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The "correct" view of President Donald Trump as an incompetent leader is gaining acceptance as his "bread and circuses" routine backfires, according to one author.

Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy Magazine, discussed Trump's sliding poll numbers during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Sunday with host Joanna Coles, the outlet's chief content officer. Andersen argued that Trump once provided voters with an "entertaining" alternative to America's otherwise drab political scene, but his entertainment value has tanked as the cost-of-living crisis continues to erode household budgets.

A retired federal judge shaded President Donald Trump's attempt to muzzle federal workers by making them sign nondisclosure agreements during an interview on MS NOW's "The Weekend: Primetime."

Last week, the Office of Professional Management published a public notice of its intent to promulgate a rule prohibiting federal workers from publicly disclosing certain information. Shira Scheindlin, a former district judge in the Southern District of New York, told MS NOW's Catherine Rampell that the move serves no "legitimate purpose" other than to intimidate federal workers so that they don't become future whistleblowers.

A federal judge just put President Donald Trump in the "danger zone" after launching an inquiry into the lawsuit that produced the president's nearly $1.8 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund last week, a former federal prosecutor warned on Sunday.

Glenn Kirschner, the former deputy U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., said during a new episode of "The Legal Breakdown," a podcast he co-hosts with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, that Judge Kathleen Williams in the Southern District of Florida deciding to reopen the lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS to see if it constitutes fraud represents a potentially "perilous twist" for the case.

Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Council director, caught heat from political analysts and observers after he made what some described as an "incredible" claim about the financial health of Americans during a Fox News interview.

Hassett joined Fox News host Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday," where he was asked about a recent report finding that 13% of Americans had delinquent credit card balances, meaning their accounts had become past due. That figure was the highest since the 2008 financial crisis, Bream noted, which Hassett seemed to dismiss altogether in his response.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist issues a startling warning about what it will take for the U.S. to move on from Trumpism and the Make America Great Again movement in a new Substack video on Sunday.

Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 for his work on trade theory, said in the video that America's inability to address growing wealth inequality and the underlying conditions that brought President Donald Trump to power could wreak havoc on the nation if they are not addressed after Trump is out of office. His comments came at a time when several political analysts and observers have noted that Trump appears to be suffering from a significant mental decline, one that makes him more dangerous than previous presidents who aged in the White House.

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.”