancy A. Youssef / October 15, 2025
THE FIRST PERSON I saw when I walked into the Pentagon for the final time was Jimmy. I don’t even know his last name, but I know his story. Before he started work at the labyrinthine headquarters of America’s armed forces, he was a medic with the Marines. For the past 21 years, he has been a building police officer and an unofficial, affable greeter. Jimmy only told me about his military career in 2021, the morning after 13 troops were killed in a suicide bombing at the entrance of the Kabul airport amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Everyone talked about the 11 Marines killed that day, but Jimmy remembered the one Navy corpsman among them, a medic who, like him, had been assigned to travel with the unit, just in case.
For nearly two decades, Jimmy stood guard beside two large mosaics showing the faces of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks. The displays came down during the pandemic, a symbol of a nation that had moved on from the War on Terror and was beginning to focus on new threats. Last month, President Donald Trump told troops that the country’s adversary was “the enemy within.”
Nearly all of the Pentagon press corps is leaving the building this week, barred from working there under restrictions imposed by the Trump administration. My fellow journalists and I will continue to do our jobs, reporting on the U.S. military in every way we know how. But something is lost when the leadership of the Department of Defense chooses to close itself off to scrutiny in the way it has. On the most basic level, the public loses access to information it has a right to know, along with the right to ask questions of those entrusted with spending nearly $1 trillion from taxes and managing 3 million employees. But something intangible is lost too, including the privilege of meeting people like Jimmy, whose names may never appear in print but who are essential to how we understand the U.S. military. Before I had even crossed the vestibule to enter the building this morning, I was thinking about the stories I would no longer hear, the people I would never meet.
WASHINGTON WEEK with The Atlantic full episode,
October 17, 2025
Buoyed by the belief that he brought peace to the Middle East, President Trump is trying to end Russia’s war on Ukraine. But at home, he’s waging war on domestic critics, engaging in a prosecution campaign without precedent.
Join moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Nancy Youssef and Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic, Stephen Hayes of The Dispatch and Tyler Pager of The New York Times.
October 17, 2025
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
Russell Vought is one of the most powerful people in the Trump administration. For almost three decades, he worked in Congress and held prominent roles at conservative think tanks.
But he was little known outside of political circles. He’s now the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the chief architect of President Donald Trump’s campaign to radically reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy.
In this video, ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll tells the story of Vought’s rise from a young staffer for Texas Sen. Phil Gramm to his role as the driving force behind Trump’s plan to dismantle the so-called “administrative state.”
Vought declined to be interviewed. Kroll’s account is drawn from dozens of interviews, thousands of pages of documents and hours of videos and recordings of Vought’s briefings to supporters, including one where Vought says he wanted to put federal workers “in trauma.”
Read Kroll’s profile of Vought, co-published with The New Yorker: propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president
October 17, 2025
Brooks and Capehart on Trump commuting
George Santos’ prison sentence
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump commuting the sentence of former GOP Rep. George Santos, the government shutdown enters its third week as Trump shows no signs of wanting to negotiate, the Young Republicans’ hateful group chat, and reporters refusing the Pentagon’s new press rules.
October 17, 2025
“Cold-Blooded Murder”: David Cole on Trump’s
Boat Attacks & CIA Covert Action in Venezuela
There are growing questions over the legality of U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. “These are sitting ducks, and we are simply engaged in cold-blooded murder of individuals who may or may not be drug smugglers,” says David Cole, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Cole says that President Trump is “committing homicide” by killing people without trial. “These individuals who have now been sent to the bottom of the sea by this president, if they were tried, at most, would face a sentence of some period of years,” says Cole. “There would be no death penalty authorized under the Constitution for these individuals, even assuming they’re guilty.”
This comes as Trump has authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations inside Venezuela aimed at regime change, raising fears of a military confrontation between the two countries.
October 18, 2025
Are the “No King” protests putting
Donald Trump under real pressure?
Large crowds across the US are joining rallies against the Trump administration. More than 2,500 protests under the banner of the ‘No Kings’ movement are taking place. The protesters say they are standing up against Donald Trump’s authoritarian policies, accusing him of believing his rule is absolute. Top Republicans have condemned the gatherings, calling them ‘Hate America’ rallies.
The Resistance
Sep 20, 2025
Folk Protest Song Against Trump, MAGA, and Fascism
Oct 9, 2025
A Patriotic Protest Anthem for Freedom, Justice, and Love
Oct 11, 2025
A Modern Protest Anthem for No Kings Day
Stand Up for Democracy and Freedom
Oct 19, 2025
“The Big, Scary Radical Left Agenda”
Hilarious Anti-Trump Parody Song About MAGA Fearmongering
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John D. Cundle
Oct 11, 2025
“No Kings”
A Satirical Protest Anthem
for Freedom and Democracy
Oct 16, 2025
“The People vs. The Pretender (United We Stood)”
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scaredketchup
Oct 18, 2025
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Shirley Serban
June 17, 2025
Oct 19, 2025
“Conman”
Truthdig
October 18, 2025
Donald Trump and Fox News were humiliated on live TV by the massive, peaceful No Kings protests nationwide.
October 18, 2025
Millions TURN OUT for No Kings
Oct. 18, 2025
‘We Are The Majority’: Watch Mehdi’s
Rousing Speech at the No Kings Protest in DC
Millions across the United States gathered together on Saturday, October 18 to oppose the Trump administration’s authoritarian agenda in a second-round of ‘No Kings’ protests.
There are over 2,500 demonstrations across all 50 states, including Washington, DC where our editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan spoke slamming Donald Trump on his military takeover of Democrat-led cities across the U.S., while also calling out his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’
October 18, 2025
MAGA Rages As “No Kings Protest”
Erupts Across The Nation
Really American host Tony Hinderman breaks down the “No Kings” Protests erupting across the country causing MAGA to freak out and for the Trump administration to look for any distraction possible!
October 18, 2025
Bernie Sanders Leads ‘No Kings’ Rally,
Warns Trump Against Authoritarian Rule in America
At a massive “No Kings” rally, Bernie Sanders slammed Trump’s autocratic tendencies and tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Supported by AOC, Hillary Clinton, and senior Democrats, the protests saw thousands nationwide demanding that “the people, not kings, rule” in America, highlighting the fight against authoritarianism.
October 19, 2025
Fired Justice Department lawyer blows the whistle
on what he describes as abuses of power at the DOJ
Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni speaks out about the disregard of due process and for the rule of law that he says he witnessed in his final weeks at the Department of Justice.
REPORTS
October 19, 2025
‘Trump completely unleashed’: Armed Services
Dem Rep. torches GOP over seventh
Caribbean boat strike
There are no signs of a bipartisan deal on Capitol Hill to end the government shutdown ahead of a Senate vote on the latest suggested spending bill.
Also, President Trump announced on social media another strike on a boat in the Caribbean, offering no proof it was intended for smuggling drugs.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, joins Alex Witt to discuss the shutdown and military strikes.
October 19, 2025
Who Was Charlie Kirk? | BBC Documentary
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead in Utah. But what shaped his views and how did he rise to become one of the most important right-wing influencers in the United States?
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
October 20, 2025
7M Attend Peaceful “No Kings” Rallies
Trump Dumps On Times Square
George Santos Is A Free Man
The GOP’s warnings about violence at Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies proved unwarranted, President Trump posted an AI video that depicts him doing vile things to protestors in New York City, and former Congressman George Santos was released from prison after the president commuted his sentence for wire fraud and identity theft.
October 21, 2025
Rick Strom: Are these Donald Trump’s
dumbest supporters out there?
