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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was raked over the coals on MS NOW on Friday morning over her braying announcement that Donald Trump’s name was being added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Thursday afternoon, Leavitt took to X to let the public know that Trump’s hand-picked board overseeing the venerable institution had voted unanimously, which turned out to not be true, to rebrand the center with Trump’s name listed first.

CNN's Audie Cornish challenged a conservative panelist after he praised an athletic competition announced by President Donald Trump that has sparked comparisons to the dystopian "Hunger Games" novels and films.

The 79-year-old president announced the White House will host the “Patriot Games,” where one teenage boy and girl from each state and territory will compete, as part of the celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary next year, and "CNN This Morning" producers rolled a clip of Trump's comments interspersed with similar dialogue from the "Hunger Games" films.

Reacting to Donald Trump’s administration’s late night announcement of two more unprovoked attacks on alleged drug boats that followed the president renewed threats against Venezuela, longtime Washington Post columnist David Ignatius claimed he sees a pattern of conquest and domination emanating from the White House.

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Ignatius, an expert on foreign affairs, claimed the president appears dead set on taking over Latin America.

The former chief aide to ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) contends that the GOP caucus under current Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is demoralized and angry as members head home for the holidays, facing the prospect of losing House control in 2026.

During an appearance on MS NOW's "Way Too Early" with host Ali Vitali, Brendan Buck noted that while internal fractures have existed within the Republican majority, conditions have deteriorated significantly under Johnson's leadership. The Speaker faces an escalating revolt from his own members.

Some high-profile allies of President Donald Trump were called out on Thursday for "casting aspersions" about several right-wing figures during an event dubbed the "Super Bowl" for young Republicans.

Ben Shapiro, editor emeritus at The Daily Wire, spoke on Thursday during Day One of Turning Point USA's AmericaFirst Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. During his speech, he called out Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and other right-wing media figures for spreading conspiracy theories about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who founded TPUSA, and his wife, Erika, the organization's current CEO.

A renowned historian on Thursday accused President Donald Trump's administration of attempting to install a "Nazi worldview" in America.

Heather Cox Richardson, historian and author of the Substack "Letters from an American," discussed how the Trump administration differs from previous presidential administrations in a new interview on Zeteo News with journalist John Harwood. The interview occurred at a time when Trump's rhetoric had become increasingly dark around topics like immigration and citizenship.

Erika Kirk's scheduled speech at her company's grand annual meeting on Thursday was overshadowed by what she called a "fun technical difficulty."

Kirk spoke on day one of Turning Point USA's AmericaFest Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday, an event she called the organization's "Super Bowl." Her dramatic entrance followed an emotional video about her late husband, conservative activist and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. Still, as she began talking, it soon became apparent that something went wrong.

President Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles did more than embarrass the White House with her broad-ranging Vanity Fair interview, MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace argued to the reporter who broke the story, Chris Whipple, on Thursday. In fact, she exposed herself to subpoenas from the people Trump ordered indicted by the Justice Department, as they pursue vindictive prosecution complaints.

"What did she — what was the spirit of the conversation when she describes Donald Trump's personality as a, quote, 'alcoholic's personality'?" asked Wallace.

President Donald Trump delivered a forceful insult to the military on Wednesday during his address to the nation, and a new column argued that the insult will be measured in "empty billets and early graves."

During his speech on Wednesday, Trump announced that his administration is sending 1.45 million enlisted military members a $1,776 check that they're calling a "Warrior Dividend" before Christmas. Trump claimed that the dividend was funded by revenue from his tariffs. However, Politico later reported that the funds were moved from a federal account that helps servicemembers find affordable housing.

President Donald Trump's National Economic Council chair Kevin Hassett went on MS NOW on Thursday to try to defend the president's meandering, lie-filled speech the previous night — but the excuse he came up with had Nicolle Wallace and former Republican congressman turned Florida Democratic governor candidate David Jolly shaking their heads in disbelief.

"You know, I'd have to go back and look at the specific language," said Hassett. "But ... the president, in order to make sure that everybody understood the facts and the facts were documented, spent a lot of time with us, with our team, preparing slides that that showed the data for what he was talking about in the speech and in some networks while he was speaking, they showed the slides and in some networks they didn't. And I just thought that was kind of unusual. I was expecting, when I was flipping around, to just see the slides everywhere. Gosh, we spent so much time, more time on them. But, you know, I think that the president had documentation for the facts that he was saying they were in the slides."

President Donald Trump is millions of tons short of meeting a key promise he made to American farmers before starting his trade war with China, according to one analyst.

In October, China agreed to end its boycott of American soybeans, which ended a months-long trade war between the two countries. As part of the deal, China agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans by the end of 2025. However, reporting from CNBC in early December showed that the country would likely miss its target.