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A blindsided Donald Trump angrily swore and demanded White House staffers intercede to keep Elon Musk from being given a briefing on China from top-ranking Pentagon officials reports Axios.

Two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that the president was blindsided by the news that the billionaire was about to be welcomed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for a meeting on possible China war plans in March.

President Donald Trump lobbed a late-night attack against MSNBC and CNN.

Fox News again clobbered its competitors in the ratings for the first quarter of 2025, with the conservative network boasting it had posted the highest-rated quarter with weekday viewers in cable news history, and the president gloated as if he had something to do with that success.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow pulled back the curtain on what she said is really behind the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive government databases containing the personal information of millions of Americans.

The primetime host on her show Tuesday walked viewers through the various actions the Trump administration has taken at the request of DOGE – an agency which she called “bizarre” and “very mysterious.”

The Trump administration’s refusal to follow a court order and make any efforts to return the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador sent CNN legal analyst Elie Honig into a fiery rebuke of the MAGAfied government.

Honig, a former federal prosecutor, built the case Tuesday against the administration’s inaction in returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States during an appearance on CNN’s “NewsNight.”

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency initiative is eyeing having staffers assigned to work at all institutes and agencies that receive federal funding via congressional appropriations, according to a new report.

The revelation came to light Tuesday during a 20-minute phone call between DOGE representatives and leaders of the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice, The Washington Post reported. DOGE representatives said they're mulling potentially attaching members to more organizations and institutes that receive government funding, according to the report.

The Republican Party under President Donald Trump has gone from a largely expansionist, neoconservative foreign policy to old-school isolationism, to the point that they repudiate their own party's previous military leadership, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told host Kate Bolduan with a degree of astonishment.

A key demonstration of this is Vice President JD Vance proclaiming it is not in anyone's interest "for Europe to be a permanent security vassal of the United States," as an argument against taking leadership in NATO affairs.

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board went after President Donald Trump for what they framed as an unconstitutional attempt “to run Harvard” University after the Ivy League school rejected his demands for a MAGA-inspired policy overhaul.

Trump’s funding freeze of $2.2 billion in retaliation for the university’s snub drew the ire of the Journal’s board, which scorched the action in a Tuesday opinion piece that detailed the “good reasons to oppose this unprecedented attempt by government to micromanage a private university.”

Republicans in the White House, Senate, and House are discussing a possible new tax bracket that would raise taxes on very wealthy people — specifically those making $1 million or more per year.

But not everyone in the GOP is thrilled with the notion.

The Trump administration is now taking aim at New York Attorney General Letitia James over a criminal referral that accuses her of mortgage fraud, reported Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening.

The complaint, also reported in Newsweek, alleged that she improperly amended her records for a real estate transaction months before she filed a major civil fraud case against President Donald Trump.

The federal judge presiding over the effort to return wrongly-deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an infamous Salvadoran megaprison laid down the law for the Trump administration in a highly revealing way, former Pentagon special counsel and federal prosecutor Ryan Goodman explained to CNN's Kate Bolduan on Tuesday.

The judge, Paula Xinis, was thoroughly unsatisfied with Trump's boasts earlier this week in a White House meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele that he had no power to return Garcia, who has never been convicted of any crime, is married to a U.S. citizen, and had a special protective order that barred his deportation to El Salvador — all after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the majority of Xinis' order.

A Democratic lawmaker found himself on the defense over his party’s failure to impose a full ban on members of Congress trading stock when they had a House majority – a point that wasn’t lost on CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Tapper on Tuesday repeatedly pressed Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) on why Democrats didn't see pass a congressional trading ban, which the lawmaker said is now gaining steam in the House, including with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

One corporate CEO is now publicly expressing remorse for endorsing one of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks.

Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Mary Beth Laughton, who is the CEO of Recreational Equipment Inc., (REI) is now making amends for signing onto a letter in support of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum when the Senate was weighing his confirmation. That letter, which was circulated by the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR), lauded Burgum for his "support for outdoor recreation, economic growth, and the preservation of public lands and waters."

A top advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly was escorted out of the Pentagon after being identified in a leak investigation into an “unauthorized disclosure.”

Reuters, which exclusively reported the development, named the advisor as Dan Caldwell and stated that he has been placed on administrative leave.