October 21, 2025
Trump-Zelensky Lunch Turns Heated | Shouting
Match Erupts During Diplomatic Meeting
A routine diplomatic lunch between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly turned into a shouting match, according to multiple sources. The tense encounter highlights rising friction between the two leaders amid ongoing geopolitical discussions.
Details of the incident suggest that disagreements over policy and strategy quickly escalated into a verbal confrontation during what was supposed to be a cordial meeting. This unprecedented clash between the heads of state has sparked questions about U.S.-Ukraine relations and the impact on ongoing negotiations and support mechanisms.
October 21, 2025
How the Rich Legalized Corruption
in America (w/ David Sirota)
David Sirota, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, joins Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his new book Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. They trace how corporate America seized control of U.S. politics, from the Powell Memo and Watergate to the rise of the Heritage Foundation, Roger Ailes, and the corporate capture of the courts.
October 21, 2025
The Rise of RFK Jr. (full documentary)
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the scion of a storied dynasty, endured tragedy and scandal, broke with the Democratic Party and his family, stoked conspiracy theories, and is reshaping government and public health.
October 21, 2025
“We Are Under Attack”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on
Immigration Crackdown in Chicago,
Gov’t Shutdown & More
“We are under attack by our own federal government,” says Democratic Congressmember for Illinois Delia Ramirez about Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago.
“What we’re seeing is an agency that has gone rogue, that has been emboldened and that thinks they’re above the law.” She urges Americans to report and record ICE activity to strengthen future legal battles, “because what ICE is stating and what we’re seeing in the community in the streets is inconsistent.”
Congressmember Ramirez also comments on the ongoing federal government shutdown, which she calls “a clear embodiment of Donald Trump’s leadership: starve and let people die while the billionaires and his cronies enrich themselves,” the Republican leadership’s continued refusal to swear in new Democratic Congressmember-elect Adelita Grijalva, and the Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire.
October 22, 2025
Psychologist: Trump’s Cognitive Collapse is Clear
Dr. John Gartner joins Joanna Coles to assess the unraveling of Donald Trump’s mind.
The clinical psychologist and former Johns Hopkins professor, who warned early about Trump’s “malignant narcissism,” now says the president shows clear signs of cognitive decline, comparing his confusion and grandiosity to dictators in their final stages.
Coles presses Gartner on whether Trump’s dementia makes him more dangerous or simply more delusional, and what that means for the remainder of Trump’s second term and beyond. Is America being led by a man losing touch with reality, or is Trump still cunning enough to conceal his growing symptoms?
October 23, 2025
INTERVIEW: Hakeem Jeffries on Trump
making crime against Democrats “legal”
October 25, 2025
Was LAST WEEK Trump’s Point of No Return?
After a week away, I return to reflect on what may be remembered as the most revealing week of Donald Trump’s second term — a week where he pardoned allies, mocked peaceful protesters with AI war porn, escalated military violence without congressional approval, and demolished the East Wing of the White House to build a gilded ballroom.
In this episode, I argue that Trump has fully embraced his most dangerous instincts — no longer pretending to serve the nation, but ruling with the boldness of a king gone mad. From authoritarian theater to reality distortion, we’re witnessing the unraveling in real time.
The Briefing
October 29, 2025
Assembly of Trump’s ‘clown car Cabinet’ was
even more ridiculous than you thought: book
Jen Psaki relays reporting from Retribution: Donald Trump and The Campaign That Changed America, the new book from Jonathan Karl, ABC News chief White House correspondent, which offers a look behind the scenes at how Donald Trump put together a Cabinet full of wildly unqualified sycophants.
October 29, 2025
Inside America’s Immigration Crackdown
Terry Moran reports from Chicago, where ICE raids, legal battles, and community resistance have turned the city into the frontline of a national crisis.
From parents afraid to take their kids to school to priests turned away from detention centers, The Battle for Chicago captures the human, political, and moral stakes of America’s immigration crackdown — and what it reveals about power, fear, and freedom in our country.
October 30, 2025
Ben Folds on taking a stand for artistic freedom
after Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover
Ben Folds’ piano-powered pop music earned him a large following and made him one of the most respected songwriters of his generation. He also held an influential role in classical music as artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra.
Folds resigned after President Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. Amna Nawaz spoke with him for our series, Art in Action, as part of our CANVAS coverage.
October 30, 2025
Trump is using HUNGRY FAMILIES as Sick Political Leverage
October 31, 2025
Why the US is deporting so many people
How the American immigration police got so powerful
ICE, a government agency created after the 9/11 attacks, seems to have free rein under the Trump administration. How did we get here? How did ICE become so important, and so powerful?
Nov. 2, 2025
President Donald Trump: The 2025 Interview
Watch as President Trump discusses testing nuclear weapons, U.S.-China relations, Israel, the government shutdown, immigration, tariffs, and whether he’ll try to stay in the White House beyond 2028.
President Donald Trump’s extended 60 Minutes interview
Norah O’Donnell sat down with President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss U.S.-China relations, Venezuela, Israel, the government shutdown, immigration, the National Guard and more.
Editor’s note: The video above is an extended version of the interview that was broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, November 2, 2025. This extended version was condensed for clarity.
November 3, 2025
Trump Throws “Great Gatsby” Party at Mar-a-Lago
as Food Stamps End for Millions
President Trump held a lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago Friday, just hours before an estimated 42 million people lost SNAP benefits across the country.
Kirk Curnutt, the executive director of the international F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, says that while “Gatsby is famous for its lavish party scenes, [what] people often miss is that the entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in these sorts of events.”
November 3, 2025
American Woman ASSAULTED By ICE
U.S. citizen Dayanne Figueroa was ripped out of her car by ICE and violently detained in Chicago. Cenk Uygur and Sharon Reed discuss on The Young Turks.
November 4, 2025
Sen. Durbin Exposes DHS ‘Dream Team’ —
Innocent Woman Kidnapped in Broad Daylight
Senator Dick Durbin delivers a powerful and emotional speech condemning the Department of Homeland Security after ICE agents detained an innocent Chicago woman, Dianne Figueroa, without cause or due process. Caught on video, the shocking incident reveals a disturbing abuse of power under the guise of law enforcement.
Durbin calls it what it is — a “mockery of the Constitution.” This Liberal Lens breakdown explores what this means for civil liberties, immigration justice, and the rule of law in America.
Nov. 4, 2025
ICE increase weapons spending 700%.
What they bought is ‘terrifying.’
November 5, 2025
Trump’s Top 10 Lies on 60 Minutes, in 10 Minutes
November 6, 2025
“My Community Is Under Invasion”:
Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois
Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement.
Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids in Evanston, Illinois, amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.” His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,” Biss says. “If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest.”
November 6, 2025
Sen. Durbin Again Calls For Secretary Noem To
Testify In Front Of The Senate Judiciary Committee
November 7, 2025
Hillsboro teen’s emotional testimony on
immigration enforcement’s toll goes viral
A Hillsboro teenager’s emotional account of how immigration enforcement is affecting his own family and community has gone viral after he spoke at the Hillsboro City Council meeting earlier this week.
November 7, 2025
How Dick Cheney Worked to Expand Executive Power | Cheney’s Law (full documentary)
Following former Vice President Dick Cheney’s death at age 84, watch this 2007 documentary tracing the behind-closed-doors battle Cheney waged within the George W. Bush administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law.
For three decades, Dick Cheney had been an advocate of granting the president virtually unlimited wartime power. In the aftermath of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, with Cheney as George W. Bush’s vice president, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted executive power in an expansive and extraordinary way, granting Bush the power to detain, interrogate, torture, wiretap and spy — without congressional approval or judicial review.
