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President Donald Trump's confused reaction to the term "corner store" drew withering mockery and scrutiny from MS NOW's Katy Tur on Friday, who pulled it into a broader discussion of how Trump has lost his ability to look relatable to the common man.

"Donald Trump's had a remarkable ability in 2016 of making people believe he was like them," said Tur. "Ignore the private 747, the Fifth Avenue tower, the golf courses, the limousines, and all that gold. Donald Trump is just like us, they'd say. He gets us. He talks like us. He eats like us. He thinks like us. He's us if we were rich, and he's out there fighting for us, it worked so well. He has been coasting off that perception for more than a decade now, even making some truly hardscrabble working class politicians look like mealy-mouthed robots programmed with poll-tested talking points."

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon was mocked after people questioned an apparent stain or shadow on his pants in a viral video clip.

During his appearance at a Semafor conference earlier this week, Bannon's green pants appeared to be stained. Some speculated that the dark area on his trousers might be urine. It couldn't immediately be determined what caused the apparent stain or shadow.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted that President Donald Trump was "very, very sane" even though he threatened to destroy Iran's entire civilization.

During a Friday House Education & Workforce Committee hearing, Rep. John Mannion (D-NY) noted that Kennedy had called Trump "the most sane president" following the threat to Iran.

President Donald Trump proclaimed the Strait of Hormuz has been re-opened, but that's not exactly how he put it.

The 79-year-old president notified Americans that Iran would begin to allow "full passage" in what he inaccurately identified as "the Strait of Iran," the narrow waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that has been closed to most commercial shipping traffic since Trump authorized a joint U.S.-Israel military operation.

Liberal justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are reportedly "slow walking" a redistricting decision to effectively deter additional states from trying the tactic before the midterm elections.

On Friday, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told War Room host Steve Bannon that liberals on the court were plotting to prevent Republican-led states from gerrymandering districts ahead of November by refusing to submit a minority opinion in a Louisiana redistricting case that is likely to give states additional latitude in the future.

Noting that Department of Justice investigators are busy working in his “backyard” of Florida on election theft conspiracy theories promoted by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, former state attorney of Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg told the hosts of “Morning Joe” it will end in embarrassment for all involved.

Brought on to discuss Gabbard’s efforts to get a whistleblower criminally charged for informing on Donald Trump, Aronberg claimed there is little value in the conspiracy theory Gabbard is pushing and, should the DOJ follow her lead, the cases will fall apart quickly.

President Donald Trump's enormous triumphal arch took a step closer to reality after its early designs received approval from his handpicked fine arts commission, and CNN's Tom Foreman revealed how the massive structure would dwarf its surroundings in the nation's capital.

The 79-year-old president has proposed a towering, 250-foot arch, modeled after the 164-foot Arc de Triomphe in Paris, in honor of the country’s semiquincentennial, and its imposing scale would be twice as tall as the Lincoln Memorial, nearly as tall as the Capitol and potentially interfere with flight paths around Washington Reagan National Airport.

During an appearance on MS NOW on Friday morning, conservative journalist David Drucker built upon his recent reporting on the state of the GOP in Indiana to note that there is a civil war going on inside the Republican Party with money being spent to oust lawmakers in safe seats.

Speaking with the hosts of “Morning Joe,” Drucker explained that Indiana is ground zero in the fight between Donald Trump partisans and the traditional wing of the party that exploded during the debate on redistricting that the president demanded.

CNN's chief data guru, Harry Enten, was stunned on Thursday night after another Democrat outperformed expectations in a special election.

Progressive activist and organizer Analilia Mejia defeated Republican Joe Hathaway in the special election for the New Jersey 11th seat that was vacated by former Rep. Mikie Sherrill when she ran for New Jersey governor. Mejia's victory was announced just minutes after the polls closed. Her victory also brings the Republican majority in the House of Representatives down to just one vote.

President Donald Trump is deteriorating worse than ever, MS NOW's Jen Psaki argued on Thursday evening, and it's obvious in the ways that he is lashing out at anyone and everyone — even right-leaning people and organizations.

"Just two days ago, Trump attacked the conservative think tank the Cato Institute, claiming they, quote, 'hate Trump,'" said Psaki, a former press secretary for the Biden administration. "Yesterday, he even went after Fox News for having the audacity to cover California Democratic candidate Tom Steyer's gubernatorial campaign. How dare they? And even with all the new fights, Trump is picking, he still somehow finds time to continue his many other wildly unproductive and unpresidential ongoing feuds."

President Donald Trump was brutally mocked on Thursday after a bizarre ad-lib during a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump traveled to the Silver State to stump for his "no tax on tips" policy and to hear from some voters about how it has impacted their lives. During his speech, he said his "One Big, Beautiful Bill" had lowered taxes for small businesses and "corner stores," a phrase that seemed to trip up the president.

James Carville, the veteran Democratic strategist and perennial Trump critic, is making a stark prediction, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday: the president won't be in office by next year.

Speaking on Politicon's Politics War Room, the 81-year-old former Bill Clinton associate didn't mince words about what he's observing in the 79-year-old commander-in-chief. "I just don't see this guy being President of the United States by this time next year," Carville said. "And I increasingly believe that we're on a much shorter leash than that."

A conservative analyst slammed the evangelical Christians in the Trump administration who seem to care more about "eating scraps from the table" than saving the president's soul after he posted an unseemly photo on his Truth Social account over the weekend.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump posted and then deleted a photo of himself appearing as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed. The AI-generated photo featured clear Christian iconography and images of the Statue of Liberty, military soldiers, and the American flag. It was swiftly condemned by some MAGA influencers and Democratic politicians alike as blasphemous.