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Fans of President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement melted down on Sunday after Trump's former vice president sharply criticized one of Trump's major initiatives.

Mike Pence, who was vice president during Trump's first term, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Trump's idea to create a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay victims of alleged government abuse is "deeply offensive." He said the fund, which was created as part of a settlement agreement between Trump and the IRS for a lawsuit over Trump's tax returns being leaked, is a stark example of how far "departed" Trump has become from traditional conservative values.

Journalist Charles Davis expressed shock on Sunday at the lack of media coverage on Gregory Bovino, the Trump administration’s ousted Border Patrol chief, having attended what he described as a “neo-fascist summit” in Europe, and just one day after promoting himself by making a “Hitlerian greeting.”

“Just before he confirmed his attendance at a neo-fascist summit in Portugal, Gregory Bovino, the former U.S. Border Patrol commander who was once the face of President Donald Trump's mass deportations, posted a photo on X showing himself giving a salute familiar to anyone who has heard of Nazi Germany,” Davis wrote in a report published on The Redoubt.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was brutally mocked on Sunday after he made a strange claim during an interview on Fox News.

Paxton joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures," where the two discussed Paxton's pending general election battle against Texas state Democratic lawmaker James Talarico to replace outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Senate. During the interview, Paxton attempted to defend his scandal-ridden past, but onlookers heard a very different explanation from the one he thought he had offered the audience.

Donald Trump is facing pushback from within his own base after elevating Tom Barrack, a longtime Trump friend and fundraiser who was previously charged — and acquitted — of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates, to a key Middle East envoy role. Critics on the right are raising both his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and what some are calling an alarming record on Islamist extremism.

Barrack kept in regular contact with Epstein for years, according to files reviewed by Republicans Against Trump, a political action committee, which flagged the connection Sunday as Barrack's new role drew scrutiny.

Following a recent conversation with President Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham pressed the president Sunday to ditch a key demand of Tehran amid the ongoing U.S.-Iran peace negotiations, a proposal that has been described as a "poison pill” and a non-starter for Iranian officials.

“In a recent conversation with President Trump, I affirmed my support for a deal with Iran that accepts President Trump’s demand to open up the Strait of Hormuz and start negotiations about forever ending their nuclear ambitions and support for terrorism,” Graham wrote in a social media post on X.

Chris Blattman, a renowned economist and political scientist, issued a dire warning Sunday over what he called “hard proof” of an impending economic disaster, the causes of which have only been exacerbated by the Trump administration.

The “hard proof” Blattman was referencing was “The AI Layoff Trap,” a study published earlier this year that warns with utmost certainty of an “automation arms race” in which businesses, seeking to save labor costs, replace human workers with artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a competitive fashion, and to such a degree as to “erode the very consumer demand firms depend on.”

Donald Trump posted to Truth Social in the middle of the night Saturday to boast about scoring a perfect 30 out of 30 on a cognitive screening test, calling it evidence of "extreme intelligence" and claiming no other president has taken such a test — and by morning, critics were lining up to explain why nearly every part of that claim was wrong.

Trump wrote that he had now taken the test four times, accumulating "120 correct answers out of 120 questions asked," and demanded to know if "the Dumocrats" were "really surprised."

As the multi-day festival organized in part by President Donald Trump designed to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary continues to fall apart, former presidential speechwriter David Frum flagged on Sunday what he believed was behind the event’s ever-increasing list of problems.

Dubbed the Great American State Fair, the event was organized by the Trump-linked organization Freedom 250, with Trump himself being "actively involved” in the process. A live music concert was initially planned for the event but may be cancelled after “nearly all” performers backed out after learning of the event’s connections to Trump.

Donald Trump's Fed chair nominee is basically using "common core" math to deceive the president, according to an ex-insider.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman who lost her seat after breaking with the president, took aim Sunday at Donald Trump's own Federal Reserve chairman, accusing Kevin Warsh of manipulating inflation measurements to justify cutting interest rates and stay in the president's good graces.

During an appearance Sunday on Fox News, comedian Rob Schneider morphed himself into his character from Adam Sandler’s 1998 film “The Waterboy” to attack Democrats and endorse a GOP mayoral candidate.

That candidate is Spencer Pratt, a registered Republican who is vying to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, California, and oust incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. Spencer has been fiercely promoted by right-wing figures, though remains several points behind Bass in recent polls.

Donald Trump threatened a federal judge by name Sunday and attacked a female plaintiff as a "serial" litigant in a Truth Social post defending his plan to build a military drone port on top of the proposed White House ballroom, warning the judge that he "will be held responsible" if anything goes wrong.

"Judge Richard Leon should stop playing games with America's Security!" Trump wrote, posting side-by-side images of the proposed DronePort — one showing a festive aerial view of Washington and another depicting military aircraft and troops. "If anything happens, he will be held responsible for the Death and Destruction caused to our Country."