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Alarm swept the Kennedy Center's defenders hours before a hearing to consider a threat by President Donald Trump's board to tear down the center if his name was not added to the building.

In a motion filed later Wednesday afternoon, lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) accused the board of holding the building hostage. Beatty is ex officio trustee on the board through her seat in Congress and sued last year after crews put Trump's name on the marble facade.

President Donald Trump is losing the political battle over his trade war with Canada, according to CNN's Harry Enten.

Enten said Trump has seen a dramatic collapse in trust on tariffs – which he regularly promised to impose – since the 2024 campaign, when voters trusted him over Kamala Harris on tariffs by 22 points. Today, Enten found, his net approval on tariffs has cratered to 30 points underwater — a "52-point switcheroo" among independents alone, who now disapprove of his tariff policy by 60 points.

Donald Trump Jr. has insisted the family's businesses and his father's government don't mix, but a private appearance he made this spring tells a different story, according to The New York Times.

The president's son turned up in early March at a Republican attorneys general gathering and used a stage interview at the three-day affair at New Orleans' Ritz-Carlton with Montana's top prosecutor to work the officials directly, four people briefed on the exchange told the paper. He targeted a push by states to rein in prediction markets, the fast-growing betting sector his family holds a financial stake in.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under pressure to nominate a new Army Secretary in the midst of a war with Iran, and he's reportedly considering his own Pentagon press secretary — a man who once dropped a Senate bid over accusations he choked his wife and abused their children.

According to The Hill, Sean Parnell could be tabbed for the high-pressure job.

A former staffer for Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) shared images on his social media account of a swastika and of himself in Ku Klux Klan robes, and other Republicans are increasingly concerned about a string of white supremacist controversies trailing his Senate campaign.

The former intern, 24-year-old Preston Parra, who has described himself as a "twink fascist," told the Washington Post the KKK image was made with Grok's AI tool and claimed his posts are "satirical," and while he denied being a white supremacist, he posted "white power" in June and July and has made plainly racist statements.

Republicans are growing anxious that President Donald Trump's first midterm convention, set for Dallas in two weeks, could turn into a costly flop rather than the voter turnout machine the party is counting on.

The two-day event, scheduled for Sept. 9-10 at the American Airlines Center, will feature Vice President JD Vance headlining the first night and Trump dominating the second, according to CNN. Organized by the Republican National Committee, the gathering — dubbed "Trumpapalooza" by critics — is meant to showcase the administration's accomplishments, energize the GOP base and cast Democrats as "socialists" ahead of November.

Republican candidates, already facing an uphill battle because of President Donald Trump's unpopularity, are about to face new headwinds due to his self-absorption.

According to MS NOW's Zeeshan Aleem, a report from The Atlantic that Trump plans to spend millions of his hoarded MAGA dollars on an ad campaign promoting his record is the last thing GOP candidates need.

Greg Bovino, the former Border Patrol commander who led President Donald Trump's mass deportation raids, accused senior administration officials of pulling his security detail because "they want me dead."

Bovino made the accusation in an interview with Tucker Carlson released Wednesday. He retired at the end of March, months after being removed as commander-at-large.

President Donald Trump's relationship with his close personal aide Natalie Harp has become a reliable laugh line on the Democratic campaign trail.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, spent much of his speech Wednesday at a town hall in Farmington Hills riffing on the 80-year-old Trump, who has called him a "communist" and said he is "full of s---," but he brought down the house with a reference to Trump's 35-year-old executive assistant, reported The Daily Beast.

Donald Trump's advisors think they've cracked the code on his underwater approval ratings — believing that voters simply don't grasp how great he's been — and The New Republic's Daily Blast podcast dismantled that claim while dissecting a new Atlantic report on the president's midterm strategy.

"So these new leaks to The Atlantic are really something," host Greg Sargent said, unpacking claims that Trump's team is privately blaming his poll numbers on voters not knowing his "accomplishments," such as new stock market highs, a closed southern border, and rising manufacturing output.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed out the Army chief of staff back in the spring, reportedly because he refused to drop an investigation into a helicopter flyby at Kid Rock's house, and a former staffer to President Donald Trump said the episode raised alarming questions.

The Pentagon chief abruptly fired Gen. Randy George in April after the four-star general was told by his own second-in-command, Gen. Chris LaNeve, that Hegseth wanted the probe ended, and former White House communications director Mike Dubke said the rock star's proximity was irrelevant.

The husband of a GOP candidate running for a Senate seat is being scrutinized for setting up meetings with lobbyists representing an industry that puts money in his pocket.

According to a report by NOTUS, eyebrows are being raised after an insurance industry executive admitted in a trade magazine that the husband of Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) has been a reliable conduit to accessing lawmakers.