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'Cruelty for cruelty's sake': Expert slams Trump's response to Boulder attack

Following a firebombing terror attack in Boulder, Colorado of suspected antisemitic motivation, the Trump administration moved quickly, vowing that the accused undocumented attacker, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, could be deported by tonight on an expedited basis.

However, the White House social media account went further than that, suggesting his entire family could be punished over it. "Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon," said the post.

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Trump hit with new wave of AI mockery from China

President Donald Trump is being roasted on multiple fronts this week – from Beijing to Capitol Hill – for his trade war and tariff threats.

In China, a fresh barrage of AI-generated videos mocking Trump’s policies have gone viral, including one featuring a robot named “Tariff” who self-destructs rather than carry out Trump’s trade orders, according to a new CNN report.

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'Backlash': CNN analyst Harry Enten says CEOs who embraced Trump paid dearly

Donald Trump might have found untapped ways to monetize the presidency for his personal fortune — but wealthy businessmen who have hitched their wagons to the president tend to find themselves losing huge amounts of money, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told anchor Erin Burnett on Tuesday evening.

No better example of this exists, he said, than Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, who admitted to CNN's Donie O'Sullivan this week that his business has been essentially ruined by his promotion of pro-Trump election conspiracy theories.

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'Spineless': Freedom Caucus stalwart mocked for attacking MAGA bill he voted for

After tech billionaire Elon Musk made his biggest break yet from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, calling the controversial legislation a "disgusting abomination," one hard-right member of Congress readily agreed: Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).

"So @elonmusk is right to call out House Leadership," Perry posted to Musk's X platform on Tuesday evening. "I wish I had a nickel for every time the @freedomcaucus sounded the alarm and nobody listened, only to find out the hard way we were right all along. We expect MASSIVE improvements from the Senate before it gets back to the House."

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‘There can only be one’ in Trump-Musk ‘bromance’: NYT reporter

New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro weighed in Tuesday on the escalating fallout between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump after the tech billionaire unleashed his harshest criticism yet of Trump’s signature “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”

"I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore," Musk wrote Tuesday on his X platform. "This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination."

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Stunning new data reveals extent of Kennedy Center collapse after MAGA takeover

The Kennedy Center's revenue collapse since President Donald Trump took over the famed performing arts venue and stacked the board with his loyalists has been more extensive than anyone knew.

Already, reports have abounded about canceled bookings, a dropoff in donations, and stars like legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma dropping out of performances ever since Trump vowed to remake the Kennedy Center into a MAGA bastion. But, The New York Times now has some hard numbers to go with the reporting, and those numbers are staggering.

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'Completely made up': Analyst debunks Trump aide's bias claim

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appears to have "completely made up" a claim in her attack against the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for forecasting President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add significantly to the federal deficit, immigration attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick noted on X Tuesday.

The CBO's preliminary report projects that OBBBA will add $2.3 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, while leaving spending noticeably lower than today — something CNN's Kaitlan Collins brought up to Leavitt at a press briefing this week.

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‘I don't get it’: CNN commentator laughs off MAGA lawmaker's 'Looney Tunes' flub

CNN political commentator Van Jones blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday after she admitted she hadn’t read a key provision in President Donald Trump’s sweeping “one, big, beautiful bill” before voting for it.

Greene took to social media to express outrage over a clause that bars states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years, saying, “Full transparency, I did not know about this… I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there."

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Young lawyers left questioning John Roberts' 'jarring' toast to Trump: report

Chief Justice John Roberts spoke Monday night to the Historical Society’s annual dinner, and he gave a toast with the exact seven words a chief justice has delivered since the beginning of the society's dinners. This time, however, it left some attendees shocked.

As the Washington Post explained Tuesday, the toast goes: “To the president of the United States."

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Michael Moore wants Americans to take a new pledge

Left-leaning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has a new idea for a Pledge of Allegiance in the era of Donald Trump — and a new standard for how Americans should involve themselves in politics.

Moore, who himself was blindsided by the re-election of the president, laid out what he thinks this modernized pledge should look like on his website.

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'You have no idea': Ex-aide told whistleblower his actions drove Trump nuts

Among those who have faced President Donald Trump's revenge campaign is Miles Taylor, the former Homeland Security chief of staff who penned an anonymous column and book.

Taylor spoke to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday's episode of "Deadline White House," where he stated that he was told Trump had an obsession with him during the first term — and it's clearly continued for the past seven years.

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Adopting Trump's own promises could be Dems' best chance at victory: analysis

President Donald Trump is teaching Democrats a lesson on “how to make a comeback,” according to a column from author and commentator Paul Waldman.

In the piece, which was published on MSNBC, Waldman slammed Trump for broken promises that he’s made.

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MSNBC's primetime show bleeds viewers as Rachel Maddow steps away

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki failed to keep a grip on Rachel Maddow's 9 p.m. MSNBC audience when the network began its revamped primetime lineup on May 6, data from Nielsen Media Research showed.

Maddow's show ran Monday through Friday during President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, then tapered off to just Mondays. Psaki filled the Tuesday through Friday slots, where she managed to lose just about half of Maddow's nightly viewers, Fox News reported.

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