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The fallout from President Donald Trump’s unprecedented MAGA overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts continued Thursday as staff inside the center broke their silence to describe a week filled with “chaos, fear and confusion.”

That’s according to a new report in The Washington Post, which detailed the early after-effects of Trump immediately terminating members from the Board of Trustees, then installing himself as chairman and his MAGA allies as members because they “do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture.”

A Republican strategist and former staffer for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lamented on CNN infighting between President Donald Trump and the former Senate majority leader.

McConnell has repeatedly swiped at Trump in recent weeks, criticizing the president's isolationist foreign policy views and even opposing some of his Cabinet nominees.

President Donald Trump's move to retaliate against The Associated Press for not using the preferred language of the administration is even making a key right-wing Fox News contributor uncomfortable.

The Associated Press has been barred from press briefings for three consecutive days because the wire service declined to update its style guide to reflect the Trump administration's executive order proclaiming the Gulf of Mexico to be the "Gulf of America." The move has triggered widespread anger at both the Trump administration and at the White House Correspondents Association for their lack of action in standing up for one of their member outlets.

President Donald Trump's joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was rife with misinformation, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale told anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday evening.

"What stood out to you from the news conference that we just heard, at least so far?" asked Blitzer.

A former prosecutor and Justice Department official was floored Thursday afternoon by what he called a "cascading scandal" unfolding in President Donald Trump's Justice Department — and one that won't be disappearing any time soon.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove clashed with Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, culminating in Sassoon's resignation. Their dispute centered around Bove ordering Sassoon to drop her corruption case against embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

A mass firing of federal workers began Thursday in a major escalation of President Donald Trump’s purge of government personnel, according to media reports.

The new round of firings came as officials at the Office of Personnel Management advised agency leaders to dismiss probationary employees, NBC News reported. The office's data projects that the move could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs.

Pentagon officials are stunned after President Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invited a notorious far-right activist to accompany him on a trip, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

According to the report, the decision to invite Jack Posobiec to Hegseth's first overseas trip "trigger[ed] alarm among U.S. defense officials worried about the military being dragged into partisan warfare."

Thursday afternoon’s meeting between Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s Director of the Department of Government Efficiency, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sparked criticism and allegations of corruption.

Some critics are questioning why Musk, rather than the President, was engaged in the talks. The meeting has fueled speculation that the billionaire tech mogul may wield more influence over the Oval Office than voters bargained for. Musk is only a temporary “special government employee” and has expressed strong business interest in India, one of the largest per capita consumer markets in the world, second only to China.

With a slim majority in the House of Representatives staring Republicans in the face, Elise Stefanik’s nomination to the U.N. ambassador post is all coming down to a single issue: timing.

That’s according to Politico, which reported Thursday that while the New York lawmaker has the votes in the Republican-controlled Senate – with even some Democrats backing her – White House worries have left her nomination hanging in the balance.

A Republican senator is proposing legislation in direct defiance of President Donald Trump.

Trump announced in his inaugural speech that he would seek to rename Alaska's Denali as part of his day-one actions, a move that would override the will of the state's Indigenous population and its elected leaders.

President Donald Trump's move to dismiss federal public corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is a deeply corrupt-looking maneuver, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday.

And it sent an ominous message.

The editor of the conservative National Review went after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s mystifying last 48 hours where he delivered a major Ukraine speech and policy announcement – only to walk it back a day later.

In an editorial on Thursday, National Review executive editor Mark Antonio Wright told readers that while “de-wokifying the military” is necessary, it is also an “insufficient job description for the U.S. secretary of defense.” His role, according to Wright, is also to speak for the Trump administration and deliver “crystal-clear U.S. policy in the realm of military and security affairs.”

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a letter excoriating now-former acting Assistant Attorney General Danelle Sassoon after she sent her resignation to Attorney General Pam Bondi. And her letter makes allegations against Bove that could end up in court, a legal analyst warned Thursday on MSNBC.

Bove's letter first emerged publicly, and Sassoon's has since been released — which accused Bove of agreeing to a quid pro quo involving New York City Mayor Eric Adams.