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The Republican Party's takeover by the MAGA movement was decades in the making, former GOP strategist Stuart Stephens told MS NOW on Thursday, and the decisions that led to it have left the party with elected leaders who are incapable of taking a stand for themselves or the country as a whole.

This comes as the president made repeated threats to wipe Iran off the face of the earth — and though he hasn't followed through on it for the time being, only a small smattering of Republicans went out of their way to condemn his genocidal rhetoric.

White House officials were reportedly blindsided after first lady Melania Trump gave a surprise address in which she admitted partying with two of the country's most infamous sex offenders, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

During an address at the White House, Trump decried the "lies" linking her to Epstein and Maxwell.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones broke down in tears while cradling a "battle axe" in an effort to break a "demonic spell," which he believed had caused President Donald Trump to wage war on Iran.

During a Thursday segment with journalist Tim Williams, Jones presented the battle axe as proof that God had blessed his attempts to combat "witchcraft" afflicting Trump.

An interview on MS NOW with a Florida man caused alarm on social media after he urged Donald Trump to “push the button” and kill everyone in Iran.

Speaking on the street in front of a Starbucks in Boca Raton, Dale Hershman told MS NOW’s Alex Tabet that he wants Trump’s war to continue and that the president has not gone far enough as far as he is concerned.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of not following the teachings of Jesus Christ because he had supported President Donald Trump after a threat to destroy Iran's entire civilization in one night.

During an interview with CNN on Thursday, Greene called Trump's apocalyptic threat "insanity."

Pardoned January 6 rioter Jake Lang warned that President Donald Trump would be the "last white president" if Congress does not pass the SAVE America Act to make it more difficult to vote.

"We are in an existential crisis. The illegal invaders have not only taken over our country, but our elections are in jeopardy," Lang told Lindell TV's Alison Steinberg this week. "We know that 2020 was stolen. And if we do not end the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act, we will have illegal immigrants destroying the 2028 election."

An interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) got off to a ragged start on Thursday morning when MS NOW regular Katty Kay accused him of being ineffective.

Brought on to promote an Iran war resolution vote to be held Thursday morning at the request of his office, Kay immediately charged ahead with, “It doesn't have really very much chance of passing at all. So is this just performative on your part?”

Far-right autocratic Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is on the brink of losing power after 16 years of consolidating control, CNN data forecaster Harry Enten argued — and if anything, Vice President JD Vance's trip to the country to rally with him didn't help.

In fact, it may have actually made Orban's prospects of keeping his job worse.

First lady Melania Trump got some bad news on Thursday, courtesy of CNN data analyst Harry Enten: the American people dislike her more than any other first lady since polling on the topic began.

"What are you seeing about Melania Trump and how her polling is shifting?" asked anchor Kate Bolduan.

A report that Donald Trump’s administration menaced the first American-born pope led the entire panel on MS NOW’s "Morning Joe” to wonder what they could possibly be thinking as they risk alienating millions of Catholics.

According to a report from The Free Press, after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech where he criticized the Trump administration, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby demanded an audience with Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, and then issued a threat, reportedly telling the pope’s representative, “The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”