In “Cheney’s Law,” a documentary by Michael Kirk and his team, FRONTLINE examined the battle over the power of the presidency and Cheney’s way of looking at the Constitution. As the White House and Congress faced off over executive privilege, the terrorist surveillance program, and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE told the story of what formed Cheney’s perspectives and what some at the time viewed as the most ambitious project to reshape the power of the president in American history.
November 7, 2025
Karoline Leavitt Is Sicker Than We Thought
The role of White House Press Secretary has always been one of public trust — a bridge between power and the people.
Today, that bridge looks more like a stage. Standing on it is Karoline Leavitt: 27 years old, former Trump campaign spokesperson, now the youngest press secretary in American history.
Her briefings are a study in confidence — and misinformation. She’s been fact-checked live on air, mocked for photoshopping her husband, and called “a stone-cold liar” by the House Minority Leader (The Daily Beast).
But behind the headlines lies a bigger question: how does someone with no background in journalism or governance end up as the nation’s chief communicator?
This is the story of how inexperience, ambition, and blind loyalty turned one young press secretary into the perfect mouthpiece for a post-truth presidency.
November 7, 2025
ELON MUSK Admits To The Biggest Lie
Told About Social Security
Every few months, the same false stories come back — from “16 million 120-year-olds on Social Security” to “$1 billion in Medicaid for undocumented immigrants.” These claims sound shocking, but they’re simply not true.
In this video, Dr. Ed Weir — former Social Security Administration manager and MyGovExpert founder — breaks down where these myths come from, why they spread, and how they’re used to justify cuts that hurt America’s most vulnerable: seniors, the disabled, and low-income families.
November 7, 2025
How Bribery Was LEGALIZED in America
Q: “Money and politics is the root of all evil in American politics today, right?”
A: “Your housing prices are unacceptably high. Your rent is unacceptably high. Your health care costs are unacceptably high because of corruption. Corruption is why the Congress and the government has not only not dealt with those problems, but is actually in many cases on the side of those who are creating those problems. It’s the money flowing into the system.”
David Sirota, editor-in-chief of The Lever, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss his new book Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. In Sirota’s book, he uncovers a hidden plan created by wealthy conservatives to make bribery a constitutionally-protected form of speech. The two also dive into the NYC mayoral debate, SCOTUS reform, and AIPAC.
November 8, 2025
DOJ’s Fatal Delay: Why Garland Waited Too Long on Trump
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis reveal the shocking inside story of what really happened at the Justice Department after January 6th.
You’ll discover the critical decision Merrick Garland made that changed everything—and why the people who worked for him saw it as a devastating mistake. What they uncovered about Trump, the FBI, and the future of American justice will leave you stunned.
The Weekend
Nov. 9, 2025
George Conway: Trump is “only going
to get worse” after election day thrashing
Tuesday’s electoral wins for Democrats suggest that voters are souring on Donald Trump. A recent poll shows Trump’s approval at its lowest point so far in his second term while Democrats are showing renewed enthusiasm.
Conservative attorney George Conway joins The Weekend: Primetime to discuss.
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who
backed efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss
By Alanna Durkin Richer / November 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon for dozens of Trump allies are largely symbolic. It applies only to federal crimes, and none of the people named in the proclamation were ever charged federally over the bid to subvert the election won by Democrat Joe Biden. It doesn’t affect state charges, though state prosecutions stemming from the 2020 election have hit a dead end or are just limping along.
The move, however, underscores Trump’s continued efforts to promote the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from him even though courts around the country and Trump’s own attorney general at the time found no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome. Reviews, recounts and audits of the election in the battleground states where Trump contested his loss also affirmed Biden’s victory.
Trump’s recent action follows the sweeping pardons of the hundreds of Trump supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of attacking law enforcement.
Ed Martin, the Department of Justice’s point-man on pardons and a former lawyer for Jan. 6 defendants, linked his announcement of the pardons to a post on X that read “No MAGA left behind.”
Nov. 10, 2025
Remove, Impeach, Convict! | The Battle Cry Against
MAGA & Trump | 2025 Protest Song
Feel the power of the resistance with “Remove, Impeach, Convict,” the definitive battle cry anthem written for the November 2025 “Remove The Regime Protests” in Washington, D.C.
November 11, 2025
Even the FBI Didn’t Have Clearance to Stolen
Documents Trump Took to Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump didn’t just take any classified information with him to Mar-a-Lago, he took national security secrets at such a high level of classification that even the top FBI agents were not allowed to know they existed.
If it was anyone but Trump, they would be arrested for this.
November 12, 2025
New Emails Link Trump to Epstein Crimes
#Breaking #News: Newly released emails from the House Oversight Committee show Jeffrey Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls” and spent hours with one victim. The White House calls it a smear, while Rep. Garcia promises that more evidence is coming.
The 11th Hour
Nov. 12, 2025
‘Chilling’: Trump’s pressure campaign to
prevent Epstein files vote fails
Newly-released emails that show Jeffrey Epstein talking about Trump have put the Epstein files back into the spotlight, as Speaker Johnson says the House will take a vote on releasing the full files next week.
Vaughn Hillyard, Philip Bump, Max Rose, and Mark McKinnon join Stephanie Ruhle for The 11th Hour Nightcap.
The Briefing
Nov. 13, 2025
‘A SLAP IN THE FACE’: Family members rage at
Trump defenders hijacking Epstein victim’s remarks
Donald Trump and his defenders have responded to the newly released tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents by seeking to discredit any references to Trump that they contain, including by exposing the redacted name of Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre and treating her cherry-picked remarks as if they exonerate Trump of any wrongdoing.
Sky and Amanda Roberts, Giuffre’s brother and sister-in-law, talk with Jen Psaki about their outrage at Trump defenders trying to hijack her story for their political purposes while ignoring the crimes and the survivors seeking justice.
November 13, 2025
Epstein Survivor’s Trump Story
A brave Epstein survivor comes forward with chilling details that directly tie Donald Trump into the orbit he’s spent years denying — and the moment her story hits daylight, the Trump White House, DOJ insiders, and MAGA loyalists scramble into full-blown panic mode as Democrats move to force the remaining Epstein files into the open. Jayar Jackson breaks it down.
November 13, 2025
Trump Fumes As New Mar-a-Lago Scandal Exposed His HYPOCRISY
November 13, 2025
Inside Epstein’s Vault: Private Plans & Political Secrets
Twenty-thousand pages of newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents are shaking Washington — revealing private emails, political connections, and shocking references to some of the world’s most powerful figures.
The House Oversight Committee’s latest “Epstein doc dump” includes never-before-seen communications between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and high-profile names — including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, and even global leaders.
Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber breaks down the biggest revelations from the 20,000-page dump.
Nov. 14, 2025
The Shocking Reason Epstein Thought Trump Was Crazy
What could a man possibly have done for someone as notorious as Jeffrey Epstein to call him “dirty” and “insane”? Well, Donald Trump might have some insight on that.
Nov. 15, 2025
Chris Murphy: This May Be The Biggest Scandal in
Presidential History
Sam Stein is joined by Sen. Chris Murphy live in Austin, TX to talk the Epstein files fight, Trump’s threats to democracy and abuse of pardons, shutdown politics, and how Democrats should respond. Plus, an audience Q&A on AI, gun violence, and rebuilding a broad pro-democracy coalition.
November 16, 2025
Shocking Video of Trump’s Teen Victim
Resurfaces at Worst Moment
Nov. 16, 2025
Trump Haunted by Jack Smith as Mar-a-Lago
Investigation Resurfaces
In Part 2 of 2, Court of History’s Sidney Blumenthal & Sean Wilentz are joined by Aaron Davis and Carol Leonnig to discuss their groundbreaking new book Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.
They break down Jack Smith’s work and the deeper truths emerging from the Mar-a-Lago investigation. A sharp, revealing conversation that connects reporting, history, and the stakes of this moment.
