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President Donald Trump has a new strategy to protect the GOP in the midterms, where he is betting it all on attacking Democrats by painting them as communists — and former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), in conversation with MS NOW's Katy Tur, found it so weak as to be literally laughable.

"I know enough about Lenin and Marx to know that communism has not turned out well," said Tur. However, democratic socialism, the very leftmost wing of the Democratic Party, is something "people associate ... with Denmark. They associate it with the Nordic countries, maybe even France, where you have a pension, you have healthcare, etc.," and not Soviet breadlines or price controls.

Political analysts pounced on a false claim that President Donald Trump made during his most recent meeting with NATO allies.

Trump claimed during a press conference that the U.S. had "$19.2 trillion ... with a 'T'" that has been invested in the country during his second term. That money is being used to build "plants and equipment all over the country," a claim that some critics were skeptical of, considering the latest economic data showed all industries except for health care and social services experienced a decline in employment.

President Donald Trump's last-minute appeal of a court order to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million cannot stop the money from going out the door, legal experts suggest.

Trump's lawyers filed a notice of appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals moments after U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the court clerk to release the funds Wednesday.

Anchor Katy Tur and an MS NOW panel spent Wednesday poking holes in President Donald Trump's explanation for his abrupt Qatari jet switcheroo.

After flying the Qatari-gifted jet to the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump announced he'd take the old Air Force One home instead.

A park that President Donald Trump bragged that he had "renovated" for $16 million suddenly had its water turn a murky brown this week, the latest in a string of his D.C. beautification "disasters."

Meridian Hill Park — also known as Malcolm X Park — saw its iconic cascading fountain go from sparkling blue to a thick, opaque brown by Tuesday, just months after the National Park Service completed a full restoration.

MS NOW spent Wednesday picking apart a freewheeling news conference by President Donald Trump, as anchor Alicia Menendez pressed her guests on what to make of his closing remarks at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Menendez struggled to parse through Trump's remarks, telling panelists, "I'm going to try to work us through the weave and the side quests that we just heard from that president."

Amid reports that diplomats and world leaders are beside themselves over Donald Trump’s threats at the NATO conference in Turkey, the president attempted Wednesday to spin the meeting as a lovefest.

Sound raspy and looking tired, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, looking over his shoulder, the president, as is his custom, departed from his prepared notes to claim that he is quite the popular guy with his counterparts.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), among President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies, is hoping a new ad will help secure her victory this November in her bid for Tennessee governor, but the TV spot elicited more than a few raised eyebrows Wednesday due to its “sickening” subject matter.

Published by Blackburn Wednesday morning, the new ad depicts the gubernatorial hopeful sitting in a Chinese restaurant in front of a bowl of fortune cookies.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte was pressed Wednesday on whether staying silent beside President Donald Trump costs him his self-respect, at the closing news conference of the alliance's summit in Ankara, Turkey.

A reporter noted that Rutte sits next to Trump as the president muses about taking Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain and threatens trade wars — positions the questioner said the "old Mark Rutte" would not have endorsed.

World leaders and diplomats attending the NATO meetings were correct in worrying that an “angry and exhausted” Donald Trump would disrupt the proceedings and their fears came true after an outburst from the president about the Iran war, combined with new complaints, creating fresh concerns.

Reporting from the meetings in Turkey, reporter Ines de La Cuerta told the "Morning Joe" panel that the American president has everyone on edge.

President Donald Trump made a remarkable gaffe Wednesday when trying to name the Islamic Republic of Iran, melding the Middle East country’s name with that of another country far-divorced from the conflict.

Trump was meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Wednesday in Turkey for the NATO summit, and moments after insulting Zelenskyy directly to his face – an insult that was met with a cold stare – Trump recalled recent attacks he claimed were thwarted by the United States, attacks that presumably came from Iran.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remained stone-faced Wednesday after President Donald Trump called him a "difficult character" to his face – a jab Trump seemed to find funny, letting out an awkward laugh after delivering it.

Meeting in Turkey Wednesday for the NATO summit, Trump and Zelenskyy spoke briefly before taking questions from the media. But before opening the floor for journalists, Trump issued the Ukrainian president a sharp jab.