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President Donald Trump's administration has finally stopped "lying," at least when it comes to tariffs, remarked an MSNBC host on Monday.

At the top of their show, "The Weeknight," co-host Symone Sanders Townsend responded to recent reports about a key confession from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly characterized the $400 million luxury Boeing 747 the government of Qatar offered him as a "gift" — but according to CNN, it turns out the Trump administration asked them for the plane first.

Specifically, reported Alex Marquardt, Kristen Holmes, and Natasha Bertrand, administration officials "first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.

A gun that's known to discharge on its own is being resold by multiple police departments, according to a Mother Jones report published in partnership with The Trace.

Police records and lawsuits have recorded at least 120 reports of the P320 discharging a bullet without the trigger being pulled, as of April 23, 2025. “Those shootings resulted in more than 110 injuries and at least one death,” Mother Jones wrote.

When asked about former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis, current President Donald Trump said that his predecessor clearly knew about it years ago because he is at "stage nine."

After citing Biden as "stage nine," Trump attacked his cognition, prompting attacks and ridicule.

Many Republicans offered their sympathy and put politics aside at the news of former President Joe Biden's diagnosis of an aggressive, metastasizing form of prostate cancer over the weekend. But far-right commentator Eric Bolling had other ideas.

On his Real America's Voice show, Bolling used the moment to push the unsubstantiated narrative that there was a cover-up and the former president's cancer was known all along — and buried for nefarious purposes.

President Donald Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission began going after the media deemed "unfriendly" to the president straight away. Now he's picking "norm-busting fights with the mainstream media," according to Politico.

In a Monday report about Brendan Carr, Politico noted that the first investigations began into NPR, PBS and Comcast on Jan. 20. Since then, Carr has taken the agency from "an independent regulator in favor of an openly personal embrace of Trump."

President Donald Trump is “dismantling domestic violence nonprofits,” according to a report from Slate.

The sentiment from writer Matt Watkins comes after “the Department of Justice quietly released a revised set of guidelines for the Office on Violence Against Women grants.”

President Donald Trump has set up an endless series of showdowns and confrontations with federal courts, walking right up to the line of ignoring court orders and, in some cases, being accused of actually doing so. But there is a "centuries-old" mechanism courts can use to fight back, Loyola Law School constitutional law professor Justin Levitt wrote in an analysis for The Washington Post published Monday.

"Though Alexander Hamilton called the judiciary the 'least dangerous' branch, the courts’ centuries-old civil contempt authority makes it plenty mighty when it wants to be," wrote Levitt.

President Donald Trump was asked about President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis at the White House on Monday and took a swipe at the former president's doctor.

"I think it's very sad, actually. I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago," Trump said. "Again, because to get to stage nine, that's a long time."

Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) said Monday afternoon he wasn't certain the timing of former President Joe Biden's cancer announcement was genuine.

"It's interesting — the timing of them releasing the cancer, right?" Mullin said from Arlington, Virginia.

President Donald Trump is being "played by a fool" in negotiations over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, conservative columnist Max Boot warned in The Washington Post — and he has no idea how effortlessly he's being used.

Trump has been tough to pin down on the Ukraine war. He has spent much of his political career sympathetic to Russia's Vladimir Putin after his government interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and has frequently suggested Ukraine should give up territory to appease Russian aggression, but has more recently acted aware that Russia isn't interested in peace — yet, Boot wrote, he keeps giving Putin far more chances than he is entitled to.

Republicans may have just targeted their own base with the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, according to an opinion by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Kristin Brey.

The act introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)and Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) would criminalize pornography.

Before diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, became the subject of scorn for the Trump administration, various companies used the acronym. According to a Wall Street Journal report, companies that have nothing to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion are now struggling with their name.

“You’re reading these headlines: ‘DEI is wrong,’ ‘Terrified of the aftermath of DEI,’” David Markley told the Journal. “It’s disheartening when somebody’s, like, bashing your baby.”