Nov. 17, 2025
Trump’s insane speech at the McDonald’s Impact Summit
Nov. 17, 2025
We’re Already Living Under Authoritarianism
(featuring George Packer)
Sam Harris speaks with George Packer about American democracy and authoritarianism. They discuss Packer’s article “America’s Zombie Democracy,” the erosion of democratic institutions, the Justice Department’s independence, Congressional dysfunction, the weaponization of the military, Trump’s unprecedented corruption, the public’s failure to recognize democratic collapse, shamelessness as political superpower, the role of hypocrisy, potential threats to the 2026 midterm elections, hyperpartisanship and the loss of shared reality, the mainstreaming of white nationalism on the right, the damage done by wokeness and identity politics on the left, the Epstein files as a potential breaking point for MAGA, the post-Trump Republican landscape, wealth inequality and economic pain as catalysts for change, the role of status in American politics, social media’s toxic effects on discourse, and other topics.
George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). He is also the author of two novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.
Website: us.macmillan.com/books…theemergency
Making Sense Podcast: Episodes and A Dose of Reason
Nov. 18, 2025
Trump Lashes Out at Epstein Questions, Congress
Votes to Unleash the Files & Saudi Prince Visits WH
November 18, 2025
Brutal Ad Utterly Humiliates Trump
During Trump’s Meeting with Saudi Prince
Really American host Chip Franklin breaks down Trump cozying up to Mohammed bin Salman in the White House, in a stunning display of friendship with a tyrannical dictator!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
November 18, 2025
Epstein Files Vote Is A Huge Loss For Trump | “Quiet, Piggy” | Dictator Besties | A Flying McDonald’s
November 19, 2025
Newsom Attacks Trump Over Hateful ‘Piggy’ Comment &
Texas Judge Rules Against Redrawn Congressional Maps
Really American host Iago Lashua breaks down Gavin Newsom roasting Trump after he lashes out at a female reporter and reminded the world how misogynistic he truly is!
November 19, 2025
Trump Loses Battle to Conceal Epstein Files;
Greene Hits Back Over “Traitor” Nickname
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump losing his months-long battle to stop the release of the Epstein files after Congress passed a bill forcing the Justice Department to make them public.
Nov. 19, 2025
Epstein Victim’s Lawyer: Trump Shows
‘Guilty Conscience’ Over Files; as Epstein bill at
White House
The 11th Hour
Nov. 19, 2025
‘An incredibly big shift.’ Trump says he signed
bill to release Epstein files
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he signed the Epstein transparency bill, giving the Justice Department the green-light to make the Epstein files public.
Evan McMorris-Santoro, David Litt, and Paul Reickhoff react on The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle.
Nov. 19, 2025
Warns of DOJ Obstruction as Trump Signs
Epstein Files Bill
THE DAILY
JEFFREY, WHO? A
PLANE RIDE WITH
DONALD TRUMP
At work on a Profile of the then struggling real-estate mogul Donald Trump, Mark Singer took a plane ride with him and Ghislaine Maxwell, who called up a friend named Jeffrey. For decades, the scene stuck in Singer’s mind.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump, in October of 1997
Photograph by Richard Corkery / NY Daily News Archive
Occasionally, I felt the need to protect a subject from himself. In the mid-eighties, I wrote about an art dealer who by his early thirties had become internationally well-known as a relentlessly competitive trader in antique atlases and maps, rare books, engraved prints, and eventually much more. He once invited me to accompany him to a meeting with a highly valued client provided that I pose as his employee. “Well, then, don’t come,” he said when I declined. “I understand. It’s a shame, though. You’d get to see me when I’m really excited.” The day the Profile was published, he called and said, “Unfortunately, you’re a really good writer. As I was reading, I thought, Gee, am I truly this much of an asshole, and realized, yeah, I probably am.”
Only once did I undertake a piece knowing full well that the result was unlikely to flatter. It never would’ve occurred to me to write about Donald Trump—who, for starters, interested me not at all—but when the assignment landed on my desk, in the fall of 1996, I lacked the leverage to refuse. I’d spent much of the previous four years—two more than I’d anticipated—writing a book about someone who, I’d come to recognize, was a pathological liar and worse. One benefit of being lied to point-blank, at least, is that it can be a wonderful motivator, and across the years some of my most gratifying moments as a reporter have been spent with incorrigible dissemblers.
With Trump, I understood that my intelligence per se wasn’t being insulted by the self-aggrandizing fictions that burbled from his lips; that was just the way the man spoke. I asked questions, listened carefully, and knew that my generally affable demeanor made no difference to Trump, who no doubt regarded me as a tool and otherwise a nonentity. This was the pre-“Apprentice” Trump, his Atlantic City casinos struggling, his real-estate assets diminished, and his creditworthiness shredded by his cavalier overreaching and the shameless stiffing of his lenders. Naturally, he denied responsibility for his adversity and, in any event, insisted that he was making a comeback. I needed to understand how he conducted his business, how he managed to stay afloat in the wake of his serial bankruptcies. One possibility that never occurred to me in those days, to my everlasting regret, was that this prevaricating megalomaniac might someday blow up the Constitution.
November 20, 2025
Frederick Trump – The Immigrant Grandfather of Donald Trump – Documentary
Frederick Trump was a poor German barber’s son who crossed the Atlantic as a teenager and died a wealthy American businessman. In between, he chased the Gold Rush, ran hotels and brothels on the frontier, and laid the financial foundations for one of the most controversial political dynasties in modern history. This is the story of the immigrant who started the Trump dynasty.
In this full-length biographical documentary, we follow Frederick Trump’s journey from Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria to the raw, lawless world of the American West and the Klondike Gold Rush. Long before Donald Trump entered politics or became a global celebrity, his grandfather was building the family fortune in an America of opportunity, corruption and rapid change.
If you are interested in the Trump family, watch our related biographies:
1. Fred Trump – Father of Donald Trump
2. The Trumps – The Family Behind the Name
Nov. 20, 2025
Raskin Shakes Congress With History Of Trump Pardons
Rep. Jamie Raskin delivers a blistering speech in Congress, calling out Donald Trump’s mass pardons, the firing of DOJ prosecutors, January 6th violence, and renewed threats posed by pardoned offenders.
Nov. 20, 2025
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) and other House Representatives
give a news conference calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Nov. 21, 2025
White House pushes back on claims
Trump threatened to execute lawmakers
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that President Donald Trump was calling for lawmakers to be executed, after Democrats urged service members and intelligence officials to reject illegal orders. She also argued that lawmakers with national security backgrounds shouldn’t be telling anyone to defy the administration.
Transcript: Trump’s Tirade Calling for
“Death” to Dems Backfires Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Representative Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning service members against carrying out illegal orders.
November 21, 2025
Major Air Force Commander Just DEFIED Trump
Nov. 21, 2025
Navy Commander Gives URGENT WARNING Against
WAR CRIMES
Bobby Jones @ValorMediaNetwork breaks down a warning every American needs to hear: the U.S. military is being pushed into dangerous political territory — and senior leaders are now seeking independent legal reviews just to determine whether the orders they’re receiving are lawful.
Drawing on the new Count Every Hero report, “The Perils of Politicizing the U.S. Military,” Bobby explains how long-standing norms that protect America’s apolitical military are being eroded in real time — from questionable domestic deployments to the removal of senior officers and legal advisors.
Donald and the sexist, offensive, blatantly illegal,
brazenly unpresidential week
The week that was — and the work of Bloomberg News’s Catherine Lucey, ABC News’s Mary Bruce, Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, and many more.
Over this past week, though, it seemed to have reached new depths. Repeatedly.
