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'MAGA is mad': Trump FBI pick drops 'unprecedented' comment to escape base's ire

Donald Trump's pick for deputy FBI director is under MAGA fire, and lashing out in "unprecedented" ways, according to observers.

Dan Bongino, who walked away from his lucrative job as a far-right podcaster and apologist for the president to accept the job of deputy FBI director, has recently come under fire from MAGA and has been forced to defend himself from his own allies.

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'Trump lost control': Ex-insider says foreign leader just 'humiliated' president

Donald Trump's team was just "humiliated" by a foreign leader, according to a former insider.

Author and former Trump associate Lev Parnas on Saturday published an article entitled, "Putin Humiliates Trump’s Envoy – Witkoff Told Not to Come."

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Trump's own words are being thrown back in his face after his latest threat

Donald Trump's own words are being thrown back in his face after his Saturday Wal-Mart threat.

The president over the weekend told Walmart's executives that they should absorb any increased costs that he has created on imported goods through trade policies.

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Trump shares ally's plan to 'release terrorists near homes of Supreme Court justices'

Donald Trump has been lashing out at the Supreme Court since it handed him a loss on the issue of immigration, and on Saturday he went as far as to distribute a MAGA lawyer's plan to "release 'terrorists' near the homes of Supreme Court justices."

Former GOP staffer Mike Davis has made headlines for his social media comments in the past, and was rumored to be on Trump's list for attorney general. Recently, he posted a plan to get back at the Supreme Court justices for not ruling in line with MAGA.

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Trump 'significantly reduced' forecasting staff — and then a deadly tornado came

Donald Trump's administration "significantly reduced" the number of meteorologists working in a state where 14 people were then killed by a tornado, according to a new weekend report.

Trump and Elon Musk made a name for themselves by offering buyouts to federal workers, and simply letting others go. As a result of these cuts, one weather forecasting office in Kentucky was unable to operate overnight.

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​Conservative lawyer flags evidence Trump is 'looking for excuses for failure'

Donald Trump's administration is already looking for excuses and scapegoats as it attempts to fulfill the president's massive promises, a conservative legal scholar said on Saturday.

Ed Whelan, who has a lengthy credentials list as a conservative legal scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and as a supporter of Trump's policies, took to social media over the weekend to float a theory about Trump's immigration plans.

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Bruce Springsteen successfully baited Trump into handing him a 'personal gift': analyst

Donald Trump's decision to pound out a screed aimed at 75-year-old musician Bruce Springsteen on Friday appears to be the result of masterful trolling of the president who likely put money in the New Jersey's rocker's pocket.

On Friday, during seemingly endless burst of Truth Social ranting over a myriad of topics, Trump took exception to Springsteen criticizing him during overseas concerts, which led to an over-the-top response from the aggrieved Trump.

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Trump's plan to turn his own voters' 'devastation' into 'political gold': analyst

With a compliant Republican-majority Congress poised to pass Donald Trump's "beautiful" budget once the GOP dissenters are brought to heel, reportedly by the president and some his allies this week, some of Trump's most ardent fans will be hit hardest as they cheer his MAGA agenda on.

According to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, the massive government cuts cobbled together by House Republicans will devastate voters in the communities that helped propel Trump back into the Oval Office.

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Social Security officials pull plug on 'ineffective' DOGE program that sparked mass chaos

A key Social Security program mandated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was ordered shut down on Friday for not only being "inefficient" but also creating chaos for those applying for their benefits and those who process claims.

According to a report from the Washington Post, officials from Elon Musk's creation designed to root out waste had demanded "a security check, developed at DOGE’s request, that was meant to root out allegedly fraudulent claims filed over the phone," which, in turn, was a bust.

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Pedro Pascal drops F-bomb urging filmmakers to resist Trump

Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal urged Hollywood to "f--k the people that try to make you scared" on Saturday while admitting it was "scary" to speak out against US President Donald Trump.

Asked about Trump's hardline immigration policies, the "The Last of Us" and "Narcos" star told reporters: "It's very scary for an actor participating in a movie to sort of speak to issues like this."

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'What a loser thing to do': Trump's 'crybaby' Walmart threat leveled by conservatives

Moments after Donald Trump lashed out at Walmart executives for admitting they will have to raise prices to compensate for higher costs due to his tariffs, two former GOP lawmakers unloaded on the president.

Early Saturday Trump threatened on Truth Social, "Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China, they should, as is said, 'EAT THE TARIFFS,' and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!

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Trump's DOJ screwed up by rushing the 'worst possible case' to the Supreme Court: expert

A decision to send Solicitor General John Sauer to defend an executive order signed by Donald Trump before the Supreme Court this week was a massive mistake that could haunt the president going forward.

That is the opinion of conservative lawyer George Conway who appeared on MSNBC's "The Weekend" Saturday morning where he was asked to weigh in by co-hosts Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels and fill-in host María Teresa Kumar.

Discussing Trump's attempts to undermine birthright citizenship enshrined by the 14th Amendment, Conway asserted the DOJ used the wrong case at the wrong time.

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"This is the worst possible case and that was Justice [Elena] Kagan, former Solicitor General Kagan's point," he began. "To bring up to the Supreme Court on the procedural technical issue of when you can issue a nationwide injunction."

"You want to go up on a case where you're going to you have a chance of winning, where the court thinks that, ultimately, your position is right," he stated.

"So why did they bring this case?" co-host Daniels asked.

"Donald Trump!" Conway immediately shot back.

"Because you, let's say you work for Donald Trump," he proposed. "You're the solicitor general, okay? And you want to go and say 'Donald Trump, look. I won something for you!' okay? Because you don't want to go and see the president and say and explain, like, 'Well, we lost. Because you took a stupid.effing position.' That wouldn't go over very well."

He later cited conservative Justice Amy Comey Barrett putting Sauer on the spot, saying she was, "... looking at John Sauer like he had a hole in his head. Like, you know, basically, she's was asking, 'OK, let's say you lose the case. Are you going to obey it in the next case?' And he's like, 'Well, generally.' And basically, the answer is we're going to do whatever the heck we want. And they realize that killing nationwide injunctions, killing universal injunctions, at this moment in time, is just the prescription for utter chaos and lawlessness."

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'I'll be watching': Trump threatens Walmart execs with 'eat the tariffs' demand

Donald Trump continued his flood of complaints and finger-pointing that began on Friday by taking on retail giant Walmart on Saturday morning.

After once again complaining about his loss in the 2020 election earlier on Saturday, the president, whose trade war using tariffs has roiled the economy in the U.S. and elsewhere, told Walmart's executives that they should absorb any increased costs that he has created on imported goods.

He also included a threat.

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On Truth Social, he wrote, "Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected."

He added, "Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, 'EAT THE TARIFFS,' and not charge valued customers ANYTHING."

"I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!" he warned.

You can see his post here.