President Donald Trump on Monday said he wanted to lower the number of U.S. troops in Germany to 25,000 in response to what he characterized as German delinquency on military spending. The reduction in troop numbers, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is deeply unpopular among Republican lawmakers and some national security experts. “We’re…
Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford said the president did not initially see it as disrespectful to hold his planned comeback rally on Juneteenth, a date which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. "He didn’t see it as disrespectful to be able to do it on Juneteenth," the Republican senator said Sunday on CNN’s…
President Donald Trump has long had two cherished American institutions standing beside him as he railed against athletes taking a knee during the national anthem: NASCAR and the NFL. This week, they both started to walk away. Bending to the cultural moment, NASCAR and the NFL in recent days reversed course on their approach to…
On the Fox Business Network’s Evening Edit, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell took aim Tuesday at the chaos-ridden New York Times as having made a “mockery of journalism,” expressed support for law enforcement officers amid nationwide unrest, and denounced the liberal media double standard. Host Liz MacDonald introduced the issue of The…
New polling is out and Donald Trump will be shocked to learn that gassing and violently beating peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment wasn’t as popular as Attorney General Bill Barr likely told him it would be. Trump’s approval plummeted fully seven points since last month in the new CNN/SSRS poll conducted June 2-5, entirely in…
Donald Trump is planning to restart rallies in the next two weeks in a major turning point for the president since the coronavirus shut down traditional campaigning. Trump’s advisers are still determining where the rallies will take place and what safety measures will be implemented, depending on the type of venue chosen. Campaign manager Brad…
The U.K. government should condemn a "deliberate election strategy" by U.S. President Donald Trump to use anti-racism protests to activate his electoral base, said Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary. Asked on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show to comment on Trump’s response to the protests against the killing by police of George Floyd, that continued…
Left-wing comedian Bill Maher closed Friday’s Real Time with a monologue that might have upset liberals. After all, it called into question the wisdom of the lockdowns that they have championed. However, the HBO host later made up for it by comparing President Trump to a murderous Nigerian dictator. After describing Trump as someone who “puts…
Republicans in a crucial New Jersey swing district have a choice in the July primary: pick a millennial woman with organized labor ties or a middle-aged man with connections to President Donald Trump’s campaign. In choosing a candidate they hope will unseat freshman Democratic Rep. Andy Kim in the 3rd District, Republicans are either going…
OAKLAND — Conservatives from Washington to the West Coast have anointed attorney Harmeet Dhillon as their go-to legal warrior in the culture wars of the Covid-19 pandemic. And they don’t even seem to mind that she’s from San Francisco. During the pandemic, Dhillon has emerged as a conservative thorn in the side of Gov. Gavin…
On May 21, Timothy Klausutis wrote a letter to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. In it, Klausutis pleaded with Dorsey to excise a conspiracy-laden, fact-free tweet the president of the United States sent out over Memorial Day weekend, a tweet that implied Klausutis’ deceased wife, Lori, was secretly murdered by then-Congressman Joe Scarborough. Klausutis explained that there was no one with…
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden amped up their ongoing spat over wearing face masks in public on Tuesday with Biden calling the president an “absolute fool” for stoking controversy around the use of masks. The beef began Monday evening, when the president retweeted an image that appeared to mock Biden wearing…
President Donald Trump on Monday morning threatened to move August’s Republican National Convention out of North Carolina unless there are guarantees the state will let everyone attend. “I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August. Unfortunately,…
Y’all, the president sure lost his mind this week, didn’t he? I mean granted, it’s more likely that he never had it to begin with. But boy howdy was this one a doozy. Buckle up—this is what you might have missed. Idiot president peddles conspiracy theories, threatens retaliation against U.S. state By Hunter So here…
Aides to President Donald Trump are considering a plan to shift the government’s global response to future infectious disease outbreaks to a new unit inside the State Department, according to documents obtained by POLITICO. The proposal, discussed during a National Security Council deputies committee meeting on Thursday, already has set off a turf battle between…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Donald Trump plans to travel to Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday to witness the launch of the first Americans into space in nearly a decade, a White House official said Friday. Two NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, will travel aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a…
YPSILANTI, Mich.—At the intersection of Rawsonville and Textile Roads, on a slender stretch of turf that runs the length of a half-deserted strip mall, Kathryn Prater and Kelra Rise are dancing. The longtime friends, white women in their early 40s, haven’t had much to celebrate recently. Rise lost her job as a shipping clerk two…
Donald Trump, by dint of his unflagging ineptitude and pervasive presence on the national stage, has left the Biden campaign with an embarrassment of riches for material to use in attack ads. Two released by the campaign this week work in tandem, one reminding Americans just how devastating this pandemic has been under Trump’s leadership while…
President Donald Trump is lunching with Senate Republicans in the Capitol and prodding them to launch subpoenas against his enemies. Joe Biden is stuck in Delaware and has yet to hold even a conference call with House or Senate Democrats. At this point in a typical presidential campaign, Biden probably would have already visited with…
Trump administration officials are preparing plans to extend the federal deployment of more than 40,000 National Guard members performing coronavirus relief work across the country, after scores of lawmakers moved to pressure President Donald Trump to keep the Guards in place past June. Four people familiar with the matter said the administration is prepared to…