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'Michael Corleone? More like Biff Tannen': Analyst says China just called Trump’s bluff

When it comes to making threats, Trump is all bluster, as evidenced by China calling "Trump's bluff" in his very own trade war, a new article in The Atlantic posits.

Author Jonathan Chait wrote that China's deft handling of the U.S. president offered a lesson "for everybody Trump threatens, whether countries or businesses or universities" — just ignore him and he'll eventually back down.

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Stephen Miller ready to 'fight a long war' on key MAGA policy — at all costs: analyst

President Donald Trump's longtime hardline immigration adviser Stephen Miller is "prepared for war" over mass deportations, Heather Digby Parton wrote for Salon on Monday — and nothing will deter him from his vision.

The explosion of removals of immigrants from America based on the 1789 Alien Enemies Act, often to an infamous, unaccountable megaprison in El Salvador and with virtually no due process, if any, is rooted largely in his longtime vision, she wrote.

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'Anxiety': Poll shows Trump's economy severely kneecaping goal for more babies

President Donald Trump's economy has caused Americans to reconsider whether to buy a home or start a family, despite his administration's focus on boosting birth rates.

Six in 10 Americans say economic anxiety and a lack of affordability have led them to put off marriage, having children, or buying a home, according to a Harris poll conducted for The Guardian.

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'Sit on their butt at home': Republican smears Medicaid recipients in call for cuts

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) demanded cuts to Medicaid spending because he claimed recipients "sit on their butt at home."

While speaking to right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk on Monday, Scott rejected calls to raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans.

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'Sleepy Don has no clue!' Trump mocked for nearly forgetting to sign executive order

President Donald Trump raised eyebrows and concerns about his mental fitness after wandering away from a White House event.

The president announced an executive order Monday morning intended to lower the price of prescription drugs by up to 80 percent, but he nearly walked out of the gathering without signing the order following a rambling speech, reported the Irish Star.

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Ex-Trump aide was ordered not to take pens from foreign countries — as he takes new plane

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced that the nation of Qatar would give him a new luxury Air Force One and that the plane would be donated to his presidential library after his term in office — meaning he can keep using it.

Discussing the matter on Monday, Sunny Hostin, co-host of "The View" and former federal prosecutor, recalled working for the government and being told that taking such gifts was unacceptable.

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'In black and white': CNN host delivers basic civics lesson to prove Trump act ignores law

CNN anchor Manu Raju broke out the U.S. Constitution while hosting Inside Politics on Monday morning to slam President Donald Trump’s acceptance of a $400 million plane from Qatar.

“We've heard a lot about the emoluments clause back in the first Trump term. But just to remind viewers about what that is, it's Article One, section nine, clause eight of the Constitution,” Raju said.

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'Wholesale overthrow': Expert furious as Trump lawyer replaces 'American hero' librarian

The Trump administration announced Monday that it was replacing longtime Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden — fired last week for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs — with Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, Todd Blanche.

Blanche is currently second-in-command at the Department of Justice, and will also serve as acting Librarian of Congress, according to Politico. He famously defended Trump in his 2023 "hush money" case in which the then-former president was convicted on 34 felony counts. Trump was sentenced to an "unconditional discharge" with no penalties, fines, or jail time that would interfere with his ability to serve a second term as president.

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Trump busted for skipping vital meetings: 'Indifference to intelligence is a problem'

President Donald Trump is more or less flying blind in his second term, according to a new analysis.

The president infamously skipped nearly all of his intelligence briefings during his 2016 transition process and had little patience for them during his first term, saying he didn't need them because he was "like, a smart person." MSNBC's Steve Benen wrote that he's even less interested the second time around in hearing the information he needs to guide his decision making.

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RFK Jr. brags about taking grandkids swimming in creek with sewage health warnings

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was criticized after taking his grandchildren swimming in an unsafe creek with a high bacteria count because of sewage runoff.

In a post to X on Sunday, Kennedy revealed that he spent Mother's Day swimming with his family in Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek.

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'Real stable genius?' Meandering Trump ridiculed after off-script hour-long diatribe

President Donald Trump spoke for a little under an hour on Monday morning about the ongoing trade negotiations with China, the costs of pharmaceuticals, and other matters that left some viewers with many questions.

One professor addressed Trump's claim on Obamacare: “I made it work. I could have let it die, but I chose to make it work.”

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'Forced to back off': Even Fox News reporter rebuffs Trump’s latest economic move

Fox Business reporter Charles Gasparino broke with MAGA over the weekend with an admission that President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to negotiate with China over reducing tariffs was a surrender.

“Both sides blinked,” Gasparino wrote on X Sunday, specifying that “I didn’t say we won.”

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'Dumbest statement': Critics 'dogpile' NYT reporter after bizarre definition of 'corrupt'

Critics pounced on a New York Times reporter's narrow definition of corruption as he published a new story on President Donald Trump's personal business dealings.

Investigative reporter Eric Lipton co-authored the new report on the president and his family marketing cryptocurrency and how those dealings have turned into a vehicle for foreign influence campaigns, which he described as "potentially corrupt" — and then provided his own interpretation of the term.

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