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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow warned Monday night that President Donald Trump's insistence on using physical force to try to "cow and hurt people" is about to backfire spectacularly.

Maddow began her show Monday night, pointing out that mass protests have erupted in Israel, with calls for a nationwide work stoppage.

One of President Donald Trump's fiercest advocates lashed out at the president on Monday.

Steve Bannon, who served in Trump's first administration, said on a new episode of his podcast, "The War Room," that Trump is focusing too much of his time on the Ukraine war. Instead, Bannon argued that he should continue expanding his power over local police forces.

President Donald Trump's tariff whiplash has already harmed domestic manufacturing and could continue to do so through at least the end of this decade to the tune of nearly half a trillion dollars, a report published Monday by congressional Democrats on a key economic committee warned.

The Joint Economic Committee (JEC)-Minority said that recent data belied Trump's claim that his global trade war would boost domestic manufacturing, pointing to the 37,000 manufacturing jobs lost since the president announced his so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs in April.

President Donald Trump's law enforcement takeover of Washington, D.C., and the subsequent pile-on as Republican governors send hundreds of their own National Guard troops to assist, is becoming an authoritarian farce, former GOP strategist Amanda Carpenter argued on MSNBC's "The Weeknight" Monday evening.

"So, Amanda, it was interesting to me," said anchor Alicia Menendez. "You have the Republican governor from Vermont ... politely declining to send National Guard troops because he said, if you find an emergency, let me know, but this isn't an emergency. So my question to you is DeWine, McMaster, all these governors that are sending National Guard troops, are they now complicit in what Donald Trump is doing?"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday represented a marked departure from his disastrous meeting earlier this month, and one analysis revealed what might have been his strategy — an abundance of gratitude.

Trump and Zelensky met at the White House to discuss an end to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, and included several European leaders. Trump has pushed for a peace deal that would involve significant concessions from Ukraine.

President Donald Trump's latest election scheme has one lawyer on edge.

On Monday, Trump announced on social media that he is going to lead a "movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm election. He also accused Democrats of "cheating at levels never seen before" to win elections.

President Donald Trump got rolled by Vladimir Putin at the Alaska summit, former CIA Director John Brennan told MSNBC's Eugene Daniels on Monday — but then the leaders of Europe sat him down and gave him what for.

That latter meeting, which was punctuated by some embarrassing moments for the president, saw a variety of U.S. allies reiterating their commitments to Ukraine's defense and pushing Trump to carry on with those made by his country.

A New York Times report warned that potential "security guarantees" that President Donald Trump and Europe may offer Ukraine amid high-stakes discussions to end Russia's invasion could fall flat or present a "big roll of the dice."

Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday at the White House, accompanied by European leaders, to discuss ending the invasion. During the meeting, Trump said the United States would provide Ukraine protection and affirmed U.S. involvement in security assistance as part of any peace deal.

President Donald Trump's latest election scheme reveals something about his character, according to one lawyer.

For over a month, Trump's allies in the Texas legislature have tried to redraw their electoral maps to give Trump five new congressional seats. Now, Trump says he will get rid of mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 primary election.

President Donald Trump leaned on MAGA allies Monday evening in Texas to pass a new redistricting map a new redistricting map that favors Republicans.

Democratic lawmakers ended their two-week walkout and returned to Austin earlier in the day, restoring the quorum in the Texas House. The move allows the Republican-dominated legislature to move forward with passing a new congressional map that would add five GOP-friendly districts, at Trump's urging. The effort is part a broader national battle over congressional boundaries, with Trump hoping it will bolster the GOP's slim majority in the House heading into the 2026 mid-term elections.

President Donald Trump issued his vision of a peace plan for the war in Ukraine from his Truth Social account on Monday, a plan that one expert said could "go off the rails at any moment."

The plan was issued after Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several leaders of European nations at the White House.

Not even local police officers in Maine are immune from President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement busts.

According to The Associated Press, ICE agents "arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25, as part of the agency’s effort to step up immigration enforcement. Officials with the town and police department have said federal authorities previously told them Evans was legally authorized to work in the U.S."

President Donald Trump said he is helping to set up a meeting between himself, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after meeting with both leaders in recent days.

Trump met with Zelenskyy on Monday at the White House, alongside several European leaders, to discuss negotiations aimed at ending Russia's invasion.