Maybe it’s age, maybe he’s sick, maybe he’s just not sleeping well. Or, it just as likely could be the result of constantly being constantly surrounded by sycophants. Or, it could be the lack of pushback from the leaders of the other branches of American government to virtually anything he does.
But, perhaps, it was the fact that pushback finally happened on one front — in spite of the efforts of so many people to spare him any accountability. Are the Epstein files — and the refusal of the story to go away — breaking Trump?
Nov. 22, 2025
MAGA Revolts As Trump Turns on Them…
The rift between Donald Trump and some of his biggest supporters is widening, setting the stage for a full-blown GOP power struggle as ambitious MAGA heirs start jockeying for control of the movement. Richard Ojeda breaks it down on Rebel HQ.
The Weekend
Nov. 23, 2025
Former Trump lawyer: ‘The Constitution is not
adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump’
Trump faced mounting losses this week in court on numerous fronts, both personal and presidential.
An appeals court rejected Trump’s efforts to revive his defamation suit against CNN, a federal judge ruled against his deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, DC, and another judge ruled he likely violated the law when trying to cut millions in funding to local governments unless they followed conditions related to immigration enforcement.
Former White House lawyer during Trump’s first term, Ty Cobb, joins “The Weekend” to discuss.
Nov. 24, 2025
Trump is Desperate & More Dangerous Than Ever
Never-Trumper and former Republican George Conway joins Marc Elias to unpack why Donald Trump is both an “addled old man” and a dangerous threat to democracy. They also break down Democratic momentum in key elections — and Conway reveals whether he’s considering running for Congress.
Nov. 25, 2025
Senator Mark Kelly on Trump Suggesting He Be
Executed & Hegseth Opening an Investigation into Him
‘Miserable’ House Republicans tell ex-colleague
of ‘toxic’ work conditions under Trump
By Nicole Charky-Chami /
“Republicans in particular have an untenable choice—stand up to President Trump’s unconstitutional actions or fall in line and accomplish nothing,” Trott wrote.
Trott described his experience in Congress during Trump’s first term 10 years ago.
“Most of my peers were more capable and intelligent than the media portrayed them, although the place was completely dysfunctional. It still is. And it’s gotten worse. More toxic. The focus is on winning—i.e., beating the other party—and playing the blame game, not solving problems,” Trott wrote.
He now sees a different problem for his Republican colleagues.
“Members I have kept in touch with are miserable, and the deplorable state of affairs in our Capitol today is certainly a driving factor behind many recent lawmakers’ resignations,” he wrote. “One senior Republican recently told Punchbowl that ‘his entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage… And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen.’”
Referring to the president as “King Trump,” Trott reveals how the situation has worsened.
“I was there during some of his first term, yes, but Trump was not as adept at abusing his power back then—I can’t imagine serving today just waiting for him to tell me what to do or how to vote,” Trott explained.
Bipartisanship and focusing on results could help lawmakers get out of the situation, but Trott does not expect it to improve anytime soon, especially while the focus for GOP leaders appears to be job security and not serving the American public.
“Let’s be clear, Trump’s executive branch is being run by a bunch of sycophants, felons, and idiots. (Well, former felons—they’ve all been pardoned.) Break the law, go to prison, cut a check, and become a special advisor to the president—what a great country we live in! The Senate confirmed Trump’s picks for key Cabinet roles, ambassadorships, and many more positions of power with blind loyalty being the only criterion,” Trott added.
ALSO READ: ‘Gut punch’: Jan 6 cop slams Trump as ICE agents echo Capitol mob
Nov. 26, 2025
Every Illegal Act Trump Committed in 2025 (So Far)
We documented all 200 Trump illegal actions committed in 2025, so you don’t have to.
Trump lashes out at female reporters,
calling them “ugly,” “stupid” and “piggy”
By Melissa Quinn
There’s No Doubt About It: The Great MAGA
Crack-Up Has Begun
Every single prominent member of the Trump administration has had a very, very bad week.
Here we are, Black Friday, officially Christmastime now. America is in a sour mood. Grocery prices are up, and so are energy prices. Donald Trump lies incessantly about both. The American people are onto him. They’re pessimistic about the future.
The distrust goes way beyond the economy. Over these last few weeks, ever since the government shutdown, it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy. There’s no longer any doubt about it: The MAGA crack-up has begun.
December 1, 2025
U.S. Ports Emptying & Barren Store Shelves Coming,
Thanks To Trump
Donald Trump’s escalating and unpredictable trade war has caused a sharp drop in shipments to America’s major ports, fueling fears of a looming recession in the world’s largest economy. David Shuster breaks it down on Rebel HQ.
December 1, 2025
Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon
Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking
President Trump has announced plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.
In 2024, Hernández was convicted in New York of drug trafficking and weapons charges. “The evidence from the Southern District of New York was overwhelming,” says Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a longtime observer of Honduran politics.
Trump’s announcement came on Friday, and he also threatened to cut off funding if Hondurans did not elect his chosen conservative candidate as they went to the polls Sunday to pick a new president. “He’s almost threatening Honduras that if we don’t do what he is demanding … he will wreak vengeance against Honduras,” says Rodolfo Pastor, former secretary of the presidency under Xiomara Castro in Honduras.
December 1, 2025
Trump Regime Memes About Committing
War Crimes as They Prep Venezuelan Invasion
The Washington Post published an explosive report detailing how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed military officials to commit a war crime in the Caribbean as part of the Trump regime’s effort to destabilize and potentially invade Venezuela.
In this video we’ll talk about the serious implications of this report and also touch on an analysis about the dysfunction at the FBI under the leadership of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.
December 1, 2025
How Trump’s Deportation Campaign
Is Reshaping Small Town America
Like many of the other men on his flight from Miami to Albuquerque, Jose Ventura Rubio never expected to find himself in an ICE jail in rural New Mexico. Ventura Rubio had tried to enter the country in mid-February after flying from Honduras to Miami, thinking his green card was still valid. He didn’t realize he had failed to maintain a residency requirement that made him vulnerable to deportation.
Under previous administrations, Ventura Rubio likely could have made his case in immigration court while living and working at home. But President Donald Trump has made detention the default for tens of thousands of people fighting immigration cases.
It’s also created a scenario where a growing number of US communities are convinced their financial survival depends on locking up immigrants.
Struggling small towns are at the center of Trump’s mass deportation campaign, spearheaded by ICE. In one rural New Mexico county, officials say they are grappling with the trade-off presented by the financial benefits and human cost of being an “ICE town.”
Read how much Ventura Rubio’s detention and deportation cost here:
bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-deportation-detention-true-costs…
December 2, 2025
The unexpected faces on the frontlines of ICE raids
As soon as the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown in Chicago—known as Operation Midway Blitz—teenage brothers Ben and Sam Luhmann stepped up to the front lines.
Armed with phone and body cameras, Ben and Sam patrol the Chicago suburbs in hopes of tracking ICE agents and filming raids they see as unwarranted and unjustified. The teens are both home schooled, and dedicate five hours each day to help a rapid-response network of volunteers that documents ICE raids and assists families of those detained in the arrests.
The News Movement’s Dan Ming joined Ben and Sam on patrol to see the effects of President Trump’s immigration enforcement—and meet the communities pushing back.
#immigration #iceraids #iceagents
December 2, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
Dec. 2, 2025
Trump’s Decline Just Got Caught On Camera
Chris Mowrey (@chrisdmowrey), filling in for Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network, breaks down Donald Trump’s latest press conference where his cognitive decline was undeniable. Trump lashed out at reporters, calling them “stupid” for asking basic questions, and made the mathematically impossible claim that he would slash drug prices by “800%”.
He also continued to confuse political asylum with “insane asylums” and went on a 150-post rampage on Truth Social. The President appears tired, angry, and increasingly detached from reality.
