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President Donald Trump was seen with an alarming skin rash on his neck Monday, with many initially suspecting he may be having a flare-up of shingles — but the cagey response from the White House has led some medical experts to fear a cover-up of something potentially worse.

“President Trump is using a very common cream on the right side of his neck, which is a preventative skin treatment, prescribed by the White House Doctor," White House physician Sean Patrick Barbabella wrote in a statement flagged by The Daily Beast. "The President is using this treatment for one week, and the redness is expected to last for a few weeks.”

Pop star Kesha has joined a growing roster of musicians calling out the Trump administration for unauthorized use of their songs on social media.

The controversy erupted after the White House posted a TikTok video on Feb. 10 featuring her hit track "Blow" alongside military jets, including a fighter jet launching a missile at a naval ship, with the caption "Lethality." The clip has racked up more than 14 million views and 1.8 million likes.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stunned analysts Sam Stein and Will Saletan during an NBC News interview Sunday by suggesting Saudi Arabia should help select Iran's next leader following U.S. strikes on Iranian targets. When asked if the administration had identified a new Iranian leader, Graham revealed he had discussed "ideas for transition" with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who reportedly influenced Trump to strike Iran. Stein questioned whether the U.S. was giving Saudis veto power over Iran's leadership. Saletan called Graham's comments "totally crazy," noting they contradicted Graham's earlier assertion that Iranians should choose their own leader. Saletan characterized the suggestion that Iran would accept Saudi Arabia determining its government as "insane," questioning Graham's intelligence. The remarks raised concerns about Saudi influence over U.S. Middle East policy.

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A media analyst flagged the "most alarming sign" for the Trump administration following its decision to strike multiple sites across Iran on Saturday morning.

In the wake of the strikes, President Donald Trump's MAGA coalition appears to have soured on him, according to Will Sommer, a reporter who covers the right-wing media scene for The Bulwark. However, there is one voice that has risen above the fray to defend the president — MAGA fan and fervent Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, Sommer reported.

President Donald Trump told the American public his top military adviser blessed the Iran strike campaign as a sure thing. But the truth, according to a New York Times report on Monday, was the opposite.

Before the bombs fell, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine stood before Trump and his national security team in the White House Situation Room in February and delivered a stark warning.

Political and legal analysts were aghast on Monday after the Supreme Court handed down its latest unsigned order.

The court granted a stay of the Manhattan Supreme Court's January ruling that New York's 11th Congressional District violated the state constitution by diluting the voting power of minority groups. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) currently sits in the seat, and the new district proposed by New York's Independent Election Commission would have made it more competitive for Democrats in the future.

In late February, MAGA media star Tucker Carlson interviewed U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. The conversation prompted a reaction from Vice President JD Vance, who described it as "good," highlighting its timeliness. Yet in doing so, Vance revealed himself to be a "shapeshifter", exhibiting something "quite ugly" about himself, according to one expert. For former State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen, Vance's comments were concerning. "What it tells you is that JD Vance, who is a shapeshifter if ever there was one, is really willing to play with some quite ugly rhetoric, and some very problematic figures," said Cohen. He then pointed out how Carlson and Huckabee made multiple controversial statements. For instance, Huckabee said Israel has the right to take over some of its neighboring countries to restore its Biblical borders, which is something most hard-liners in the country don't agree with, Cohen said.

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President Donald Trump's Justice Department backed down on Monday on a huge monthslong legal battle, no longer defending a series of executive orders that attacked prominent law firms that represented anti-Trump clients in the past.

It's a huge victory for the rule of law, voting rights attorney Marc Elias told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace — but also a huge black eye for the law firms that made deals with Trump to avoid similar regulatory action against them.

President Donald Trump's invasion of Iran might actually do more damage to his electoral coalition than his mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, former Republican strategist Tim Miller told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Monday's edition of "Deadline: White House."

Miller claimed the president has a "megalomaniacal belief in himself."

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan tore into her right-wing colleagues in a dissent to a Monday "shadow docket" ruling that grants an appeal to religious parents challenging California policies that protect schoolchildren's confidentiality about gender identity.

In that dissent, she accused the majority of deploying a doctrine they themselves disparaged multiple times to undermine liberal legal rights.

A Supreme Court Justice sent shockwaves on Monday after she blasted a new unsigned order handed down by her conservative colleagues in a blistering dissent.

The Supreme Court issued a stay on a lower court's order allowing New York lawmakers to redraw the state's 11th Congressional District to make it more favorable to Democrats. Though the order is unsigned, Justice Samuel Alito wrote a concurrence, arguing that the redrawn 11th District "discriminates on the basis of race."

Political analysts and observers were outraged on Monday after seeing the video of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deposition from last week.

Clinton was deposed by members of the House Oversight Committee for roughly six hours about her relationship with the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. During the deposition, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) shared a photo from inside the hearing room, which caused the interview to be temporarily suspended. Multiple other Republican lawmakers also asked Clinton about numerous conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, which caused some analysts to assume that they were "making a mockery" of the investigation into a convicted sex criminal.