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President Donald Trump heaped bizarre praise on one of his female staffers during his speech in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night.

Trump traveled to Pennsylvania to talk about how his administration is addressing the concerns many Americans have about the cost of living. The speech occurred at a time when Democrats are running successful election campaigns focused on affordability. Trump said during the event that Republicans are also calling on him to get more involved in the 2026 midterm elections.

President Donald Trump suggested to MAGA fans on Tuesday night that a Pennsylvania Republican is only alive today because he walks slow.

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) was at Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally last year that ended with an assassination attempt. He has described himself as a witness who was seated close to the stage when gunshots rang out.

President Donald Trump appeared to free a staffer trapped in a bathroom on Air Force One on Tuesday night as he took questions from reporters.

Trump traveled to Monroe County in northeast Pennsylvania on Tuesday night to give a speech about affordability. Ahead of a brief question and answer session with the press pool, someone traveling with the administration snuck into a bathroom on Air Force One. As Trump took questions from reporters, the person opened the door and bumped the president, who was standing in front of it.

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla, said during a podcast interview on Tuesday that the Department of Government Efficiency was "somewhat successful," and claimed he would not return to government to do it again, according to a new report.

Musk appeared on "The Katie Miller Podcast" on Tuesday, hosted by Katie Miller, who is married to President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. Axios reported on Tuesday that the interview offered a rare glimpse into Musk's views on how the government agency he led performed, amid reports that workers were dissatisfied with their time at DOGE.

A grumpy President Donald Trump scolded a reporter aboard Air Force One on Tuesday night as he flew to Pennsylvania for his first public rally in months.

The president was headed to Mount Pocono to deliver remarks on the economy. While aboard the flight, he took questions from huddled reporters.

One of President Donald Trump's favorite judges issued a ruling last week that could make Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's contempt proceedings much more difficult to navigate, according to a legal expert.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been conducting a contempt investigation into Noem concerning an instance from mid-March where DHS failed to turn around a plane carrying detained immigrants to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison. Boasberg had previously ordered DHS to turn the plan around, and Noem has not yet provided satisfactory answers to the department's decisions that day, according to a CNN report on the case.

Former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor tore apart the president's recent wave of strikes on ships off the coast of Venezuela on MS NOW, saying that even Trump's own supporters know his stated motive for the attacks is nonsense.

This comes amid a bipartisan investigation in Congress over one particular strike in September, in which military officials apparently fired on survivors who were surrendering and likely hadn't even been heading toward the United States.

Gene Simmons, frontman for the rock band KISS, called out lawmakers on Tuesday during a hearing on a bill that would increase musician pay for songs played on AM/FM radio stations.

Gene Simmons, bassist and vocalist for the 70s rock band KISS, testified on Tuesday in support of The American Music Fairness Act during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. The bill would require radio stations to pay royalties for sound recordings, a loophole that Simmons said has been used to prevent American music legends like Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley from getting paid when their songs are played on the radio.

White House adviser Stephen Miller melted down in a Fox News interview while insisting that descendants of immigrants often failed in society.

"And so what you saw between 1965 and today was the single largest experiment on a society, on a civilization that had ever been conducted in human history," Miller told Fox News host Will Cain on Tuesday. "Not just the 76 million immigrants that were brought in, largely from the third world, but their descendants too."

A former Republican lawmaker cringed during a segment on CNN after she was shown a clip of President Donald Trump grading his economy on Tuesday.

Trump told Politico's podcast, "The Conversation," earlier on Tuesday that his economy gets an "A+++++" for its performance. That's despite public polling showing that about half of Americans see the rising cost of living as their top concern heading into the 2026 midterm.