December 2, 2025
Trump Can’t Stop Falling Asleep at Cabinet Meeting
& Goes Off the Rails in All Night Posting Spree
December 2, 2025
Former DHS Chief of Staff Says Trump Fantasized
About Maiming Civilians w/ Miles Taylor
Donald Trump may have fantasized about maiming civilians and now he is doing it. Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor joins Thom Hartmann to discuss Trump’s war crime fantasy.
Dec. 3, 2025
The Psychopath Problem in Politics
December 3, 2025
Is Viral Propaganda How the Trump Administration
Normalizes Cruelty?
The Trump White House just showed us something every American should find chilling, no matter what music they listen to or what party they vote for.
They took a video of aggressive ICE arrests, slapped Sabrina Carpenter’s song on top of it, and posted it like it was a victory lap. Then, when Carpenter objected and said the video was “evil and disgusting” and told them not to use her music to benefit an “inhumane agenda,” the White House hit back with a statement that sounded like it came from a playground bully, not the seat of American government.
They didn’t debate her point. They didn’t defend policy with facts. They went straight to dehumanization and insult, calling people “illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles,” and saying anyone who defends them must be “stupid” or “slow.”
That’s not just ugly: it’s a warning.
Dec. 1, 2025
‘This is child abuse’: College student deported
before flight home for Thanksgiving
19-year-old Any Lucia López Belloza was on her way home from college for Thanksgiving, but was detained by immigration agents at Boston Logan Airport. Instead of being sent home to Texas, she was deported to Honduras, a country she has not known or seen since she was 7-years-old.
Any’s attorney Todd Pomerleau joins Katy Tur to share more on her case, saying “it’s an unconscionable deprivation of her rights.”
Dec. 4, 2025
‘Shackled’ and ‘Handcuffed’: Deported college
student in tears speaking out on ICE encounter
Any Lucia López Belloza, the Babson College freshman deported to Honduras while on her way home to surprise her parents in Texas for Thanksgiving, speaks out to MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff in a cable TV exclusive.
Any Lucia describes in detail being confronted and apprehended by two ICE agents waiting for her at customer service at the airport. She breaks down while recounting being put in shackles and handcuffs on the plane to Honduras and what she witnessed on the plane. Any Lucia also reveals what she would say to President Trump if she could, and why she is still hopeful.
Dec. 4, 2025
Trump ATTACKS Somali Americans…
When Trump erupts into a racist tirade targeting Somali Americans and Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Tom Emmer piles on with fabricated crime stats, the MAGA machine is exposed on camera—revealing just how far today’s GOP will go to dehumanize the very people they’re elected to serve.
Jayar Jackson breaks it down.
Dec. 4, 2025
Goal of admin. is to ‘dehumanize immigrants’:
Rep. Jayapal slams Trump’s ‘lawlessness’
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) joins Ana Cabrera to react to the FBI arresting a suspect in the January 2021 pipe-bombing case and to discuss the Trump administration’s expanding immigration crackdown across the country, saying it is “terrorizing people.”
Dec. 4, 2025
Fear Grips Minneapolis’ Somali Community
As Trump & ICE Stir Panic
Fear gripped Minneapolis’ Somali community after President Donald Trump criticised Somali immigrants and ordered the termination of temporary protections, while ICE conducted door-to-door operations.
Residents and business owners described a sudden drop in foot traffic at Karmel Mall, a hub for Somali Americans, leaving shops shuttered and streets deserted.
City councilman Jamal Osman likened the situation to “a war zone,” noting families were afraid to leave their homes. Small business owners expressed concern for their livelihoods, while community members condemned what they called politically motivated scapegoating.
Trump dismissed Somali residents as “garbage” and accused them of harming the state, prompting local leaders to call for unity and resist intimidation.
December 4, 2025
Mayor Frey responds to Trump’s remarks
on Somali community
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and local faith leaders spoke out on Thursday in response to President Donald Trump’s comments about the Somali community. Frey highlighted the community’s strength and resilience, saying, “When you come for one of us, you come for all of us.”
Dec. 4, 2024
‘500 tons of cocaine’: Trump pardons trafficker
who helped flood U.S. with drugs
Chris Hayes on the pardon of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández: Trump keeps justifying the killing of more than 80 men on boats in the Caribbean as a way to save Americans from drugs. But just this week he pardoned a man who helped traffic more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
December 5, 2025
Treason with Benefits: Kushner & Witkoff Play With Putin
In this explosive episode of The Elephant in the Room, Rick Wilson breaks down the stunning new reporting that Jared Kushner and real estate billionaire Steve Witkoff held a secret meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this week (as of 12/4/25).
Rick analyzes why two American power brokers advising Russia’s authoritarian leader is raising alarms across the national security, intelligence, and foreign policy communities, and why experts are calling the covert conversation a potential act of treason, foreign interference, and backchannel diplomacy gone rogue.
From Kushner’s long-documented ties to Russian oligarchs, to Witkoff’s sudden emergence as a Kremlin-friendly intermediary, Rick lays out what investigators are already probing, what the White House is terrified you’ll learn next, and how this clandestine meeting could reshape the landscape of U.S.–Russia relations, election interference, and the ongoing debate over whether Trump’s inner circle ever truly stopped colluding with Moscow.
As Rick puts it: When Americans fly to Moscow to “advise” Putin, it’s not diplomacy—it’s danger. Buckle up for the episode blowing the lid off the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin scandal.
The Weekend
Dec. 7, 2025
“GRIFTING NEPO-BABIES”: The next generation of Trump grifters
Donald Trump is passing on his favorite family traditions to the next generation: grifting. A whole new generation of flimflam artists has been born, including not just Trump’s own children, but the children of the entire Trump administration.
Dec. 8, 2025
Trump Attacks “Horrible” Jimmy Kimmel,
Gets Embarrassing Fake Award &
Jimmy Announces Show Renewal
December 8, 2025
Hi, I’m Radley Balko, a journalist, author, and proprietor of Substack publication The Watch.
I’ve written at length about police abuse and wrongful convictions. Over the years, I’ve interviewed and gotten to know plenty of people legitimately harmed by bad cops and prosecutors.
But Donald Trump has never served a day behind bars, and there’s persuasive evidence that he committed the federal crimes for which he was investigated and charged. Yet as I write in a new piece for Mother Jones, he plans to order the DOJ to pay himself $230 million for the “harm” he suffered from Jack Smith’s investigation and for the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate.
December 8, 2025
Can America Survive Donald Trump?
Has He Made It Great Again?
Or Is It Collapsing Under Trumpism?
This video breaks down a growing narrative of fear, corruption, and democratic decay under Donald Trump, as described by critics who argue that the country is experiencing unprecedented division, institutional collapse, and erosion of rights.
From hostile press briefings and contradictory drug policies, to allegations of money laundering, foreign influence, authoritarian policing, and economic manipulation, the criticism paints a picture of a nation shaken from the inside out.
As America’s global alliances falter and domestic tensions rise, critics argue the country is sliding toward authoritarianism—while supporters insist these accusations are exaggerated or politically motivated.
This video isn’t about partisan cheerleading—it’s an examination of the perspective, fears, and warnings expressed by those who believe the U.S. is experiencing a profound crisis.
Dec. 9, 2025
President Donald Trump | The Conversation
President Donald Trump sat down with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns for this week’s episode of The Conversation for a 45-minute exchange about his influence on Europe, major American policy challenges and the future of the GOP.
ALL IN with Chris Hayes
December 10, 2025
Bernie blasts ‘pathological liar’ Trump
for calling affordability a ‘hoax’
“You have somebody who is a pathological liar who thinks he can convince people that what they are seeing with their own eyes when they walk into a grocery store, when they pay their rent, when they try to send their kids to college, or when they’re paying for health care, that their eyes are deceiving them,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders on Trump dismissing affordability concerns.
