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President Donald Trump's continued references to himself as a dictator and the silence from Republicans stunned one prominent political analyst.

Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen said on a recent episode of his show "No Lies" that Trump's repeated references to himself as a dictator reveal that he is trying to normalize the idea in the minds of Americans. Cohen was aghast that Republicans appear to be implicitly condoning Trump's comments by choosing not to speak out against the remarks.

A Maryland immigrant appeared again this week as Immigration and Customs Enforcement attempted to deport him to a third-party country. That ultimately turned into a stunning rebuke of the Justice Department by a conservative judge.

Kilmar Ábrego García has faced off against the U.S. government since March, when he was mistakenly sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Despite court demands to return him, the government dragged its feet until it decided it could charge him with a felony and allege he was part of an organized crime syndicate. The judge in that case ultimately granted bail for Ábrego, only to have ICE snatch him when he showed up for a check-in.

A prominent economist bashed President Donald Trump's attempts to fire a Federal Reserve governor on Tuesday.

Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on trade theory, discussed Trump's efforts to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve with CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead." Krugman said Trump has presented "no evidence" that Cook did anything that would warrant her being removed from her job for cause, as he's claimed, and that the move itself is "completely insane."

Global sensation singer-songwriter Taylor Swift overjoyed her fans with the announcement of her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. But to pro-Trump CNN analyst Scott Jennings, the best part of all this is that she can be a good example to her fans — by having lots of babies.

Jennings made the comments on a CNN panel on Tuesday afternoon.

A former Treasury Department official on Tuesday pushed back against President Donald Trump's attempts to fire one of the Federal Reserve governors.

Lawrence Summers, who was the Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration, discussed Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. Trump has claimed that allegations of mortgage fraud against Cook give him sufficient cause to fire her. Cook has denied all wrongdoing, and her lawyer has suggested that Trump doesn't have the authority to fire her.

President Donald Trump bizarrely attacked California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for what he called "strange hand action."

At the conclusion of a Tuesday cabinet meeting, Trump called Newsom an "incompetent governor" because he had not welcomed a military takeover of cities.

President Donald Trump was confronted by reporters on Tuesday's Cabinet meeting over whether his move to oust Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook was a political abuse of power — and was not happy about it.

Trump announced the attempted firing Monday evening, using as justification an unproven allegation of mortgage fraud leveled by Bill Pulte, his director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Pulte has made similar accusations against several of Trump's political opponents, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

President Donald Trump is at work trying to rebrand his 2026 budget legislation, known as the "Big, Beautiful Bill," as a kind of tax cut not for billionaires but for the middle class.

Trump announced at his Cabinet meeting that he was changing the name because it's "not good for explaining to people what it's all about."

MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk predicted that Taylor Swift would become a conservative after her engagement to Travis Kelce.

In a sexist rant on Tuesday, Kirk declared that Swift should "submit to your husband" and have "a ton of children."

MSNBC dragged Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Tuesday after crafting mock-ups of President Donald Trump's face to be added to Mount Rushmore.

Host Chris Jansing noted that Trump acolytes are putting his face on everything from coins to dollars. The Lincoln Project's co-founder, Reed Galen, noted reports that indicated if Trump's face was put on the mountain, it couldn't support the weight and may collapse. He called it the "perfect metaphor for his presidency, as you're going to find."

President Donald Trump doubled down a day after saying that "maybe" Americans would like a dictator.

During a Tuesday cabinet meeting, Trump slammed Democratic governors for criticizing his threat to send the military into cities.

Echoing his boss, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lashed out at Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who President Donald Trump is trying to fire for allegedly committing mortgage fraud.

During his appearance Tuesday morning on CNBC, the brash Lutnick declared without evidence, “We can't have mortgage fraud in America, and you surely can't have it for your leaders. I mean, imagine anyone in the Cabinet who did this, you guys would be calling for their head. This woman should go away if she's committed the mortgage fraud and those signatures sure as heck look like hers.”