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Volatile President Donald Trump routinely swings between irritation and genuine, profound anger, but a recent TV commercial out of Canada triggered him into a raging fury, a columnist wrote Thursday.

The commercial, featuring Ronald Reagan's folksy critique of tariffs, contained a powerful quote: "When someone says: 'Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works – but only for a short time." Reagan ultimately concluded that tariffs fundamentally "hurts every American worker."

Multiple Republicans from states that rely on farming have finally reached their breaking point with President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

The president casually suggested earlier this month that the U.S. should import beef from Argentina to push down high prices — and dozens of farm-state GOP lawmakers who've held their tongues on Trump policies that hurt their constituents finally had enough, reported Politico.

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D) eagerly accepted President Donald Trump's challenge to take an IQ test, turning recent provocative comments into a comedic opportunity to challenge his cognitive claims.

Trump had repeatedly boasted about acing a cognitive test at Walter Reed Medical Center, asserting that "low IQ" Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Crockett couldn't pass the exam. In his original challenge, Trump declared, "You give [Ocasio-Cortez] an IQ test. Have her pass the exams that I decided to take. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump."

President Donald Trump prematurely celebrated his ongoing trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jingping Thursday by urging desperately struggling American farmers to “go out and buy more land and larger tractors” — while at the same time lashing out at critics of his Asia visit as “almost treasonous.”

“I had a truly great meeting with President Xi of China… We agreed on many things, with others, even of high importance, being very close to resolved,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social early Thursday morning.

President Donald Trump is "on shaky ground" with a key part of his base because he's failed to deliver on two big promises during his second term, according to a pollster.

John Della Volpe, Polling Director at the Harvard Kennedy School, discussed Trump's recent polling among young men, who were a key part of his winning coalition in 2024, on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast." Volpe said that Trump's failures to reduce the cost of living and his mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein files have caused his support among this key demographic to suffer.

Former GOP analyst Tim Miller, host of "The Bulwark Podcast," threw Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) own words back at her on Wednesday after she made a series of statements on social media about her support for gay marriage.

On Tuesday, Mace tweeted, "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," a popular refrain from the religious right that belittles gay marriage. Her post earned a Community Note on X, which provided examples of when Mace previously voted in favor of protecting gay marriage.

One of President Donald Trump's nominees to lead the U.S. Export-Import Bank withdrew from consideration on Wednesday after Democrats raised concerns about his ties to Russian businesses, according to a new report.

Politico reported that Bryce McFerran, whom Trump nominated to serve as the first vice president of the bank, previously worked at a Russian-owned steel company, and his wife has relatives who work in the Kremlin. Even though he withdrew, McFerran will still serve in an acting role as EXIM’s chief banking officer “until a permanent replacement is named in the coming weeks,” an administration spokesperson told the outlet.

President Donald Trump's polling has fallen into the 30s amid a series of government crises and unpopular decisions, hitting a new low for his second term — but there is still a key factor he has that many other presidents with similar popularity crashes did not, former GOP speechwriter Tim Miller told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Wednesday.

This comes despite constant GOP taunts of Trump possibly running for an illegal third term, something that Miller argued is far from a sign of strength.

A retired professor at the U.S. Naval War College on Wednesday night immediately smacked down President Donald Trump's stunning explanation for why he has ordered the Defense Department to restart nuclear bomb testing after a nearly three-decade hiatus.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to claim the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country, warning that its adversaries are catching up.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has extended deployment orders for the National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. through at least February 2026, according to a new report from CNN.

The initial deployment orders were scheduled to expire at the end of November, according to the report. It was issued at a time when the Trump administration is squabbling with DC's attorney general in court over removing roughly 2,000 troops from the District's streets.

President Donald Trump uncorked another startling social media post on Wednesday night, alerting the globe that he has ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's department to ramp up testing of nuclear weapons.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to note that the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country, but warned that its adversaries are catching up.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) issued a statement on Wednesday evening, tearing into the Trump administration for holding a briefing with the Senate on the recent military strikes on suspected narcotics smuggling boats in the Caribbean — but only inviting Republican senators.

"Shutting Democrats out of a briefing on U.S. military strikes and withholding the legal justification for those strikes from half the Senate is indefensible and dangerous," stated Warner. "Decisions about the use of American military force are not campaign strategy sessions, and they are not the private property of one political party. For any administration to treat them that way erodes our national security and flies in the face of Congress' constitutional obligation to oversee matters of war and peace."

Vice President JD Vance hinted that a student's girlfriend ought to be deported unless she meets certain criteria during a speaking engagement at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday.

Vance spoke at a Turning Point USA rally on Ole Miss' campus. During a question-and-answer segment, one student asked about Vance's views on legal immigration and a merit-based immigration system. The student also mentioned that his girlfriend is a legal immigrant studying at the school who wants a green card.