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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's latest move to restrict press access to the Pentagon shows he seems to be "growing even more paranoid," and that could cause him to make "all kinds of mistakes," according to two analysts.

Eric Edelman and Eliot A. Cohen, co-hosts of the "Shield of the Republic" podcast, discussed Hegseth's new press rules, including one requiring reporters to publish only information approved for release by the Department of Defense. The discussion comes at a time when major news outlets like the Associated Press, New York Times, and Washington Post no longer have press access at the Pentagon, but right-wing outlets like Alex Jones' InfoWars do.

No sooner had President Donald Trump touched down in Japan as part of his Asia tour, he was frantically posting on his Truth Social website that his fans should not believe ads illustrating his declining popularity.

As of late, the president has been furious about ads that showing him in a bad light, including one from Canada featuring an older clip of former President Ronald Reagan talking down using tariffs — a favorite weapon in Trump’s trade war.

A pair of political analysts were stunned on Sunday after they saw President Donald Trump's response to an advertisement created by the Canadian government about his signature tariff policies.

The Canadian government's ad features video of former President Ronald Reagan arguing against tariffs in a speech, saying "American jobs and growth are at stake. In response, Trump issued a threatening statement increasing tariffs on Canadian goods and cut off trade negotiations with the country, according to reports. The Canadian government has since agreed to pull the ad.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales bashed President Donald Trump's attacks on the American press and the truth during an interview with Times Radio on Sunday.

Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 with entrepreneur Larry Sanger, said during the interview that Trump's attacks are reminiscent of other strongmen across the globe. He added that there seems to be a "real undermining" of truth by people like Elon Musk, who have attacked Wikipedia for being a left-wing activist organization.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board bashed President Donald Trump's latest "tantrum" against Canada in a new editorial published on Sunday.

Trump raged at the Canadian government on Truth Social on Saturday over a commercial featuring former President Ronald Reagan arguing against the use of tariffs as an economic policy. Trump has sought to make tariffs the centerpiece of his economic agenda, not an exception, the editorial notes.

President Donald Trump is creating a Marie Antoinette-like problem for Republicans by refusing to provide additional funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the government shutdown, even though he used reserve funds to pay military salaries, one of the president's former lawyers argued in a new Substack essay on Sunday.

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for the Trump Organization, argued in the essay that the decision not to provide additional funding for SNAP creates a situation where "mothers, fathers, seniors, children, are reduced to pawns on the chessboard of partisan brinkmanship."

A member of the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board bashed President Donald Trump for tearing down the entirety of the East Wing of the White House to build a giant ballroom in a new opinion article published on Sunday.

Collin Levy, who joined the editorial board in 2007, argued that the president's ballroom pet project represents an "astonishing fiasco." She also speared Republicans for their silence as Trump demolishes a "symbol of power, legacy and national identity."

President Donald Trump issued a strange statement on his Truth Social platform during his trip in Asia on Sunday, one that observers claimed was "complete bats--- insanity" and showed the president is "stark raving mad."

Trump posted on Truth Social that pregnant women should not take Tylenol "unless absolutely necessary" and that parents should break up the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine into three courses instead of the typical mixed course. His post linked to an article from the MAGA-aligned The Daily Caller that raises questions about the links between Tylenol and autism.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has become a star in the Democratic Party, warned on Sunday that there is a GOP leader who could decide the fate of President Donald Trump's attempts to serve a third term in 2028 during an interview with CNN.

Newsom predicted that Trump's second term would "de facto end" if Democrats can retake control of the House of Representatives during the 2026 midterm election. That would give the party control over the federal budget and give them the ability to impeach Trump for acts he takes while in office.

A new op-ed published in The Washington Post on Sunday argued that America's worsening "spiritual depth" poses a grave threat to democracy in the nation.

Authored by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, and Ian Marcus Corbin, director of the Public Culture Project at Harvard, the op-ed contends that America's democracy "will not last another 250 years" unless the country can overcome the impact of its material prosperity. The op-ed draws on a warning issued by President Calvin Coolidge in 1926 during the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

A political analyst warned on Sunday that President Donald Trump's decision not to backfill the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with money the administration used to pay for military salaries during the government shutdown could harm a "tremendous" number of Trump voters and cause Republicans to "pay" at the polls in 2026.

Shaniqua McClendon, the vice president of politics at Crooked Media, discussed the impact Trump's decision could have on Republicans during a new broadcast of MSNBC's "Alex Witt Reports" on Sunday. She said Republicans have gone along with Trump's plan because "they don't want to" help poor people afford food.