Dec. 11, 2025
Senate votes down dueling health care proposals
The White House has vowed to roll out a new approach on health care after the Senate today rejected dueling proposals from Democrats and Republicans. Enrollees could see monthly payments soar in January if enhanced Obamacare subsidies are allowed to lapse.
Dec. 11, 2025
The Trump Document that Russia Loves
Trump’s new National Security Strategy is many things, including a gift to Russia.
One thing it’s not: good for America.
December 11, 2025
Shocking Report Sparks Investigation of Kristi Noem
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under Congressional investigation after a ProPublica report revealed that at least 170 US citizens have been detained by ICE. The Damage Report’s John Iadarola breaks it down.
Dec. 12, 2025
Chilling ICE Arrest Stories Rock Congress As
Victims Recount Ordeal At Shadow Hearing | US News
On October 10th, 2025, Dayanne was assaulted and kidnapped by masked ICE agents. Watch her speak up in this chilling hearing.
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Dec. 12, 2025
‘I Am Sick Of Your Lies’: Kristi Noem Faces Wrath
Of Democrat Leaders For 30 Minutes Straight
Kristi Noem faced a blistering round of questions as Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee aggressively challenged her claims, policy arguments, and statements.
December 12, 2025
Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE “Terror” & Her
Push to Impeach Kristi Noem as DHS Chief
Lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who reiterated her call during the hearing for Noem to resign and announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment.
The Department of Homeland Security is “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadership, Ramirez tells Democracy Now! “She thinks that she is above the law as long as Republicans are in leadership. … We can’t allow her to think this is a laughable matter as people are dying under her watch.”
December 13, 2025
‘How Would You Feel?’: Mother Of Karoline Leavitt’s
Nephew Publicly Addresses Her After ICE Arrest
During a CNN interview on Friday, Bruna-Caroline Ferreira, the mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, spoke out following her arrest and release from ICE custody.
December 13, 2025
Is This THE FINAL MESSAGE?
CHAOS in the CABINET
Disaster in Pennsylvania as Republicans pressure Donald to address voter concerns about affordability, inflation, and the economy, but he goes way off script to claim that “affordability” itself is a Democratic hoax.
Inside his administration, the message falls apart. Some officials insist the economy is strong and there is no problem. Others promise economic relief is coming. Then comes the blame: Joe Biden, the media, and the government shutdown.
If there is no affordability crisis, why is help on the way? And if Americans are struggling with prices, why are they being told everything is fine? Surely someone is to blame!
It’s Trump Trolls Trump — Week 46
The Weekend
Dec. 13, 2025
Kentucky braces for impact of health care subsidy cuts: “At the end of the day, a lot of people are going to feel betrayed.”
Trump posted multiple times this week claiming he’s heralded the “greatest economy ever” in U.S. history, but new polling from the Associated Press shows Trump’s economic approval rating has hit a record low. Plus, Kentucky braces for impact as state subsidies under the Affordable Care Act are set to expire.
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) joins “The Weekend” to discuss.
December 14, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
Dec. 15, 2025
Police: Rob Reiner’s son ‘responsible’ for
murder of his parents
After Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead inside their Los Angeles home, police arrested their son Nick on suspicion of murder. There has been a massive outpouring of support for the legendary actor and director from across Hollywood and beyond. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports.
December 15, 2025
Trump Sinks to New Low Addressing Murder of Rob Reiner…
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
Rob Reiner | Full Episode 12.19.25
Filmmaker Rob Reiner discusses his decades of political activism, his concerns about threats to American institutions, and the health and future of American democracy in an updated 2019 interview, with previously unaired material.
Dec. 15, 2025
Rob Reiner Feared Trump Was Turning America
Into Nazi Germany | The Last Laugh Clip
Rob Reiner’s last interview with The Last Laugh saw the legendary director share how he learned to become so outspoken in his political beliefs, the horrifying direction that America is heading towards under Trump, and the importance of preserving democracy in these dark times.
Plus, he discusses with Matt Wilstein about whether he thought his films would have such a lasting impact and what it is about films like ‘The Princess Bride’ and ‘When Harry Met Sally’ that make them so great.
Title: Rob Reiner Takes on Trump, Elon and the Return of ‘Spinal Tap’
Podcast: The Last Laugh
Episode: 303
Format: Full Podcast
Date: September 17, 2025
Guest: Rob Reiner
️Host: Matt Wilstein
Watch the full episode here: Rob Reiner Takes on Trump, Elon and the Re…
December 16, 2025
We Investigated The Criminals Who Bought Trump:
What We Found Will Shock You
A billionaire put $75 million into the Trump family crypto company. His SEC probe was dropped. Binance helped them make a crypto coin and facilitated a $2 billion deal. The founder was pardoned. The Trumps are using crypto to enable brazen corruption at the highest level.
December 18, 2025
‘Trump criminally conspired to overturn 2020 polls’:
Jack Smith has ‘proof beyond a reasonable doubt’
Former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door December 17 deposition that his team developed evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt” that Donald Trump criminally conspired to overturn the 2020 election, defending the integrity of his now-dropped prosecutions.
Smith insisted his decisions were grounded in facts and law, not politics, even as Republicans accused his team of overreach and political bias.
Democrats are pushing for Smith’s full testimony and report to be made public, while GOP scrutiny — including Chuck Grassley’s claims about subpoenas of over 400 Republicans — intensifies political tension.
DEADLINE | WHITE HOUSE
December 18, 2025
Susie Wiles ‘very much still in charge’ after bombshell
Vanity Fair interview rocks White House
Chris Whipple, Vanity Fair Reporter joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the 11 on-the-record interviews he conducted with Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, which after publication resulted in the Trump White House being rocked by Wiles own words.
WASHINGTON WEEK with The Atlantic
December 19, 2025
Trump rewrites history in fast and furious
prime-time speech
President Trump delivered a fast and furious prime-time address to the nation this week. The panel discusses his claims and the revealing interview his White House Chief of Staff gave to Vanity Fair.
Dec. 21, 2025
‘Lives will be lost’: Boulder protesters sound
alarm over NCAR breakup plan
Hundreds of protesters lined Broadway in Boulder on Saturday to defend the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
December 22, 2025
“Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s
Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR.
“He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann, scientist and co-author of Science Under Siege: How To Fight The Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World.
Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate models that we need to inform climate policy.”
Dec. 22, 2025
‘None of this makes any sense’: Rep. Jason Crow
talks about U.S. actions in the Caribbean
President Trump will meet with the Secretary of the Navy Monday, as the U.S Coast Guard says it’s actively pursuing a third oil tanker in the Caribbean.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), who serves on the Armed Services Committee, joins Ana Cabrera to discuss the U.S. military actions in the Caribbean, threats toward Venezuela and the DOJ’s partial Epstein document release.
Daily Newsletter
Dec. 22, 2025
CBS Pulls “60 Minutes” Segment Critical
of Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans
“We have effectively handed [the Trump administration] a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
By Alex Nguyen
Contributing Writer
CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, a last-minute move that has since been condemned as political.
The decision was announced just three hours before the story was expected to air on Sunday. The webpage for the episode has been removed. Promotional material of the segment has also been taken down.
According to the New York Times, Weiss asked for numerous changes to the segment, such as an interview with Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff and main architect of President Trump’s mass deportation plan, or another top government official. Weiss also reportedly disapproved of using the word “migrants” to characterize the Venezuelan men who were deported to CECOT, stressing that they had entered the United States illegally. NPR reported that Weiss told her colleagues they could not run the show without an on-the-record-comment from a Trump administration official.
