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President Xi can't wait to share hilarious stories about Trump

As President Xi heads back to China, one imagines him, like any other tourist returning home after a long trip, meeting with old friends who are sure to ask how his trip went — and to have him recount the highlights.

This is what I imagine Xi would say, translated into English, of course:

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Trump's security lie creates the building blocks for his own prison

Sabrina Haake is a political analyst and 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. You can subscribe to her free Substack, The Haake Take.

Veterans are standing in the middle of D.C.’s Memorial Circle at rush hour with banners denouncing plans for Trump’s arch. Their continuing protest, which started on Memorial Day, features a replica arch and an urgent plea to “protect and defend the solemnity and honor of this hallowed ground.”

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Trump's national security crackdown misses what's right under his nose

Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

Rats are jumping ship at Trump's miserable White House

While there is no doubt that Trump lives primarily in his own world of unicorns and devotion from nearly all, he apparently keeps at least one foot grounded in reality — a reality even he understands to be on the brink of breaking him.

Given that, Trump is reacting in predictable ways. After all, he has far more on the line than a simple election loss.

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Swooning Trump's acting like a lovesick schoolgirl

Anyone with a late-teen daughter needs only to say the name "Finn Wolfhard," one of the actors on Stranger Things, to see a human lose all higher function: linear thought, discernment, self-respect. It's all out the window as she contemplates being the center of a boy god's attention.

Though it's likely that everyone has seen a similar reaction from somebody in their life, it isn't that often that one can flip on a screen and see the vapors flowing from Donald Trump, entirely overwhelmed in the presence of someone with even more of an "it-factor" than him (at least in Trump's mind), someone who makes Trump's breath shorten, sounding like a fanboy.

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Republicans pulled a bait-and-switch with one man's death

A man is dead in western Kansas.

Erlin Y. Lagos-Gonzales, a Honduran citizen living in Garden City, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the Aug. 31 death of Adonis Edgardo Aguilar-Juarez at a livestock facility in Kearny County. A federal immigration judge had issued Lagos-Gonzales a final order of removal in July 2025. He remains presumed innocent unless the state proves the charge.

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Trump has dirt on this senator — and he'll rain hell on her if she steps out of line

Years ago, I worked with a person who habitually used the word “concerned.” They had a junior role on our team but, nevertheless, constantly interrupted meetings with her “concerns.” They'd come to me expressing “concern” for how something didn’t meet their satisfaction, always “concerned” about being “concerned.”

It drove me crazy. Eventually, she was moved to another team because I was “concerned” she was affecting my mental health and, more seriously, the momentum of our team.

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Underwater Trump decides America's freedom is going to drown with him

President Donald Trump knows almost every poll shows him way underwater as the Republicans head into the midterm. He's decided America's freedom is going to drown with him.

Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

A hellbent Republican's corruption crusade just blew up into a scandal of his own making

Republican state Sen. Jake Hoffman set out to expose Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ alleged pay-to-play mess and instead stepped into a money-making scheme of his own.

Hoffman is now backpedaling subpoenas he issued last week against Hobbs, Attorney General Kris Mayes and others to appear before his legislative committee. He’s blaming the “crooked media” for pointing out that he’s pocketed more than $1.2 million to help defeat Hobbs.

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Putin's secret dirt on the GOP could be just weeks from being discovered

Donald Trump has been owned by Vladimir Putin since the late '80s, and that’s why things are so terrible everywhere right now.

It all sounds like something out of the TV show The Americans, but it’s actually true.

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Tantruming Trump's threats just hit his own fans between the eyes​ — and they're furious

To the extent that the ubiquitous reports pointing to President Donald Trump holding a large poster-type document that reads "Kennedy Center Demolition" proves to be a plan of action in taking the first unequivocal steps to knock the gorgeous complex down, paired with Trump stating that he will withhold disaster relief from North Carolina if it doesn't vote in Michael Whatley for U.S. Senator, Trump is now playing a dangerous personal game at a level unseen since last January 6th, practically begging for the same sense of shock, violation, and need to step in to stop him.

The two new developments are a one-two punch that actually could break MAGA support over the course of two weeks, something otherwise seemingly impossible.

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Trump openly told the UN he's cornered — and a deranged attack is imminent

Today Donald Trump asked a seemingly rhetorical question to the UN General Assembly: Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic of Iran? Do I drive them into hell?

But if you’ve been watching Trump especially close lately, you should not categorize those as rhetorical.

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Trump's plunge into madness enters freefall in preposterous week

It is utterly exhausting and it's tempting to write that no one can be blamed for turning away from it all in a combination of disgust and wonder. And yet, with stakes so high, it's critical to review this administration's insanity and racism.

Because while perhaps one can hit pause and vacation from politics for a few weeks, it's impossible to simply pick up where one left off. If there is one dependable characteristic of this administration, it's that it gets more extreme by the day.

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