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President Donald Trump's planned acceptance of a $400 million luxury jumbo jet from the government of Qatar in the run-up to Middle East peace talks is so blatantly corrupt that even members of Trump's own party are condemning it, former White House ethics special counsel Norm Eisen told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday evening.

"I want to play you more of what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox this morning about the plan," said Cooper, playing the clip.

President Donald Trump's new luxury jet gift from the Qatari government is a blatant attempt to profit from the presidency, at the expense of properly representing the American people, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday evening.

Trump has insisted that he is just doing what any reasonable person would do, and even compared accepting the jet to moving to the next hole when your golf opponent lets you skip a putt. But nothing could be further from the truth, Van Hollen argued.

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unleashed a furious attack on MAGA lawmaker Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who she said "made a fool of himself on national television."

Donalds was asked on “Meet the Press Now" whether he thinks everyone — citizens and non-citizens — are entitled to due process.

Louis Provost, the brother of newly elected Pope Leo XIV, delivered revealing comments on Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, where he pushed back on the idea that the new American pope will steer the Catholic Church in a radically progressive direction.

“No, I do not,” Provost said Monday when asked if his younger brother would be a liberal pope. “I don’t think he is going to roll back the changes that [Pope] Francis made…but he will maintain that”

President Donald Trump's new "refugee resettlement" program for white Afrikaners from South Africa was slammed by a former State Department official in the Obama administration and a former editor for Time Magazine during a segment on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace on Monday afternoon, calling it "deeply and morally wrongheaded and repulsive."

"These are the descendants of the people who created the most diabolical system of white supremacy in human history, apartheid," said Richard Stengel. "They're not directly responsible for it, but it was a system that actually moved Black people off of the arable land. So they inherited the land that the Black people had to give up. It was called forced removal. It was something called a Bantustan policy, where they moved Black people out of the cities and farmlands into these remote areas with non-arable land. I mean, it was just one of the most, worst processes ever."

Former Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) called President Donald Trump's acceptance of a $400 million gift from Qatar "problematic."

Speaking on a CNN panel Monday, McHenry explained, "Like most things in the Trump era, two things can be true at once," prompting a chuckle from host Kasie Hunt.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace created a split-screen on her show Monday afternoon, showing President Donald Trump telling families they must learn to live with less in his economy while accepting a $400 million plane as a gift from Qatar.

At the top of her second hour, Wallace coined it: "Donald Trump's war with the 30-doll family."

John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, downplayed the overturning of landmark decisions like the Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling during his tenure.

While speaking Monday at Georgetown University Law Center, Roberts insisted that his court had overturned far fewer precedents than previous courts.

President Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller wants to suspend habeas corpus for migrants, essentially treating them as an invading army not subject to all the typical rights of a person subject to detention — and it's based on flimsy legal reasoning that won't hold up in court, CNN's Paula Reid told anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar on Monday.

"Paula, talk to us a little bit about what is being considered here and how much latitude the Trump administration has," said Keilar.

President Donald Trump's deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, spoke to the press while welcoming a group of over 50 Afrikaner refugees.

Trump announced a new executive order on Monday morning that would help individuals who were part of a genocide in South Africa of white farmers, he said.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed the "Biden-Buttigieg administration" for failures at airports that have happened during President Donald Trump's latest term in office.

During a Monday news conference, Duffy addressed repeated outages at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) demanded cuts to Medicaid spending because he claimed recipients "sit on their butt at home."

While speaking to right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk on Monday, Scott rejected calls to raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans.

Pope Leo XIV dropped a political statement in his first conversation with the media on Monday.

Among his comments was praise for, and solidarity with, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. The pontiff then took a swipe at the lack of free speech in Russia.