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Trump's own fans left repulsed by 'heartless' Rob Reiner comments: 'Please stop!'

Donald Trump’s Monday morning post on Truth Social about the shocking death of Hollywood star Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer started out calling it, “A very sad thing.”

But it quickly took an ugly turn in an attack that left onlookers sickened — including many of the president's own fans.

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Cops 'throw FBI under the bus' in Brown move that stuns analyst: 'They said so explicitly'

CNN's Juliette Kayyem offered a harsh analysis of the investigation so far into the fatal shooting at Brown University, and she highlighted a significant break between local law enforcement and the FBI.

FBI Director Kash Patel trumped the detention of a person of interest in the case Sunday morning, only to see him let go by police after finding no evidence to continue holding him. Kayyem told "CNN News Central" the case was already a mess.

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Trump induces nausea with 'ghoulish' rant against Rob Reiner: 'Fundamentally evil'

President Donald Trump suggested Rob Reiner had it coming after the Hollywood legend was found dead with his wife in their home — and onlookers were sickened.

Los Angeles police are investigating the deaths of the 78-year-old Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, as an apparent homicide, but the president lashed out the "Princess Bride" and "A Few Good Men" director — and suggested that the star's vocal criticism could be linked to his killing.

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Trump unleashes vicious attack on Rob Reiner just hours after shocking death

President Donald Trump launched a vicious attack on Rob Reiner Monday following the shocking death of the legendary film director and his wife on Sunday, which law enforcement is investigating as a homicide.

“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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Wall Street exec scrambles to backtrack after 'Freudian slip' suggests Congress corruption

Wall Street executive Kenny Polcari was called out on Fox Business Monday over a potential “Freudian slip” that left him saying "every House seat" was "up for sale" in the Midterm elections — before correcting himself.

Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo was raging about “Democrats” Sunday, accusing them of wanting “chaos all the time” around President Donald Trump’s agenda, a remark that Polcari – chief market strategist at the investment and wealth management firm Slatestone Wealth – concurred with.

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Ultra-red states in revolt as early Trump priority reverberates: 'Didn’t vote for this'

An early priority in President Donald Trump's second term could trigger a red-state revolt against Republican candidates, a report warned Monday.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency imposed drastic cuts to public land agencies that are hitting rural conservative communities across the western United States, with an estimated 5,200 workers terminated from the agencies that manage the 640 million acres of federal public lands and even deeper cuts expected next year. They threaten to wreck communities that rely on those lands, reported Politico.

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Trump blows off JD Vance crisis meeting by telling rambling golf stories: report

Vice President JD Vance arranged a White House luncheon with conservative pollster Mark Mitchell in hopes of convincing Donald Trump that the Republican Party faces significant losses in the 2026 midterm elections. Instead, the president proved largely disengaged, preferring to discuss his golf game rather than address mounting political concerns.

According to the Washington Post, Vance, whose political fortunes are directly tied to Trump's second-term success, invited Mitchell to present data on declining voter support. Mitchell discovered Trump was unresponsive to substantive discussion about the economy and the deteriorating relationship with his MAGA base.

Mitchell told Trump, "You said, 'Fight, fight, fight.' But nobody ever clarified what that means. And right now, you're fight-fight-fighting Marjorie Taylor Greene, and not actually fight-fight-fighting for Americans."

The Post reported that while Trump initially listened and asked questions, he eventually steered the conversation toward golf, one of his preferred topics. "Trump gushed about two of his golf partners, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Fox News host Bret Baier, both of whom are the subject of MAGA-faction ire. Trump also bragged about how much money he had raised during a golf fundraiser for Graham the weekend before," according to the report.

Mitchell, who follows Vance on X and has discussed polling with the vice president in recent months, expressed frustration about the president's priorities in an interview with the Post. He argued that Trump's focus on wealth accumulation undermines his political standing.

"Building billionaire-funded ballrooms and jet-setting around the world and trillion-dollar investment deals looks a lot like oligarchy stuff," Mitchell explained.

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'Monumental task' ahead as Brown shooting flub sends probe 'back to square one': expert

A person of interest has been released in the Brown University shooting, which a law enforcement analyst said was a "sobering reset" of the investigation in its crucial early stages.

