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President Donald Trump has been ordered by a federal court to yank his name off the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, losing his last-ditch appeal, and giving him no choice but to acquiesce.

The moment is symbolic, Brookings Institution senior fellow Elaine Kamarck told MS NOW's Antonia Hylton on Friday — and she even compared it to one of the most infamous moments at the end of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship in Iraq.

The Trump administration has considered using settlements from a Justice Department investigation into major banks' account closures to fund compensation for Jan. 6 rioters, according to sources briefed on the matter.

The Justice Department is investigating whether some of America's largest banks closed accounts of Jan. 6 defendants and other conservatives for political reasons — and President Donald Trump's allies are already eyeing potential settlements from that probe as a way to compensate those the president claims were unfairly targeted, reported CNN.

Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein were left “appalled” Friday following The New York Times’ essay that some said “whitewashed” the reputation of a key Epstein associate, an individual who, according to famed reporter Julie K. Brown, “enabled Epstein over the years.”

The Times published a guest essay Thursday about Kathryn Ruemmler, the former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, whose past ties to Epstein sparked her departure from Goldman Sachs earlier this year. She is not, however, facing any accusations of unlawful conduct related to Epstein.

Amid the ongoing peace talks between Washington and Tehran, Iranian negotiators have recently enlisted the help of “senior psychologists” to help them navigate what they believe to be a pressing issue involving President Donald Trump, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill claimed Friday, citing Iranian sources.

“A couple of weeks ago, the Iranian side added senior psychologists to their negotiating team to review the communications that they were going to be sending to the mediators to give to Trump,” Scahill said during an appearance on the podcast “Breaking Points.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a withering dissent Thursday in a little-noticed Supreme Court decision that once again saw the 6-3 conservative majority rule appear to rule against Congress's clear intent, prompting two legal experts to sound alarms about the court's apparent disdain for the legislative branch.

In FS Credit v. Saba Capital, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion, which weakened a statute designed to protect investors by preventing them from suing when certain funds break the law. Barrett dismissed the notion that Congress intended to allow injured parties to sue under the statute — despite lawmakers stating they wanted courts to recognize such a right.

Daniel Siad, a prominent French modeling scout, was pressed by CNN’s Katie Polglase in an interview published Thursday on his ties with Jeffrey Epstein, and appeared to be sweating profusely through his shirt during the tense discussion.

Siad is not facing criminal charges, but is named well over 1,000 times in the Justice Department’s release of Epstein-related files, being identified in a 2018 DOJ email as a “recruiter of girls and/or women for J. Epstein.” He is also facing allegations of rape from a woman who claims to have been a former client of his, an allegation Siad has denied.

Workers began tearing Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center Friday, carrying out a federal court order his own lawyers had scrambled overnight to block.

A federal judge ruled last month that the renaming was flatly illegal. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Trump's hand-picked board never had the authority to put the president's name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — because Congress created it and only Congress gets to rename it. The lawsuit was filed by Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the center's board as an ex officio member.

President Donald Trump is poised to celebrate his 80th birthday this Sunday with an unprecedented Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, but according to Zeteo, the president is still musing about expanding his birthday celebrations to a national scale.

“As the birthday boy gears up for his party, we feel compelled to remind you of a remarkably sad fact: Yes, President Trump really does want to make his birthday a federal holiday,” Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng wrote in the outlet’s report published on Friday.

A suspicious judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's slush fund indefinitely.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said she doesn't believe the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund" is truly dead — despite his administration's suggestions — and issued an order blocking it indefinitely, reported CNN.

Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hurled a shock allegation at President Donald Trump on Thursday involving the federal investigation into Thomas Crooks, the man accused of attempting to assassinate the president ahead of the 2024 election.

Carlson was interviewed Thursday by Mario Nawal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur and prominent podcast host, during which he claimed that former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino had told him last December that the federal probe into Crooks had been “shut down” — and by whom.