Weiss also argued in a memo to 60 Minutes staff on Sunday that they should include a voice “arguing that [Trump is] operating within the bounds of his authority.”
Dec. 23, 2025
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration
Doesn’t Want You To See
This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people’s basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only makes it more likely that American citizens are put at risk!
Farewell to ’60 Minutes’
Under CBS’ new ownership, the venerable news program just went the way of The Washington Post’s editorial page.
By Dec. 23, 2025
Once you begin surrendering to Donald Trump, he always wants more. You can’t appease a tyrant.
Dec. 24, 2025
WATCH: The 60 Minutes Segment Bari Weiss CENSORED & BANNED For Trump | The Kyle Kulinski Show
December 23, 2025
Inside an Immigration Raid That Swept Up
U.S. Citizens | Visual Investigations
A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.
Politics
Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.
For the last year, the nation has witnessed President Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline. The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language.
The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first year in office.
Dec. 26, 2025
The Politics of Plunder
Trump’s domestic and foreign policies have
one consistent theme.
Will Saletan, Cathy Young, Andrew Egger, and 2 others
The President Is a Pirate
by Will Saletan
Donald and Vlad Want Elections . . . in Ukraine
by Cathy Young
December 26, 2025
He CANNOT CONTROL himself, and it’s a sickness
— Stephen Miller repeatedly makes false claims about inflation, COVID lockdowns, and deportations, using dehumanizing rhetoric that goes unchecked and escalates extremist narratives.
December 27, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
Dec. 27, 2025
Mark Kelly Torches Pete Hegseth Over
Reckless War Talk
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly delivered a blistering rebuke of Pete Hegseth, calling out what he described as dangerous, juvenile rhetoric and a deeply troubling approach to military force.
Kelly warned that Hegseth’s obsession with “lethality” and casual treatment of civilian deaths undermines U.S. credibility, endangers innocent lives, and puts global stability at risk.
As clips resurface of Hegseth defending aggressive boat strikes and dismissing due process, critics argue his mindset reflects exactly why unchecked militarism makes the world less safe—not more.
“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed”
(By destroying it)
Charlie Sykes – Dec. 29, 2025
As we know, Trump is obsessed with optics. Bright shiny objects, gold and gilt. Red carpets. Ceremonies and faux awards.
So it’s worth noting that when Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky landed in Miami on Saturday, there was none of that. Not a single high-ranking American official was there to greet him when he stepped off the plane. As Jay Nordlinger noted: “Trump, of course, rolled out the red carpet for Putin — literally. He had American soldiers do it on their hands and knees. He then offered Putin a ride in his limo, which Putin accepted.
“Note the contrast between that and today.”
We did. And so did the rest of the world.
Bob Woodward tells the revelatory,
behind-the-scenes story of three wars—
Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle
for the American presidency.
© 2024
War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.
From chapter SEVENTY-FIVE (pp. 360-362)
Having written three books on Trump’s presidency and conducted more than eight hours of interviews with him, it is clear he will say and do anything that he believes is in his interest.
Fear, my first book on Trump, revealed “a nervous breakdown” of his presidency in which senior officials removed documents from his desk so that Trump would not sign actions that would trigger a major economic or national security crisis.
White House chief of staff John F. Kelly, a retired Marine four-star general, was quoted in the book saying about then-President Trump, “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown.”
Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, referred to Trump as “a professional liar.”
John Dowd, Trump’s personal lawyer in the Mueller investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, told Trump he was so untruthful that if he testified in person, he would wind up in “an orange jumpsuit” and was “a fucking liar.”
Maggie Haberman of The New York Times wrote that my book Fear “depicts the Trump White House as a byzantine, treacherous, often out-of-control operation,” and that the book “unsettled the administration and the president in part because it was clear that the author has spoken with many current and former officials.”
Senator Lindsey Graham assured then-President Trump that I had not put words in Trump’s mouth nor anyone else’s. And to my complete surprise, Trump agreed to be interviewed for my second book on his presidency, Rage.
“I wish I met with you for the last book,” President Trump said, seated in a burgundy chair behind the Resolute Desk on December 5, 2019. “But we’ll make it up, we’ll make it up.”
Trump had props set out on the desk in front of him. There was a stack of judicial appointment orders in the center of the desk. Then on one side there was a binder of letters Trump had exchanged with North Korean president Kim Jong Un. And on the other side were large photos of Trump standing next to Kim shaking his hand and smiling.
Trump’s war was the coronavirus pandemic and his performance revealed his character. These interviews showed a man with no fidelity to the truth, fixated on re-election and unequipped to deal with a genuine crisis.
Trump was warned by his national security advisers that the virus was deadly and a major threat to the country, but he never developed a plan to respond. He did not know how to use his extraordinary executive power to prioritize saving American lives. Through defiant pronouncements, he downplayed and deflected any responsibility for handling it. There was no compassion. No courage.
“Oh, I have a plan, Bob,” Trump said about the coronavirus in April 2020. “I mean, you know it is what it is.”
During national crises, people look to their president for leadership.
“This is war,” Trump told me.
I asked Trump if he had sat down to get a tutorial with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.
“There’s not a lot of time for that, Bob. This is a busy White House,” Trump said.
By the summer of 2020, about 140,000 people had died in the United States from the virus and eventually the death toll would exceed 1.1 million.
“You will see the plan, Bob. I’ve got 106 days,” Trump told me in July 2020. In 106 days was the coming presidential election.
His lack of action on the coronavirus almost certainly cost him the 2020 election, according to his own pollsters.
I once asked Trump, “What’s the job of the president?” He said, “To protect the people.”
It’s a good answer, but Trump failed to do it.
Donald Trump is not only the wrong man for the presidency, he is unfit to lead the country. Trump was far worse than Richard Nixon, the provably criminal president. As I have pointed out, Trump governed by fear and rage. And indifference to the public and national interest.
Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.
Daily Show Mon, Dec 29, 2025
What’s Behind Trump’s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria?
Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?
“Witch Hunt”: Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists
Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks
Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant
Death Under Trump’s Current Border Commissioner
Dec. 30, 2025
U.S. Citizens EXPOSE ICE’s Crimes,
Relive Nightmare treatment in Custody
The violent, disturbing arrests of U.S. citizens Dayanne Figueroa and George Retes have garnered national attention from the media and Congress as two clear-cut cases of Donald Trump’s ICE agents ignoring the law to intimidate anyone they suspect of being an immigrant. Sharon Reed breaks it down on Rebel HQ.
December 31, 2025
How Trump Is Wielding Presidential Power to Shape U.S. Culture
President Trump has put his stamp on everything from a UFC fight to youth politics to the Smithsonian. The Wall Street Journal’s Aaron Zitner examines the new civic landscape heading into the celebration of the country’s 250th birthday. He spoke with a popular young conservative Benny Johnson at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, UFC president Dana White and Michael Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
Read more about the year Trump changed America and the world: https://on.wsj.com/48Pz12x
12/31/25
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This week’s newsletter was brought to you by Max Burns
When Donald Trump took the oath of office 11 months ago, the first words he said were nothing less than a bold promise that Americans would soon be basking in a time of prosperity and happiness unlike any they’d ever seen before. “The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump bellowed. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.”
It hasn’t quite worked out that way. Far from an era of unrivaled American prosperity, Trump’s first year in office has been marked by an almost unbroken cycle of bitter hyper-partisanship, governmental dysfunction and a rapidly destabilizing economy. He was right about one thing, though: Amid the chaos of his second term, almost everyone has forgotten about the relatively placid tenure of his immediate predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
In our final Truth About column of the year, we’re taking a deep dive into just how much America has changed in the last twelve months and what — if anything — Trump has actually delivered. Let’s dive in.
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