FBI Director Kash Patel had announced that a person of interest had been detained Sunday, but police released him hours later, saying the evidence "now points in a different direction." Former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow told "CNN News Central" that investigators were basically starting over from scratch.

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‘Bungled’ Supreme Court decision may have handed 'off limits' power to Trump: analysis

The Supreme Court’s decision to back President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban the Chinese social media app TikTok may have inadvertently handed the Trump administration “power that the Constitution puts off limits,” two columnists argued Monday.

“We could have avoided this ending if the court had not bungled the beginning,” wrote columnists Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer in an op-ed published in the Guardian Monday.

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'Ugly': MAGA's 'biggest weakness' revealed as movement grapples with civil war

After Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on Sept. 10, his widow, Erika Kirk, became the organization's new leader. Many MAGA Republicans were quick to blame liberals, progressives and Democrats for the killing — even though countless Democrats, from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) to former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, wholeheartedly condemned it. But MAGA figures also attacked each other.

In an article published on Monday, Salon's Amanda Marcotte examines the feud between Erika Kirk and far-right MAGA podcaster Candace Owens.

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Checked-out Trump alarms GOP insiders: 'Wasn’t as interested as I would have hoped'

Donald Trump's apparent disengagement from advice offered by pollsters and close associates has sparked speculation that he has effectively walked away from his role as leader of the Republican Party, leaving GOP lawmakers and his MAGA supporters uncertain about their path forward.

According to a Washington Post report, during a recent White House luncheon, the lead analyst from the conservative polling firm Rasmussen attempted to urge the president to follow through on his promise to "fight, fight, fight," but felt the president was not receptive to the message.

Pollster Mark Mitchell told the Post, "To the extent to which we were talking about the economic populism message, he wasn't as interested as I would have hoped."

This sentiment is widespread, with the Post reporting a "growing chorus of faithful MAGA supporters who have begun raising concerns over what they see as Trump's second-term shortcomings."

Members of the president's base have accused him of prioritizing foreign affairs over domestic concerns, neglecting to address the cost-of-living crisis he pledged to resolve, developing too close ties with billionaires and tech executives, and resisting the release of investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The Post notes a "steady drumbeat" of reports suggesting the MAGA base may abstain from the 2026 midterms, with little indication the president is troubled by this possibility.

While White House insiders dismiss the concerns as part of the typical "cyclical" nature of media coverage, they acknowledge an increasing volume of complaints may emerge before sentiment improves for the president.

Trump is losing ground with conservative influencers, with some characterizing his second term as "underwhelming.' TPUSA contributor Savanah Hernandez stated, "All we've really seen is punchy tweets, cool video edits, but really no follow-through on any of the promises."

Hernandez elaborated, "And if he listened to his base and he was connected to us, even just through social media, you would see that the average person is still struggling to buy groceries, that the housing crisis is still on the mind of everybody, that inflation is still a really big issue, and when Americans see billions of dollars going overseas to any country, it really feels like a betrayal when we're struggling here at home."

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Insiders fume as Trump leaves ally Elise Stefanik hanging: 'A primary doesn't help us'

Despite her close alignment with Donald Trump, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has yet to secure the president's endorsement over other Republican candidates vying for the GOP nomination for New York governor.

The lack of support has left Stefanik's allies puzzled, particularly given Trump's previous nomination of her as UN ambassador and her status as a prominent House ally. According to Politico, the race to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is considered a two-person contest between Stefanik and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

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Trump officials celebrated with cake — as thousands died

On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.

For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. They’d culled USAID’s staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank.

There, the crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field.

Despite the steps to insulate themselves, dire warnings poured in from diplomats and government experts around the world. The cuts would cost countless lives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the other Trump officials were told repeatedly. The team of aides pressed on, galvanized by two men who did little to hide their disdain for the agency: first Peter Marocco, a blunt-spoken Marine veteran, and then 28-year-old Jeremy Lewin, who, despite having no government or aid experience, often personally decided which programs should be axed.

By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests, USAID was the largest humanitarian donor in the world. In just a month’s time, the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction.

In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake.

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